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What do you think about this thought experiment?

Established academic publishes an article introducing a new term. And that term was used a year earlier by a PhD student in a media article explicitly based on their PhD research.

And both articles include not only the same term new term, but also some phrases verbatim?

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**South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change**

“_By decentering analysis from a single era or type of monument, we show how monument classes are proxies for social behavior of mobile, persistent pastoralists. Our model highlights a reliance on monuments as touchstones of social belonging and as flexible technologies of social resilience in a changing world._”

McCorriston J, Ball L, Harrower MJ, Hamilton IM, Ivory SJ, et al. (2025) South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. PLOS ONE 20(5): e0323544. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Histori #Culture #Arabia #NearEast #Academia #Academic @anthropology @archaeodons

doi.orgSouth Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate changeIn arid regions across northern Africa, Asia and Arabia, ancient pastoralists constructed small-scale stone monuments of varying form, construction, placement, age, and function. Classification studies of each type have inhibited a broader model of their collective and enduring role within desert socio-ecosystems. Our multivariate analysis of 371 archaeological monuments in the arid Dhofar region of Oman identifies environmental and cultural factors that influenced variable placement and construction across a 7000-year history. Our results show that earlier monuments were built by larger, concurrent groups during the Holocene Humid Period (10,000–6000 cal BP). With increasing aridification, smaller groups constructed monuments and eventually switched to building them in repetitive visits. Our model emphasizes the core role of monuments as a flexible technology in social resilience among desert pastoralists.

Partisan #politics in the #US over fabricated sources in an #AI generated govt report exposes implications for #academic integrity in #research...

(Read the following carefully before forming an #opinion)

AI is here, like it or not, and synthetic #knowledge is fundamentally different than human research. Where prior works are cited, that credit must be given. But an #LLM #literature review seems to suggest evolving standards with #technology just as once any #website #reference was suspect.

For a while now #AP, #Reuters, and #NPR will post like one article on #Gaza and there will be more than a few on celebrities. I stopped reading #NYT and #WAPO years ago for all their wayward articles, collectively. American #journalism is missing a moral compass. Is this a reflection of what Americas want to read or just an explication of what is being fed to us? With genocide so low on the measure of American concerns it is no wonder Israeli #academic and #culture constructs and still permitted into the ecosystem whereas Russians where quickly and easily banned across networks.

📖 **Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ**

“_Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus written by a non-Christian, scholars have long doubted its authenticity due to the alleged pro-Christian claims it contains. The present book, however, authenticates Josephus’ authorship and then reveals a startling discovery._”

Schmidt, T C, Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 May 2025), doi.org/10.1093/9780191957697., accessed 22 May 2025.

#OpenAccess #OA #Book #Bookstodon #Christianity #Religion #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christ #Theology #Academic @bookstodon @religion