🖥️ On the Dangers of Large-Language Model Mediated Learning for Human Capital

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.70036

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🖥️ Feedback of flattery: How AI may worsen narcissism in leadership training

"Sycophancy often manifests as AI-generated responses that flatter or compliment the user (Morrin et al., 2025). A recent New York Times (August 12, 2025) article suggested that sycophancy was a consequence of the fact that AI is trained on human feedback and, as users like being praised, they often react favorably to flattering feedback. In fact, recently researchers have found that users generally prefer sycophantic feedback, even when that feedback is incorrect (Sharma et al., 2025)."

Cox, C.B. and Tay, A.J. (2026) ‘Feedback of flattery: How AI may worsen narcissism in leadership training’, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 19(1), pp. 104–107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2025.10054.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #Narcissism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia

☀️ 🇧🇷 🗞️ Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers

"In this article, we offer an analysis of the 1919 eclipse coverage across Brazilian newspapers at national, state, regional, and local levels, published respectively at the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Belém do Pará, Camocim, and Sobral, to reveal how much locality shaped the contents and styles of news."

Carolino, L. M., & Simões, A. (2026). Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers. History of Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753261419603

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Brazil #Newspaper #Academia

🇬🇧 Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain’s Homegrown Agrarian Fascism

"Lymington’s vision of national rebirth was agrarian in form but racial in substance; he imagined an England made strong and whole again by returning to its “native” soil, purging foreign and urban corruptions, and reasserting the dominance of its Anglo-Saxon stock."

Aspinall, K. (2026) ‘Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain’s Homegrown Agrarian Fascism’, Journal of British Studies, 65, p. e33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2026.10205.

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🖥️ 🧠 ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention

"The findings align with cognitive offloading theory and the ‘desirable difficulties’ principle: while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning. "

Barcaui, A. (2025) 'ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention,' Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 12, p. 102287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102287.

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How latent and prompting biases in AI-generated historical narratives influence opinions

"These findings demonstrate that the use of AI for learning history can influence opinions through both intrinsic and intentional framing mechanisms, even when the content remains factually accurate."

Matthew Shu, Daniel Karell, Keitaro Okura, Thomas R Davidson, How latent and prompting biases in AI-generated historical narratives influence opinions, PNAS Nexus, Volume 5, Issue 3, March 2026, pgag022. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag022.

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🚀 Big news from EMS Press at #UKSG2026 🚀

Today we unveiled Launch to Open (L2O), a new open access model built around community support and financial transparency.

Launching with:
• Foundations of Computational Mathematics
• Archiv der Mathematik

Subscriptions are now open for 2027.

https://ems.press/updates/2026-03-30-ems-press-unveils-l2o

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At a time of global instability & growing displacement, it feels wrong to "celebrate" a new book.
Yet, I'd like to share our new book: Refugee-Led Organizations in Uganda: Agency, Gender, and Politics of Self-Organizing in Exile—co-authored w/ Gato Ndabaramiye Joshua & Hannah Schmidt #OA
The book explores the vital yet often neglected role of #RLOs, showing how people challenge restrictions, create economic opportunities, & foster belonging—collectively by self-organizing

available mid-April.

[2025] Iron Age ship cargoes from the harbour of Dor (Israel)

"Here, the authors explore three Iron Age cargoes recently excavated at Tel Dor on the Carmel Coast, the first from this period found in the context of an Iron Age port city in Israel. Spanning the eleventh–seventh centuries BC, these cargoes illuminate cycles of expansion and contraction in Iron Age Mediterranean connectivity and integration."

Yasur-Landau, A. et al. (2025) ‘Iron Age ship cargoes from the harbour of Dor (Israel)’, Antiquity, 99(406), pp. 1004–1020. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.71.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Asia #Levant #IronAge #Mediterranean #Trade #Academia