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📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢

Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩

➡️ www.nature.com/collections/...

pls share liberally 🙏
The dynamics of boredom
This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for ...
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November 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM
🚨🚨🚨 New paper alert

“How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948)”
@HSScomms
is #openaccess and available here

doi.org/10.1057/s415...
How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948) - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948)
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Cultural heritage and iconic elements for history education: a study with primary education prospective teachers in Spain", elaborado por Diego Miguel, Esther López, Jorge Ortuño y Sebastián Molina se ha publicado hoy en @HSScomms

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Curious about how Wikipedia can help us quantitatively map and analyze historical cultural networks, uncovering hidden interactions among art, science, and philosophy of the 17th century?
Check our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#digitalhumanities #wikipedia #HSScomms #culturaldataanalytics
Wikipedia as a cultural lens: a quantitative approach for exploring cultural networks - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Wikipedia as a cultural lens: a quantitative approach for exploring cultural networks
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April 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Y'all! In really exciting news, my paper with Rick Dale on the ways Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech fundamentally change the dynamics of discourse on social media is out in Nature: HSSComms as of today!

Here's the gist:

(1/7)

#linguistics #socialscience #research #language
Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech precedes a decrease in lexico-semantic diversity in comment threads online - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech precedes a decrease in lexico-semantic diversity in comment threads online
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April 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Excited to share our new research findings for #Lexicography and #LanguageLearning! Our study in HSScomms shows that CEFR levels predict user interest in dictionary entries, even in the presence of previously known predictors. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CEFR vocabulary level as a predictor of user interest in English Wiktionary entries - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - CEFR vocabulary level as a predictor of user interest in English Wiktionary entries
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March 1, 2024 at 7:30 AM
As cultural @ScienceAdvances, @SpringerNature should not "outsource" research & expertise on #culture from @NatureComms to @HSScomms, while accepting naive approaches of evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution on their own as a part of #nature. 4/5
September 26, 2020 at 11:17 AM
"How #CulturalEvolution can inform the science of of #ScienceCommunication - and vice versa" by @Theiss_Bendixen (@HSScomms 7, 2020🔓):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00634-4
How cultural evolution can inform the science of science ...
Cultural evolution research is the study of how cultural ...
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December 1, 2024 at 7:02 AM
I'm pleased to share my new Nature HSSCOMMS article on the misconception of #regulatory #shaming in all branches of #government. Check it out! I'd love to get your thoughts. The article is available in open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com #blacklist #publiclaw #
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm excited to share that my article "Predicting Police and Military Violence: Evidence from Colombia and Mexico using machine learning models" has been officially accepted for publication at @nature.com HSScomms! 📚

See a draft version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<div> <p>Predicting police and military violence: Evidence from Colombia and Mexico using machine learning models <b></b></p> </div>
<div> <p>Armed forces violence has pervasive effects on public trust and population well-being. Such misconduct is not random, making its prevention both cruci
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April 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Original study:

@JohannesMarzian et al., #Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe, @HSScomms 11, 557 (2024). 🔓

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03053-x
Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal...
While our understanding of long-term trends in material w...
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November 22, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Artículo ->"From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities" en la revista @HSScomms (JCR-WOS Q1). #HateSpeech

Link: doi.org/10.1057/s415...
From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities
doi.org
November 15, 2024 at 6:56 AM
How did composers' use of intervals change over time? In our new study in @HSScomms we employ a #Bayesian model of tonal space to study major trajectories in classical #music. @Uni_WUE @durham_uni @epfldh
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #musicscience #musictheory #culturalevolution
May 29, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Original study:

J. Marzian et al., #Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe, HSScomms 11, 557 (2024). 🔓

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe
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June 9, 2024 at 11:32 AM
🚨 OA at @HSScomms 🚨

In this paper, @simonsaysnothin, @calibasak, @lstoetze, @ARGohdes, @conjugateprior, and I employed survey experiments in the early pandemic to assess how the public thought about vaccine prioritization in 🇧🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇵🇱, and 🇺🇸.

🔓 https://t.co/dLVA0FNSfQ
Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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November 24, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Original study:

@AlastairKey et al., #Modelling the end of the #Acheulean at global and continental levels suggests widespread #persistence into the Middle #Palaeolithic, @HSScomms 8, 55 (2021). 🔓

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00735-8
Modelling the end of the Acheulean at global and continen...
The Acheulean is the longest cultural tradition ever prac...
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November 29, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Can societies polarize to the point that ppl literally won't understand each other?
Can partisan divisions lead to language diverging?🤔
Me& @nerdpro.bsky.social explore the 🇺🇸 case using bigdata+ML/AI & tweets of ppl following onesided media.
Now out in Nature HSScomms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 18, 2024 at 10:04 AM