Unbelievable! AI slop, it seems. US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A Unified Learning Resource Recommendation Method Integrating Multidimensional Graph Information | Frontiers of Digital Education journal.hep.com.cn/fde/EN/10.10... #freeaccess

Children who miss preschool more likely to start school behind, major Curtin study finds | Curtin University www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-r... Early Childhood Education and Care and Developmental Vulnerability at School Entry | JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #freeaccess

Selective and direct hydrogen generation from mixed plastic waste via alkaline thermal treatment with inherent carbon storage | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #openaccess

"pro-girl" bias. Gender gap in predicted grades raises questions over their use in university admissions | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... Tracing the origins of teacher gender bias | Economics of Education Review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #openaccess

Like other typologies, we're a mixture of many types. Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you? | The Gardian www.theguardian.com/science/2026... What do People think About? | SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #freeaccess

"Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and their decline began well before European colonial expansion" The lost golden age of language diversity | Max Planck Institute www.mpg.de/26871018/the...

Real-time cognitive-affective dynamics of failure feedback in a technology-based learning task | Communications Psychology www.nature.com/articles/s44... #openaccess

Learning a new skill triggers both temporary cell swelling and lasting structural growth in the human brain | PsyPost www.psypost.org/learning-a-n... Learning engages transient and sustained cellular mechanisms in the human brain | PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #openaccess

Curiosity-driven development of action and language in robots through self-exploration | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #openaccess

Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences | NPJ Science of Learning pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #freeaccess

Dark Tetrad traits and problematic generative artificial intelligence use: the serial mediating role of individualism and intolerance of uncertainty | BMC Psychology link.springer.com/article/10.1... #openaccess

Well done arXiv! No one should know better than scientists. "Authors who submit a paper containing unchecked output from a large language model (LLM) will risk a year’s suspension from arXiv." arXiv’s one-strike rule on AI | CERN Courier cerncourier.com/arxivs-one-s...

Google's AI Search is a minefield for schools | Mashable mashable.com/tech/is-goog... Google Search: AI Overview & AI Mode | Common Sense Media institute.commonsensemedia.org/risk-assessm...

When fools have greater influence than liars: testing the insidious bullshit hypothesis with the illusory truth effect | Current Psychology link.springer.com/article/10.1... #openaccess

Being human. How the brain shifts gears to appreciate the beauty of poetry | PsyPost www.psypost.org/how-the-brai... Neural dynamics of aesthetic appreciation: fNIRS evidence from poetry reading | Science Direct www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #openaccess

Major platforms have the tools to stop sexual extortion, but they’re not using them – new report | The Conversation theconversation.com/major-platfo...

How the 'creeping normality' of large language models is quietly reshaping the life sciences | PhysOrg phys.org/news/2026-07... The creeping normality of AI in the life sciences | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #freeaccess

(Rigged in favour of the Republicans.) Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged | AlterNet www.alternet.org/alternet-exc... Systematic partisan content skews in TikTok during the 2024 US elections | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... #openaccess

Stifling hope. "Unesco report shows children lost out to servicing debt in 113 countries." Breaking the debt trap: policy paper on restoring fiscal space to save education | UNESCO unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

Reinforcement learning control of quantum error correction | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... #openaccess

AI-powered social media can subtly manipulate opinion at scale, new study finds | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion | arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2605.16245 #openaccess

Unsupervised. Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills | The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/proof-points... Faster Completion, Less Learning: Generative AI Reduced Study Time on Math Problems and the Knowledge They Build | arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2605.21629 #openaccess

Move to quit: Exercise boosts smoking quit rates | Adelaide University adelaide.edu.au/about/news/2... Exercise-based interventions for smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Journal of Sport and Health Science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #openaccess #meta-analysis

The folly of men. "Russian fatalities in Ukraine are more than four times greater than all U.S. fatalities in all wars combined since World War II." Russian Blood and Treasure: The Ballooning Costs of Putin’s War | Center for Strategic & International Studies www.csis.org/analysis/rus...

Genome-wide association studies of infant and toddler temperament in European and multi-ancestry populations | Nature Human Behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... #openaccess

Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations, including background sky brightness | Astronomy & Astrophysics www.eso.org/public/archi... [PDF]

Colonialism, imperialism, capitalism… now, on another level, AI. Rapid spread of AI may worsen global inequality, UN warns | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | United Nations www.un.org/independent-...

Republican lawmakers lead the trend of using insults to chase media attention instead of policy wins | PsyPost www.psypost.org/republican-l... Entrepreneurs of conflict: A descriptive analysis of when and how political elites use divisive rhetoric | PNAS Nexus academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Effect of intelligence quotient discrepancy on attention and executive function in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an fNIRS study | NeuroImage www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...