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When a public figure announces a transgender or non-binary identity, every institution that curates knowledge about them must decide whether and how to update the record. We study this process at the moment it is sharpest: on English Wikipedia biographies in the week of a public coming-out or pronoun announcement. Combining hand-verified announcement dates for public figures with complete...

How do visitor flows at open-air archaeological sites respond to extreme weather, and to heat in particular? Open-air sites such as Castelseprio and the Valcamonica rock-art parks are physically exposed in a way that indoor museums are not, so as summers warm they face a demand risk that indoor institutions do not share. Using a daily attendance panel for Castelseprio (December 2023-June 2026,...