World Soil Day December 5th

December 5th is World Soil Day. Recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences in 2002, the establishment of World Soil Day was led by the Kingdom of Thailand as part of the Global Soil Partnership—it was formally adopted by the UN General Assembly after endorsement by the FAO in December 2013.…

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Should we focus more on mental imagery to improve adolescent mental health? Clues from anxiety and “flashforwards”

The December BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “‘Flashforward’ mental imagery in adolescents: exploring developmental differences and associations with mental health” by Alex Lau-Zhu, James Stacey, Daisy Gibson, Carmen Chan and Myra Cooper Current CBT interventions are often thought to rely on “verbal thinking” yet much of our mental lives is also shaped by mental images – imagining visual scenes, sounds, smells, etc.…

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Congratulations! Introducing the New Front Cover for Parasitology 2025 by Ramiro Tomasina & Carlos Robello

We are delighted to announce that the new front cover image for Parasitology 2025 features the protist Trypanosoma cruzi, photograph taken by Ramiro Tomasina & Carlos Robello. This parasite is responsible for American trypanosomiasis or Chagas Disease in South America. It infects a wide range of mammalian hosts by stercorarian transmission from contaminated faeces of Reduviid bugs.

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