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How Weddell seals make the best of unusual oceanographic conditions

Mariel Kieval | 15 June 2021

Numbers in an Emergency: The Many Roles of Indicators in the COVID-19 Crisis

David Nelken and Mathias Siems | 14 June 2021

How do we respond to the shifting range of invasive plants?

Lorena Verdes | 11 June 2021

Studying disability in ancient Greece

Debby Sneed | 10 June 2021

Mental Health and Children with Intellectual Disability: A Quadruple Inequality

Richard Hastings and Kylie Gray | 15 Jun 2021

Fortunately, we have moved on from a time when individuals with intellectual disability may have been considered incapable of experiencing mental health problems. However, in the context of current talk about mental health crises, the mental health of children and young people with intellectual disability is perhaps the biggest crisis of them all. Children with intellectual disability face a quadruple inequality in relation to their mental health.

How Weddell seals make the best of unusual oceanographic conditions

Mariel Kieval |

As one of the very few species species of mammals to live and breed all year in the Antarctic Ocean, Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) can give us clues as to how Antarctic predators will adapt to changes in their warming environment.

Numbers in an Emergency: The Many Roles of Indicators in the COVID-19 Crisis

David Nelken and Mathias Siems | 14 Jun 2021

The COVID-19 crisis has shaken the world. The authors of this blog post have edited a special issue of the International Journal on Law in Context (IJLC) that is specifically interested in the role of indicators in the COVID-19 crisis.…

How do we respond to the shifting range of invasive plants?

Lorena Verdes | 11 Jun 2021

As our climate changes, many invasive plant species are expanding their growing range and creating daunting new threats. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts say it’s time to take well-informed, preventive steps to mitigate the impact.…

Studying disability in ancient Greece

Debby Sneed | 10 Jun 2021

In a recent article I published with Antiquity, I argued that ancient Greek architects built accessibility into religious healing sanctuaries, such as the Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus.…

Catalogues, Categories, and Computers: Unpacking a ‘Legacy System’ of Human Genetics

Michael F. McGovern |

My article contributes to this line of inquiry by considering how an information infrastructure for keeping track of human genes was built and changed across the latter decades of the twentieth century.

Tracking women’s political networks through their letters in 17th century Ireland

Naomi McAreavey | 9 Jun 2021

By shining a light on the women in Ormonde’s network, my article argues that 1) women were central to royalist political activity during the Interregnum in Ireland and 2) female alliances were key to Irish women’s political agency.

Food insecurity and hunger drives higher levels of fast-food consumption in adolescents

Lee Smith, Yvonne Barnett, Jae Il Shin, Laurie Butler, Lin Yang, Mark Tully and Ai Koyanagi |

Fast-food is sold in restaurants and snack bars as a quick meal or to be taken out, and often consists of low-nutrient and energy-dense foods. Consequently, fast-food consumers tend to have higher intakes of energy, fat, saturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, sugar and sodium, as well as lower intakes of fibre, macronutrients and vitamins. This means that regular fast-food consumers have a higher risk of multiple physical and mental health complications. Worryingly, among adolescents the consumption of fast food is on the rise across the globe.

The death of Veronica L: intellectual disability and statutory welfare in mid 20th century Ireland

David Kilgannon |

Notwithstanding the horrific nature of this death, the case of Veronica L. offers the historian a rare window into the lives of the intellectually disabled, and the operation of ‘handicap’ services, in the mid twentieth century.

British Cultural Diplomacy and Overseas Students: The British Council’s Students Committee, 1935–1939

Alice Byrne | 8 Jun 2021

In this respect the student dimension to British cultural diplomacy of the mid-1930s combined elements of cultural internationalism with the pursuit of national interest.

World Ocean Day

Russell Stothard and Professor Robert Poulin |

We celebrate World Ocean Day to remind us of how important the marine habitat is today and its need for better environmental stewardship tomorrow.…

Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought

APSR Authors |

In this post, Kimberly Hutching and Patricia Owens reference their APSR article “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution“.…