Frederik Unseld is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His Ph.D. focuses on artists in the context of political and economic violence in Kisumu, western Kenya.…
The paper ‘Physico-chemical and sensory interactions of arabica coffee genotypes in different water regimes, published in the Journal of Agricultural Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight.…
The Paper of the Month for April is ‘The Role of Dietary Nitrate and the Oral Microbiome on Blood Pressure and Vascular tone’ and is free to access for 1 month.…
The great eighteenth-century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), is known for his wide-ranging insights spanning the whole range of philosophical sub-disciplines, from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and jurisprudence—and everything in between. Indeed, Kant’s influence on aesthetics, history, theology, and the sciences is undeniable.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm. At the time of writing this blog post, COVID-19 has brought a current death toll of almost 2.6 million people, and the number of infected surpassing 117 million people.…
Now we are in Volume Two of Experimental Results, our first journal with an open peer review model, it seems a good time to reflect on our reasoning for choosing the open peer review model, and reception from the author & reviewer community so far.…
This is the latest of an ongoing series of interviews with the Editorial Board of our new Open Access journal, Biological Imaging.…
People facing plague and quarantine in early modern Europe also turned to astrologers. But rather than being chastised for supporting a ‘pseudoscience’, these people were more likely to be reprimanded for engaging with paganism.
With a total length of up to 5.5m, the tiger shark is one of the largest predatory sharks known today. This shark is a cosmopolitan species occurring in all oceans worldwide.…
In a recent article for the APSR, Dr. Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford) examines the rise of the Hindu Nationalist BJP in India and its effects on the secular Indian state.…
Today marks the sixth anniversary that the UK Modern Slavery Act (MSA) was enacted into law. The UK Government has recently announced proposed changes to the transparency in supply chains (TISC) provision of the MSA, which requires companies to detail their efforts to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains.…
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Eimeria bovis infections induce G1 cell cycle arrest and a senescence-like phenotype in endothelial host cells“ Eimeria bovis is a globally spread, host-specific parasite of cattle, causing severe bloody diarrhoea, especially in calves, and therefore high economic losses worldwide.…
Launched in 2020, Quantitative Plant Biology is an open access journal, co-published by Cambridge University Press and The John Innes Centre with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for high quality research on ground-breaking discoveries and predictions in quantitative plant science.…
Parasites can have serious impacts on their crustacean hosts and associated fisheries, from stunting growth to causing mass mortalities. When 56% of velvet crab from a bay in Ireland were found to be positive for the microparasite Paramarteilia sp.,…
...the observatory staff, the largest portion of whom were adolescent boys hired to do computational work, had to be managed too. Airy worked hard to deskill their positions, turning the observatory into a sort of factory...
Spring is underway in the United Kingdom, with daffodils blooming outside in gardens and verges, and chocolate eggs multiplying inside our supermarkets.…
Launched in 2020, Quantitative Plant Biology is an open access journal, co-published by Cambridge University Press and The John Innes Centre with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for high quality research on ground-breaking discoveries and predictions in quantitative plant science.…
Almost a century before Watson and Crick, Miescher had been working in the freezing cold former kitchen of Tübingen Castle that had now been converted into laboratories for the University, where he was carrying out investigations into the chemical composition of white blood cells...
Several times each year, I learn of another case. Sometimes, I see a post on social media. More often, it is through a private email or a phone request for an in-person meeting. The details differ, but the substance is the same: another early-career archaeologist has been harassed or assaulted in the course of their education and research.
Dealing with a warming world and providing enough food for a growing planet (and doing so in a sustainable fashion that is adapted to changing climate) is one of the key challenges humanity must face in coming decades.…
This event was designed to boost Hungary’s international image as part of an ambitious cultural diplomatic campaign led by the Hungarian government in the 1930s.
...the cultural treaties Mussolini signed in February 1935 applied state power to international cultural exchange, and mobilised the idea of ‘culture’ itself, in ways that were new – and that would prove influential long after his fascist regime had fallen.
One of the many things I love about the field of archaeology is how collaborations come together. A few years ago, a listserv delivered a survey to my inbox on the theme of field crew safety.…
Dear readers,We hope you are well. Welcome to yet another issue of the German Law Journal. Before I introduce the wonderful articles that fill this issue – rich in concepts and surprising findings – a brief reminder that our yearly call for Special Issues was just launched.…
The March 2021 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Unaccompanied minors’ experiences of narrative exposure therapy” by Glorianne Said, Yaman Alqadri and Dorothy King We are aware that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a difficulty many unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors (UAM) experience (Fazel, Reed, Panter-Brick, & Stein, 2012; Huemer et al.,…
When writing about the uncertain future of contact improvisation during the summer and fall of 2020, in the wake of Nancy Stark Smith’s passing, I noted that one of her most significant contributions to understandings of CI was her theory of “the gap.”…
When police officers act (or appear to act) outside of the criminal law, community trust in the criminal justice system is put to the ultimate test.…
As the expansion of Spanish culture in interwar Europe shows, however, state efforts were not the only means of success for cultural promotion abroad.
When people think about gender in children, the focus is often around differences between girls and boys. But most modern research on gender development highlights how this focus overlooks two important themes: boys and girls, at the group level, are much more similar to one another than they are different, and there is so much variation within gender groups that those comparisons are flawed to begin with.…
Child care workers, preschool educators, teachers, speech and language professionals, pediatricians – they all frequently meet up with children who grow up with several languages.…
Ricinuleids are cryptic, slow-moving arachnids that live under bark, in leaf litter, and in caves in tropical and subtropical areas of the world: Central and South America and West Africa.…
Leaving aside the raging pandemic, and recognizing that Covid is not unconnected, there are two crises which define our time. First, the global weakening or collapse of democracy and rise of fascism: e.g., Trumpism in the U.S., repressive Indian Hindu nationalism, conservative Catholicism in Eastern Europe, Chinese “authoritarianism” (market Stalinism?), and whatever is going on in Brazil.
In a recent article in the APSR, Katerina Linos, Laura Jákli, and Melissa Carlson partnered with a Greek NGO to conduct a cutting edge text message donation experiment.…
In this post we talk to Prof. Robert Lücking, an Editor for The Lichenologist, who reflects not only on his recent review of lichenology over the past two decades, celebrating the period over which Peter Crittenden was Senior Editor, but also describes his own introduction to lichens, and what the future holds.…
Paperbark trees (Melaleuca quinquenervia) are a weedy invader that once dominated natural landscapes and fragile wetlands across southern Florida. One reason for their success: A single large tree can retain as many as 9 million viable seeds that are released in response to wildfires, herbicide applications and other disturbances.…
Dr Faruk Kececi, Abdullah Gul University, Turkey answers our questions about his work and the journal Robotica.
This blog post announces the formation of a new special interest group at the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, Human Rights and Political Economy, sketching some core interests of the field and why they matter today. …
The autonomy of universities from politics and the executive branch may sometimes be taken for granted. For this reason, it is worth emphasizing why that autonomy is so important.…
In popular science horses are considered to be the archetype for demonstrating evolution within a time-stratigraphic framework. From small species, horses evolved into the large forms we know today, symbols of power and freedom.…
Launched in 2020, Quantitative Plant Biology is an open access journal, co-published by Cambridge University Press and The John Innes Centre with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for high quality research on ground-breaking discoveries and predictions in quantitative plant science.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for February is ‘Ethno-cultural disparities in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study on the impact of exposure to the virus and COVID-19-related discrimination and stigma on mental health across ethno-cultural groups in Quebec (Canada)’ Diana Miconi, Zhi Yin Li, Rochelle L.…
I immensely enjoyed writing this booklet on universal conceptualisation of child welfare, protection, and justice. I am sure that the reader of this Element will find the conceptualisation very refreshing, no matter which part of the world he or she belongs to.…
Today there is a growing demand for nonchemical weed controls to aid growers in the battle against herbicide-resistant weeds. Some are now turning to chaff carts, impact mills and other harvest-time practices to remove or destroy weed seeds instead of leaving them on the field to sprout. …
The paper ‘Nitrogen fertilizer value of animal slurries with different proportions of liquid and solid fractions: A 3-year study under field conditions, published in the Journal of Agricultural Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight.…
A new blog from Professor Lin Foxhall looking at domestic interactions in the ancient world.
Gretchen E. Minton's new blog discusses the context of her recent article ‘Ecological Adaptation in Montana: Timon of Athens to Timon of Anaconda’ - out now in Cambridge journal 'New Theatre Quarterly'.
The Paper of the Month for March 2021 is ‘Diet quality improvement and 30-year population health and economic outcomes: a microsimulation study’ from Public Health Nutrition and is free to access for 1 month.…
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This post first appeared on Jonathan Havercroft’s blog in January 2021. During the middle of the Stop the Steal riot on Wednesday, some commentators on social media argued that this showed how those who defended Black Lives Matter riots in the summer were wrong.…
This article introduces “The Concept of Essential Use: A Novel Approach to Regulating Chemicals in the European Union,” a new Open Access article in Transnational Environmental Law.…
Researchers at King’s College London have found prevalent and harmful harassment and discrimination committed by and against NHS staff working in London trusts. Furthermore, women, Black ethnic groups and migrant NHS staff were more likely to experience harassment and discrimination.
The RCPsych Article of the Month for February is: ‘Mad agency’, reflections on Goya’s ‘The Madhouse’ by Jennifer Radden published in BJPsych Bulletin.…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
In January, my husband and I (Sam) took our six-year-old daughter to get a flu shot at a local pharmacy. As she became increasingly bored in the waiting room, she began to offer commentary, asking the closed door, “Doctor, when are you coming out?”…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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