How did the histories of biomedicine and Christianity coalesce during the heydays of bacteriology and tropical medicine in the early twentieth century? How can the focus on relatively underexplored sites in the historiography of scientific knowledge add to our insights about the links between the histories of imperialism, disciplinary institutions and scientific experiments? How does one conceptualize the presence and agency of captive patients in the colonized context? This article argues that a renewed focus on the colonial leper asylums in British India allows us simultaneously to raise these fundamental questions, which resonate with the newly emergent histories of global and colonial science and medicine. In addressing these questions, this article establishes these leper asylums as a unique site where colonized diseased subalterns encountered, suffered, engaged with and defied different strands of British power that were concurrently imperial, biomedical and Christian.

It is a striking fact that the theories of the so-called geometric trinity of gravity can model the same gravitational effects with such diverse geometric tools as curvature, torsion, and nonmetricity. Building on Wolf et al., (2024), this contribution clarifies and critiques state-of-the-art responses to this underdetermination: conventionalism, discriminatory approaches such as Ockhamism and (arguably) functionalism, and reinterpretational common core and overarching approaches. Except for Ockhamism, no realist solution has been convincingly articulated. The future of the metric-affine structure that accommodates the geometric trinity seems to lie not in empirically equivalent reformulations but in heuristics of theory building.

Archaeological labor in the Andes unfolds not only in field trenches and labs but also in the social and cosmological landscapes where sites remain powerful actors affecting daily community life. Drawing on collaborative fieldwork in the Huaylas and Cosma River Basins of the Cordillera Negra Mountains, Ancash, Peru, this article reflects on how archaeological work is shaped by theoretical framing, traditional field methods, and the relationships between descendant communities and the archaeological sites they live around that influence daily fieldwork. We argue for an expanded definition of archaeological labor that encompasses ceremonial, emotional, and relational work alongside excavation and analysis and share strategies in hiring, organization, and training. These include daily routines that make space for ritual practice, decision-making frameworks that treat local knowledge as actionable, and project planning that honors contractual and cultural obligations. By including these community-framed practices in the methodology, we call for culturally engaged archaeological labor that recognizes how communities, researchers, and sites co-produce knowledge and working conditions, thereby building a safer, more inclusive, and more equitable work environment.

Recent prominent philosophical work has proposed that grief’s formal object—that which all instances of grief are directed towards, and which distinguishes grief from other emotions—is the loss of significant life possibilities. This article challenges the “lost possibilities” account by examining cases of grief where possibilities are experienced as being different, disenfranchised, or diminished prior to the loss. We argue that individuals relate to possibilities differently, as exemplified by autistic grievers; that among marginalised grievers, such as LGBTQIA+ individuals, possibilities can be experienced as inauthentic or damaging, complicating one’s sense of loss; and that the depth of one’s grief does not always correspond to the extent of the futural possibilities lost, as illustrated by elderly grievers. Some of the most profound grief is suffered by those who have few possibilities to lose. We argue that accommodating these cases requires either adopting such an expansive notion of “possibility” that the approach risks becoming uninformative, or abandoning the claim that lost possibilities are grief’s formal object and thus necessary to grief.

Psychedelics were used for centuries in healing and spiritual rituals, long before the mid-20th century when they became subjects of biomedical research. Although initial trials generated optimism, these were quickly overshadowed by sensationalist media coverage and political backlash. Following decades of inactivity, research on compounds including 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has resurged, along with the media attention. Investigating this growing interest, Bender et al employed a large-language model, validated against human raters, to analyse 25 years of media articles (2000–2025), quantifying trends in sentiment towards psychedelic therapies. Findings showed a dramatic increase in coverage, with positive sentiment peaking in 2020 followed by a significant decline from 2024, coinciding with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision not to approve MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, and echoing the dynamics of the 1960s. The authors emphasise that sustained progress in the field will require reliance on scientific evidence to advance therapeutic applications.

The Article argues that Australia’s current open access framework remains structurally inadequate because it relies predominantly on soft-law policy mandates rather than enforceable statutory rights within the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). While international jurisdictions increasingly embed open access obligations into legislative and regulatory systems, Australia continues to depend on fragmented institutional compliance and funder policies that are vulnerable to publisher contracts and inconsistent implementation. Through comparative legal analysis, the Article also examines the statutory secondary publication rights adopted in Germany and the Netherlands alongside policy-driven approaches in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. It demonstrates that jurisdictions with legislative open access provisions provide greater legal certainty, author protection, and long-term sustainability than systems dependent solely on administrative mandates. Building on these international developments, the Article proposes a “Three-Phase Open Access Pathway” for Australia consisting of: (1) mandatory repository deposit of publicly funded research outputs; (2) statutory embargo limitations guaranteeing time-bound public access; and (3) mandatory open licensing through mechanisms such as Creative Commons licensing. Further, the Article situates the proposal within Australian copyright jurisprudence by examining the broader public interest and technological balancing principles reflected in cases such as University of New South Wales v Moorhouse, IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd, and Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd. Ultimately, the discussion of the Article contends that statutory reform is both legally feasible and normatively necessary to align Australian copyright law with contemporary principles of open science, transparency, public accountability, and equitable access to publicly funded knowledge.

Nous analyserons dans cette contribution les marqueurs pouvoir et peut-être du français et a putea ‘pouvoir’ et poate ‘peut-être’ du roumain, et plus précisément l’évolution de leurs emplois modaux vers des emplois non modaux, que nous décrirons dans une perspective contrastive. Dans le cas du français, nous nous appuierons sur les études antérieures sur la question, où sont répertoriées et décrites des valeurs modales comme la possibilité aléthique, épistémique et déontique, ainsi que des valeurs post- ou plus-que-modales, où le sémantisme modal s’affaiblit, comme la sporadicité ou la concession, ou différentes valeurs illocutoires. En roumain, on retrouve la plupart de ces valeurs pour les marqueurs étudiés, mais leurs valeurs non modales ont été beaucoup moins étudiées. Nous chercherons à voir si les mêmes valeurs, modales et non modales, des marqueurs se retrouvent dans les deux langues et à mettre au jour les cas d’emplois divergents.

This special issue seeks to probe the nature of the ostensible transition from ‘anticolonial’ to ‘postcolonial’ and its implications, focusing on historical actors who sought to remobilize across multiple political and spatial scales: that is, actors who thought and acted locally and globally. It asks: What discontents did decolonization bring in its wake, and what opportunities persisted for political activism across borders as the world shifted from one of empires to one of (nation-)states? It traces transformations – of imaginaries and networks, of ideas and modes of mobilization – that occurred alongside or because of the formal transfer of power and explores how this transition reshapes the interplay between different scales of decolonization. In other words, how did actors attempt to operate in, and stitch together, international, regional, national, and local spaces in the postcolonial era, and what new limits that they find themselves up against?

The mosaic of dead, live, and dying lodgepole pine trees, Pinus contorta (Pinaceae), in post–mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), outbreak stands may increase native bark and woodboring beetle populations capable of imposing further pine mortality within the same stands. In summer 2017, we set up three types of nonbaited insect traps (landing, emergence, flight intercept) in 27 post–mountain pine beetle outbreak stands in Alberta, Canada, showing levels of mountain pine beetle–caused pine mortality that ranged from 2% to 83%, to investigate the abundance of three functional groups of beetles (bark beetles, woodborers, predators). The percentage of beetle-caused pine mortality had no effect on beetle abundance in each functional group, but the bark beetle abundance decreased as the proportion of healthy pine trees increased in post-outbreak stands. The lack of significant relationships between insect abundance and pine mortality was likely due to host tree availability, growing interspecific competition, and predation. Compared to pine mortality, live tree composition might be a better predictor of bark beetle abundance. The low beetle abundance overall suggested stand conditions seven years post-outbreak could not facilitate increases in native bark and woodboring beetle populations in the novel habitat of mountain pine beetle in Alberta.

I identify as a philosopher, as cisgender, as an American. But are these identities secured merely by my claiming them, and what is the broader significance of our self-identification? Here, I argue that self-identifying secures the standing to participate in an ongoing process of determining the membership of the group with that identity. Using resources from political philosophy, I show why groups are entitled to revise the criteria for group membership, how having a stake in the group entitles one to be a part of this process, and that self-identifying as being within the group demonstrates having the relevant stake. After showing how this follows in the case of self-identifying as being within a demos, I argue that these claims hold generally across other kinds of identities, despite important differences between identities and contexts of oppression.

We consider the boundary dynamics of iterated function systems of holomorphic self-maps of the unit disc. Our main result provides a sufficient condition which guarantees that the dynamical behaviour of a left iterated function system in the interior of the unit disc can be extended to the boundary. This generalises an extension of the classical Denjoy–Wolff theorem, due to Bourdon, Matache and Shapiro, to the setting of iterated function systems. To do so, we modify estimates for the Hardy norm of composition operators and combine them with a new technique of perturbing a left iterated function system by elliptic Möbius transformations.

As architectural design paradigms shift from century-lasting, fossil-based construction materials toward regenerative, biogenic solutions with much shorter life cycles, a novel opportunity opens for design with material temporality and transformation. Taking a fully biobased yeast-cellulose-alginate-glycerol composite hydrogel as a case, this study examines how physical and visual properties change under air, soil, and water exposure by measuring mass loss, shrinkage, deformation, embrittlement, and color change in manually and robotically extruded constructs from this material. The results reveal distinct patterns of swelling, contraction, structural distortion, surface brittleness, and chromatic shifts that affect the designs across different exposure conditions. Together, these patterns establish a preliminary knowledge basis for architectural design that could accommodate these transitions, demonstrated in a speculative, conceptual architectural design proposal leveraging transformation and decay as part of the design. By situating material temporality as informative rather than detrimental, the study exemplifies how environmentally responsive biomaterials can support circular architectural biodesign.

Workplaces offer a key setting for health improvement interventions, given their reach and potential to promote lasting behaviour change. While diet and physical activity (PA) are common targets, sleep remains an underexplored yet influential factor in employee health. This randomised feasibility trial evaluated the practicality and acceptability of a 14-week, remotely delivered sleep-enhanced intervention (SEI) integrating sleep, PA, and diet, compared with a standard intervention (SI) focusing on PA and diet only, with exploratory assessment of behavioural and health-related outcomes. Staff from a UK higher education institution (n = 28) with short sleep duration (<7 h) and elevated cardiometabolic risk were randomised to SEI or SI. Quantitative data included self-reported and objective measures of PA, sleep, diet, and anthropometry over 14 weeks. Feasibility outcomes (recruitment, retention, compliance) and acceptability were assessed through qualitative interviews informed by the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability (TFA). Recruitment targets were achieved with 82% retention and 84% adherence. The SEI group showed indications of improvement in PA, dietary behaviours, anxiety symptoms, and sleep hygiene, while both groups showed reductions in BMI and waist circumference. Qualitative data highlighted the value of personalised guidance, peer support, and accountability, but also noted that the SEI’s complexity sometimes hindered adherence. The WHOLE trial demonstrates the feasibility and acceptability of a remotely delivered, holistic lifestyle intervention for UK employees. A phased or extended approach may enhance sustainability and engagement in future large-scale evaluations.