Whistleblowing is increasingly viewed as a valuable mechanism to root out misconduct and corruption, yet we know very little about the conditions under which it is used in political parties. Building upon literature from social psychology, this study argues that the decision to blow the whistle on party colleagues is the outcome of a trade-off between two basic moral values that are particularly acute in the case of politicians: fairness and loyalty. Using a novel pre-registered survey experiment with over 1,000 Swedish politicians, this paper establishes that priming values of fairness can increase a politician’s willingness to blow the whistle against fellow party members. However, priming values of loyalty has no effect on whistleblowing intentions relative to control conditions. Results also suggest that severe misconduct is more likely to be reported only when it was committed by an individual rather than the party collectively, and that the party’s inaction is the biggest cause of external whistleblowing. The results of this study have significant implications for our understanding of the impact of organisational cultures and accountability on the behaviour of politicians.

No one disputes the fact that the current environmental crisis requires a response. The subject of this paper is a relatively novel response that is gaining increasing traction: the rights of nature (RoN) approach. Proponents of RoN claim that if we recognize that natural objects and ecosystems are not things with which we may do as we like, but in fact are subjects of rights that place limits on the scope of permissible actions, then we might have a shot at addressing the environmental crisis in a satisfactory manner. This paper sets out to assess this claim, concluding that RoN is (1) morally problematic (it either leads to endless rights conflicts (biocentrism), or it problematically subordinates individual organisms to the biological whole (ecocentrism), (2) conceptually flawed (because rivers, mountains, and ecosystems are not the sorts of things that can bear rights), and (3) inefficacious in practice (appeals to RoN have typically failed in court and the instilment of environmental virtue in us will require more than just good laws). Two alternative approaches are discussed that combined could secure fundamental rights for humans regarding the environment, cultivate the appropriate character traits in them, and protect nature in the process.

Understanding how human activities affect Antarctic ecosystems is essential for both environmental management and the interpretation of ecological change. This is particularly important in Antarctica’s ice-free areas, which contain most of the continent’s terrestrial biodiversity and host the majority of scientific infrastructure. While work has been done to understand short-term impacts of research stations and scientific activity, little is known about the persistence of these impacts on soil ecosystems. Here, we examine the long-term ecological legacy of historical research infrastructure in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, East Antarctica. We collected soil samples from sites of historical research facilities that have since been removed, extracted and identified soil invertebrates and conducted statistical and geospatial analyses to identify spatiotemporal trends and evaluate patterns of abundance relative to distance from disturbance centres and time since abandonment. Soils closer to former infrastructure consistently had lower nematode abundances than soils further away, indicating long-lasting impacts of human activities on soil ecosystems. We also found evidence of potential recovery in some nematode populations, which appears to depend on the type of disturbance and the surrounding environmental setting. At several sites, surface disturbance from historical infrastructure is no longer readily apparent but biological recovery remains incomplete, demonstrating that visual restoration of the landscape does not necessarily correspond to ecological recovery. Measuring the impacts of human activities in these areas is important because they may confound our ability to interpret the subtle but significant effects of climate change and ecosystem responses more generally. This is particularly pressing as research and tourism are expected to increase in these regions. We offer ecological explanations for these patterns and discuss their implications for environmental management and conservation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys and other ice-free areas of Antarctica.

Recent scholarship has emphasised the central importance of cultural contact and global knowledge circulation for technological innovation; however, this connection remains understudied in the global early modern world. This introduction highlights the importance of combining migration history and the history of technology to shed new light on the roles of migrants in technological innovation from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. The seven articles presented in this issue offer a range of studies spanning four continents, encompassing a wide range of migrants. Gathered together, they outline the multitude of factors that allowed migrants to become integral parts of technological dialogue. Hence, this introduction presents the methodological and conceptual foundations to unearth the common processes that linked the migration-innovation nexus across the early modern world.

We use a recent result of Orevkov and Pakovich [‘On intersection of lemniscates of rational functions’, Arnold J. Math. 11 (2025), 7–26] to obtain a bound on the frequency with which elements in an orbit of polynomial iterations can fall on the unit circle.

Applying a rich model of individuals’ life-cycle utility maximization, I comprehensively evaluate retirement saving plans. Across a range of individual characteristics, access to basic plans with constant expected payouts and no or full annuitization leads to individual utility gains of up to 5.07% of initial wealth and lifetime income ($43,800 in present value terms), and almost all individuals prefer full annuitization and a target-date fund investment strategy. With flexible plans allowing for partial annuitization and non-constant expected payouts, utility gains go up to 5.81%, and most individuals prefer a high degree of annuitization and expected payouts being increasing through retirement.

Efforts to decolonize archaeology have gained significant momentum in the last few decades, but have yet to extend robustly to zooarchaeology. Zooarchaeology is, however, well positioned to make unique contributions to decolonial practice. Drawing on insights from Indigenous studies, animal studies, and models of Indigenous science, we argue that North American zooarchaeology must engage in decolonization if reconstructions of past human–animal relationships are to be robust and ethically grounded. We identify some of the colonial legacies embedded in zooarchaeology’s methods, classifications, and interpretive frameworks, and highlight how these structures constrain knowledge production. We offer a series of interventions and actionable recommendations—from analytical protocols to disciplinary practice—that create pathways for zooarchaeologists to participate in the wider decolonial project.