Long-term light-trap records provide a rare opportunity to examine spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) population behaviour at the southern edge of the species’ range. We analysed statewide moth counts from Maine, United States of America (1961–2024), to characterise temporal patterns and assess their relevance for outbreak risk. The time series showed a saw-toothed rise from 1961 to its peak in 1978, followed by a precipitous collapse across the state after 1982, and an extended quiescent period in 1990–2012, punctuated finally by abrupt but moderate increases in adult abundance, with no evidence of a smooth oscillation. Recruitment dynamics were nonlinear, with multiple equilibrium points, which is consistent with a metastable process. These dynamics limit the utility of classical forecasting approaches and complicate expectations about outbreak development following the recent pulse in moth numbers after nearly two decades of low activity.

This study develops a network-level model of banking alliances by integrating neo-institutional isomorphism and tie strength theory. Based on an integrative review of 98 empirical studies and deductive–inductive content analysis, the model explains how institutional pressures and relational mechanisms shape alliance portfolios among interconnected banking actors. The analysis identifies recurring patterns: strong-tie alliances, such as mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, appear more often under high coercive and normative isomorphism, whereas moderately and loosely coupled alliances, including information sharing and outsourcing, are more common where institutional alignment is weaker and uncertainty is higher.

Helen Yetter-Chappell defends a nontheistic idealism on which physical reality is a phenomenal tapestry constituted by unity-of-consciousness relations, requiring no divine perceiver. This paper argues that her position cannot sustain anti-subjectivism without admitting a globally unifying subject-like ground. Two arguments establish the pressure: the instability of the Thin Mind view she prefers as her own answer to the subject question, and the absence of any adequate ground for the synchronic pattern of co-consciousness relations. Among the available ways to realize the required global subject, theistic idealism is comparatively superior, as the principal alternatives, cosmopsychism, primitive phenomenal field views, neutral monism, and impersonal cosmic subject views, each leave at least one of the two pressures unresolved. The argument concludes by using Yetter-Chappell’s own comparative methodology to show that on the criteria of intelligibility, explanation, and perceptual contact she uses to favour idealism over materialism, theistic idealism has the comparative advantage.

Morphological awareness, i.e., the ability to consciously manipulate roots (e.g., HEALTH) and affixes (e.g., -Y as in HEALTHY), is a key skill for literacy development. While its role is well documented from Grade 3 onward, its early contribution to reading and spelling acquisition remains unclear, especially in French. This study investigates whether morphological awareness predicts early reading and spelling, particularly for derived and inconsistent words, from Grade 1. We used an accelerated longitudinal design with two cohorts of French-speaking children (N = 291): one from Grade 1 to 2 and the other from Grade 2 to 3. An autoregressive structural equation model (SEM) was used to examine the predictive role of morphological awareness on later literacy outcomes, controlling for phonological skills, vocabulary, and non-verbal reasoning. Morphological awareness significantly predicted general reading and spelling abilities, and specifically the spelling of derived words, but not their reading. These effects were stronger in the younger cohort (Grade 1 to 2) due to the lesser effect of the autoregressive path. Morphological awareness plays a unique role in early literacy, particularly in spelling morphologically complex words. Findings are discussed in light of French orthographic consistency and current models of literacy acquisition.

This article draws on archival sources and interviews to explore a key aspect of Nikita Khrushchev’s housing campaign of the 1950s and 1960s in the Soviet city of Novosibirsk. Alongside the campaign’s massive construction efforts were significant reforms in housing administration, particularly in the management of apartment waiting lists, which form the focus of this article. The analysis reveals local hierarchies of power, need and eligibility, as well as a locally embedded logic shaped by social attitudes and moral economy. By highlighting practices that defy formal institutional boundaries in a setting far from the Soviet centres of power, the article offers a new perspective on the processes and lived experiences of de-Stalinization.

Guided by a lifespan developmental perspective, using a network analysis approach, this study compared the structure of daily stress components in mothers of adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities (DD) and a matched sample of mothers of children without DD. We also examined whether components of daily stress were differentially associated with subsequent depression symptoms. Participants (N = 516; 100% female; M = 54.52 years, SD = 10.21; 94.2% White) were drawn from two cohorts: a DD cohort constructed from two linked longitudinal studies of families of adolescents and adults with autism and fragile X syndrome and a comparison group from the Midlife in United States study. Participants completed an 8-day daily telephone interview and reported depressive symptoms two years later. Findings demonstrated that the daily stress network of mothers of individuals with DD was significantly more interconnected than that of the comparison group. Stressor risk appraisal emerged as a central node in both groups, highlighting the role of cognitive appraisal in shaping stress responses. Negative affective reactivity linked daily stress components with later depressive symptoms, particularly in the DD group. Chronic caregiving stress may heighten interconnectivity within daily stress networks, reducing psychological flexibility and increasing vulnerability to daily stressors.

This paper examines how the resilience of Ukraine’s railway system, Ukrzaliznytsia, has functioned as a source of ontological security following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Existing IR literature on ontological security has paid limited attention to the role of critical infrastructure, often treating material resilience and narrative meaning-making as analytically distinct. In contrast, I argue that critical infrastructure can ingeniously enable the generation of ontological security through the interaction of related socio-technical practices and autobiographical narratives that affirm the collective capacity to withstand major disruption. The paper identifies several interrelated mechanisms through which Ukrainian Railways has served as a platform for the production of ontological security. To trace how these mechanisms unfold across textual, visual, sonic, and material dimensions, I draw on a multi-modal narrative analysis of Ukrzaliznytsia-related media productions, art installations, social media discourse, and interviews with railway workers and passengers. The result reframes the relationship between critical infrastructure, ontological security, and resilience, demonstrating that security of the Self is found in adaptive processes rather than the consolidation of fixed identities or predefined end states.

116 bilingual and monolingual children aged 4;0–6;11 with developmental language disorder (DLD) and typical development (TD) completed an elicited production task examining Spanish verbal agreement in the preterit past. Children with TD produced more target-like agreement than peers with DLD. Bilinguals and monolinguals with TD did not differ significantly from one another, but monolinguals with DLD produced more target-like agreement than bilinguals with DLD. Additionally, bilinguals with TD produced more target-like agreement than monolinguals with DLD. Therefore, rates of production of verbal agreement may be useful to distinguish between DLD and TD on quantitative grounds regardless of bilingualism effects. In addition to these quantitative analyses, we document underspecified forms (the overextension of tense-marked third person singular and plural) as well as minimal bare forms in children’s production across groups.

The literature on ontological security has quickly and extensively widened the debate about the assumptions underwriting security scholarship. In doing so, it has helped advance our understanding of how ontological security can at times outweigh more traditional security concerns. This paper argues, however, that when faced with the existential politics of climate change, the ontological security literature has focused mostly on the production of ontological insecurity through climate change or transitions and not, however, on the possibility of seeking ontological security through addressing climate change, planetary boundaries, and existential risk. This paper remedies this gap by developing an argument that develops corresponding conceptual tenets to those currently underwriting the ontological security literature, namely crises, routines, and anxiety, towards transformative politics, reflexive responsibility, and emotive agency. The move towards the conceptual reframe allows a reformulation for how ontological security can be considered in recognition of planetary boundaries.

This data report introduces the L2 Spanish Listener Ratings Dataset (L2SLRD, https://osf.io/67nm4/) and comprises two main types of data: (a) second language (L2) oral data from English first language (L1) learners of L2 Spanish at varying proficiency from two institutions in the US (n = 42), and (b) listener ratings of that data from L1 Spanish speakers (n = 201). The data were initially collected to examine intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish, focusing on listener judgments of L2 speech, but have the potential to be used for a wide range of new analyses, particularly those focused on exploring listener characteristics that influence speech rating. After providing a thorough description of the dataset, including information about data collection waves, coding, preparation, and previous analyses on subsets, descriptive statistics are presented along with an example analysis that demonstrates just one of the many potential uses of the L2SLRD. We continue by providing suggestions for ways in which the dataset could be used for future inquiry both “as is” and with additional coding or data collection. We conclude with recommendations for researchers interested in sharing data publicly in the future based on our reflections on challenges faced while preparing this dataset.

This article examines the Nine Emperor Gods Festival as a site of religious transformation among Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, offering a lens through which to theorize how migration, memory, and marginality reshape ritual life. While the festival originated in Qing-era China, it was reconfigured across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through colonial labor migration, local ritual innovation, and the institutional life of overseas Chinese organizations. Adopting a longue durée perspective, we trace the shifting identities of the Nine Emperors, also known in the diaspora as the Nine Emperor Gods, and their mother, the Dipper Matriarch, alongside the transformation of the festival’s ritual structure. We propose the concept of diasporic religious ecology to theorize how Southeast Asian Chinese communities reconstituted religious authority outside East Asia. These communities invoked China as a cultural origin while simultaneously rejecting its political legitimacy. The Nine Emperor Gods, often recognized as exiles, martyrs, or liminal figures, mediated these tensions: their ritual features became metaphors for the diaspora’s tenuous but enduring relationship with China. By treating the festival not as evidence of survival but as a method of reckoning with displacement, this study positions religious transformation as a medium through which exile, rupture, and authority are not merely remembered but actively reconceptualized.

This article identifies and analyzes a select body of climate litigation, framing such litigation as a decolonial approach to legal mobilization. Drawing on 58 cases filed between 2003 and 2023, we examine how certain climate lawsuits – spanning diverse jurisdictions, legal claims, and forums – articulate political projects grounded in historical struggles against colonialism, racial capitalism, and extractivism. Instead of adopting conventional typologies based on rights, torts or procedural elements, we propose a political lens attentive to the subaltern voices, contexts, and narratives that animate these cases. We identify commonalities across this litigation: racialized plaintiffs, three contexts of decolonial struggle (settler colonies, metropoles/(post)colonies, and global peripheries), and four distinctive types of decolonial claim. While these cases remain partially entangled with liberal legal frameworks, they nonetheless contest dominant climate governance paradigms and advance emancipatory visions of justice. We argue that these cases represent a tactical, albeit imperfect, intervention in the struggle for decolonial climate justice.

This article presents a preliminary study of the judicialization of unequal health impacts of climate change in climate litigation. Reviewing cases addressing unequal health impacts of climate change, the sample reveals that 60% of health-related cases involve intersectional dimensions, addressing health inequalities tied to gender, race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, or age. This serves as a departure point for a systematic content analysis of six transnational climate cases, analysing how plaintiffs use health-related scientific evidence and how judges respond to it in the first stage of judicial decisions. Results show that plaintiffs often present general scientific knowledge rather than specific evidence of intersecting vulnerabilities. While judges acknowledge these scientific claims, procedural dismissals limit opportunities for substantive engagement with intersectional health claims. These findings raise questions about the availability and strategic use of scientific evidence on intersecting vulnerabilities, and call for further research on the emerging phenomenon of health narratives and their normative and evidentiary value.

This article examines how linguistics instructors can invoke the concept of impact in preparing students for a career, arguing that this way of thinking underscores the value of identifying and articulating transferable skills in engaging with community to pursue meaningful challenges. Drawing on initiatives in the UK and US, the authors present models of embedding partnership building, applied projects, and reflective practices into teaching, from an Applied Sociolinguistics module to scalable interventions for classrooms and beyond. Finally, reframing career preparation as critical engagement with capitalism, the article explores how this lens brings focus to choicefulness in careers and students’ capacity to effect change through work.