By Amnesty International
Responding to the US State Department’s announcement in a statement yesterday that it has, for the second consecutive year, barred the high-level delegation of the State of Palestine, including Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, from attending the UN General Assembly in New York, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara Rosas […] The post US State Department must reverse decision to ban Palestine delegation from attending UNGA session in New York appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Lia M Daniels, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta
When you were in school, what stressed you out the most? For many students, classroom assessments — graded tests, quizzes, group work, presentations, labs and the like — would be near the top of the list.
Like decades of research before it, the research my students and I have been doing continues to show that classroom assessment is a persistent source of social pressure…
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By Burak Şakir Şeker, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University
The African shoreline is now much more valuable to outsiders who want to monitor, contain or outflank the waterway opposite them.
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By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation
New satellite methods can track penguin colonies in winter – and can judge their health based on the colour of their guano.
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By Mahad D. Darar, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Colorado State University
Seizure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait complicates a widening conflict in the Persian Gulf. It also risks reigniting Yemen’s civil war.
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By Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
Jamie Webster, Fellow, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines
The country, and the world, have been losing diesel refining capacity for many years and can’t just ramp up production to fill the shortages.
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By Alessio Bellato, Senior Lecturer, Children and Young People's Mental Health, University of Southampton
Samuele Cortese, NIHR Research Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Southampton
The term “neurodivergent” is being used more and more often in everyday conversation, on social media and even in scientific research.
Neurodivergent is usually used to described a brain that works differently from what is seen as typical. For instance, it is often used to describe someone with a diagnosis of autism or ADHD.
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By Alison Donnell, Professor of Modern Literatures in English, University of Bristol
Marlon James’s 2026 novel, The Disappearers, has already been hailed as the novel of the century by The New York Times, and it is certainly magnificent and explosive in equal measure. Its success lies in the way its artistic execution dovetails with its highly charged subject matter.
The Disappearers pulls the reader into a seemingly knowable time and place – the Jamaica of 1988 to 2005. Yet what…
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By Curwyn Mapaling, Professor, University of Johannesburg
Nokulunga Shabalala, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Johannesburg
Professors Curwyn Mapaling and Nokulunga Shabalala are two Black clinical psychologists working as academics in South Africa. What started as their shared frustration with the pace of change in universities became a research programme. For three years they recorded their conversations with each other, leading to three journal papers…
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By Geoff Mapaya, Associate Professor, Department of Music, University of Venda
Kofi Agawu is regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on African music. The Ghanaian scholar, teacher and researcher has changed how the world hears and studies it.
I am a scholar of indigenous African music. I have researched and written extensively on African indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews.
I also know Professor Agawu personally. He has visited my institution,…
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