By Paul Barrett, Individual Merit Researcher, Natural History Museum
Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth’s animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by diverse habitats: harsh deserts, vast grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, lush coastlines and teeming seas. It is also due to deep evolutionary roots, as many animal and plant groups originated here in the distant past. Palaeontologists have been excavating this material for nearly…
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By Oliver Davis, Professor and Head of the Department of French, University College Cork
A placard held by a young man as school protests continued across France appeared to capture the mood on the streets. Young people, it said: “want the Bac (high school diploma), not the BAC”. The Brigade Anti-Criminalité (BAC) is a police unit widely known for its aggressive tactics in tackling street crime.
The protests, which began as demonstrations over conditions in high schools (lycées) in Paris have spread across France. Hundreds of thousands of school students and young people have taken to the streets in many cities. After several young people were injured,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Kaitlyn Joshua with her daughter, Lauryn, age 5, outside their home in Geismar, Ascension Parish, in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. Joshua, a chronic asthma sufferer since childhood, said her physician told her, “Kaitlyn, it’s where you live. It’s the air quality. You’re going to have to move out of there.” October 20, 2023. © 2023 Eli Reed for Human Rights Watch Louisiana feminist activists came together on October 2 at the annual Black Birth Matters conference to demand that policy makers consider how toxic air pollution and other environmental damage negatively impact…
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By Adrian R Bell, Chair in the History of Finance and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Andrew Prescott, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow
Helen Killick, Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, University of Reading
The Uprising is the first film inspired by the peasants’ revolt of the summer of 1381 – the largest popular rebellion in medieval England.
The revolt was triggered by the heavy-handed administration of a poll tax that required a fixed sum to be collected from all adults. The tax was levied to finance a faltering war in Europe.
The Uprising vividly portrays…
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By Nelya Koteyko, Professor of Language and Communication, Queen Mary University of London
Flo Bremner, Research Assistant in Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
Jessica Aiston, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Applied Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
For some autistic young people online interactions provide a form of social contact that is more manageable than many physical settings.
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By Keyvan Hosseini, Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton
Dawn-Marie Walker, Professor, Socio-Environmental Impact on Health Inequalities, University of Southampton
Hospital journeys can be costly, exhausting and hard to plan. The timing and location of appointments can determine whether lower-carbon travel is possible.
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By Donovan Castelyn, Senior Industry Fellow - Taxation and Director of the UTAS Tax Clinic, University of Tasmania
A looming ban on using credit cards to pay tax bills will mean one less option for juggling tight cash flow. But the government is under pressure to intervene.
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By Jessica Schaffer, Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University
The allegations against the fitness guru have sparked a discussion about our perceptions of who might be capable of violence and why.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
When opposition started talking about cutting immigration it would have thought, on the basis of polling, that it was tapping into a vein of political gold.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy, Andrew Charlton, has flagged the government is looking to regulate AI companies by forcing them to run rigorous “risk management” processes.
Called “systems regulation”, the approach would place “the onus on companies to build and run a rigorous process for finding, testing, reporting on and managing the risks of their systems”.
They would then be held “accountable for whether that process works,” Charlton said in a speech to the Sydney Trust and Safety Festival on the Regulation of AI.
The…
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