By Marc Fullman, Docotoral Researcher in Organisational Behaviour, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
If your first task of the day is triaging a bulging inbox at 6am, you are not alone. A recent Microsoft report headlined “Breaking down the infinite workday” found that 40% of Microsoft 365 users online at this hour are already scanning their emails – and that an average worker will receive 117 emails before the clock rolls around to midnight.
But that’s not all. By 8am, Microsoft Teams notifications outstrip email for most workers, and the typical employee is hit with…
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By Jess Scott-Lewis, PhD Candidate, Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
Charlotte Coleman, Deputy Head of the Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
Technology platforms operating in the UK now have a legal duty to protect young people from some of the more dangerous forms of online content. This includes pornography, content that encourages, promotes, or provides instructions for violence, promotion of self-harm and eating disorders. Those failing to comply face hefty fines.
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By Pandora Syperek, Tutor, History of Design, V&A/Royal College of Art, and Teaching Fellow, Institute for Creative Futures, Loughborough University
Sarah Wade, Associate Professor in Museum Studies, School of History and Art History, University of East Anglia
The artworks in Sea Inside offer ways of engaging with the existential threats facing our oceans that are emotive, imaginative and often very funny.
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By Kevin Kriese, Senior Wildfire and Land Use Analyst, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
Andrea Barnett, POLIS Wildfire Resilience Project Manager, University of Victoria
Oliver Brandes, Co-Director; Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Policy of the POLIS Project; Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
As the summer heat intensifies, people across Canada are facing the full brunt of wildfire season. Communities…
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By Joel Lexchin, Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board’s mandate is to make sure that drug prices are not excessive. However, new guidelines that change criteria for assessing prices may lead to higher prices.
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor
For the past few weeks the headlines about Gaza have focused on the hundreds of people who have been killed while queueing for food. The aid distribution system put in place in May, backed by the US and Israel and run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has proved to be chaotic and allegedly resulted in violence, with both Israel Defense Forces personnel and armed Palestinian gangs blamed for killing about 1,000 people in the two months the new system has been operating.
Now the headlines are focusing on the growing number of people dying of starvation.
Harrowing reports…
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By Eef Hogervorst, Professor of Biological Psychology, Loughborough University
More and more research suggests that the copper in your diet could play a bigger role in brain health than we once believed. A recent study found that older Americans who ate more copper-rich foods did better on memory and concentration tests.
The findings, published in Nature Scientific Reports, looked at people’s diets using detailed food diaries and tested their cognitive function. Those who ate more foods that were high in copper – which include shellfish, dark chocolate and nuts – did better on tests…
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By Jennifer Raynor, Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Satellite technology that can track ships even when they ‘go dark’ finds that those protected areas that fully ban industrial fishing are succeeding, even if others aren’t.
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By Jason Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University
The online reaction to the extra-marital affair that was caught on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert raises the question: why does infidelity, especially among the powerful, provoke such public outrage?
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By Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
While Columbia University can afford to pay the government $200 million in order to unfreeze federal grants and contracts it was awarded, many other universities and colleges could not.
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