By Simon Blanchette, Lecturer, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Canada is now investing billions to strengthen domestic AI capacity. But sovereignty is not simply about where the servers sit.
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By Nicola Henry, Professor of Global & Language Studies, RMIT University
Alana Ray, Lawyer and PhD Candidate, RMIT University
Gemma Stevens, Research Assistant, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
Sextortion is a form of online blackmail where a perpetrator coerces or tricks a victim into sending intimate images. New research shows it’s on the rise.
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By Sarah Hellewell, Senior Research Fellow, The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, and Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University
You walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there. You put the milk in the pantry and the keys in the fridge. You lose your train of thought halfway through a sentence.
If you’ve recently had a baby, you might blame all this on “baby brain” – that foggy, forgetful feeling so many new mothers describe.
But is “baby brain” real? Does the brain really change during pregnancy? And if so, how’s all this related to how new mothers think?
Yes, pregnancy can reshape the brain
Pregnancy…
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By Wen Helena Li, Senior Lecturer, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Vikas Kumar, Professor of International Business, University of Sydney
The effects won’t be immediately visible. But many of these jobs are entry points for young graduates and early-career professionals: our future business leaders.
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By Aaron Teo, Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Southern Queensland
Alexandra Lee, Research fellow in Sociology, Deakin University
Drawn from the words white and Asian, many use the term to celebrate shared experiences. But the label raises questions about valuing proximity to whiteness.
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By Dmitri Kalashnikov, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of California, Merced
Cong Yin, Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate and Hydrology, University of California, Merced
Madhulika Gurazada, Ph.D. Student in Management of Complex Systems, University of California, Merced
Mukesh Kumar, Postdoctoral Researcher in Wildfires and Complex Systems, University of California, Merced
Heat waves do more than dry out vegetation that can easily burn. They also play a role in lightning strikes, particularly dry lightning.
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By Amnesty International
Ahead of an upcoming hearing on 19 June during which the Tunis appeals court will re-examine the conviction of Saadia Mosbah, a prominent Tunisian Black human rights defender, and five of her colleagues from the anti-racist organization Mnemty, based on unfounded financial criminal charges stemming from their human rights work, Amnesty International’s North Africa researcher Safia Rayan said: “The initial verdict issued on 19 March against Saadia Mosbah and other Mnemty staff and collaborators, among them four who now risk imminent arrest, is shocking and profoundly unjust. It is another appalling…
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By Alma-Pierre Bonnet, Senior Lecturer in British Studies, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
With Keir Starmer, the 5th British prime minister in ten years now sitting in an ejector seat, the nation is dreaming of a “new Churchill”, but is this the ideal role model for Britain’s current predicament?
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By Adam Kenneth Dubé, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Faculty of Education, McGill University
Research on generative AI use among youth pinpoints design features that pose age-specific risks, which must be addressed before we adopt genAI into our schools and homes.
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By Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
Beryl Nyatuga Machoka, Researcher, African Population and Health Research Center
Caroline W. Kabiru, Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
Transactional sex, defined as the exchange of sex for money, food, or favours, is common among young people in Africa. Studies have reported that about 10% of those aged 15-24 have engaged in this exchange in South Africa, 23% in Nigeria and 25%…
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