By Brian Lewis, Professor of History, McGill University
In the age of AI we are once again hearing about Luddites, the 19th-century textile workers who sought to protect their livelihoods in early industrial England.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the arrest of a Han Chinese man in Lhasa, Tibet – the human rights activist Zhang Yi – Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: “The arrest of Zhang Yi after he showed a photograph of the Dalai Lama while visiting a monastery is a chilling reminder of how far the Chinese […] The post China: Activist arrested over photo of Dalai Lama in Tibet must be released appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Fierceland, the energetic, adventurous winner of this year’s Miles Franklin, asks what it means to inherit a world already being dismantled.
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By Shawan Chowdhury, Head of Global Change Ecology Lab, Monash University
Aletta Bonn, Head of Department Biodiversity and People, Professor of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Jonathan Lenoir, Senior Researcher in Ecology & Biostatistics (CNRS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)
Conservation cannot only protect habitats where species once lived – it must include the places where they will relocate in a warming world.
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By Dorothy Finan, Lecturer in Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
BTS expressed a wish that ‘music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language’.
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By Christina Wilkins, Lecturer in Film and Creative Writing, University of Birmingham
Throughout Love Me Tender, French director Anna Cazenave Cambet’s new film about a mother’s fight for custody of her child, the audience is reminded of the body at the centre of the story – that of Clémence Delcourt (Vicky Krieps). The camera is almost cloyingly close, presenting her body in lingering shots that offer opportunities for the audience to connect with her real, visceral experience.
It is this body that we follow through the story. From the opening shot of Clémence in the pool to the ending on a bike, hers is a body constantly in motion, with a kind of restless energy. It…
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By Lala Rukh, PhD Candidate, Energy, University of Galway; Atlantic Technological University
You spend eight hours a night in the one room nobody ventilates. That’s bad for your sleep, and ideal for mould.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palestinians wait to cross at the Israeli Awarta military checkpoint on March 23, 2025, south of Nablus in the West Bank. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (Beirut) – Israeli road closures in the West Bank on July 27, 2026, badly delayed an ambulance transporting a pregnant Palestinian woman in critical condition, with dire consequences, Human Rights Watch said today. The woman’s fetus did not survive an emergency delivery, and her life was further endangered when soldiers forced the ambulance crew to turn off their medical equipment…
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By Rachel Tan, Associate Professor in Neuroscience, The Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
A new review looked at 1,734 people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But it couldn’t separate pesticide from other risk factors, such as head trauma.
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By Ian Kelleher, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
Modern medicine increasingly judges itself by long-term outcomes. In cancer care, we routinely compare treatments according to whether patients survive longer. In cardiology, we ask whether interventions prevent future heart attacks and extend life. This long-term data allows healthcare to continually improve.
Child and adolescent mental health services are different. Long-term outcomes have received little attention. Success, instead, is largely judged using measures such as waiting times, access targets and…
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