By Devon Polaschek, Professor of Psychology/Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
Simon Davies, Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Nearly half of New Zealand’s prison population is on remand. But these units are not suitable for successful rehabilitation, and most people are not eligible anyway.
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By Caitlin Macdonald, PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Officials demonstrate ballot counting during a simulation of election procedures for the presidential election at South Korea's National Election Commission in Gwacheon, April 10, 2025. © 2025 Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (Seoul) – South Korea’s New Reform Party responded to a Human Rights Watch questionnaire on key human rights issues facing the South Korean people, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch prepared the questionnaire to provide the three major political parties an opportunity to publicly express their views…
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By Oli Wilson, Professor & Associate Dean Research, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Catherine Hoad, Senior Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Dave Carter, Associate Professor, School of Music and Screen Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Jesse Austin-Stewart, Lecturer, School of Music and Screen Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Streaming and social media have transformed the way we discover music. But algorithms and programming formats mean local artists are disappearing in the global mix.
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By Cornelia Schneider, Associate Professor of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
Martha E. Walls, Associate Professor, History, Mount Saint Vincent University
Part of a eugenic logic is the ongoing belief that erasing disability and people with disabilities is a desirable and commonsense objective.
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By Justine Loizeau, Postdoctoral research fellow in sustainability and organization, Aalto University
Antoine Fabre, Maitre de Conférences en Sciences de Gestion, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
Clément Boyer, Doctorant à la Chaire Comptabilité Écologique, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
Pierre Labardin, Professeur des Universités, IAE La Rochelle
The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened by deforestation. This harmful practice often has colonial origins.
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By Nuhu Osman Attah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Australian National University
When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising word turned up several times in the accompanying “system card”: spiritual.
Specifically, the developers report that, when two Claude models are set talking to one another, they gravitate towards a “‘spiritual bliss’ attractor state”, producing output such as
🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀
All gratitude in one spiral,
All recognition in one turn,
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By Catherine McKinnon, Deputy Head—School of the Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong
Landfall is a haunting and propulsive crime novel, set in 2050s Sydney, that weighs the value of a human life on an ecologically ravaged planet.
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By Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Australian Catholic University
During fieldwork in cities in China I came across a new marital practice, locally described as liang-tou-dun, literally “two places to stay”.
A bride and groom, each an only child of their respective family, receive from each set of parents a wedding apartment. The young couple thus has two marriage apartments which they may occupy at different times.
If a couple with “two places to stay” has two children, it is likely one will have the father’s surname and the other the mother’s. This ensures that the familial lines of both families continue – but it can also…
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By Maarten De Brauwer, Senior Research Scientist in Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Southern Cross University
Kaitlyn Harris, Research Assistant, NSW Estuary Monitoring Program, Southern Cross University
Kelly Gittins, Aboriginal Project Officer, Fisheries, Department of Primary Industries, Indigenous Knowledge
Researchers worked with Indigenous Rangers to map life in 34 estuaries across NSW using environmental DNA - and made a host of unexpected discoveries.
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