Monday, January 26, 2026
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is sounding the alarm over the threat of escalating violence in Jonglei state which is putting lives at risk and further weakening prospects for peace.
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By Michael D. Caligiuri, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Miranda Kitterlin-Lynch, Associate Professor in the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Florida International University
Phil Jolly, Associate Professor of Hospitality Management, Penn State
White and male professors continue to dominate U.S. hospitality and tourism education programs, our new research has found, even as the industry is growing increasingly diverse. This imbalance raises questions about who shapes the future of hospitality and whose voices are left out of the conversation.
Our analysis of 862 faculty members across 57 of the top U.S. college hospitality programs found that nearly three-quarters of these professors were white, and more than half were male. White men alone represented 43.5%…
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By Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University
Blaming Pretti’s death on the fact that he was carrying a gun contradicts the second amendment to the US constitution.
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By Thomas Lockwood, PhD Researcher in Politics, York St John University
Suella Braverman’s decision to defect to Reform UK is not just another blow to Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to stabilise the Conservatives after their 2024 defeat. It also changes what Reform is being judged…
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By Thom Wilcockson, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Loughborough University
Ahmet Begde, Research Associate, Dementia, University of Oxford
Melody Pattison, Lecturer in Linguistics, Cardiff University
The earliest signs of dementia are rarely dramatic. They do not arrive as forgotten names or misplaced keys, but as changes so subtle they are almost impossible to notice: a slightly narrower vocabulary, less variation in description, a gentle flattening of language.
New research my colleagues and I conducted suggests that these changes may be detectable years before a formal diagnosis — and one of the clearest examples may lie hidden in the novels of Sir Terry Pratchett.
Pratchett is remembered as one…
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By Timothy Hearn, Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Anglia Ruskin University
An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a state that, despite its lack of a brain, resembles sleep.
Field cameras show it even takes a brief siesta around noon, to “catch up” after a disturbed night.
A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea…
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By Steven David Pickering, Honorary Professor, International Relations, Brunel University of London
Martin Ejnar Hansen, Reader in Political Science, Brunel University of London
Yosuke Sunahara, Professor in Public Administration, Kobe University
Academic freedom is often described as a cornerstone of democratic society. Politicians regularly claim to defend it, universities invoke it in mission statements and most members of the public say they support it in principle.
So why does it provoke such intense disagreement once it becomes concrete? At first glance, these disputes look like arguments about universities. But our research suggests something else is going on. Public disagreements over academic freedom are not simply about campus policy. They reflect deeper divides…
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By Lucyl Harrison, PhD Candidate, School of Humanities, University of Hull
The year is 1926. Queen Elizabeth II is christened. Wage cuts and increased working hours for coal miners precipitate a general strike of workers. A.A. Milne publishes Winnie-the-Pooh. The League of Nations accepts Germany as the sixth permanent member on the council deeming it a “peace-loving country”.
It is also the year that Virginia Woolf published her essay, On Being Ill, in…
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By Carolina Are, LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
My social media feed has been full of Brooklyn Beckham memes. That is, since January 19, when David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son posted a series of Instagram stories criticising his parents, their curated public personas and what he described as long-standing slights towards him and his wife, actress Nicola Peltz.
As a researcher of online harms and freedom of speech, I’m less interested in whether the memes are funny than in what Brooklyn Beckham versus brand Beckham tells us about how social…
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By Alex Dryden, PhD Candidate in Economics, SOAS, University of London
When a Danish pension fund recently announced it would sell its US$100 million (£74 million) holding of US government bonds, the move was tiny in financial terms – just a drop in a US$30 trillion ocean. But it touched on a much bigger issue. Foreign investors now hold around one-third of all US government debt, amounting to roughly US$9.5 trillion.
Of these foreign holdings, Europe has US$3.6 trillion,…
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