On the puzzling geography of blowguns
You may be familiar with the blowgun, which appears as a five-minute DIY, life-saving weapon in some popular movies and series (e.g.,…
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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Happy 100th Birthday Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics celebrates its centenary in 2025, but we should update how we teach it, say Cambridge authors Asma Al-Qasimi and Daniel F. V. James.
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CUP – Skibidi, delulu, tradwife are new words in the Cambridge Dictionary
How does a word earn its place in the dictionary? The Cambridge Dictionary has just welcomed a handful of internet-famous slang terms into its pages.…
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A Tiny Stowaway with a Big Story: Discovering a New Galápagos Tapeworm
The Galápagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — their unique plants and animals have been studied for over a century.…
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JFM Q&A with Daniel Chung
Daniel Chung – University of Melbourne has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, they participated in a Q&A with the Journal.
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Can dietary additives in combination be potentiated to help laying hens at an advanced age?
Genetic advances have made it possible for commercial laying hen lines to remainlonger in production. However, after peak production, due to a series of physiological and hormonal changes with age, there will naturally be a decline in performance and egg quality.
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Whey to Grow: Uncovering the Potential of Whey Protein in Broiler Nutrition
Could an overlooked dairy by-product hold the key to more efficient poultry production? Our recent study, selected as Paper of the Month by The Journal of Agricultural Science, explored this very question using a model-based meta-analytic approach.
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Vulture capitalism: how black markets for black magic threaten African vultures
In Africa, poisoning related to pastoralism has been identified as a major driver of vulture declines, and mass vulture mortality events have occurred at poisoned carcasses illegally left by livestock herders to target carnivores.
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Protecting Heritage in War: the Power of Local Action
Is it possible to protect cultural heritage during a war? And if so, how can it be done meaningfully and effectively?…
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How Culture Shapes Shared Decision-Making in Psychiatry: Insights from 751 Psychiatrists Across Europe
Imagine you’re a psychiatrist sitting across from a patient. You’ve diagnosed them, you’ve outlined the treatment options, and now it’s time to decide what to do next.…
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Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International
Author: Dr Tim McInerny, Pictures Editor, BJPsych International [[email protected]] In the August 25 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – Dr Tim McInerny, Pictures Editor, BJPsych International, introduces Colin, the artist whose work is on the cover of the latest edition of BJPsych International.…
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Counting what matters: The role of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics in social policy
See related Call for Papers in Data & Policy (deadline: 9 January 2026) In 2022, UN Women estimated that it would take 22 years to close the gender data gap to adequately assess the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
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Rethinking Biodiversity: Beyond Disturbance
Can humans increase biodiversity through their environmental practices? A new Perspective in Environmental Conservation answers with a bold: Yes. In “A biocultural hypothesis of human–environment mediations and biodiversity increase”, Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez, Anabel Ford, Narciso-Barrera Bassols, Alejandro Casas, Lane Fargher and Ronald Nigh propose a fresh lens for understanding how biodiversity thrives —not in spite of human activity, but often because of it.…
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Directing conservation efforts for the ʻuaʻu – timing matters
The latest Paper of the Month for Bird Conservation International is Differences in breeding phenology between two geographically separated populations of the ʻuaʻu (Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis) and is freely available for one month.…
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Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture
Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture aims to extend our understanding of the critical role race has played in shaping US literary history.…
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Why Care About Culture When the World Is on Fire?
With the world facing war, climate change, pandemics, and civil unrest, it’s natural to question the importance of preserving culture. Why should we care about archaeology, monuments, traditions, art, and architecture when survival itself is threatened?…
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Flow: The Editors’ Insights 2025
Members of the Flow Editorial Board have each selected one recent article to highlight as an example of the best and brightest being published in the journal.
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Meet the Editors: Q&A with Mercedes Didier Garnham, Social Media Editor for Parasitology
Welcome to our “Meet the Editors” series, where we interview the editorial team about their work and their relationship to the journal. In this post we meet Mercedes Didier Garnham, Social Media Editor for Parasitology.
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How a digital, solution-focussed tool (DIALOG+) helped lay counsellors improve mental healthcare in Pakistan
The RCPsych Article of the Month for August is ‘Feasibility and acceptability of a solution-focused approach to strengthen lay counselling for common mental disorders (DIALOG+) in Pakistan: mixed methods study‘, written by authors Saniya Saleem, Anayat Baig, Onaiza Qureshi, Sana Sajun, Victoria Bird, Stefan Priebe and Aneeta Pasha.…
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Call for New Co-Editor for Social Policy and Society
Social Policy and Society (SPS) is a long-established international journal, published by Cambridge University Press and sponsored by the Social Policy Association (SPA).…
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Boosting Self-Compassion Training with Neurostimulation: A New Approach to Compassion- and Mindfulness Therapy?
Meditation practices have become mainstream tools for treating and preventing mental health problems. ‘Contemplative psychotherapies’ like Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy are effective treatments for a range of neuropsychiatric conditions, including depression, addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder.…
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Revising An Economic History of Europe for a Rapidly Changing World
How we updated the classic textbook An Economic History of Europe to reflect changes both in the world and in how we teach and learn economic history.
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Representing Practice in Advances Covers
Advances in Archaeological Practice covers are most often experienced as a tiny thumbnail shot either on the Cambridge Core website, or perhaps on social media.…
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A new editorial team for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
We are very excited to have been chosen as the new editors for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (PPS), the flagship journal of the Prehistoric Society.…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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How a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention improved women’s mental health
Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
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National Endowment for the Humanities-Funded Archaeological Archive of Huhugam Archaeology Delivers Lasting Impact in the Southwest
In an era of shrinking research budgets and political pressure to justify public investment, federally funded digital archives in archaeology are delivering measurable, lasting benefits to scholars, land managers, Indigenous communities, and the public.…
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Revisiting the Cinema Special Topic
In the May 1991 issue of PMLA, then editor John W. Kronik begins his “Editor’s Note” by announcing that the current volume of the journal “has elicited strong responses, praise as well as reproof, even before the year is out” (393).…
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Elements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t exist.…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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Medieval Ethiopia, ‘Antiquity’, and African Archaeology
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
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