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Social‐ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella, Sebastian R. Ruile, Ariel Bergamini, Gala Mona Louise Dädlow, Vivien Grothe, Bertrand Fournier, Kilian Perrelet, Marco Moretti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large language models unlock large text corpora in the search for data on medicinal plants and fungi

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Millions of people worldwide depend on plants and fungi for their healthcare needs, yet our understanding of which species are used medicinally—and how—remains fragmented and incomplete. As part of Kew's Plants for Health service, we developed a pipeline to mine large text corpora for information on natural products, initially focusing on the medicinal
Adam Richard‐Bollans, Francesco Civita, Tiziana A. Cossu, Ifra Saifi, Kristina Patmore, Caroline Wilkinson, Bob Allkin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

As Foreigners in the Homeland

, 2023
reservedLinguistic colonialism refers to the imposition of a dominant language on colonized people by the colonial powers, often resulting in the suppression of local languages and cultures. This phenomenon has been a significant aspect of colonialism in
SCOPELLITI, RACHELE
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The Transformational STEM Consciousness Scale: A QuantCrit Measure of a Liberatory STEM Outcome

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Guided by QuantCrit, we introduce and validate the Transformational STEM Consciousness (TSC) scale, which fuses students' motivation to pursue racial and social justice through STEM with a critique of STEM's historic complicity in inequity. Surveying 255 undergraduate and graduate students in 18 justice‐integrated STEM courses across 11 US ...
Juan C. Garibay, Lindsay Wheeler
wiley   +1 more source

Data as a national asset

Technology and Regulation
The Indian state has tried to project an image of data sovereignty, seeing data in terms of a national asset that needs to be protected against the data colonialism of Western Big Tech through various policy documents and rhetoric. In this paper, I have
Kushang Mishra
doaj   +1 more source

Who Can Afford to Fail? Investigating Science Students' Perceptions of Failure Through the Lens of Their Identities

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scientists agree that learning to cope with failures is an important skill for science students to develop, and students who participate in science research often have positive outcomes after coping with science failures. However, the experience of failure in undergraduate science education more broadly seems to have an overall negative impact
Sandhya Krishnan, Isobel D. Cobb, Joseph A. Harsh, Manuela Mejia, Lisa Corwin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Localizable Climate Change Education in Schools: Examining Impacts on Students' Environmental Science Agency

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As our daily lives become increasingly affected by climate change, school‐based science education plays a critical role in preparing students to understand and respond to this global crisis. This cohort controlled quasi‐experimental study conducted in the United States examined whether a localized climate change storyline unit compared to ...
Lindsey Mohan, Emily M. Harris, Jeffrey Snowden, Candice Guy‐Gaytán, Audrey Mohan, Dennis Lee   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Let’s help our own”

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
This article explores narratives of humanitarian compassion as rendered intelligible through the relational intersecting concerns about Syrian refugees and the suicide crisis in the Indigenous community of Attawapiskat, Ontario.
Carmela Murdocca
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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

BECOMING ASSAMESE: Colonialism and new subjectivities in Northeast India

, 2016
This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon, not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It
Sengupta, Madhumita
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