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Concerned about foreign interference in Canada? An 'enemy agent' registry is not the answer

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that includes live interviews with Canada’s top social sciences and humanities academics. Click here to register for In Conversation With Jordan Stanger-Ross and Audrey Kobayashi, April 18 at 2 p.m. ET. This is a virtual event co-hosted by The Conversation Canada…

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Biden taps Gaga, Clooney, Garner, others for arts committee

The White House has announced a star-studded slate of members for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a panel of artists, museum professionals, academics and philanthropists that serves as an advisory board to President Joe Biden on culture issues

The Independent UK

Children born via surrogacy or egg or sperm donation ‘should be told when young’

Academics said children should be informed before they start school.

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‘Appallingly unethical’: why Australian universities are at breaking point

Exclusive: Cost-cutting, casualisation and ‘ridiculous’ teaching loads are taking a toll on tertiary institutions – and some academics are fighting back

The Guardian - AU

Is the Ukraine war boosting or damaging the Russian economy?

IMF suggests invasion spending is pushing up GDP but academics argue non-military economy is foundering

The Guardian - UK

Apply for the 10th Annual James Wilson Fellowship

"The Institute will make a place for up to 15 Fellows who are law students, clerks, or lawyers and legal academics only a few years out of law school."

Reason

Abusing the election system

The party-list system, which is designed to allow professionals from various fields to become MPs, has been exploited by parties to return favours to loyal supporters or financiers, academics say.

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No one has all the answers to Chicago’s crime problem

Over many years of writing, reporting, editing and researching stories about urban crime, some of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve had about drug abuse, drugndealing and violent crime weren’t with police officers, elected officials or academics.

Chicago Sun-Times

Want to reduce your risk of diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure? Limit sugary drinks, says new study

Academics said that limiting sugar intake can have significant health benefits.

The Independent UK

People warned to limit sugary drinks to just one a week

Academics claim 'harmful associations' between sugar consumption and conditions including diabetes, depression, heart attacks and stroke

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Limit sugary drinks to one per week, researchers say

Academics said that limiting sugar intake can have significant health benefits.

The Independent UK

Debate: The case of Pinar Selek is a stark reminder of the dangers faced by academics in Turkey and around the world

On 31 March 2023, a trial will be held in Istanbul against Pinar Selek, a sociologist, writer, feminist, anti-militarist and pacifist activist, exiled in France since the end of 2011 and facing life imprisonment in Turkey.

The Conversation

World's population to peak at 8.5billion by 2040 - before falling drastically

Analysis by academics and recorded in new report Earth4All project shows the world's population - currently at eight billion - will increase until 2040, before drastically falling

Daily Mirror

NGOs, MPs and academics call for withdrawal of UK’s illegal migration bill

More than 60 signatories write to PM before Tuesday’s debate, warning bill will ‘cost lives’

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China’s fake science industry: how ‘paper mills’ threaten progress

The country has become a prolific producer of academic research but fraudulent studies risk serious real-world consequences

Miami Herald

As humanitarians call for greater attention to Haiti, US pushes new approach to aid

State Department officials are consulting with Haitian grassroots organizations, academics and others to see how the United States can help tackle the country’s ongoing gang violence and instability.

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Poor children have poorer health, educational outcomes in adolescence

A new investigation conducted by UCL academics indicates that Generation Z youngsters born into the lowest fifth of families in the UK are 12 times more likely to experience a slew of bad health and educational outcomes by the age of 17 than their more affluent classmates. Read further on…

Bangkok Post

Thaksin is 'not serious' about return

Academics and senators do not believe fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was serious about returning to Thailand and serving his prison term.

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Letter: John Eldridge obituary

Simon Murray writes: He was one of the few academics who appeared to know much about trade unions

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Traditional passports to be swapped for heartbeats in future, according to experts

Travellers of the future will be able to 3D print recyclable holiday clothes and hotel buffet food, according to leading academics

The Conversation

Women occupy very few academic jobs in Ghana. Culture and society's expectations are to blame

In many parts of the world, men dominate the higher education sector. A 2022 UNESCO report found that, globally, fewer than two out of five senior academics are women. In an earlier report it showed that less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women.

The Guardian - UK

Hunt’s jobs drive will push mothers on benefits to work 30-hour week

Exclusive: Single mothers of three-year-olds will be disproportionately hit by ‘unconscionable’ policy, say charities and academics

Los Angeles Times

Longtime Israel backers in US turn outraged critics — but Biden administration remains distant

WASHINGTON — With massive street protests, a mutiny by elite military reserve officers and outrage from diplomats, academics and former officials, Israel seems steeped in epic crisis.

The Guardian - UK

Withdraw review of Prevent anti-radicalisation strategy, ministers urged

Civil society groups, community leaders and academics say ‘ideologically led’ review of programme should be rejected

The Conversation

NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn't be 'Tiriti-led’

As part of its aspiration to be “Tiriti-led”, the University of Otago has embarked on a consultation process to re-brand. The proposed change involves a new logo and a new, deeply symbolic Māori name: Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.

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