Lake Forest College

While recent years have seen many attempts to decolonize curricula and pedagogy, Shahjahan et al. (2022) pointed out that existing English-language literature has not sufficiently addressed temporal and affective dimensions of these attempts. Through an ethnographic case study of a course crafted to encourage decolonizing action, this article specifically examines how the time constraints of traditional academic calendars work against decolonizing pedagogy. However, it demonstrates the possibilities of successfully creating an affective atmosphere that promotes and sustains decolonizing commitments among undergraduates. The premise of a truly decolonized curriculum does not seem viable within the colonialist/capitalist premises of the conventional United States university. Nonetheless, we found there is value in pedagogy geared toward decolonizing thinking.

ObjectiveTo provide a broad, comprehensive picture of affect regulation in the context of sexual and gender minority stress, this scoping review aims to identify and synthesize methods, methodologies, and available evidence pertinent to emotion regulation and coping in the context of minority stress among sexual and gender minority (SGM) people.IntroductionSGM people face disproportionately high rates of mental health problems due to experiences of minority stress and lack of social safety. Theories and growing evidence suggest that affect regulation plays a critical role in SGM people’s well-being in the face of minority stress. Researchers have largely studied emotion regulation, coping, and minority stress in distinct literatures; as such, there is a critical need to synthesize evidence across these bodies of research.Inclusion criteriaWe will review empirical studies that (1) included SGM people, (2) measured at least one affect regulation construct, and (3) studied affect regulation in the context of sexual or gender minority stress.MethodsPublished and unpublished (i.e., grey literature) empirical studies written in English (no restrictions on publication date) will be searched using the following databases: PsycINFO (via EBSCO), Web of Science Core Collection (via Clarivate), PubMed (via National Library of Medicine), Gender Studies Database (via EBSCO), Sociological s (via ProQuest), and SocIndex with Full Text (via EBSCO). Grey literature will be identified through searching on additional repositories and databases and emailing listservs of relevant organizations. Potentially relevant papers will first be screened based on title and abstract, followed by full-text screening, against inclusion criteria by two independent reviewers. Data on study characteristics and findings relevant to the review will be extracted by two independent reviewers. Descriptive data relevant to each research question will be presented in tabular format, followed by a narrative summary of main findings, research gaps, and areas for future research.

Tire and road wear particles (TRWPs) have been widely documented in scientific research as a hidden but significant contributor to microplastic pollution. However, outside academic circles, the term itself rarely sparks recognition. This project set out to explore the disconnect between existing research and public knowledge by reviewing literature on TRWP’s chemical complexity and ecological risks and interviewing ordinary people about their understanding of TRWP’s environmental impact. A small survey of 25 participants became the lens through which this gap was revealed. The responses told a familiar story: bottles, bags, and straws were named almost instantly as marine pollutants, while TRWPs drew blank stares. Fewer than one in five respondents had even heard of it, and even those with some environmental background seldom flagged it as a concern. Such results suggest that technical fixes like stormwater treatment or emission standards will matter little unless public awareness catches up. Education, community engagement, and clearer communication are not afterthoughts—they are part of the solution.

Can ‘re-wilding’ at ‘earthquake disaster remains (shinsai ikō)’ introduce a new paradigm of memorializing the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami? What sacrifices do conventional formulas of memorialization and heritagization demand of the 3.11 tsunami-affected residents and municipalities? This paper explores these questions by examining two atypical ‘earthquake disaster remains’ in Miyagi Prefecture: the former police box in Onagawa, and the concrete foundations of housing in Arahama. Brimming with vegetal desires for life, the two sites look viscerally chaotic and alarmingly unkempt, defying most people’s expectations. My analysis shows that conventional formulas of memorializing the sites of trauma require vigilance against weathering and decaying, lest changes in appearance threaten the authenticity of the sites. In this context, by foregrounding the earthquake disaster remains’ physical mutability through ecological entanglement, I argue, the two atypical sites under investigation distill the inherent contradictions and problematics that our ingrained practices of memorialization take for granted. Through re-wilding, what I call ‘partial forgetting by design’, will emerge as a possible intervention into imagining a life and future in the disaster-prone areas around the world in an era of planetary climate change.

In bean beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus), population density affects larval development. Under high density, individuals develop into a dispersal morph, with larger wings and smaller gonads, while under low density we observe the flightless morph with smaller wings and larger gonads. Past research has shown that the effect of density on wing size is stronger in males than in females, and we hypothesized that this difference is caused by a sex-specific trade-off between immunocompetence and reproduction. We predicted that females reared under high larval density would have an overall stronger immune response compared to those reared in low densities, and to males in general. We tested this hypothesis by rearing males and females under different density treatments and measuring wing size, gonad size, and immune response through phenoloxidase and lytic activity. Females reared under the high-density treatment displayed stronger immune responses, and a trade-off between immunity and gonad size. This provides evidence for a sex-specific, density-specific trade-off between immunocompetence and reproduction.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1038/s41598-025-17811-7.

In this work, we investigate the existence of multistationarity for a triple-site mixed phosphorylation network, where the phosphorylation part contains distributive and processive components, while the dephosphorylation part is purely distributive. We obtain a simple inequality which defines a region in parameter space such that the parametric ordinary differential equations (ODE) system modeling the mixed network is multistationary, i.e., it has multiple positive steady states. We obtain a sufficient condition for uniqueness of the steady state in the form of parametric inequalities. Lastly, we show that the emergence of multistationarity is enabled by the catalytic constants regardless of the position of the processive part in the triple-site mixed mechanism phosphorylation network.

Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K is read through postcolonial ecology and biopolitics, focusing on narrative resistance and the critique of auto|biography as a tool of state surveillance. K’s non|narrative anti-auto|biography is contextualized within works by Coetzee, Beckett, and Kafka, and theoretically framed by Foucault and Agamben.