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In this study, I investigate how psychedelic experiences influence career trajectories, using a qualitative interpretivist framework grounded in 28 in-depth interviews. Although prior research has emphasized the psychological and therapeutic benefits of psychedelics, little is known about their impact on work life. Through grounded theory analysis, four integrative categories emerged: (1) psychedelic influences on work, (2) creativity and innovation, (3) personal transformation, and; (4) career transitions. Findings reveal that psychedelic experiences catalyze career realignment by dissolving ego-based ambitions, enhancing somatic awareness, and reorienting motivation toward value-based, purpose-driven work. Participants often integrated spiritual insight and sacred intuition into professional life, reframing labour not as a means of achievement, but as a mode of existential expression. This study advances the field by offering a differentiated, embodied, and spiritually grounded account of how psychedelics reshape vocational life, extending psychedelic science into underexplored domains of career development, entrepreneurship, and organizational behaviour.

Target-based care (TBC) uses institutional data to create a shared mental model of anticipated postoperative milestones. This study evaluated the impact of a clinical effectiveness strategy, combining TBC with a clinical pathway and decision support, on outcomes in patients undergoing pectus excavatum repair. This was a prospective study at a quaternary children's hospital between 2022 and 2024. Patients undergoing repair from 2018 to 2021 were historical controls. Target-based care included displaying bedside targets for length of stay (LOS) (outcome metric), Foley catheter and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) discontinuation (process metrics), and a multidisciplinary evidence-based clinical pathway with an electronic order set. Overall, 91 patients were included: 52 preintervention and 39 postintervention. Median LOS decreased from 3 to 1.8 days (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.8-1.6, p < .05). The proportion of patients who met the LOS target of 2 days increased from 44.2% to 91.8% (p < .05). The mean time to PCA discontinuation decreased from 1.6 to 0.8 days (95% CI 34.8-118.7, p < .05). The time to Foley catheter removal diminished from 22.2 to 17.1 hour (95% CI 0.6-9.6, p < .05). A data-driven TBC with a clinical pathway had an immediate and sustained impact on patient care. Length of stay, PCA discontinuation, and time to Foley discontinuation decreased after TBC.

The lack of practical knowledge and effective engagement with gender in blue carbon initiatives poses a threat to their success and sustainability and risks exacerbating existing gender inequalities. Developed by an interdisciplinary team of experts, this paper proposes a research agenda, comprised of seven research areas as well as priority actions, designed to catalyze a shift towards more just, equitable and effective blue carbon initiatives. This paper is a call-to-action to increase commitment, funding, and collaborative, interdisciplinary science to close the gender gap in the conservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems and enhance their social-enovironmental impacts.

Community-based agrotourism is increasingly recognized as a driver of local empowerment, yet its social sustainability dimensions remain underexplored in Southeast Asia. This study evaluates social sustainability at an organic vegetable-picking tourism site in Malang City using eleven indicators derived from the literature: availability, accessibility, connectivity, density, diversity, legibility, safety, versatility, participation, social actions, and equity. Field observations and semi-structured interviews with managers, community members, and visitors revealed strong performance in local participation, diversity of activities, and educational value creation. However, challenges remain in public transport accessibility, digital wayfinding, formalizing collaborations with nearby businesses, and managing peak-period congestion. This study contributes to the literature by operationalizing a multidimensional framework for social sustainability in a peri-urban agrotourism setting and offers practical recommendations to strengthen inclusivity, visitor flow management, and community linkages. The findings demonstrate how such initiatives can advance SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) by integrating tourism development with local social objectives.

In a global context defined by climate urgency, the energy transition is presented as an unavoidable solution to the ecological crisis. This article critically examines that promise, revealing how it reproduces industrial logics and epistemic colonialities that constrain the imagination of alternatives. We ask how, in situated ways, political and epistemic forms of automation that accompany green energy transitions are configured and resisted. We propose the concept of green sleepwalking to describe a collective automatism that, under the rhetoric of sustainability, deepens extractive dynamics and erodes the capacity to envision divergent futures. Methodologically, the article draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2024 in the Atacama Salt Flat, involving extended field visits and participation in institutional forums for lithium governance. We also examine the energy enclave of Tocopilla—historically vital to copper mining—in order to situate lithium within a deeper, long-standing extractive ecology. We propose the notion of entropic omissions to capture how dominant energy transition narratives obscure irreversible losses—material, ecological, and psychosocial—embedded in current production regimes. We argue that green sleepwalking works precisely by erasing these entropic pasts, detaching materials like lithium from their historical and emotional contexts to align them with global discourses of climate urgency. This article contributes a conceptual and empirical critique from the South, engaging with the work of Bernard Stiegler to conceptualize the Entropocene as an era of accelerating entropy—one that erodes individuation and suppresses dissent. In response, we propose a decolonial negantropy as a way to reignite collective thinking beyond the logic of linear progress.

Air pollution is one the great challenges facing urban environments today, with 99% of the global population living in areas where air pollution concentrations are deemed “unsafe” according to the WHO air quality guidelines. Air pollution is also a typically wicked problem. We know there are inequities in exposure to air pollution and the resources available to address it; a heterogeneous nature to the sources and dispersion of pollution; and an array of solutions available to stakeholders. There are synergies between air quality solutions and actions for climate, health, equity and social wellbeing, yet siloed thinking in decision-making is limiting the outcomes of air pollution action. Systems approaches offer opportunities to overcome siloed thinking.In collaboration with the World Economic Forum, we used structured decision-making as a novel engagement tool to gain systems insights into the synergies, barriers and opportunities facing stakeholders. We invited a diverse array of stakeholders from across urban systems to collaborate in a problem solving workshop, in which we adapted the structured decision making process for systems insights into urban air quality actions. The aim of the workshop was to understand the synergies and conflicts between stakeholders, and to identify the actions that stakeholders believe are feasible and provide co-benefits for climate, health and social wellbeing.With 24 participants from 15 countries, we gathered the insights from NGOs, Academia, Industry and Policy from sectors such as transport, health, environment and technology. The group agreed on common goals that drive their work: “human health and well-being”, "equity" and "planetary health and climate". In response to these, they identified over 100 solutions and highlighted the importance of transport and data related solutions, including air quality monitoring , modelling and transparency. The perceived feasibility of transport solutions was varied, however despite this “public transport” and “climate and health promoting transport” were recommended as some of the top co-created actions by stakeholders. Key barriers to action included lack of data (access, quality and awareness), challenges of siloed thinking and collaboration and misinformation and disinformation. There was a call from stakeholders for enhanced cross collaboration and systems approaches, but a lack of suggestions of how to practically implement this. The process of identifying and agreeing on common goals and co-creating corresponding solutions can help break siloes of decision making and help promote optimal systems-based solutions. There is a clear need for further understanding into how we integrate systems thinking into real world decision making, especially in low and middle income regions where the application of systems thinking is currently understudied.