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Detection of novel orthobunyavirus reassortants in fatal neurologic case in horse and culicoides biting midges, South Africa
Rakaki, Matshepo E.; Van der Walt, Miné; Williams, June Heather; Venter, Marietjie (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2025-07)
We detected Shuni virus in horses and ovine fetuses and Shamonda virus in a caprine fetus in South Africa. We identified a Shuni/Shamonda virus reassortant in a horse and Shuni/Caimito, Shamonda/Caimito, and Shamonda/Sango virus reassortants in Culicoides midges. Continued genomic surveillance will be needed to detect orthobunyavirus infections in Africa.
Gaza : we need to talk!
Davids, Nuraan; Barnett, Ronald; Metz, Thaddeus; Zalloua, Zahi; Yancy, George; Orchard, Janet; Papastephanou, Marianna; Maldonado-Torres, Nelson; Robins, Steven; Conroy, James; Forster, Daniela J.; Le Grange, Lesley; Biesta, Gert; Gordon, Mordechai (Taylor and Francis, 2025-07-16)
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Medical students as journal reviewers : a project concept to consider them peers
Clithero-Eridon, Amy; Jeza Narvaez, Ma Angelica; Spal, Simran; Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Chao, Luke; Burdick, William (Towards Unity for Health, 2025-09)
BACKGROUND : The peer review process is widely accepted to benefit the education of health professionals. However, formal experience in peer reviewing is rare at the undergraduate level. A substantial pool of potential reviewers exists among health profession students, who are as rigorous in peer reviewing as those with more experience. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the impact of a mentorship experience designed to teach health professions students peer review skills using experienced peer reviewers as mentors. METHODS : Within the student organization section of The Network: Towards Unity for Health (SNO), student leaders hosted student-led journal clubs. Active SNO students were directly recruited and paired with experienced journal reviewers who served as their mentors. Each mentor/mentee pairing independently reviewed an article for either the journals Education for Health or Undergraduate Research in Health. They then met to discuss the results and provide feedback. Students who completed at least two reviews “graduated” from mentorship and were invited to join the pool of journal reviewers. RESULTS : The program effectively guided students to become effective peer reviewers. Students reported several benefits to participating in the program, including feeling more confident as peer reviewers, feeling more effective at delivering constructive feedback, and experiencing personal growth, such as becoming more effective at designing their research. DISCUSSION : A mentor/mentee peer review experience effectively produced a pool of competent peer reviewers while providing participants with several opportunities for personal growth. Ultimately, similar programs could lead to a larger community of peer reviewers and improved research literacy and capabilities among health professions students.
Investment adjustment costs and growth dynamics
Gupta, Rangan; Ma, Wei (Elsevier, 2025-12)
We develop a monetary endogenous growth overlapping generations model characterized by investment adjustment costs as a negative function of productive government expenditures, and an inflation-targeting central bank. We show that growth dynamics arise, otherwise not possible in a standard monetary endogenous growth model with a money growth-rule and an exogenous adjustment cost parameter. Furthermore, hinging crucially on the strength of the response of the adjustment cost to productive public spending, single or multiple equilibria emerge, with the high-growth (low-growth) equilibrium in the latter case being stable (unstable), but locally indeterminate (locally determinate).
Welcome home! Introducing SocSES : a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
De Vos , Alta; Quinlan, Allyson; Biggs, Reinette; Bennett, Elena M.; Martín-López, Berta; Norström, Albert V.; Peterson, Garry D.; Schoon, Michael; Allen, Craig R.; Andersson, Erik; Baird, Julia; Balvanera, Patricia; Berbés-Blázquez, Marta; Berkes, Fikret; Calderon-Contreras, Rafael; Carpenter, Stephen R.; Castro, Antonio J.; Cumming , Graeme S.; Falardeau, Marianne; Fick , W. Liebrecht; Folke, Carl; Galang, Elson Ian Nyl E.; Gelcich, Stefan; Gordon, Line J.; Grimm, Nancy B.; Hamilton, Jacqueline; Hodbod, Jennifer; Koch , Larissa; Kosanic, Aleksandra; Lembi, Rafael; Locatelli, Bruno; Malmborg, Katja; Manyani , Amanda; Mathisonslee, Morgan; Ocampo-Melgar, Anahi; Psiuk , Kinga; Queiroz, Cibele; Riechers, Maraja; Schultz, Lisen; Selomane, Odirilwe; Sherren , Kate; Spierenburg, Marja; Trimble, Micaela; Turkelboom , Francis; Wallington, Caroline (Resilience Alliance, 2025-06)
Underpinned by systemic thinking, social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as a critical field for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene, marked by a cross-scale focus, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, and a strong emphasis on place-based work. Thanks to the efforts of many networks and institutes, the field has advanced new theoretical and methodological approaches, fostered dedicated journals, and spurred educational programs. It has also significantly influenced sustainability initiatives and policy from local to global scales, and has richly informed place-based efforts. Despite this progress, SES research faces persistent challenges, including conceptual and methodological fragmentation, difficulty in scaling localized insights to global frameworks (and vice versa), and capturing cross-scale connections and processes while retaining contextual relevance. Inclusivity also remains a critical issue, with regional, Indigenous, and local contributions often underrepresented, as there is still a reliance on short-term, inequitably distributed grant funding for much of the research in the field. This paper introduces the Society for Social-Ecological Systems (SocSES), a global platform designed to build on and connect to the rich legacy of SES networks. SocSES aims to advance and support SES–based research, practice, and action toward a just and sustainable future. We outline how SocSES will provide a home for SES institutes, networks, researchers, and practitioners working at the science-practice-policy interface to connect and amplify existing efforts through thematic streams, regional hubs, an institutional hub, an early-career professionals hub, and synthesis groups. The society will provide a stable infrastructure to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration, enhance the generalizability and policy relevance of SES research, bolster education, research, and knowledge co-production, and support the next generation of SES professionals. By addressing the persistent challenges facing the field and fostering transformative spaces and communities for innovation and action, SocSES aspires to support and leverage SES knowledge as a cornerstone of global sustainability science. In line with the society’s commitment to linguistic diversity and equitable access, this abstract has been translated into 12 languages by authors of this paper and additional contributors. These translations are available in Appendix 2 and at https://socses.org/about/paper.