It's a sad fact that wildlife populations are declining globally, but it’s not all doom & gloom! Durham Anthropology’s PhD researcher Sian Green explains that MammalWeb camera traps can help us learn more about mammals & how we can safeguard them in the future: fal.cn/Ah6r

One narrative: for years, her doctors have prescribed diabetes medicine off-label, poisoning her liver. Another narrative: policies designed to destroy food & health-care systems so as to crush Indigenous peoples have left her with harmful care. @eyatesd culanth.org/fieldsights/no…

From the #MedAnth archives by Aaron Parkhurst of UCL Anthropology '#City and #cosmology: #genetics, #health, and #urban living in #Dubai' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

You may remember the Syrian refugee Jamal – the video of him being attacked in a Huddersfield playground last year went viral. Having been chased out of town, he’s living in a new city and is still without a school to take his GCSEs. x.com/saeed6ali/stat…

Our new paper, “Reinforcement Learning, Fast and Slow”, reviews recent techniques in deep RL that narrow the gap in learning speed between humans and agents, & demonstrate an interplay between fast and slow learning w/ parallels in animal/human cognition: cell.com/trends/cogniti…

Over 1,000,000 species on the planet are facing extinction, says the UN's first comprehensive report on global biodiversity ipbes Aidan Gallagher Dia Mirza Dr David Nabarro Neel Sethi Cristina Gallach Figueras Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Nikolaj CosterWaldau Vincent Coyle Aaditya Thackeray

It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this plays out: “You haven’t done your daily mile. Your ill health is your own fault. We’re scrapping your free NHS treatment” “You’ve walked 200m. You’re obviously fit for work. We’re cutting your benefits” theguardian.com/inequality/201…

A new United Nations report warns that up to one million species are at risk of extinction. Here 5 key findings from the report.

Our professor of #forensic #psychology @ProfGrahamTowl has a thought provoking article in today's The Guardian "The question students should ask: how is my university tackling #sexual #violence?" Durham University theguardian.com/education/2019…

Nearly 150,000 Syrians are fleeing fierce bombardment in north-west Syria as Russian-backed government-led attacks intensify.

Our next open community discussion as part of our #NotOnMyCampus series is taking place on 13th May (6pm-7:30pm) with @POCADurham Durham ISA & Castles MCR: facebook.com/events/4538653…

New climate plan from 8 EU countries 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 🇩🇰 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇸🇪 - net zero by 2050 - higher 2030 paris agreement target - ensure imports of good climate standard - 25% EU budget for climate projects, ban on anti-climate spending bit.ly/2LvJCbL

Poor monitoring has made it hard to enforce pollution limits on power plants But soon the public will be able to precisely track the air pollution coming from every single plant in the world In real time vox.com/energy-and-env…

Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. That's not good. There is no time to waste. There is no planet B. #GreenNewDeal. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #tech #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #PanelsNotPipelines #go100re