Many conservation challenges require negotiating trade‐offs between the needs of different actors. Global frameworks such as the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework explicitly call for diverse participation and social equity in conservation decision‐making. Achieving this requires integrating equity into both decisions and decision‐making processes. Despite shifts toward strengthening social equity, practical guidan...

Purpose of Review Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and anhedonia [1, 2]. Strong biological plausibility supports a disease-specific relationship between metal and metalloid exposures and SCZ, particularly through disruption of metal ion coordination within with the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAr), a key regulator of neurodevelopment and...

Down syndrome (DS), or trisomy 21 (T21), represents the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability worldwide and is associated with a wide range of medical, developmental, and neurodegenerative conditions, including a universal predisposition to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Since its establishment in 2014, the Trisomy 21 Research Society (T21RS) has provided a global forum for advancing DS research across di...

Characterizing the genetic structure and connectivity between populations of endangered species can be used to inform management actions. In vagile species with high gene flow or recently established populations, such characterizations can be difficult to undertake using traditional genetic markers, and genetic stock identification (GSI) may be confounded by allele-sharing between populations. Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are environmental pollutants linked to neurological impairments by mechanisms involving the gut microbiome. This study examines the effects of maternal exposure to a PCB mixture on the gut microbiome of post-weaning mouse dams. Female C57BL/6 J mice were exposed daily to PCBs at different doses (0, 0.1, 1, or 6 mg/kg body weight/day) before mating, and throughout gestation and lactation. Post-w...

As climate change progresses and severe disturbances become routine, understanding rates and mechanisms of recovery in habitat-forming species is central to predicting the broader response of ecosystems to climate change. Here, we combined acute experimental heat stress and RNA sequencing to explore patterns of transcriptome plasticity and resilience to heat stress in a common Acropora coral from the World Heritage-listed Ning...

Biological communities are changing rapidly in response to human activities, with the high rate of vertebrate species extinction leading many to propose that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event. Five past mass extinction events have commonly been identified across the Phanerozoic, with the last occurring at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago (Ma). However, life on Earth has always changed and evol...

The ocean plays an essential role in regulating Earth’s climate, influencing weather conditions, providing sustenance for large populations, moderating anthropogenic climate change, encompassing massive biodiversity, and sustaining the global economy. Human activities are changing the oceans, stressing ocean health, threatening the critical services the ocean provides to society, with significant consequences for human well-be...

Predators are recognized to increase prey diversity by suppressing competitively dominant species, whereas mutualists are predicted to reduce diversity by promoting a competitively dominant partner. However, this trend, and the effect of these interactions when they cooccur, remains underexplored. We investigated the effects of predation and mutualism on the diversity of pine‐associated arthropods by excluding insectivorous bi...