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The 1619 Project: A Bibliography

02/19/2025

Laura Krier

This Spring, SSU's Common Read is The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones. This richly researched book makes clear the ways in which slavery and its legacy have impacted nearly every aspect of life in America and shaped the nation in innumerable ways.

The 1619 Project was built on a foundation of research. Contributors used a wide range of sources to make their arguments, from archival documents to contemporary news sources to the work of other researchers in the fields of history, genetics, sociology, psychology, criminology, and many other disciplines. Following the trail of their research can give you as a reader a richer, deeper understanding of some of the key issues raised in the included essays.

To that end, we have been working on creating "The 1619 Project Bibliography." This bibliography locates and links to the sources cited in the Notes for each chapter of the book. The guide is a work in progress and additional chapters are being added continuously. We hope to illustrate the way that thought and scholarship continually builds on the work of others and on the historical record, offering new interpretations, new insights, and better understanding.

It is vitally important to learn about history through engagement with ideas, historical documents, data, and scholarship. We hope this guide and bibliography will help you to enrich your engagement.

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New Resource: Sage Research Methods Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills

02/17/2025

Laura Krier

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Are you looking for some support for practical skills that you need to complete your assignments and research projects? Sage Research Methods Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills might be just what you need! This collection includes videos that cover key areas such as planning and designing a research project and presenting your research.

It also includes videos on skills that will help you in your general academic work and in your career.

Whether you're just getting started on your first research project, are preparing to present your research, or want to develop skills that will help you get a job, you're sure to find something useful.

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Focus On: SSU Research

01/31/2025

Laura Krier

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Another month, another update about the awesome research coming out of Sonoma State.

Costa, D. P., Holser, R. R., Keates, T. R., Adachi, T., Beltran, R. S., Champagne, C. D., Crocker, D. E., Favilla, A. B., Fowler, M. A., Gallo-Reynoso, J. P., Goetsch, C., Hassrick, J. L., Hückstädt, L. A., Kendall-Bar, J. M., Kienle, S. S., Kuhn, C. E., Maresh, J. L., Maxwell, S. M., McDonald, B. I., & McHuron, E. A. (2024). Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals. Scientific Data, 11(1).

Abstract: Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) have been integral to the development and progress of biologging technology and movement data analysis, which continue to improve our understanding of this and other species. Adult female elephant seals at Año Nuevo Reserve and other colonies along the west coast of North America were tracked annually from 2004 to 2020, resulting in a total of 653 instrument deployments. This paper outlines the compilation and curation process of these high-resolution diving and location data, now accessible in two Dryad repositories. The code used for data processing alongside the corresponding workflow is available through GitHub and Zenodo. This data set represents 3,844,927 dives and 596,815 locations collected from 475 individual seals with 178 repeat samplings over 17 years. We anticipate that these data will stimulate further analysis and investigation into elephant seal biology and aid in developing new analytical approaches for large marine predators.

Cai, P., Casas, C. J., Quintero Plancarte, G., Mikawa, T., & Hua, L. L. (2025). Ipsilateral restriction of chromosome movement along a centrosome, and apical-basal axis during the cell cycle. Chromosome Research, 33(1).

Abstract: Little is known about how distance between homologous chromosomes are controlled during the cell cycle. Here, we show that the distribution of centromere components display two discrete clusters placed to either side of the centrosome and apical/basal axis from prophase to G1 interphase. 4-Dimensional live cell imaging analysis of centromere and centrosome tracking reveals that centromeres oscillate largely within one cluster, but do not cross over to the other cluster. We propose a model of an axis-dependent ipsilateral restriction of chromosome oscillations throughout mitosis.

Senger, K., Shephard, G., Ammerlaan, F., Anfinson, O., Audet, P., Coakley, B., Ershova, V., Faleide, J. I., Grundvåg, S.-A., Horota, R. K., Iyer, K., Janocha, J., Jones, M., Minakov, A., Odlum, M., Sartell, A., Schaeffer, A., Stockli, D., Vander Kloet, M. A., & Gaina, C. (2024). Arctic Tectonics and Volcanism: a multi-scale, multi-disciplinary educational approach. Geoscience Communication, 7(4), 267–295.

Abstract: Geologically, the Arctic is one of the least-explored regions of Earth. Obtaining data in the high Arctic is logistically, economically, and environmentally expensive, but the township of Longyearbyen (population of 2617 as of 2024) at 78° N represents a relatively easily accessible gateway to Arctic geology and is home to The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). These unique factors provide a foundation from which to teach and explore Arctic geology via the classroom, the laboratory, and the field. This article outlines a course taught a UNIS and student perspectives of the course to illustrate that multi-disciplinary, multi-lecturer field-and-classroom teaching is efficient and increases student motivation to explore Arctic science.

Rognlie, D., Anderson, E., & Burke, M. (2024). Erotic Ambivalence in Beauvoir’s Student Diaries. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 35(1–2), 242–264.

Abstract: This article challenges Margaret E. Simons's claim that Sartre forced himself on Beauvoir on October 15, 1929. We argue that Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 3, 1926-30 depicts the young Beauvoir struggling with conflicting feelings about marriage, sexual desire, and gender roles. Highlighting early reflections on "the woman in love,"we suggest that Beauvoir's diary discloses gendered harm but not sexual violation. We name this harm erotic ambivalence and find it central to The Second Sex.

Das, M., Anfinson, O., Rowe, C., & Schroeder, N. (2025). Age, sedimentology, and deformational history of the Mesozoic Franciscan accretionary complex, Angel Island, California, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin., 137(1–2), 351–373.

The Franciscan Complex represents the forearc accretionary wedge that formed during late Mesozoic–Cenozoic subduction in California, USA, and preserves detailed records of long-lived subduction and exhumation of high-pressure, low-temperature rocks. As one of the world’s largest exposed subduction complexes, it records the evolution of subduction dynamics that correspond to the tectonic development of the western USA. We present new mapping, lithologic descriptions, and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology to propose a new lithostratigraphy for Angel Island consisting of seven structurally juxtaposed units ranging from sub-metamorphic to low blueschist. These results offer the first high-resolution detrital zircon U-Pb geochronologic dataset from the Franciscan Complex that allows definition of the diversity of age and provenance within a previously defined regional unit, which should be considered in future work attempting regional correlations with regional sample distribution.

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Course Materials in the Library

01/23/2025

Laura Krier

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Did you know that you can find many of your course textbooks and materials in the library? Through Course Reserves, you can borrow textbooks for a short-term loan in the library or, where available, access ebook copies of required reading.

You can check out our Course Reserves list to see what courses are currently supported. We are continually adding new books, so check back if you don't see your courses listed. You can also search by book title in OneSearch. To borrow materials, come to the Information/Checkout Desk on the 2nd floor and ask for the items you want to borrow. Providing the call number will make it easier for staff to locate what you want.

Most print books can be borrowed for two hours at a time, and you can scan or photocopy the chapters you need to read at our scanning and copying stations in the library. We aim to provide access to as many materials as possible, though some publishers do not make their books available to libraries, so we aren't able to guarantee access to all textbooks and videos required.

Have questions? Stop by the Information/Checkout Desk where our friendly staff and student assistants can help! You can also email a librarian for more information.

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The Spring 2025 Library Newsletter is Live

01/22/2025

Laura Krier

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Welcome back to another semester at Sonoma State! We just sent out our Spring 2025 library newsletter, but don't worry if you missed it. You can read the newsletter online.

If you're not signed up to get the newsletter in your email inbox, you can fix that by going to our newsletter sign up page. Sign up and you'll never miss another update from the library. You might also want to check out our New Books email and our Library Events email. It's easy to keep up to date with what's going on in your library.

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Temporary Limitations to Library Access

01/17/2025

Laura Krier

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UPDATES: Thanks to the quick work of the property restoration vendor, the 1st floor of Schulz is once again open to the public, including services in Advising and CAASE. Printing is available on the 1st floor and the 2nd floor, and the 1st floor study room is once again available to be booked.

During the campus winter break, the Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center experienced a water leak that resulted in flooding damages on the first, second, and third floors of the library, specifically on the north side of the building. An emergency property restoration vendor is onsite and remediation repairs are in process.

All third floor study rooms and the Quiet Study Room are still open and available for studying. You can reserve a third floor study room online.

The first floor of the library is currently not open to the public, and the first floor study room cannot be booked. We hope to have the first floor reopened by January 22. Advising should be open beginning January 21.

First floor print stations are not available, but printing is available on the 2nd floor of the library. You can print with cash or Wolfbucks at the 2nd floor print station.

The library gallery on the 2nd floor is closed for the foreseeable future and the planned exhibit will not be hosted in the library.

The north wing of the 3rd floor is not open to the public. This includes collections located in the 3rd Floor Stacks location within the A through PR call number range. Books in the 3rd Floor Stacks within the PS through Z call number range, Oversize, and Regional locations are available on the south wing of the 3rd floor.

If you are looking for a book that is located in the 3rd Floor Stacks with a call number that falls within the A through PR call number range, you can place a request in OneSearch for the title. Our library staff can retrieve most titles. Some titles may need to be requested from another CSU.

We will provide updates on library access as we are able to open more spaces.

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Focus On: SSU Research

12/27/2024

Laura Krier

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There's a lot to dig into our this month's highlight of Sonoma State faculty and staff research.

Avalos, J. G., Champagne, C. D., Crocker, D. E., Khudyakov, J. I., & Todgham, A. (2024). The plasma proteome reveals markers of recent and repeated stress in free-ranging seals. Conservation Physiology, 12(1).

Abstract: Animals in nature potentially experience multiple stressors, and those of anthropogenic origin are likely to be repeated or chronic. However, stress hormone levels are highly context-dependent and are not consistent predictors of chronic stress in wildlife. Profiling the downstream consequences of repeated stress responses, such as changes in metabolism or gene expression, may be more informative for predicting their individual-level health consequences and population-level impacts, which are key objectives for wildlife conservation. We previously found that in free-ranging juvenile elephant seals, the blubber transcriptome and proteome, but not cortisol levels, could distinguish between responses to single versus repeated stress axis stimulation. However, the blubber proteome response to stress was limited and mainly involved extra-cellular matrix proteins. In this study, we examined the plasma proteome response of four of the same animals to the repeated stress experiment, since multiple organs secrete proteins into the circulation, providing a readout of their activity and integration. We isolated plasma proteins, identified and quantified them using liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and compared their abundance between sampling times. We identified >200 proteins in plasma, of which 42 were altered in abundance, revealing complex protein dynamics in response to repeated stress challenges. These changes were delayed but sustained, suggesting that the plasma proteome may reflect longer term integration of multi-organ responses to recent, rather than immediate, challenges. Differentially abundant proteins included components of the osmoregulatory system, acute phase and complement proteins, organokines, apolipoproteins and hormone transport proteins, which coordinate physiological processes with significant implications for marine mammal health and may explain several aspects of marine mammal stress physiology, such as insulin resistance and high aldosterone levels. We identified several potentially novel biomarkers, such as AGT, HPX, TTR and APOA4, that may be useful for detecting recent and repeated stress exposure in marine mammals.

Ryuh, Y., Geschwender, C., Kim, J., & Becker, K. (2024). The Distance Effect in Focus of Attention: Spatial or Temporal Distance? Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport., 1–6.

Abstract: The benefit of an external focus over an internal focus has been well-established. Within this literature, several studies have documented a distal effect of attentional focus by comparing the efficacy of a proximal and distal external focus. A potential confound is that most distal focus cues direct the performer’s attention to an outcome occurring after the completion of movement, while the proximal cues direct attention to something that occurs during the movement process. This study aims to disentangle whether the distal effect of attentional focus comes from spatial distance (proximal vs. distal) or temporal distance (during vs. after). Method: To test this, we employed a two-handed underhand medicine ball throw for maximum distance with 38 healthy young adults. This study employed five conditions: baseline, internal-during, internal-after, external-during, and external-after focus. Results: The result indicated that both external-during and -after foci elicited a significantly greater throwing distance than internal-during (p =.006) and internal-after (p <.001), where internal-after even significantly underperformed than baseline (p =.02). Conclusion: Our findings indicate that using an outcome cue unrelated to the intended action does not enhance motor performance. Rather, the most effective approach is to use an external cue that represents the action effect either during or after the movement.

Biermann, C., Law, J., & Pearson, Z. (2024). Producing Nature. In Doing Political Ecology (pp. 28–45).

Abstract: This chapter considers the concept of co-production, tracing the long lineage of ways that human societies and environments make one another through techniques of management and the production of ecological knowledge. This framework highlights how resulting human and non-human entanglements are often complex, messy, politicized, and always changing. The management of the environment is also deeply biopolitical, as humans make critical interventions that allow some species, environments, or genes to thrive, and others to die. This chapter will be useful for researchers interested in novel ecologies, critical physical geography and the critical environmental sciences, and science and technology studies.

Cohen, S. (2023). Violence and episcopal elections in late antique Rome, ad 300-500. Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum, 356–383.

Abstract: This chapter reconsiders the violence associated with the contested elections of three Roman bishops: Damasus (366-84), Bonface (418-22) and Symmachus (498-514). My focus on the Roman church is a consequence of the availability of evidence, but I will also consider how contested episcopal elections elsewhere in Italy compare to those at Rome. As we shall see, personal ambition, the size and complexity of the Roman church, the lack of clear procedures for episcopal elections, and the diminution of the coercive power of the tate in the city from the late third century onwards increased the potential for intra-Christian conflict following the death of a bishop. These conflicts focused especially on controlling (or attempting to control) specific buildings and areas of the city. The descriptions of the resulting violence, which featured club- and sword-wielding thugs, massacres in churches and attacks against rival candidates in the streets, still shock with their apparent callous brutality. This has occasionally led to the mischaracterising of these episodes as riots or examples of mob violence, expressions that implictly lay the blame upon the faceless, fanatical multitude. However, as I will argue, the violence associated with contested Roman episcopal elections was intentional, carefully coordinated and deployed from the top down as part of a deliberate strategy to gain control of the see of St. Peter.

Jeppesen, R., de Rivera, C. E., Grosholz, E. D., Tinker, M. T., Hughes, B. B., Eby, R., & Wasson, K. (2025). Recovering population of the southern sea otter suppresses a global marine invader. Biological Invasions, 27(1).

Abstract: Understanding the role of apex predators on ecosystems is essential for designing effective conservation strategies. Supporting recovery of apex predators can have many benefits; one that has been rarely examined is control of invasive prey. We investigated whether a recovering apex predator, the southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis), can exert local control over a global marine invader, the green crab (Carcinus maenas). We determined that southern sea otters in Elkhorn Slough estuary in California can consume large numbers of invasive green crabs and found strong negative relationships in space and time between otter and green crab abundance. Green crabs persisted at highest abundance in this estuary at sites with artificial tidal restriction that were not accessible to otters. Green crab abundance remained lower in this estuary than in all other estuaries in the region, which lack resident sea otters. Conservation organizations and agencies have invested heavily in recovery of southern sea otters, increasing their numbers in this estuary. Restoration of natural tidal exchange, lost marshes, and seagrass beds further support sea otter populations. We have demonstrated that these investments in top predator recovery and habitat restoration have reduced the impacts of a global invader. Our investigation highlights that investment in recovery of top predators can increase beneficial food web interactions and resilience of the entire ecosystem.

Ford, A. (2024). Where we live, learn and play: Environmental racism and early childhood development in review. Early Childhood Research Quarterly., 69, S71–S81.

Abstract: What are the effects of environmental racism on early childhood development? This paper argues that this is a largely unanswered question that reflects more than a research gap, but a research vacuum. This paper reviews the available literature on the intersection of environmental racism and early childhood from a sociological perspective. I rely on Iruka et al.’s (2022) Racism + Resilience + Resistance Integrative Study of Childhood Ecosystem (R3ISE) framework and the framework of critical environmental justice (Pellow, 2016; 2018) to summarize what is known about how environmental racism contributes to disparities in health, learning, and well-being through the early years of childhood development, as well as to point out gaps in our knowledge. Scholars have identified strong indicators that many converging environmental hazards affect young children, and that exposure to these hazards is strongly associated with race and racism. An emerging body of literature also links environmental racism to global climate change and global ecological degradation. This paper will provide a theoretical overview of environmental racism as it pertains to young children and consider in relation to early childhood and race: 1) disproportionate exposure to environmental pollutants and their effects; and 2) vulnerability to effects of climate change. It concludes with a discussion of implications, and suggestions for paths forward and future research.

Lyon, E. G., Scott, L., Casesa, R., Spurgin, C., & Maldonado, S. I. (2024). Transforming secondary teacher preparation for multilingual learners through translanguaging: Toward an integrated biliteracy and disciplinary learning framework. TESOL Journal.

Abstract: Students designated as English learners and the broader group of multilingual learners continue to face restrictive learning environments in secondary classrooms despite existing research that demonstrates how integrating literacy development with authentic and relevant disciplinary learning benefits multilingual learners and all students. To address this issue, an interdisciplinary team of biliteracy and secondary content method scholars and teacher educators used funding through the U.S. Department of Education's National Professional Development Program to (1) articulate a cohesive framework that integrates biliteracy with disciplinary learning through research-based instructional practices and (2) explore how English, math, and science secondary content method instructors apply this framework when working with preservice teachers. The researchers connected translanguaging pedagogy, content and language/literacy integrated approaches, and a practice-based teacher education model to develop the Biliteracy and Content Area Integrated Preparation (BCAIP) Framework. They found that participating content area secondary method instructors made progress toward applying the BCAIP framework by building upon what they already do in support of diverse learners (i.e., foundational pedagogies) as they shifted toward biliteracy-oriented pedagogy. The authors argue that situating translanguaging in a disciplinary learning context better positions secondary teacher educators to transform how they prepare preservice teachers to serve multilingual learners.

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Shortened Library Hours

12/16/2024

Laura Krier

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Congratulations, Seawolves, you've made it through finals and the fall semester! We hope you can all enjoy some well-deserved winter break rest.

The library will be open for limited hours this week, between December 15 and December 23, and will be closing at 5:00 pm. Visit our hours page for more details.

If you borrowed a library laptop this semester, don't forget to return it by December 20 to avoid fines and replacement item fees! If you have any concerns about returning your laptop, you can contact the Information/Checkout Desk at circdesk@sonoma.edu or call 707-664-2375.

If you're looking for something to read over winter break, come by the library. You can find all of our popular reading in Lobo's Lounge, across from the Information/Checkout Desk, but also check out our Winter Break Reading display.

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24/7 Finals Hours in the Library

12/01/2024

Laura Krier

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Are finals making you feel like this?

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Never fear! The library is here. From December 1 at 2:00 pm until Friday, December 13 at 5:00 pm the first floor of the library will be open for 24 hours a day. You can access computers and printers, use our phone charging locker, book our first floor study room, or just use our quiet space to study.

The second and third floors of the library will be open until midnight every day from December 1 until December 12, including Friday and Saturday. You'll be able to access reserves, borrow a laptop, check out books, book any of our study rooms, and use our other library services.

Keep your eyes open for our Finals Emergency Response Team. The team will periodically roam the building with snacks to give you the sustenance you need to keep on going. Stop by to check out our pop-up tea library every evening in the 2nd floor lobby, or take a break to color an aquatic creature for our Holiday Reef.

And of course you can get expert research help from a librarian any time, day or night, via chat or email. You can schedule an appointment with a librarian, or stop by the desk for help from 11am to 4pm Monday through Friday.

We are here to support you and help you get through finals, so stop by the library anytime.

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Focus On: SSU Research

11/25/2024

Laura Krier

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Want to know what kind of amazing research happens at Sonoma State? Read on for this month's SSU research update.

Baker, Z. (2024). Governing climate : how science and politics have shaped our environmental future. University of California Press.

After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales-from the household to the global market-are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who created knowledge of the climate and those who attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment. Baker draws together over two centuries of science, politics, and environmental change to demonstrate the "co-production" of what we know about climate in terms of power-seeking activity, with a focus on the United States. Governing Climate provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics, specifically the rise of "climate security," and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources.

Glasgow, J. (2024). The significance impulse : on the unimportance of our cosmic unimportance. Oxford University Press.

Why should we strive to be important? Does it make our lives go better if we are especially significant? This book argues that the common impulse to seek exceptionally high levels of significance is misguided. One reason why is that we cannot reach cosmic-grade significance, even if we do matter somewhat in our communities. We do not have the size, duration, or power that would allow us to be that important. Even the value that we do contribute to the universe, our loving and rationality and pain and pleasure, are in short supply. So our significance has built-in limitations. What is more, being exceptionally significant would not be to our personal benefit: it does not advance our well-being, our meaning in life, or any other of our interests. In fact, we have ample reason to embrace our modest levels of mattering: if we do not matter very much, then we are liberated to go about our lives without worry, to the same extent. We should thus feel good about our unexceptional lives. This book is a celebration of being ordinary.

Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., Chu, J. Y., Pink, S. L., Mernyk, J. S., Redekopp, C., Ghezae, I., Cashman, M., Adjodah, D., Allen, L. G., Allis, L. V., Baleria, G., Ballantyne, N., Van Bavel, J. J., Blunden, H., Braley, A., Bryan, C. J., Celniker, J. B., Cikara, M., & Clapper, M. V. (2024). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Science., 386(6719), eadh4764.

Abstract: Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and practitioners to reduce Americans' partisan animosity and antidemocratic attitudes. We find that many treatments reduced partisan animosity, most strongly by highlighting relatable sympathetic individuals with different political beliefs or by emphasizing common identities shared by rival partisans. We also identify several treatments that reduced support for undemocratic practices-most strongly by correcting misperceptions of rival partisans' views or highlighting the threat of democratic collapse-which shows that antidemocratic attitudes are not intractable. Taken together, the study's findings identify promising general strategies for reducing partisan division and improving democratic attitudes, shedding theoretical light on challenges facing American democracy.

Cooley, L. A., Hindle, A. G., Williams, C. L., Ponganis, P. J., Hannah, S. M., Klinck, H., Horning, M., Costa, D. P., Holser, R. R., Crocker, D. E., & McDonald, B. I. (2025). Physiological effects of research handling on the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 299, 111771-.

Wildlife researchers must balance the need to safely capture and handle their study animals to sample tissues, collect morphological measurements, and attach dataloggers while ensuring their results are not confounded by stress artifacts caused by handling. To determine the physiological effects of research activities including chemical immobilization, transport, instrumentation with biologgers, and overnight holding on a model marine mammal species, we collected hormone, blood chemistry, hematology, and heart rate data from 19 juvenile northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) throughout a translocation experiment. Across our six sampling timepoints, cortisol and aldosterone data revealed a moderate hormonal stress response to handling accompanied by minor changes in hematocrit and blood glucose, but not ketone bodies or erythrocyte sedimentation rate. We also examined heart rate as a stress indicator and found that interval heart rate, standard deviation of heart rate, and apnea-eupnea cycles were influenced by handling. However, when seals were recaptured after several days at sea, all hormonal and hematological parameters had returned to baseline levels. Furthermore, 100 % of study animals were resighted in the wild post-translocation, with some individuals observed over four years later. Together, these findings suggest that while northern elephant seals exhibit measurable physiological stress in response to handling, they recover rapidly and show no observable long-term deleterious effects, making them a robust species for ecological and physiological research.

Melino, K., Bell, B., & Freborg, K. (2025). Deconstructing Professionalism as Code for White (Power): Authenticity as Resistance in Nursing. Nursing Philosophy, 26(1).

The concept of professionalism is embedded into all aspects of nursing education and practice yet is rarely critically interrogated in nursing scholarship. This paper describes how professionalism in nursing is based on whiteness. When actualized, this oppressive construct homogenizes individuals' identities to assist nurses in building and wielding power against each other and against patients, and results in dehumanization and disconnection. Foregrounding an ethic of authenticity as a practice of resistance against white professionalism offers an alternative possibility for how nursing could be taught, practiced and theorized. As such a practice must begin with oneself, the authors outline a reflexive process from which to begin this work.

Liu, L., Ahmadi, Y., Kim, K.-H., Kukkar, D., & Szulejko, J. (n.d.). Assessment of interference/synergistic effects in the adsorption of polar and non-polar VOCs on a commercial biomass-based microporous carbon. Chemosphere (Oxford).

This research has been carried out to investigate interference/synergistic relationship in adsorption behavior between polar and non-polar volatile organic compounds (VOCs: formaldehyde (FA) versus toluene) using commercial macadamia nutshell (MNS)-based microporous activated carbon (i.e., Procarb-900: namely, P900). The breakthrough (BT) volume, adsorption capacity, and partition coefficient of P900 are estimated for 100 ppm FA as a single component and as a binary phase with 100 ppm toluene. The basic features of FA adsorption over P900 adsorbent are accounted for in terms of interaction between the key variables (e.g., pore size distribution, adsorbent particle size, surface element compositions, and sorbent bed mass). Accordingly, the powdered P900 (0.212-0.6 mm: 150 mg) exhibits an adsorption capacity of 5.7 mg g-1 and a partition coefficient of 0.19 mol kg-1 Pa-1 for single-phase FA at the 10% BT level. Interestingly, its performance is synergistically improved in the presence of toluene (e.g., >150%) in the early stage of adsorption (e.g., 10% BT), possibly reflecting diffusion resistance of the adsorbent (e.g., small particle size and developed ultra-micropore structure) and natural attributes of FA (e.g., low affinity and smaller kinetic diameter). The overall results of this study are expected to offer a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the interactions between the mixed VOC system and microporous adsorbents.

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