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Study suggests decriminalization could improve safety for independent sex workers under Bill C-36
They choose their clients, set their own rates and manage their businesses like any other entrepreneur. They are independent sex workers—women who work without pimps or agencies, often away from the streets and organized ...
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From bias to balance: How AI can reshape hiring decisions
A study of HR professionals shows inclusion-focused AI can reduce disability discrimination and improve fairness in real-world recruitment scenarios. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organizations hire. From ...
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Apr 10, 2026
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Compulsory sex-marking as a threat to personal autonomy
Do our norms around sex presentation uphold a constrictive gender regime? In a new article in Ethics, Ophelia Vedder writes that the abolition of hegemonic gender roles must involve the elimination of "compulsory sex-marking," ...
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Apr 10, 2026
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Report: Unhoused individuals want permanent housing, face steep financial barriers
As local governments and service providers search for the most effective ways to support people experiencing homelessness, a new report from Portland State University centers on problem solving in the experience of those ...
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Apr 10, 2026
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Work attitudes barely shifted after the 2008 crisis across 19 European countries
An analysis of survey data on 77,567 people in 19 European countries, including the U.K., by Raphaël Piters, of Sorbonne University, France, found little change in attitudes to work between 1999 and 2017. The researcher analyzed ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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Sexist attitudes account for up to 13% of Gen Z's gender voting gap
Generation Z men are less likely to vote for left-wing parties than women, and their political preferences can be linked to their sexist attitudes, a large-scale study has found. Research on 15,122 people in the UK and 23 ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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Less than half of parents say schools are ready for nudification AI abuse
Less than half of parents are confident that their children's school is well prepared if their students become victims of "nudification AI" apps, a survey has found. The survey found that just 47% were confident or very confident ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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Hat wars of early modern England reveal how manners make the rebel
From refusing to doff hats in court to resisting hat-snatching highway robbers, England's relationship with hats goes far deeper than fashion, new research shows.
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Apr 9, 2026
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Skills overtake age as economic driver in China, analysis finds
As the global aging population advances and countries face shrinking workforces, a new study focusing on China by IIASA researchers and colleagues from Nanjing University reveals how economic growth can persist despite these ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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Integrative experiment design reveals hidden patterns in decades-old social science research
Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to common approaches. In their paper titled "Integrative experiments identify ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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The good life requires two things, self‑knowledge and friends. You can't have one without the other
Friends can help us with all kinds of things in life. How could I forget moving that piano for friends in Chicago? Fortunately, none of us ended up in the ER.
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Apr 9, 2026
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Study of Tommy Robinson's social media reveals how online influencers mobilize supporters without direct calls to action
New research from the University of Bath reveals that online influencers can mobilize followers and legitimize harmful behaviors without ever issuing explicit instructions, offering fresh insight into how digital platforms ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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A fixation with 'toxic leaders' ignores wider truth behind corporate scandals
A new study, published in the British Journal of Management, examines the high-profile cases of Theranos, Purdue Pharma, Enron, and Wirecard, and claims that the desire to pin the blame on individuals has allowed the systemic ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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New study reveals the depth of children's nuclear anxiety
As geopolitical tensions rise globally, a new study published in Critical Studies on Security warns that the shadow of the "mushroom cloud" is weighing heavily on the next generation. The research paper, titled "Mushrooms, ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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World's largest study of human flourishing opens its data to the public
The Global Flourishing Study (GFS), the most comprehensive empirical investigation of human flourishing ever undertaken, has made its first two waves of data publicly available through the Center for Open Science at no cost ...
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Apr 9, 2026
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Online comments can shape how political social media content is perceived
Online comments can shape how social media content about politics is perceived, even when people's opinions are hard to change, a new study shows. The new research suggests that while attitudes may be stable, the way people ...
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Apr 8, 2026
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Plagiarized research passed automated tests, and I detected it—but only because it copied my work
Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations. The core argument was straightforward: the standard rules researchers follow to protect participants—for example, informed consent ...
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Apr 8, 2026
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From joyrides to assault, 'crimefluencer' networks are coercing young people into breaking the law
You have probably never heard the term "crimefluencer." These are members of decentralized online crime networks who take crime content and amplify it to build notoriety and status in their online communities.
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Apr 8, 2026
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Should emojis be used in workplace communications?
When people interact in person, subtle signals like facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice play a crucial role in communicating intent and meaning, whereas written communications lack these nonverbal cues and ...
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Apr 8, 2026
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Why some bosses reward 'dark traits' at work, and what it costs later
If you ever wondered why the most ruthless characters in corporate dramas, such as Succession, keep rising to the top, new research from the UBC Sauder School of Business suggests that dynamic is not just a TV trope. The ...
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Apr 8, 2026
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