Social sciences, psychology, economics and the humanities.
New research using repeated daily reports links different kinds of body-focused social media content to different body image and disordered-eating-related urges. The study also tested whether body image might push people toward more such content, finding a limited reverse effect.
A legal article argues that meeting the Paris Agreement targets alone does not discharge countries’ wider human rights obligations in the climate crisis. It maintains that general international law principles—such as preventing significant environmental harm—still apply alongside the climate treaty.
A policy brief highlights “nomophobia”—anxiety about being unable to use a smartphone—as a concern for secondary students in Ethiopia. It points to evidence linking problematic smartphone use with anxiety, depressive symptoms, sleep problems, and weaker school engagement, and recommends school and national actions.
Tennessee public high schools saw uneven learning loss after COVID-19, with ACT composite scores falling from 20.2 in 2019 to 19.1 in 2021 and only reaching 19.3 by 2024–2025. A new analysis of 322 schools finds that pre-pandemic achievement and economic disadvantage predicted both the size of learning loss and how completely schools recovered.
