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News and features
AE Worldview: Ebola care, Moldova’s water emergency and the work before discovery
Section: WorldviewEbola care, Moldova’s emergency powers and NASA’s PRIMA decision reveal different gaps between authorising action and making a practical capacity available.
AE Worldview: Health sovereignty, Japan’s recovery and who gets to tell the story
Section: WorldviewA new health reform agenda, Japan’s storm aftermath, US press access and searchable enslavement records raise different questions about who can act, question and learn.
When mental health is negotiated, who gets to set the terms?
A conceptual paper links biological, relational and institutional norms in mental health. This critical review asks whether participation can change who has authority to decide.
Environment News: Europe’s methane rules meet an energy-security test
Section: Environment NewsFrance’s request to delay EU methane reporting shows how a climate rule can be weakened at the point of implementation even when its formal objective remains.
Research and reviews
From information processing to information generation
Zhensong Wang’s attempt to rethink what information is
Teachers need room to adapt, as well as tools to adopt
A review of Cui and colleagues on AI anxiety, job crafting and organisational support asks who has room to change teaching work—and who must absorb the costs of adaptation.
What is a group deciding when it decides how to use AI?
Chen and Zou’s study shows why more AI use, less use and unchanged practice can reflect different forms of group agency. The harder question is how a group distributes judgement, risk and responsibility.
When an AI interpretation becomes authoritative
How does an AI interpretation gain influence, become a record and shape what happens next? Five recent publications connect Autopoietic Ecology with teaching, writing and the practical work of correction.
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