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A new co-Editor-in-Chief, Marcin Wiorek, has joined Nota Lepidopterologica's editorial team, replacing David Lees. Wiorek was elected at the meeting of the Society for European Lepido-pterology (SEL), after Lees resigned as a co-Editor-in-Chief after eight years of service. Wiorek has strong skills in lepidopteran morphology and molecular knowledge, and will join co-Editor-in-Chief Théo Léger to continue the development of the journal. Nota Lepidopterologica is an open-access journal in lepidopterology, publishing research on taxonomy, morphology, phylogenetics, biogeography, ecology, and behavior.
Asking people how much money they would accept to experience pain again can provide a more accurate and comparable measure of pain levels than the familiar 1–10 scale, according to an international research team led by Lancaster University.
Published in the journal Social Science & Medicine , the study indicates that people’s theoretical willingness to accept money in exchange for enduring pain offers a more reliable way to measure discomfort than conventional ‘self-reported’ measures of pain levels such as number scales or visual charts.