Trust in others and prior experience with feral hogs were significant factors in whether landowners would commit effort and dollars to controlling feral hogs, two studies have found. Nana Tian is a forest economics researcher for the Arkansas Forest Resources Center who studies human dimensions and economic issues in natural resource management. When it comes to feral hogs, her research informs education and management plans. Tian is the corresponding author of two studies that address these issues: “Private Landowners’ Perspectives on Managing Feral Swine in Arkansas, Louisiana, and East Texas,” published in the Journal of Wildlife Management and “Private Landowners’ Willingness to Pay for Managing Feral Swine in the West Gulf Region,” published in the Journal of Sustainability Research.

Researchers will explore how the immune receptor IL-1R1 in neurons affects brain function and behavior. Beyond its role in inflammation, IL-1R1 shapes neuronal activity, synapses, and circuits, particularly in areas controlling social behavior. The research maps where and when IL-1R1 acts and how it influences connected neurons. Findings could transform understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including autism, and point to therapies that target neural circuits directly rather than just symptoms.

Nearly 69% of respondents say they agree or strongly agree that prostitution is a form of violence against women—a figure that rises to 75.1% among women—according to the analysis carried out by Marina Martínez García and Irene Epifanio López, lecturers in the Department of Mathematics at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, of data from the Survey on the Social Perception of Prostitution. The survey was conducted by the Government Delegation against Gender-based Violence of the Ministry of Equality in collaboration with the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS).

The two Castelló-based researchers, specialists in statistics with a gender perspective, submitted a proposal that was selected by the Government Delegation—responsible for designing the questionnaire and the survey questions—and were tasked with analysing the data obtained in the survey and producing a report with the conclusions. The researchers followed an open-science approach in their analysis, and all the code (in R) is available to reproduce the results.

With the upcoming Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, national and international media attention is once again turning to Paralympic sport. But how is it presented to the public? The study “It should just be about sport!”: exploring Italian athletes' perspectives in paralympic media coverage – conducted by Athanasios Pappous and Pablo Iniesta at the University of Bologna’s Department for Life Quality Studies and published in the international journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living – collected the direct testimonies of 17 high-level Italian Paralympic athletes to investigate how they perceive their representation in the media.