Consequential decisions, such as those about how children learn, how institutions govern, how technology evolves, and how disease is predicted, share a common ethical weight: they determine who benefits, who is left behind, and who bears responsibility. These four reads probe this weight from distinct angles: the contested case for delaying boys’ school entry and…
This Spotlight examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the boundaries of language, artistic creation, and human identity. From hidden communicative signals transmitted between AI systems beyond human perception, to the emergence of the first fully AI-generated actor and the ensuing legal battles over authorship and likeness, the collection interrogates what it means to create, perform,…
Dear josha-journal readers, we’ve already announced it, but now the time has come! After more than ten years of josha-journal, we’re proud to present our new website! We’ve been working on the layout, readability, and settings. As usual, you’ll find the latest posts sorted chronologically in the right column. It’s now even easier to search…
This Spotlight examines how state power increasingly shapes digital security, public health, journalism, scientific publishing, and global economic strategy. From large-scale cyberespionage and visa-based retaliation after political violence to the weakening of public health institutions and new restrictions on research based on open health data, the collection highlights how national interests can reshape the infrastructures…
In this JOSHA Spotlight, we bring together six articles that examine how health is shaped not only by biology and personal choice, but also by profit structures, food systems, everyday environments, and long-term risk exposure. The collection explores the corporatization of medicine and its uneven effects on care quality, the promises and failures of profit-driven…
This Spotlight brings together five carefully curated articles that examine how universities, funders, and research institutions are adapting to mounting pressures on knowledge production. Together, they explore the challenges posed by generative A.I. in education, declining rigor in scholarly citation and interpretation, experimental reforms in grant peer review, institutional models for inclusive research growth, the…
This edition explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific discovery across molecular prediction, biological mapping, and model transparency. From structure-based foundation models that predict protein folds, ligand binding, energetics, and conformational change, to proteome-scale inference of human protein-protein interactions, these advances are turning computation into a powerful engine for decoding cellular function. Generative deep learning…
This curated collection brings together five articles from Science magazine exploring the intersection of climate change, ecology, and human health. As global temperatures rise, the consequences are becoming increasingly visible across interconnected systems: mosquito-borne diseases are expanding into previously unaffected regions of Europe, wetland methane emissions are accelerating feedback loops that scientists are racing to…
