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  • Exploring Decision-Making Processes of Irregular Youth Migrants from West Africa to Germany through Practice Stories

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    I explore how young people from West Africa decide to undertake irregular migration to Europe, with a particular focus on those who reach Germany. Using a qualitative research design and grounded in Karen O’Reilly’s practice stories framework, I conducted semi-structured interviews with youth migrants to better understand their lived experiences, motivations, and constraints. I complemented

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  • Spotlight on Scientific Discovery & Engineering: Cancer Complexity and Cellular Innovation

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    This JOSHA Spotlight curates five advances that illuminate cancer as a problem of both cellular engineering and clinical decision-making. Mechanistic work in colorectal cancer shows how loss of ATRX disrupts colonic identity, unleashing multilineage plasticity and highly metastatic behaviour. A microfluidic–machine learning platform in breast cancer quantifies how metronomic drug schedules can outperform conventional combinations.

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  • Spotlight on AI, Innovation & Ethics: Unethical Designs and Everyday Interfaces

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    This JOSHA Spotlight brings together five perspectives on how artificial intelligence is reshaping everyday interfaces and, with them, the ethical foundations of contemporary life. A covert persuasion experiment on Reddit and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven political disinformation show how opaque systems can bypass consent and weaken democratic trust. A hopeful case of AI-guided drug repurposing reveals

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  • Performance of Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis in the Measurement of Extracellular Vesicles

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    Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-enclosed, non-replicating, submicron-vesicles released by all living cells. Depending on their origin pathway and donor cell, EVs present a specific biomolecular cargo that allows tracing the cell of origin and its status, proposing EVs as potential biomarkers of different diseases, among other clinical applications. Thus, EVs research field is an area

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  • “Death to Muscovites!”: Perceptions of Russian Civilians in Wartime Kyiv

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    This thesis investigates how Ukrainian civilians define the “enemy” within the everyday Russian civilian sphere in the wake of the 2022 full-scale invasion. Ukrainian political rhetoric has often portrayed the Russian public as a homogenous collective complicit in the invasion, frequently making statements to the effect that “there are no good Russians”. Drawing on interviews

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  • Spotlight on Academia, Research and Policy

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    With this publication, the JOSHA editorial team brings back its Spotlight series—curated thematic groupings of relevant articles that delve into today’s most pressing academic and societal challenges. This Spotlight focuses on the shifting landscape of academia, research, and policy, particularly under the growing influence of political agendas. From immigration crackdowns affecting legal scholars and students,

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  • Budapest Pride 2025: A Study through Ferrero´s Theory of Power

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    This article analyzes the 2025 Budapest Pride through the lens of Guglielmo Ferrero’s theory of power and legitimacy. Ferrero argued that illegitimate regimes rely on fear to maintain control, a concept used here to examine the Hungarian government’s attempt to ban the Pride event. Despite legal threats and institutional repression, the parade was held peacefully,

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  • Science on the Frontlines: Ecosystems, AI Innovation, and Political Resistance

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    To facilitate and enhance communication, JOSHA presents a curated selection of research summaries spanning critical scientific, technological, and societal developments. This edition covers the environmental and sovereignty risks posed by a new U.S. military base in the Galápagos Islands, the rise of tiny machine learning (tinyML) as a low-cost AI solution in the Global South,

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  • Beyond Science: AI Models, Genetic Privacy, Research Under Siege, and the Future of Expertise

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    This paper presents JOSHA’s curated synthesis of recent scientific, technological, and socio-political articles offering readers a comprehensive overview of key debates and emerging insights across disciplines. Topics range from biological aging patterns, data privacy risks in the context of genetic information and corporate bankruptcy, and the socio-cultural framing of large AI models, to policy-driven tensions

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  • Frontiers of Scientific Discovery: Protein Evolution, Spatial Transcriptomics, and Antibody Research

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    To enhance communication, JOSHA presents a curated selection of articles chosen by its editors. This edition highlights innovative research, including EVOLVEpro, a protein engineering method that integrates protein language models and active learning to optimize enzymes, antibodies, and gene-editing tools; bacterial-MERFISH, a technique for high-resolution bacterial transcriptomics that provides new insights into bacterial behavior and

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