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FOCUS: an AI-assisted reading workflow for information overload
Lin, Zhicheng, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Nature Biotechnology·2025
The right AI workflow can help you to read more widely and think more deeply — without sacrificing rigor.
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View paper →Duration and Timing of Parental Out-migration and Early Childhood Development in China
Xiuqi Sukie Yang
Demography·2025
Abstract
A sizable number of children in low- and middle-income countries experience separation from their parents due to labor migration. While scholarship has examined parental migration effects during school years and adolescence, few studies have examined the effect of migration on developmental outcomes in early childhood, a critical period characterized by a high degree of developmental plasticity and sensitivity. In addition, almost all previous work has relied on cross-sectional data, treating migration-induced family living arrangements as a static, time-invariant measure. However, parental migration is often temporary and circular, exposing children to multiple transitions that vary in timing and duration. To address these two limitations in the literature, the present study follows a panel of more than 4,000 young children in the China Family Panel Survey from 2010 to 2018 and examines early childhood outcomes using a counterfactual causal-inference framework with time-varying exposure. My results show that the effect of parental migration on children's outcomes depends on whether one versus both parents migrated and at what child age the parental migration happened. Specifically, one-parent out-migration is less detrimental to child development than both-parent out-migration. Parental migration impacts specific developmental domains depending on children's sensitive periods of development, with early absence being most consequential for physical growth and later migration being most consequential for noncognitive skills. The study offers a causal framework to better understand migration as a time-varying process, contributes to family demography by theorizing parental migration as a unique source of family complexity, and deepens our understanding of the toll that parental absence takes on human capital.
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View paper →Queering Studies of Health and Bodily Experience: An Example From the Transgender Resilience and Health Study
Dee Jolly, Jae A. Puckett, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Sawyer E. Armstrong, Debra A. Hope, Richard Mocarski, Robert‐Paul Juster, L. Zachary DuBois
American Journal of Biological Anthropology·2025
ABSTRACT
Objectives
Biological anthropologists have contributed significantly to our understanding of how lived experiences become embodied, affecting health. However, there has been less emphasis on bodily symptoms as an important aspect of health and well‐being impacted by lived experiences. Informed by queer and Black feminist approaches, we investigate the effects of stigma, stress, and support on transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people's bodily symptoms.
Materials and Methods
Using baseline survey data from a longitudinal study of TNB people's health and resilience in the United States collected during fall 2019–spring 2020, we assessed the relationships between past year and lifetime enacted stigma, perceived stress, and bodily symptoms among 158 TNB people living in Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon, and Tennessee. Potential moderating factors were support from family and friends, resilience, gender identity, and racial identity.
Results
Past year and lifetime enacted stigma and perceived stress were positively associated with bodily symptoms, whereas increased resilience and perceived support from family were associated with decreased bodily symptoms. However, chosen family support was not associated with bodily symptoms. The positive effects of resilience on health were independent of the negative effects of enacted stigma on bodily symptoms. Nonbinary people and TNB people of color experienced more severe bodily symptoms.
Discussion
TNB people's lived experiences of the body reflect complex relationships between stigma, stress, resilience, and social supports, and vary by social position. Results emphasize the need to incorporate queer feminist perspectives of the body into biocultural conceptualizations and studies of health and embodiment.
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