Youth experiences in gender-sexuality alliances predict academic engagement but not disaffection through social-emotional wellbeing.

Experiences in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs) could predict youth's academic engagement through improved social-emotional wellbeing (indicated by school belonging, hope, and positive and negative affect). This study utilized three waves of data, each spaced 2-3 months apart, among 627 youth (87% LGBQ+, 45% trans/nonbinary, 48% youth of color) ages 11-22 (M = 15.13) in 51 GSAs in the United States in 2021-2022.

Mechanisms of growth-dependent regulation of the Gin4 kinase.

Cell cycle progression is dependent upon cell growth. Cells must therefore translate growth into a proportional signal that can be used to determine when there has been sufficient growth for cell cycle progression. In budding yeast, the protein kinase Gin4 is required for normal control of cell growth and undergoes gradual hyperphosphorylation and activation that are dependent upon growth and proportional to the extent of growth, which suggests that Gin4 could function in mechanisms that measure cell growth.

Using the R Package, to assess landscape N removal in coastal catchments.

Background: Excess nitrogen (N) loading to coastal ecosystems impairs estuarine water quality. Land management decisions made within estuarine watersheds have a direct impact on downstream N delivery. Natural features within watersheds can act as landscape sinks for N, such as wetlands, streams and ponds that transform dissolved N into gaseous N, effectively removing it from the aquatic system.

Complicating critical discussions in gender sexuality alliances: Youth desire for intersectional conversations and the experience of fragmentation.

Gender sexuality alliances (GSAs) represent consciousness-raisings that hold potential for critical consciousness development in youth. In this study, we focus on critical reflection-the understanding that oppression is structured and maintained by human action. We engage intersectionality as our analytical framework and analyze both student interview data (n = 38) and advisor closed-ended and open-ended survey data (n = 58) to examine: (1) the nature/content of critically reflective discussions in GSAs and (2) how advisors support critically reflective discussions in GSAs and their role in these discussions.