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Every Buggy Pees: Changing Morphometrics of Osmoregulatory Organs in Aquatic and Terrestrial Insects and Changes in Ion Transport Properties in Response to Environmental Changes and Pharmacological Inhibition of Ion Transport
Get PDFTerrestrial and aquatic insects such as crickets, caterpillars, and mosquito larva utilize specialized osmoregulatory organs known as Malpighian tubules to regulate water and ion levels in their hemolymph, a parameter crucial for proper digestion, absorption, and excretion. Structures such as anal papillae are present in aquatic insects to additionally absorb ions from the environment and excrete waste. To examine the effects of dietary ion content on insect osmoregulation, caterpillars were raised on control, high-water and high-K+ diets for several experiments. Changes in dietary ion availability did not increase hemolymph osmolality and did not perturb the transepithelial potential Vte or basolateral membrane potential Vbl in the Malpighian tubules. Interestingly, the number of secondary cells present in the MTs of caterpillars raised on a high-water diet was significantly lower. Malpighian tubule function was additionally examined in crickets using simple dye accumulation assay. Inhibition of active ion transport with DNP, as well as treatment with ouabain (a specific Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitor) and incubation with Na+-free saline decreased the MT function. In mosquito larva, anal papillae serve as both excretory and osmoregulatory organs. To examine whether the size of the anal papillae would change under increasing external ion concentrations, we measured the length and the width of this organ to find that under increasing environmental salinity, there was no significant change in the width of the anal papillae however there was a decrease in length. Although they do not diminish completely because the anal papillae have other functions in mosquito larva in which they play a role in excretion and respiration. These results proposed that the insects have osmoregulatory organs that can change in size in response to environmental and dietary ion availability. 
Sensing Dance: Finding Access Intimacy with a Dysmorphic Bodymind
Get PDF“Sensing Dance” discusses returning to dance during the onset of COVID-19 to explore how dancing while quarantined can help us imagine practices in line with what Mia Mingus calls “access intimacy” (2017) specifically for people with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. In this essay, I ask: What would it mean for dance pedagogy to undergo a largescale reorientation that dismantles the hierarchical structures of both the teacher/student relationship and the ocularcentrism that tends to dominate our engagement with dance? What would it do to shift agency from instructor to student, and for the tyranny of the visual to be replaced by a more phenomenological felt sense? Beginning with a meditation on my experience taking Alexandra Beller’s Bartenieff Fundamentals™ classes, this essay discusses Jose Miguel Esteban and Devon Healey’s duet “The Breath and Movement of Blindness” (2022), and Heather Shaw and Krishna Washburn’s documentary screendance Telephone (2023). I argue that turning to the works and access practices of Esteban, Healey, Shaw, and Washburn as models can transform the way dance practitioners engage with dance as both an aesthetic and a pedagogical practice, thereby making it more accessible for chronically ill bodyminds that are often neglected when we think of access
AI Integration Blueprint: Transforming Higher Education for the Age of Intelligence
Get PDFThe document outlines a comprehensive strategy for integrating AI into higher education, emphasizing the need for curriculum restructuring, pedagogical transformation, and strategic implementation to prepare students for an AI-augmented future.
AI as an Educational Opportunity: Higher education institutions should reframe AI use from a discipline issue to an educational opportunity, as detection and prohibition approaches are ineffective and worsen equity gaps.
Emphasis on Meta-AI Skills: Learning outcomes should be revised to emphasize meta-AI skills like prompt engineering, output evaluation, and AI collaboration, which require higher cognitive engagement than traditional skills.
Curriculum Restructuring: Universities need to update general education requirements and program sequences to reflect AI-transformed professional practices, ensuring students develop both domain knowledge and AI collaboration skills.
Permanent and Temporary Scaffolding: Pedagogy should distinguish between temporary scaffolding for developing basic meta-AI skills and permanent scaffolding where AI tools are used professionally, focusing on sophisticated collaboration patterns.
Personalized Learning Support: RAG-based technology can provide personalized learning support through custom AI tutoring systems that offer targeted assistance while maintaining accuracy through controlled knowledge bases.
Enhanced Student Services: AI integration can enhance student services by streamlining administrative processes and providing proactive, accessible support across departments, benefiting underserved students.
Operational Efficiency: AI can improve operational efficiency in higher education by enhancing enrollment management, academic administration, and research support workflows.
Strategic Implementation: Successful AI integration requires decisive leadership, strategic resource allocation, and active management of organizational resistance, with a focus on high-impact areas
