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Sanctuary: Counter-oppressive Relationships with Farmed Animals as an Ecopsychological Imperative
Full text linkConsumers are intentionally shielded from and often misled about the process of breeding, raising, and slaughtering animals for consumption. By confining most farmed animals to warehouses in rural areas while the majority of humans are sequestered in urban areas, we have effectively created a world where humans do not have to contend with the sense of interconnectedness that arises when witnessing and being witnessed by a farmed animal. Within industrial slaughterhouses, the physical act of killing is minimized to just a fraction of the workers, so that even those who are responsible for rendering a once living being will never encounter a live animal (Pachirat, 2011). While Ecopsychology has historically uplifted ecotherapy modalities that reinforce a species hierarchy, there is another way of relating to the nonhuman animal world that challenges the power dynamics and oppressive systems that perpetuate humans’ disconnection from the natural world. The “Sanctuary” model is one that intentionally creates sacred spaces of community, connection, and resistance against the dominant culture and does so through radical interdependence and compassion (Pachirat, 2018)
An Interview with an Instagram Archivist: @404MPH Interviews @ONLYSTARLEFT
No full textAn Interview with an Instagram Archivist: @404MPH Interviews @ONLYSTARLEFT is a dialogue conducted entirely through iMessage, presented as both a publication and a designed artifact. Within this text exchange, the conversation navigates themes of digital preservation, authorship, and self-curation—examining how social media aesthetics transform personal experience into collective memory. @ONLYSTARLEFT reflects on the act of archiving not as static documentation but as a living, participatory practice shaped by the speed and impermanence of online culture. Formally, the project recognizes the iPhone as a cultural mediator—its interface shaping not only how we communicate, but how we perceive and construct value within digital life. The design reproduces the Instagram environment through typographic rhythm, spatial composition, and visual pacing, translating the aesthetics of the feed into the language of the printed page. At its core, the interview functions as a methodological innovation: it uses conversation itself as a medium of research and design inquiry. By positioning dialogue as a primary creative act, 404MPH reveals how Instagram-based archival practice redefines authorship, memory, and aesthetic circulation in networked culture. The result is both a critical document and a visual experiment in how online communities curate, preserve, and narrate contemporary culture in real time
The Lumberjack, October 22, 2025
No full textThe student newspaper of Humboldt State University.https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/studentnewspaper/3272/thumbnail.jp
Rou Dalagurr Native Council Youth Voices Leading Curriculum Change
No full textBuilding a Health Curriculum Lesson for Grades 9-12 in the Native American Studies Model Curriculum for Californi
A Decolonial Approach to International Education: Insights from a Cal Poly Global Program in Palermo, Sicily.
No full textThis article presents a critical intervention in the current debates about decolonizing international education. It is based on a Global Program in Palermo, Sicily, offered by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in summer 2023. As both program creator/director and student participant in the program, the authors rely on their personal experience and insights along with expertise in coloniality and decolonial theories. The article focuses on a series of pedagogical activities led by a young group of migrants and refugees who, in the city of Palermo, have come together to form two associations designed and structured to offer new contemporary models of citizenship and belonging. These workshops offered Cal Poly students who participated in the Global Program a tangible lesson of the transformative experience of international education when the power shifts to local experts and communities
Fleeing structural stigma: Psychological outcomes for transgender and gender-diverse internally displaced persons
No full textIn 2025, at least 1,000 bills targeting transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals were introduced across the United States, contributing to an environment of escalating structural stigma. As a result, many TGD individuals have relocated from states with high levels of stigma to those with lower levels in search of safety, access to care, and social affirmation. This study examines these individuals as internally displaced persons (IDPs) and is informed by refugee psychological literature, as both experiences arise from coercive structural forces that compel individuals to relocate. This perspective highlights the involuntary nature of their migration, driven by the need for acceptance, recognition, and protection from harm. Using a survey-based, between-subjects design, this study investigates differences in mental health between TGD individuals who relocated from high structural stigma states and those who remained in high stigma environments. Additionally, the material and psychological logistics associated with TGD IDP migration are explored. Results indicated that relocated participants experienced lower minority stress and perceived less structural stigma compared to those who remained in high stigma states, though no significant differences emerged in overall mental health or perceived social support. Financial barriers were the most frequently reported obstacle to relocation. Most participants who moved reported being highly satisfied with their decision. These findings, while preliminary, provide insight into the possible relationship between minority stress, structural stigma, and coerced migration
Associational seaweed defense reduces sea urchin grazing on bull kelp: Potential use in restoration
No full textKelp forests are declining globally under warming seas, altered predator–prey dynamics, and intensified herbivory, with sea urchins often driving shifts from canopy-dominated forests to persistent urchin barrens. Management commonly relies on labor-intensive urchin removals, with variable success, underscoring the need for complementary, ecosystem-based tools that directly reduce urchin grazing pressure. Focusing on far northern California kelp forests, we combined subtidal surveys, field experiments, and laboratory feeding assays to assess whether the understory alga Desmarestia cf. herbacea can provide associational defense for bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) by physically deterring purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) grazing and offering low nutritional payoff for these grazers. Surveys in intact forests revealed a strong positive association between D. cf. herbacea and N. luetkeana. In urchin barrens, live D. cf. herbacea and algal-mimic barriers reduced urchins by up to 98% inside plots and by \u3e 60% outside of the plots but within 0.25 m, and decreased kelp tissue loss at the higher-grazing site. In a six-week experiment, natural D. cf. herbacea stands sustained protection of N. luetkeana from urchin grazing relative to removals, depressing urchin densities over time and reducing encroachment from nearby barrens, yielding a net increase in N. luetkeana abundance by week 4, and extending kelp survival by ~1.7 weeks. In 24-h feeding assays, urchins consumed D. cf. herbacea and another understory alga (Pterygophora californica) at roughly half the rate of N. luetkeana. Over 30 days, urchins consumed similar amounts of D. cf. herbacea and P. californica, but urchin gonadosomatic indices were lower on the D. cf. herbacea diet, indicating reduced energetic payoff. Together, these results show that D. cf. herbacea can protect N. luetkeana by limiting urchin access in the field and by depressing urchin condition when consumed. Incorporating D. cf. herbacea, and functionally similar understory seaweed into kelp forest restoration strategies, offers an ecologically grounded complement to urchin removals for rebuilding kelp-forest resilience in northern California and beyond
Loss of LGL1 increases expression of c-Jun and DCX in the SVZ and RMS of the mouse brain
No full textGlioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive and treatment-resistant subtype of glioma, accounts for the majority of brain tumor–related mortality. A defining feature of GBM is its ability to invade healthy brain tissue through extensive cell migration, which severely limits the effectiveness of surgical and pharmacological treatments. Increasing evidence suggests that GBM cells activate gene programs known to drive normal neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) migration; however, the precise molecular mechanisms shared between NSPCs and GBM cells remain poorly understood. Lethal (2) giant larvae 1 (Lgl1), a conserved cortical cytoskeletal protein, has emerged as a key regulator of polarity and migration. Its loss disrupts NSPC migration while simultaneously promoting migratory behaviors in GBM cells. This study investigates how conditional loss of Lgl1 in glial fibrillary acid protein (GFAP) expressing neural stem cells in the adult subventricular zone alters the expression of migration-associated proteins. Specifically, I focused on two proteins linked to NSPC and GBM motility: the AP-1 transcription factor subunit c-Jun and the microtubule-associated protein Doublecortin (DCX). I utilized coronal sections from tamoxifen-induced p42 GFAP- GFAP CreERT2; Lgl1fl/fl;CAG-tdTom+/+ and GFAP-CreERT2; Lgl1+/+; CAG-tdTom tdTom+/+ mice to compare c-Jun and DCX expression patterns in in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and rostral migratory stream (RMS) after LGL1 deletion in GFAP-expressing neural stem cells. Immunofluorescent analysis revealed that loss of Lgl1 leads to increased expression of both c-Jun and DCX in these regions. To further probe the regulatory relationship between c-Jun and DCX, I employed the UCSC Genome Browser and identified predicted c-Jun binding sites within both the Homo sapiens and Mus musculus Dcx gene orthologs. These findings suggest that transcriptional regulation of DCX by c-Jun may contribute to the altered migratory phenotype we observed in Lgl1-deficient NSPCs in vitro. Future studies investigating how Lgl1 loss influences cytoskeletal dynamics and transcriptional regulation through factors like c-Jun and DCX will be valuable for identifying novel therapeutic targets to reduce the invasive capacity of GBM cells
Geographic disparity and the comparison of projectile points in central California
No full textThe study of stone projectile point typology is not new. Many scholars have developed both similar and very different approaches to classifying various point types based on a wide variety of key morphological characteristics. The comparison of projectile point types and sizes from disparate regions, however, has not been widely examined. This research utilizes the classification systems of Noel Justice (Justice 2002a) and Brian Glenn (Glenn 1991) as a basis for comparing projectile point specimens from two disparate geographic regions. The first specimen collection comes from the Vandenberg Space Force Base region on the central coast of California and represents a coastal area. The second set of specimens come from the California Flats/Turkey Flats region in central California closer to the central valley and represents an inland locale.
Data collection for the projectile points in the study was done on specimens recovered or observed during archaeological investigations within both regions. Each point was photographed and carefully measured, and detailed notes about their morphological characteristics were recorded. Using Justice’s and Glenn’s key attribute descriptions, each point was compared to and identified as examples of previously recorded types and sizes, with the intention of making inferences about the subsistence strategies of the Native American populations in the regions. Further, by comparing the similarities and differences of projectile points within the two collections, the researcher was investigating the possibility of disparities in subsistence strategies between the two divergent regions.
The resulting comparison did not identify the type of inferences that logic might dictate; larger more robust projectile points do not infer the hunting of larger prey, smaller more gracile points do not infer the hunting of smaller prey. Ethnographic reports and various experimental reproductions of the types of projectile weaponry recovered from the archaeological record show that most California Native groups used various point types, including non-stone points, to hunt in a variety of circumstances. Although a great deal of information was gleaned during the course of this research, the researcher concluded that conclusive results would require a differently formulated research question and additional data
