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Wake Up The Snake Launch at WAM
No full textAn Exhibition from the research project Intergenerational Cultural Transfer of Indigenous Knowledges to wake up the consciousness of the people, our people, all people, across our region, our state, our nation and the world
From the Arctic to Australia: Four Perspectives on Forest Sentience
No full textCan forests sense, communicate and remember? How can we engage with trees as sentient subjects with wisdom to share with humankind in ecologically troubled times? Our collaborative presentation will bring together the expertise of four speakers on the subject of forest sentience. John Ryan (Turtle Island), Francis Joy (Rovaniemi, northern Finland), Åsa Andersson Martti (Swedish Sápmi) and Janne Sirniö (Swedish Sápmi) will share their perspectives on—and experiences of—the sentience of trees, forests and ecological communities with a focus on Sápmi, the homeland of the Sámi people of Northern Europe. After short presentations on forest sentience from scientific, artistic, and Indigenous points of view, the panel will open up dialogue with the Nulungu audience on the implications of sentience for forest appreciation and conservation in Australia. Forests face myriad pressures globally including in Northern Finland and Sweden, relatively remote regions celebrated as Europe’s last wilderness. For instance, throughout Northern Finland, which comprises sparsely populated Finnish Lapland as well as the urban area of Rovaniemi, the widespread clearing of mature trees has degraded boreal habitats. Rupturing longstanding relationships between people and trees, climate change will continue to alter the country’s northernmost forests. Parallel to these escalating threats to forests in Finland and elsewhere, however, lies a burgeoning area of research signifying the diverse ways in which trees respond intelligently to environmental perturbations and bolster their resilience. In this dynamic and rapidly shifting context, the collaborative project Gifts from the Sentient Forest (GSF) (2024–25) develops new modes of interacting with Northern Finland’s trees and valuing their biocultural heritage. At the centre of the project is arboreal sentience, a generative concept that sheds light on the capacities of trees to sense, communicate, behave, learn, and remember. In the project, more-than-human sentience serves as a foundation for cultivating tree-human collaborations. At the same time, the work expands the public’s awareness of the forest communities of Northern Europe through painting, photography, film, music, poetry, performance, and other creative interventions. After discussing the project’s key methods, John Ryan and Francis Joy will provide examples from a major exhibition of creative work in Rovaniemi, Finland in mid-2025. Åsa Andersson Martti and Janne Sirniö will then elaborate the significance of more-than-human sentience for Sámi people. We conclude with the proposition that arboreal sentience offers a promising basis for transforming environmental values, reframing forests as biocultural systems, and perpetuating knowledge of the region’s endangered seasons
‘The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy!’
Get PDFInvitation to attend, please RSVP [email protected]
Hear an inspiring speech from Kyra Edwards (Cultural and Governance Coordinator at Walalakoo Aboriginal Corporation), listen to the beautiful tunes by Jada Hunter, create and enter a art competition for a chance to win a prize!
Lunch and refreshments provided
Prevalence and network analysis of internet addiction, depression and their associations with sleep quality among commercial airline pilots: A national survey in China
No full textObjective: Airline pilots are members of a unique occupational group that is often confronted with sleep routine disruptions, yet relatively few studies have examined their mental health status. This study assessed the prevalence and network structure of internet addiction, depression and sleep quality problems in commercial airline pilots.
Method: A total of 7055 airline pilots were included in analyses. Internet addiction and depression were measured with the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), respectively. Sleep quality was evaluated using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The network model was constructed based on an Ising model and its association with sleep quality was evaluated using a flow procedure.
Results: Internet addiction, depression and sleep quality were common among airline pilots. The prevalence of internet addiction was 8.0 % (95 % CI: 7.3–8.6 %), while the rates of depression and poor sleep quality were 23.3 % (95 % CI: 22.3–24.2 %) and 33.0 % (95 % CI: 31.9–34.1 %), respectively. In the depression and internet addiction network model, “Fatigue” (PHQ4; Expected Influence (EI): 2.04) and “Depressed/moody/nervous only while being offline” (IAT20; EI: 1.76) were most central symptoms while “Fatigue” (PHQ4; Bridge EI: 1.30) was also the most important bridge symptom. The flow network model of sleep quality with internet addiction and depression showed that “Appetite” (PHQ5) had the strongest positive association with poor sleep quality.
Conclusion: Internet addiction, depression and sleep quality were common among airline pilots and warrant regular screening and timely treatment. Strategies to improve sleep hygiene may be useful in preventing onsets or exacerbations in depression and internet addiction among airline pilot