Seasonal Affective Disorder Isnât Just for Winter
Feeling blue even though everyone seems to be basking in perfect summer weather? There might be a good reason for that.
Credit.Jo Zixuan Zhou
June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
This is what happens to the Earth during summer: Tilted about 23.5 degrees, it arrives at a place in its orbit where the Northern Hemisphere leans toward the sun. This is what happens in Wisconsin during summer: People go outside, maybe to picnics or parks, to barbecues, on day trips, on summer vacation.
This is what happens to Kristen Ashly during summer: Depression descends like a heavy curtain. She skips picnics, day trips and vacations â the hot, humid days in central Wisconsin make her lethargic, yet also agitated, irritable and unable to sleep. By afternoon, she feels âlike a zombie.â
Minister Harris welcomes a landmark development in Open Access research that will benefit researchers, students and citizens
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris has today (Monday, 24 May 2021) welcomed Ireland taking a huge step forward in providing open access to research.
The IReL initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, has struck transformative agreements with 11 major international academic publishers.
As a result, researchers based at participating member institutions of the IReL Consortium are now able to ensure that the articles they write are made available openly, immediately and at no cost to researchers, learners and citizens nationally and internationally by the publishers involved.
“The Irish Universities Association (IUA) is pleased to announce that Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) has agreed to become a member of the organisation which represents Irish universities. TU Dublin joins the seven existing IUA members at a time of significant change in Irish higher education. The members of the enlarged IUA now account for over two-thirds of all students in higher education, over 80% of international and post-graduate students and almost 90% of research spending in the sector …” (more)
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