Archive for October 2024

“Everybody knows the idea of sleep quality. They assume that it is based on people’s sleep performance during the night, as something that you can measure,” says Nicole Tang, director for the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab at the University of Warwick in the UK. “But what happened afterwards, and what happened just before, could also have an influence.”

I came of age in the 1990s and lived through the heavily gendered pop culture of Spice Girls and All Saints, Oasis and Blur, of lads and ladettes outdoing each other in heavy drinking and sexual exploits.

The 2020s have seen an explosion in rhetoric about mental health – about the importance of monitoring it, tending to it, talking about it. Public discourse had already been trending steadily in this direction for years, with celebrities increasingly sharing their own struggles with mental illness, and the number of Americans using psychological services rising steadily since at least 2010.

Indonesia’s Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry sent a team to investigate after receiving a report from an anonymous whistleblower that at least 11 of the university’s professors, mainly from the Law Faculty, published academic papers in what is popularly called “predatory journals” – journals that publish papers mainly in return for payments, with minimum peer review and almost guaranteed acceptance.