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‘Into the Wild’: A meta-synthesis of talking therapy in natural outdoor spaces

This Meta-synthesis highlights the benefits of holding therapy sessions in #nature, which can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance emotional well-being. While outdoor therapy offers unique advantages, such as greater openness and connection with nature, it also requires careful consideration of client suitability and professional training.

"Summary:

This article explores the benefits of conducting talking therapy in natural outdoor settings, which can reduce stress and improve mood. By integrating therapy with nature, practitioners enhance emotional well-being and encourage open expression. A review of 38 studies involving 322 practitioners and 163 clients outlines best practices and techniques.

Outdoor therapy ranges from using nature as a calming backdrop to actively incorporating the environment into sessions. While challenges like client suitability and professional training exist, the study highlights its growing potential in mental health care. However, a few limitations were identified such as potential distractions, lack of privacy, and lack of control around weather conditions."

Source:
https://rootinnature.ca/research/into-the-wild-a-meta-synthesis-of-talking-therapy-in-natural-outdoor-spaces/

Link to article [via #ScienceDirect]:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735820300295

#SolarPunkSunday #OutdoorTherapy #HorticulturalTherapy #TalkTherapy #SpendTimeInNature #SpendTimeOutdoors #NatureHeals

‘Into the Wild’: A meta-synthesis of talking therapy in natural outdoor spaces

This Meta-synthesis highlights the benefits of holding therapy sessions in #nature, which can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance emotional well-being. While outdoor therapy offers unique advantages, such as greater openness and connection with nature, it also requires careful consideration of client suitability and professional training.

"Summary:

This article explores the benefits of conducting talking therapy in natural outdoor settings, which can reduce stress and improve mood. By integrating therapy with nature, practitioners enhance emotional well-being and encourage open expression. A review of 38 studies involving 322 practitioners and 163 clients outlines best practices and techniques.

Outdoor therapy ranges from using nature as a calming backdrop to actively incorporating the environment into sessions. While challenges like client suitability and professional training exist, the study highlights its growing potential in mental health care. However, a few limitations were identified such as potential distractions, lack of privacy, and lack of control around weather conditions."

Source:
https://rootinnature.ca/research/into-the-wild-a-meta-synthesis-of-talking-therapy-in-natural-outdoor-spaces/

Link to article [via #ScienceDirect]:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735820300295

#SolarPunkSunday #OutdoorTherapy #HorticulturalTherapy #TalkTherapy #SpendTimeInNature #SpendTimeOutdoors #NatureHeals

The latest issue, Volume 13 Issue 2 (April 2026), has been released on #ScienceDirect! Seven high quality research articles are published in this issue. Welcome to read this issue freely at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/natural-gas-industry-b/vol/13/issue/2.
#energy #naturalgas #pipeline #reservoirs #EOR #basin

The latest issue, Volume 13 Issue 2 (April 2026), has been released on #ScienceDirect! Seven high quality research articles are published in this issue. Welcome to read this issue freely at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/natural-gas-industry-b/vol/13/issue/2.
#energy #naturalgas #pipeline #reservoirs #EOR #basin

Distance decay of tire wear particles & potentially toxic elements near Canada's busiest highway: Assessing lichen transplants as biomonitors - #ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935126005517
Authors
Lisa Grifoni, Aldo Winkler, Mehriban Jafarova, Lilla Spagnuolo, Julian Aherne, Stefano Loppi
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.124221
Under a Creative Commons license / Open access
#urbanairpollution

Funding

This research was partly funded by INGV Project “Pianeta Dinamico” (Ministry of University and Research, Italy),

Distance decay of tire wear particles & potentially toxic elements near Canada's busiest highway: Assessing lichen transplants as biomonitors - #ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935126005517
Authors
Lisa Grifoni, Aldo Winkler, Mehriban Jafarova, Lilla Spagnuolo, Julian Aherne, Stefano Loppi
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.124221
Under a Creative Commons license / Open access
#urbanairpollution

Funding

This research was partly funded by INGV Project “Pianeta Dinamico” (Ministry of University and Research, Italy),

update: PDF obtained, i love fedi ​:neocat_hyper:​

i saw a few posts in this hashtag so hopefully this is a thing? #ICanHazPDF

Wikipedia Library's ScienceDirect subscription doesn't seem to include Endocrine Practice and I haven't been able to find this article any other way so I would really appreciate if anyone who has access to #ScienceDirect or #Elsevier journals or whatever would include this could see if they can get me a copy of this, because it's actually huge to have a Real Study™ confirming this and I need to see it:

A. L. Misakian, D. Ariel, E. A. Sullivan, et al., "Injectable Estradiol Monotherapy Effectively Suppresses Testosterone in Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy", Endocrine Practice 31, no. 11: P1462–69, doi:10.1016/j.eprac.2025.07.002

many thanks in advance ​:neocat_sad_reach:​

#FediScience #Endocrinology #FediHelp #Medicine

This study provides robust empirical validation for the folk adage that “stolen food tastes better,” demonstrating that unauthorized acquisition of French fries amplifies hedonic perception in quantifiable and psychologically nuanced ways.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950329326001126
#science #sciencedirect #rolfdegen

This study provides robust empirical validation for the folk adage that “stolen food tastes better,” demonstrating that unauthorized acquisition of French fries amplifies hedonic perception in quantifiable and psychologically nuanced ways.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950329326001126
#science #sciencedirect #rolfdegen

Journal Article: Generative AI in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review of Emerging Trends, Power Dynamics, and Global Research Landscapes

The article linked below was recently published by Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence.

Title

Generative AI in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review of Emerging Trends, Power Dynamics, and Global Research Landscapes

Authors

Kun Dai
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yabing Liu
The Education University of Hong Kong

Xiaofan Zhang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Source

Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence
Online: January 9, 2026

Abstract

The rapid evolution of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping higher education (HE), offering transformative opportunities for academic engagement while posing significant challenges to academic integrity, ethical frameworks, and global research power dynamics. This study maps the recent (2022-2025) research landscape of GenAI in HE through a bibliometric analysis of 2762 articles from the Web of Science Core Collection. Employing multipolarity as an analytical lens, this study examines the power dynamics within this research domain reflected by publication records from different countries (or regions). Findings highlight surging global interest in GenAI in HE, with contributions led by the US, China, and the UK, alongside rising participation from non-Western scholars and institutions. By identifying the major topics, this study uncovers a more nuanced trajectory of GenAI-related discourse in HE. By examining publication status, contributors, and research topics, this study provides insights for stakeholders navigating the complexities of GenAI integration into HE and suggests trajectories for future research in this rapidly evolving field.

Keyword Co-Occurrence Networks Visualization Map Source:10.1016/j.caeai.2026.100544

See original article ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X26000056

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🎓🤯 Groundbreaking discovery: #education influences #IQ differences in identical twins! 🎉 Who would've thought that #learning stuff makes you smarter? 📚🤪 Meanwhile, ScienceDirect's support page is the real star here, drowning readers in #error #messages and legal jargon. 🔍💥
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825003853 #twins #discovery #ScienceDirect #HackerNews #ngated

🎓🤯 Groundbreaking discovery: #education influences #IQ differences in identical twins! 🎉 Who would've thought that #learning stuff makes you smarter? 📚🤪 Meanwhile, ScienceDirect's support page is the real star here, drowning readers in #error #messages and legal jargon. 🔍💥
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825003853 #twins #discovery #ScienceDirect #HackerNews #ngated

New blog post: ScienceDirect is marketing AI directly to students and researchers? – The Distant Librarian https://distlib.pival.me/sciencedirect-is-marketing-ai-directly-to-students-and-researchers/

#ScienceDirect #Elsevier #AI #marketing

New blog post: ScienceDirect is marketing AI directly to students and researchers? – The Distant Librarian https://distlib.pival.me/sciencedirect-is-marketing-ai-directly-to-students-and-researchers/

#ScienceDirect #Elsevier #AI #marketing

Identification and quantification of #bioactivecompounds in cashew #pseudofruit and its by-products

Author links open overlay panel
Carina Gutiérrez-Paz
,
Cristian Molina-García
,
Juan Pablo Fernández-Trujillo
,
María Soledad Hernández-Gómez

Cite #DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.145971
Get rights and content
Under a Creative Commons license
#Openaccess #oa
#sciencedirect

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814625032224

And my #colleague @WordsByWesInk has alerted me to this that you'll want to read too: an article from Iris van Rooij on the mess #ScienceDirect is making by adding links from terms in published articles going to #inaccurate #LLM-generated definitions. https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

And my #colleague @WordsByWesInk has alerted me to this that you'll want to read too: an article from Iris van Rooij on the mess #ScienceDirect is making by adding links from terms in published articles going to #inaccurate #LLM-generated definitions. https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

"AI Summaries" have infested #ScienceDirect now with their inaccurate but confidently-formulated statements... Fortunately some people are fighting back, like @Iris who emailed them about it:

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

We should all do the same until they remove these "summaries"!

#GenAI #LLM #Science #Research #Academia @academicchatter

"AI Summaries" have infested #ScienceDirect now with their inaccurate but confidently-formulated statements... Fortunately some people are fighting back, like @Iris who emailed them about it:

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

We should all do the same until they remove these "summaries"!

#GenAI #LLM #Science #Research #Academia @academicchatter

🚏🌳 #Trees and bus stop shelters: because who needs shade when you can just melt while waiting for public transport? Meanwhile, #ScienceDirect skips to the main content—error messages and cookie settings. 🙄🍪
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192092500063X #BusStops #PublicTransport #CookieSettings #HackerNews #ngated

🚏🌳 #Trees and bus stop shelters: because who needs shade when you can just melt while waiting for public transport? Meanwhile, #ScienceDirect skips to the main content—error messages and cookie settings. 🙄🍪
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192092500063X #BusStops #PublicTransport #CookieSettings #HackerNews #ngated

#ConstitutiveRules for guiding the use of the #ViableSystemModel: Reflections on practice - #ScienceDirect #ProblemStructuring #Epistemology #HierarchicalProcessModel #StaffordBeer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221720304768

#ConstitutiveRules for guiding the use of the #ViableSystemModel: Reflections on practice - #ScienceDirect #ProblemStructuring #Epistemology #HierarchicalProcessModel #StaffordBeer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221720304768

ScienceDirect wants to solve world poverty 😇 by cutting resource use by 70%—because who needs "decent" living standards anyway? 🤔 Meanwhile, their website can't even provide content without a 404 error. 🚫
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493 #ScienceDirect #PovertySolution #ResourceEfficiency #404Error #LivingStandards #HackerNews #ngated

ScienceDirect wants to solve world poverty 😇 by cutting resource use by 70%—because who needs "decent" living standards anyway? 🤔 Meanwhile, their website can't even provide content without a 404 error. 🚫
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493 #ScienceDirect #PovertySolution #ResourceEfficiency #404Error #LivingStandards #HackerNews #ngated

If you're using a #QT #Webengine based browser like me (@qutebrowser or #Falkon), #Elsevier 's #ScienceDirect website may cause issues because they "only support the last 3 releases" of most browsers. Luckily, they use the user agent to detect the browser. So, a workaround is to use something like this, with a new enough version for the #Chrome version:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/6.8.2 Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

#AcademicChatter

Fuck you, #sciencedirect! You know what you did.

#science #publishing #sciencepublishing #wasteoftime #paywalls suck, even when you pay!

Fuck you, #sciencedirect! You know what you did.

#science #publishing #sciencepublishing #wasteoftime #paywalls suck, even when you pay!

Update. When the #UBuffalo cancelled its #Elsevier #BigDeal, "faculty were supportive…There was frustration expressed with the current structure of the publishing industry, particularly with the exorbitant pricing of journal subscriptions…Data showed a decrease in usage on the #ScienceDirect platform and [an affordable] increase in requests for unavailable articles" through other channels described in the article.
https://pal-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/pal/article/view/7193

Update. When the #UBuffalo cancelled its #Elsevier #BigDeal, "faculty were supportive…There was frustration expressed with the current structure of the publishing industry, particularly with the exorbitant pricing of journal subscriptions…Data showed a decrease in usage on the #ScienceDirect platform and [an affordable] increase in requests for unavailable articles" through other channels described in the article.
https://pal-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/pal/article/view/7193

New study: "User tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical #library setting now happens routinely through #publisher #platforms."
https://zenodo.org/records/13886473

#Elsevier #Privacy #Publishers #ScienceDirect #SpringerNature #SpringerLink #Surveillance

New study: "User tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical #library setting now happens routinely through #publisher #platforms."
https://zenodo.org/records/13886473

#Elsevier #Privacy #Publishers #ScienceDirect #SpringerNature #SpringerLink #Surveillance

Is this why we smack ourselves on the forehead when we've been outstandingly stupid?

Enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition - #ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945223002733

Is this why we smack ourselves on the forehead when we've been outstandingly stupid?

Enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition - #ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945223002733

📬 Elsevier’s ScienceDirect überwacht seine Nutzer
#Datenschutz #EBooks #BeckyYoose #Elsevier #LDHConsultingServices #LexisNexis #RELX #ScholarlyPublishingandAcademicResourcesCoalition #ScienceDirect #SPARC https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/e-books/elseviers-sciencedirect-ueberwacht-seine-nutzer-284887.html

📬 Elsevier’s ScienceDirect überwacht seine Nutzer
#Datenschutz #EBooks #BeckyYoose #Elsevier #LDHConsultingServices #LexisNexis #RELX #ScholarlyPublishingandAcademicResourcesCoalition #ScienceDirect #SPARC https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/e-books/elseviers-sciencedirect-ueberwacht-seine-nutzer-284887.html

Das ist das, was wir letztlich mit unseren Bibliotheksverträgen mit subventionieren: die enormen Verdienstspannen im Wissenschaftsbereich helfen die Kriegskasse zu füllen, mit der dann der Markt leergekauft wird von Spyware, KI-Tools und Spezialisten für Verhaltensbiometrie. Der Verlagsbereich ist davon auch nicht abgetrennt: #ThreatMetrix, womit 4,5 Mrd. digitale Geräte individuell identifiziert werden können, war mindestens zeitweise auch auf #ScienceDirect installiert.

Wir sind ja die Guten.

Das ist das, was wir letztlich mit unseren Bibliotheksverträgen mit subventionieren: die enormen Verdienstspannen im Wissenschaftsbereich helfen die Kriegskasse zu füllen, mit der dann der Markt leergekauft wird von Spyware, KI-Tools und Spezialisten für Verhaltensbiometrie. Der Verlagsbereich ist davon auch nicht abgetrennt: #ThreatMetrix, womit 4,5 Mrd. digitale Geräte individuell identifiziert werden können, war mindestens zeitweise auch auf #ScienceDirect installiert.

Wir sind ja die Guten.

So, the #NAHSL (North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries) keynote is about the new @sparc privacy analysis of #Elsevier #ScienceDirect. Should be very interesting!

Yoose, B., & Shockey, N. (2023). Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10078610

So, the #NAHSL (North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries) keynote is about the new @sparc privacy analysis of #Elsevier #ScienceDirect. Should be very interesting!

Yoose, B., & Shockey, N. (2023). Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10078610

"A simple blood test may predict the risk of progressive heart and kidney disease in people with Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230821153204.htm

#t2d #type2diabetes #diabetes #research #sciencedirect

"A simple blood test may predict the risk of progressive heart and kidney disease in people with Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230821153204.htm

#t2d #type2diabetes #diabetes #research #sciencedirect

The #SEO of #ScienceDirect is so annoying.

I search any term, e.g. Mass Spectrometry. (one of) The top hit is 'Mass Spectrometry - an overview' provided by them.

It seems to be a decent review. However, it is just a compile of lots of papers with this keyword. Many of them are irrelevant, and others are not reviews I need.

#ScienceDirect 📆 2006 : The magneto-plasma sail produces the #propulsive force due to the interaction between the artificial #magnetic 🧲 #field around the #spacecraft inflated by the plasma and the #SolarWind erupted from the #Sun ☀️ with a speed of 300–800 km/s https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576505002365

#Magnetic sail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail

#MagneticPropulsion #SpacecraftPropulsion