Trust in others and prior experience with feral hogs were significant factors in whether landowners would commit effort and dollars to controlling feral hogs, two studies have found. Nana Tian is a forest economics researcher for the Arkansas Forest Resources Center who studies human dimensions and economic issues in natural resource management. When it comes to feral hogs, her research informs education and management plans. Tian is the corresponding author of two studies that address these issues: “Private Landowners’ Perspectives on Managing Feral Swine in Arkansas, Louisiana, and East Texas,” published in the Journal of Wildlife Management and “Private Landowners’ Willingness to Pay for Managing Feral Swine in the West Gulf Region,” published in the Journal of Sustainability Research.

Researchers will explore how the immune receptor IL-1R1 in neurons affects brain function and behavior. Beyond its role in inflammation, IL-1R1 shapes neuronal activity, synapses, and circuits, particularly in areas controlling social behavior. The research maps where and when IL-1R1 acts and how it influences connected neurons. Findings could transform understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including autism, and point to therapies that target neural circuits directly rather than just symptoms.

Nearly 69% of respondents say they agree or strongly agree that prostitution is a form of violence against women—a figure that rises to 75.1% among women—according to the analysis carried out by Marina Martínez García and Irene Epifanio López, lecturers in the Department of Mathematics at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, of data from the Survey on the Social Perception of Prostitution. The survey was conducted by the Government Delegation against Gender-based Violence of the Ministry of Equality in collaboration with the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS).

The two Castelló-based researchers, specialists in statistics with a gender perspective, submitted a proposal that was selected by the Government Delegation—responsible for designing the questionnaire and the survey questions—and were tasked with analysing the data obtained in the survey and producing a report with the conclusions. The researchers followed an open-science approach in their analysis, and all the code (in R) is available to reproduce the results.

With the global expansion of financial incentives to promote behavior change, they are being considered in One Health contexts characterized by the interdependence of human, animal, and ecosystem health. Little specific evidence exists about how to maximize the effectiveness of financial incentives and minimize negative outcomes in these complex settings. We review over two decades of research on financial incentives for behavior change to examine their potential effects on improved practices related to water, sanitation and hygiene, food safety, and animal and ecosystem health. We apply lessons from the literature to the case of Guinea worm disease, a neglected tropical disease for which financial incentives have been utilized or considered to motivate the uptake of various preventive behaviors. Guinea worm disease prevention is a useful example for considering the advantages, disadvantages, and unknowns of incorporating financial incentives into behavior change interventions because such an approach calls for changes in multiple behaviors with diverse attributes, and the use of incentives may have implications for other disease control, elimination, and eradication programs. Further, Guinea worm disease represents a classic One Health challenge with interventions necessary in human, animal, and ecological systems to reduce disease incidence. We present evidence-based recommendations for the design and use of incentives that may further facilitate effective behavior change. We also discuss potential negative outcomes from incentives, and critical unknowns such as how to design incentives for collective behavior and what happens when incentives end. We stress that financial incentives are not always appropriate; they must be considered carefully and coupled with proper communication efforts that are driven by a deep understanding of community social norms, motivations, and practices.