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This week’s digest covers 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, all from high-impact open-access journals. This week: a Lancet Oncology Commission on equitable cancer genomics, a randomised trial of steroid delivery for sudden hearing loss, multi-locus GWAS of Senegalese pearl millet, and venomics of a North African scorpion.

This week’s digest covers 10 open-access studies, including 6 African-led works, published in journals such as Modern Agriculture, Discover Agriculture, and the South African Journal of Botany. This week: velvet bean as a functional food, limited soil gains from conservation agriculture in Namibia, medicinal plants for dental care, fertilizer effects on sorghum in Tanzania, and old-growth forest criteria in Europe.

This week’s digest covers agricultural science, plant systematics, soil ecology, ethnopharmacology, and animal behaviour, with six African-led studies and four global studies from open-access journals. This week: velvet bean as a functional food, a new classification for Bulbostylis sedges, limited soil gains under conservation agriculture in Namibia, and medicinal plant extracts for dental applications.

This week in global health and clinical research, we feature 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, all from high-impact open-access journals. This week: long-term Ebola stigma in Uganda, birth defects as a growing cause of child deaths, growth faltering in HIV-affected South African children, and discordance between BMI and central obesity in Malawian diabetes patients.

This week in global health and clinical medicine features 10 studies, 6 African-led and 4 global, with journals cited. This week: Ebola stigma in Uganda, birth defects in LMICs, HIV growth trajectories in South Africa, BMI vs waist-to-height ratio in Malawi, and minimally invasive pelvic fixation.

This week in interdisciplinary humanities and social science research, including philosophy, archaeology, theology, design, and language education. This week: the concept of ‘epistemic assholes’, optimization algorithms for heritage conservation, a call to decolonise theology given Global South demographics, and a meta-analysis on enjoyment in language learning.

This week in interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences features 10 studies, with 5 African-led and 5 global, all from peer-reviewed journals. This week: epistemic assholes concept, optimization algorithms for heritage conservation, Global South theology imperative, masculinity in COVID-19 comedy, and Isibheqe Sohlamvu in design education.

This week in education research: 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies, with journals cited. This week: a 10-hour sustainability module for undergraduates, inherited career aspirations in South Africa, teachers’ multicultural attitudes in Ethiopia, global citizenship education in Uganda, and out-of-school study groups in India.

This week in education and learning research: 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies, with journals cited. This week: a 10-hour ecological footprint module for sustainability, inherited career aspirations in South Africa, teacher attitudes to multiculturalism in Ethiopia, global citizenship education in Uganda, and teacher relatedness support in Tanzania.

This week in law and policy research, ten studies from open-access journals examine succession law, inclusive education, climate obligations, social rights, and firearm policy. This week: retroactive testamentary capacity tests undermining autonomy, community developers as accountability intermediaries, inclusive education policy gaps in rural South Africa, and the ICJ Advisory Opinion’s impact on South Africa’s climate commitments.