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(Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum (2025)
Journal Article
Morgan, H. (online). (Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251332535

This paper explores what everyday digital assemblages of care do to the spatio-temporal experience of claiming asylum under political landscapes characterised by hostile governance affects. Drawing upon one year of participatory ethnographic fieldwor... Read More about (Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum.

ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core (2025)
Journal Article
Umehata, H., Steidel, C. C., Smail, I., Swinbank, M., Monson, E. B., Rosario, D., Lehmer, B. D., Nakanishi, K., Kubo, M., Iono, D., Alexander, D. M., Kohno, K., Tamura, Y., Ivison, R. J., Saito, T., Mitsuhashi, I., Huang, S., & Matsuda, Y. (in press). ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 77(2), 432-445. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psaf010

In the present-day universe, the most massive galaxies are ellipticals located in the cores of galaxy clusters, harboring the heaviest supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, the mechanisms that drive the early growth phase and subsequent transfor... Read More about ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core.

A Pedagogical Framework for Developing Abstraction Skills (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Begum, M., Crossley, J., Strömbäck, F., Akrida, E., Alpizar-Chacon, I., Evans, A., Gross, J. B., Haglund, P., Lonati, V., Satyavolu, C., & Thorgeirsson, S. (2024, July). A Pedagogical Framework for Developing Abstraction Skills. Presented at Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE, Milan, Italy

Abstraction is a fundamental yet challenging skill to teach and learn in Computer Science education. Traditional frameworks of abstraction and concept formation often emphasize understanding an abstraction over its application, the latter being criti... Read More about A Pedagogical Framework for Developing Abstraction Skills.

EDGE: A new model for nuclear star cluster formation in dwarf galaxies (2025)
Journal Article
Gray, E. I., Read, J. I., Taylor, E., Orkney, M. D. A., Rey, M. P., Yates, R. M., Kim, S. Y., Noël, N. E. D., Agertz, O., Andersson, E. P., & Pontzen, A. (in press). EDGE: A new model for nuclear star cluster formation in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(2), 1167-1179. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf521

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are among the densest stellar systems in the Universe and are found at the centres of many spiral and elliptical galaxies, and up to 40 percent of dwarf galaxies. However, their formation mechanisms, and possible links to... Read More about EDGE: A new model for nuclear star cluster formation in dwarf galaxies.