Julian Reid

Apr 11, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Julian Reid |Rhiannon Smith |Laura Scott |Nick Reid

INTRODUCTION Understanding long-term trends in biodiversity is essential to the conservation and management of biotic communities (Magurran et al., 2010), especially in highly fragmented ecosystems under intensifying pressure from climate change (Bennett et al., 2014; Mac Nally et al., 2009; Matthews, 2021; Matthews et al., 2014).

Oct 30, 2023 | sojo.net | Julian Reid

THE FERVOR AT church during the Advent season is a remarkable sight. Both clergy and laity work like the shepherds, tending to their flocks late into the night. And many move like the wise men, traveling to foreign places and spending extensive resources to celebrate Christ’s arrival with family. This time of heightened activity makes sense given the story of scripture and the story of our current world. The shepherds could not help but tell others once they learned of the Savior’s birth.

Oct 2, 2023 | churchanew.org | Julian Reid

A few of you have expressed interest in what parenthood will do to my sense of rest. I’m sure that will be a lifelong journey, but here are a few quick insights from the first month. When we rest, others get to rest too. When Lydia sleeps multiple hours a night, we all get to rest.

Sep 18, 2023 | gjia.georgetown.edu | Julian Reid

Constructivists wrongly portray the Indigenous as ultrasocial people Many that decolonizing International Relations (IR) requires moving past mainstream theories, especially realism and liberalism, which have ignored the effects of colonialism on Indigenous peoples, excluded their knowledge, and diminished their political agency because of state-centric assumptions about “who counts in International Relations.” However, constructivist approaches also reproduce colonial narratives about...

Feb 10, 2023 | scalawagmagazine.org | Julian Reid

Editor's note: Valentine's Day is upon us. While some of us sanctimoniously refuse participation in yet another capitalist marketing scheme, some of y'all are in the Walgreens aisle giddily celebrating being in love with crimson hearts and Russell Stovers. But love isn't that simple or saccharin. Many of us carry on with the work of loving long after roses wilt and cards yellow. "Grief is the final act of love," Lauren London said after her husband Nipsey Hustle's murder.