Articles by Nathan Jones
Replica revolutions in rock art: from physical replicas to virtual reality libraries via contemporary art
ABSTRACT Rock-art replicas generally are judged as more or less faithful substitutes for inaccessible originals. While previous studies have demonstrated the value of replicas for individual archaeological experiments, we reconceive them as persistent interdisciplinary research infrastructure. Drawing on reflections from original sites, we compare physical copies with virtual environments, developing criteria for evaluating replicas.
GABAergic Network Dysregulation in Alcohol Use Disorder: Receptor–Transporter Interactions Driving the Transition From Goal-Directed to Compulsive Behaviour
1 Introduction Substance use disorders (SUDs), including alcohol use disorder (AUD), demonstrate how neurobiological changes can undermine behavioural control by disrupting action-outcome contingency. This process allows behaviour to be flexibly updated when an action no longer produces its expected outcome [1]. This disruption extends beyond habitual seeking and may help explain persistent substance use despite adverse consequences, a defining feature of addiction [2, 3].
From the NCSER Commissioner: Letter to the Field
Dear Colleagues, I am writing today to announce my departure from the National Center for Special Education Research, where I have served as Commissioner since 2023. On July 1, I will be returning to the special education faculty at Boston University. It is an understatement to say this is a bittersweet departure. As I leave this roIe, I want to begin by acknowledging the special education research community. I am in awe of the work you do.
Senior SWJ–El Centro Fellow Nathan P. Jones Featured on the History Channel
"The Hunt for El Chapo: Case Closed," History’s Greatest Mysteries: Case Closed with Laurence Fishburne (Season 7, Episode 10). Senior Small Wars Journal–El Centro Fellow, Nathan P. Jones was featured at the History Channel this week. Dr. Jones, who is also associates and professor chair of security studies at Sam Houston State University was interviewed on the 13 April 2025 episode of History’s Greatest Mysteries: Case Closed with Laurence Fishburne.
Retroviral intasome architecture shapes the dynamics of target DNA search and integration
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Baltierra-Jasso LE, Larue RC, Jones ND, Tan YY, Messer R, Ballandras-Colas A, et al. (2026) Retroviral intasome architecture shapes the dynamics of target DNA search and integration. PLoS Pathog 22(3): e1014070. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1014070 Editor: Welkin E.
The Greenie Report: Feb. 25, 2026
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Preview:Charlton Athletic vs Southampton - prediction, team news, lineups
[monks data] Championship | Gameweek 16 Sports Mole previews Saturday's Championship clash between Charlton Athletic and Southampton, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. Southampton will look to claim a third consecutive victory when they travel to The Valley for Saturday’s meeting with Charlton Athletic. Meanwhile, the Addicks will be hoping to return to winning ways after losing to Wrexham in their final outing before the international break.
Sonar's Take: Software Development Under America's AI Action Plan
The White House has officially launched “America's AI Action Plan,” designed to accelerate AI innovation across the country.
The Bradley Beal farewell showed us who we really are
I woke up the morning after Bradley Beal was bought out feeling real gratitude. I know that Phoenix Suns fans were waiting for the Big 3 era to officially end with a whimper, and that the stretched out process made it even more frustrating. When the news came down, it felt like we could finally move on from something that had been over for months, and for some of us, even longer. Advertisement We are left with a lot of questions of accountability.
Security Through Quality: Navigating the Latest Cybersecurity Executive Order
The cybersecurity landscape for federal agencies is in a perpetual state of evolution, driven by both escalating threats and shifting policy directives. The recent Executive Order from the Trump administration, while modifying some prior requirements, underscores a crucial truth: agencies still bear the unchanged responsibility of safeguarding mission and data.
No health without hygiene: The missing pillar of MAHA
OPINION: I am a supporter of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. However, the recent MAHA Commission report is a disappointment — but not for the reasons most critics are now harping on. A few weeks ago, the MAHA Commission released its much-ballyhooed report.
[monks data] League One Wembley Stadium Gillesphey (31') Jones (90+2') FT(HT: 1-0) Sports Mole previews Sunday's League One clash between Charlton Athletic and Leyton Orient, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. One victory away from the Championship, Charlton Athletic and Leyton Orient clash in the League One playoff final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The Missing Middle? General and Special Educators’ Views of Effective Mathematics Instruction
Thirty years following the “Math Wars,” one might question whether our country is anywhere closer to resolving the deep, underlying disagreements that divide researchers in education. Vestiges of the old debates about “reform-oriented” and “traditional” mathematics still show up in disagreements between mathematics educators in special education and general education (Schwartz, 2023).
Charlton Athletic 2025 summer transfers: Every confirmed signing and sale for Nathan Jones's side
Track all of Charlton's 2025 summer transfer activity, including confirmed signings, player departures, latest rumours and squad updates. After five seasons in League One, Charlton Athletic will be back in the Championship for the 2025-26 season following their playoff glory in Nathan Jones's first season at the helm. That being said, this is the weakest of the three promoted sides, at least on paper, so Jones will have to make more than a few additions to improve the squad during the summer.
Preview: Charlton Athletic vs. Leyton Orient - prediction, team news, lineups
[monks data] League One Wembley Stadium Sports Mole previews Sunday's League One clash between Charlton Athletic and Leyton Orient, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. One victory away from the Championship, Charlton Athletic and Leyton Orient clash in the League One playoff final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The Addicks squeezed past Wycombe Wanderers to make this showpiece match, whilst the O's were surprise victors over third-placed Stockport County.
Preview: Charlton Athletic vs. Burton Albion - prediction, team news, lineups
[monks data] League One | Gameweek 46 The Valley Sports Mole previews Saturday's League One clash between Charlton Athletic and Burton Albion, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. A final-day dead rubber in League One, Charlton Athletic and Burton Albion collide at The Valley in gameweek 46 on Saturday afternoon.
Setting the Stage for Branched-Chain Amino Acids Use in Neurological Pathologies: Does a Single Oral Dose Provide Hours of Elevated Systemic Levels?
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A Descriptive Portrait of the Paraeducator Workforce in Washington State
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda A Descriptive Portrait of the Paraeducator Workforce in Washington State Autores: Roddy J. Theobald, Lindsey Kaler, Elizabeth Bettini, Nathan D. Jones Localización: Exceptional children, ISSN-e 2163-5560, ISSN 0014-4029, Vol. 91, Nº. 2, 2025, págs.
Confirm Kennedy for Secretary of Health and Human Service
OPINION: President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will soon go before the Senate for confirmation. Setting aside the usual Washington intrigue, I consider that Mr. Kennedy will bring much-needed fresh air and innovative approaches to protecting America’s health. He should be confirmed. Mr. Kennedy’s intent to reduce our dependence on Big Pharma makes economic and health sense.
10/30: The Greenie Report
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The Tulane Hullabaloo
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AI Personalization for Tailored Experiences
Featured Articles Discover the future of ai personalization with tailored experiences. Explore more on our blog for insights and trends in personalized AI. AI-powered personalization is here, and it’s not just a trend—it’s transforming how businesses connect with customers. From hyper-personalized shopping recommendations to curated entertainment experiences, AI is redefining customer engagement.
This is the most important change for Australia in the decades ahead.
Federation Reform is needed. Australians need a better government. A past Prime Minister of Australia has said that in Australia, ’governments should be as big as necessary and as small as possible’. This is the key principle that forms most conservatives view on our system of government. We need change from the current model.
Chelsea Have Loan Destination Preference For Promising Midfielder
Chelsea want to loan out their teenage midfielder Leo Castledine to either one of the mid or lower-table Championship clubs or any strong club in League One, according to the BBC. The 18-year-old has been a regular for both Chelsea’s Under-18 and Under-23 teams and has also been a threatening presence in front of goal. In the 41 matches he has played for the Pensioners’ Under-18 team, Castledine has scored 17 goals and has also added 14 more in 36 appearances for their Under-23 side.
Surfacing Principals’ Beliefs About Instruction for Students With Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis
Surfacing Principals’ Beliefs About Instruction for Students With Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis Autores: Hannah Morris Mathews, Kristabel Stark, Nathan D. Jones, Courtney Ball Localización: Exceptional children, ISSN-e 2163-5560, ISSN 0014-4029, Vol. 90, Nº. 3, 2024, págs. 274-294 Idioma: inglés Enlaces Texto completo Resumen As instructional leaders, principals establish a vision of effective instruction in their schools and support that vision through evaluation and development efforts.
Does Abbott Elementary Get Teaching in an Inner-City Public School Right?
Folks in education policy and practice often obsess over whether pop-culture depictions of school life are accurate. But they aren’t, even when they try to be. How plausible is it, for example, that “Prez,” the hot-headed and impulsive rookie cop in HBO’s gritty drama The Wire, accidentally kills a fellow police officer during a botched undercover operation yet somehow still gets hired and finds redemption as a compassionate and dedicated Baltimore public school teacher?
Leeds United Keep Chris Armas Ahead Of Old Trafford Visit
The Whites have pulled the trigger on Marsch’s time as manager amid a series of poor results under the American and limited signs of progress. Many Leeds fans turned against Marsch and wanted him to leave, and the club have now granted them their wish. However, while Marsch has gone, along with Rene Maric, Cameron Toshack and Pierre Barrieu, Armas is still there. Leeds only recently brought the former Manchester United assistant in to work alongside Marsch.
Easier to hire from outside than promote from inside? What that means
If you think it’s been hard to find and hire new talent lately, then try doing it during a recession. No matter what you call what large employers have been going through lately—the labor shortage, wage shortage, the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle—managers know that skills gaps have not been easy to fill. The one bright side is that many businesses have had the budgets to attract and retain talent. But looming economic storm clouds threaten to blow away that hiring budget.
Exploiting the Distinctive Properties of the Bacterial and Human MutS Homolog Sliding Clamps on Mismatched DNA
The salt-dependent binding of EcMutS and HsMSH2-HsMSH6 to open- and blocked-end mismatched DNA was then examined by SPR at a single intermediate MSH concentration that corresponded to ∼80% saturation (Fig. 1; Table 1; Supporting Table S2; Experimental Procedures). We found that the apparent Kd for EcMutS decreased exponentially over a wide range NaCl concentrations (Fig.1A). These observations appeared qualitatively similar to previous studies ( 54 Blackwell L.J. Bjornson K.P. Allen D.J. Modrich P.
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?
For nearly 50 years, special education law has mandated that students with disabilities be served in the “least restrictive environment” possible. This often takes the form of an inclusive classroom, or a general education classroom where students with disabilities learn alongside their non-disabled peers. In some cases, inclusive classrooms are co-taught by a general education teacher and a special education teacher who share planning and instructional responsibilities.
Teacher burnout hits record high - 5 essential reads
Teachers in grades K through 12 are more burned out than workers in any other industry, according to a new Gallup poll that finds 44% of K-12 employees report “always” or “very often” feeling burned out at work. That number climbs to 52% when looking just at teachers.
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?
The Effect of Co-Teaching on Students With and Without Disabilities Nathan Jones, PhD* and Marcus A. Winters, PhD† Nathan Jones is an associate professor of special education at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Marcus A. Winters is an associate professor and chair of the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies department at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.
Simulations in STEM Teaching & Learning
Since our 2015 collection of resources on Games & Simulations, projects in the DRK-12 portfolio have continued to explore and advance our understanding of how simulations can transform and improve STEM teaching, learning, and assessment.
These Bored Apes Do Not Exist
TL;DR — I complain about NFTs, then attempt to train both a GAN and super-resolution model to generate Bored Apes that do not exist. You can check out all the generated images on thisboredapedoesnotexist.nathancooperjones.com. Friday, November 12th, 2021 started out as a normal day for me. Before starting my day at work, I decided to open Twitter to see if I missed anything since the night before. Then, it happened.
Teachers say working with students kept them motivated at the start of the pandemic
by: Nathan D. Jones, Boston University and Kristabel Stark, University of Maryland, AP The Conversation Posted: Oct 10, 2021 / 06:03 AM MDT / Updated: Oct 10, 2021 / 06:11 AM MDT FILE – In this Sept. 2, 2021, file photo, children sit in a classroom at school in Strasbourg, eastern France.
Teachers say working with students kept them motivated at the start of the pandemic
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Of all the things teachers do on the job, we found that teachers enjoy interacting with students the most – and that the positive feelings when working with students intensified once schools shifted to remote learning during the pandemic.
Teachers say working with students kept them motivated at the start of the pandemic
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Of all the things teachers do on the job, we found that teachers enjoy interacting with students the most—and that the positive feelings when working with students intensified once schools shifted to remote learning during the pandemic. This finding is based on a study that enabled us to examine how teachers felt about various aspects of their job before the COVID-19 school closures in the spring of 2020 and during the period immediately afterward.
Benefits and Limitations of Implementing Mental Health Apps Among the Working Population
Mental health conditions can have a large impact on both individual employees and organizations. Employers may be able to leverage wide spread mobile technology platforms to deliver mental health benefits to their employees. Indeed, there is a large inventory of mental health applications (apps) that have already been developed and disseminated to the public.
Do students with disabilities receive quality instruction in general education classrooms?
Students with disabilities (SWDs) are likely to spend the majority of their school day in the general education setting. But more likely than not, their teachers have only had a single course on how best to support this student population.
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by Nathan Jones & Peter Youngs - 2012 Background/Context: The increasing number of districts implementing mentoring and induction programs suggests that policymakers are aware of the need to increase the support available to new teachers. The argument underlying many of these programs is based, at least partly, on assumptions about beginning teachers’ emotional responses to their work.
"Strategic Implications of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación" by Nathan P. Jones
Volume 6, No. 3, Fall 2013 Supplement: Ninth Annual IAFIE Conference: Expanding the Frontiers of Intelligence Education Volume 4, No. 4, Winter 2011: Perspectives on Radicalization and Involvement in Terrorism Volume 4, No. 2, Summer 2011: Strategic Security in the Cyber Age
Policies That Define Instruction: A Systematic Review of States’ and Districts’ Recommendations for Evaluating Special Educators
Bell, C., Jones, N., Qi, Y., Lewis, J. (2018) Strategies for assessing classroom teaching: Examining administrator thinking as validity evidence, Educational Assessment, 23, 229–249. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2018.1513788 Google Scholar Billingsley, B., Bettini, E. (2019). Special education teacher attrition and retention: A review of the literature. Review of Educational Research, 89(5), 697–744. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654319862495 Google Scholar Brownell, M. T., Jones, N. D. (2015).
Know your function! Receiver gets hammered by Court for acting outside scope | Lexology
In the recent case of In the matter of Gondon Five Pty Limited and Cui Family Asset Management Pty Limited [2019] NSWSC 469, the New South Wales Supreme Court (Brereton J) considered the purpose and scope of an appointment as receiver to a company, and came down particularly hard on an insolvency practitioner for performing work and incurring expenses which were determined to be outside, or not incidental to, the scope of his appointment.
A snake who eats the devil’s tail: The recursivity of good and evil in the security state
Altheide, DL (2002) Creating Fear: News, and the Construction of Crisis. New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. Google Scholar Andreas, P (2009) Border Games: Policing the US-Mexico Divide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Google Scholar Anker, E (2014) The liberalism of horror. Social Research: An International Quarterly 81(4): 795–823. Google Scholar Aon Risk Solutions (AON) (2015) Terrorism and political violence risk map.
Part 2 of the Weekend at Swansea - Watch the British Men's League Joint Fixture online LIVE
Sunday 12th May sees the British Men's Athletics League return in 2019, and Swansea Harriers will host a two-division match in Swansea on the opening weekend. You'll be able to watch the action LIVE online thanks to Vinco Sport who will be coming down to West Wales. The first National Athletics League will take place this Sunday in Swansea, Wales and you'll be able to tune into the live stream of the event.
Partner in (fighting) crime: ACCC welcomes new alliance with FBI | Lexology
Australia, USA
May 8 2019 The ACCC has welcomed a new alliance with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as of April 2019. The ACCC announced on 15 April 2019 that the ACCC and FBI have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (the Memorandum) to facilitate increased information and resource sharing between agencies.
Viagogo faces the music: ticket reseller found guilty of breaching the ACL by engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct | Lexology
In a recent decision of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v viagogo AG [2019] FCA 544, the Federal Court of Australia has found that online ticket reseller Viagogo had engaged in four misrepresentations that were misleading or were likely to mislead consumers, and that they were in breach of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL).
Carmarthen Mayor's Races 2019 Coverage: Strong Displays by Carmarthen Harriers juniors and seniors at popular Local Bank Holiday Fun Run
The town of Carmarthen in West Wales again welcomed almost 800 young and senior runners of all ages and abilities to the 38th running of the Carmarthen Mayor's Races earlier today on Bank Holiday May Day (Monday 6th May). FULL REPORT, RESULTS, MEDIA & PHOTOS The 38th running of the Carmarthen Mayor's Races was held earlier today (Monday) and it gave the opportunity for the whole family to get involved.
32nd Trap Show Charity Fun Run is Back on May 12th
Ospreys full back, Dan Evans will start the event which has become one of the most popular dates on Carmarthenshire's sporting calendar. It has regularly attracted running from all over South and West Wales, including over the years, names of note such as Welsh, British and Commonwealth athletes. Course holder Dewi Griffiths from Llanfynydd has been one of them along with Andres Jones of Aberaeron, Steve Bridgend from Bridgend and Swansea Harriers' Joshua Griffiths.
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