Climate change and primates. Social media jihadists. Online porn. Miserable on the job.

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• Numerous media report on a recent Concordia study of the impact of climate change on primate populations. The paper's lead author, MSc student Tanya Graham (Geography, Planning and Environment), worked with Damon Matthews, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, and with McGill primatology post-doctoral researcher Sarah Turner to assess the exposure and potential vulnerability of more than 400 non-human primate species to projected future temperature and precipitation changes: Science Daily, Science Codex, Phys.org, Sify News, The Financial Express, Business Standard, Canada Standard, Shafaqna, The Hans India, India Today, New Kerala, Deccan Chronicle,CanIndia, First Post, Wire Service, NewsWise, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), Noodls, 4-Traders, WN.com, Breaking News Point, Tell Me Boss, Latest News 360. Damon Matthews appeared on CBC Radio Montreal's 'Homerun' yesterday (no link available) to talk about the study, published in the International Journal of Primatology.
• Kyle Matthews explains his research into the use by ISIS of social media to recruit jihadists. The piece, in LaPresse.ca, focuses on the shooting death in an RCMP police operation near London, Ontario, of an alleged ISIS convert.
• An article in The Washington Times about addiction to online pornography references a study conducted by Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology, and UCLA researcher Nicole Prause, challenging claims of a correlation between erectile dysfunction and consumption of internet pornography.
• Portal CBN (in Indonesian) writes about Concordia research from 2012 led by Alexandra Panaccio, associate professor in the Department of Management, into the impact on a person's health of working in a job or for an employer not to their liking. (Note that the article mistakenly identifies Panaccio as "Alexander"). The study, from 2012, was published in the journalHuman Relations.

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