June 21, 2018This morning, staffers at The Appeal a nonprofit news site focused primarily on issues of criminal justice made the sort of announcement that’s become remarkably commonplace over the past couple of years: They were forming a union. And honestly, these days, that move is as much about a tweet as a filing with the NLRB.
We ask @theappeal to voluntarily recognize our union so that we can get to work on improving The Appeal’s workplace culture and conditions.
We are unionizing to make this a high democracy workplace. pic.twitter.com/uRh4Q1o4hw
With a union, workers and management can turn a corner together, rectify working conditions, and produce more powerful and mission-driven journalism.
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IMAGE: Studying embryonic development in mice and monkeys, researchers led by Kotaro Sasaki of Penn Vet discovered that a layer of cells known as the posterior intermediate mesoderm (far left) gives. view more
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Early in human development, during the first trimester of gestation, a fetus may have XX or XY chromosomes that indicate its sex. Yet at this stage a mass of cells known as the bipotential gonad that ultimately develops into either ovaries or testes has yet to commit to its final destiny.
While researchers had studied the steps that go into the later stages of this process, little has been known about the precursors of the bipotential gonad. In a new study published in