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This article presents a thematic analysis of 100 articles which appeared in ‘SW2020 under COVID-19’ online magazine, authored by people with lived experience, practitioners, students and academics. The magazine was founded by an editorial collective of the authors of this article and ran as a free online magazine during the period of the first UK COVID-19 lockdown period (March–July 2020). It contained a far higher proportion of submissions from the first three groups of contributors, above, than traditional journals. The analysis is organised under four analytic themes: ‘Hidden populations; Life, loss and hope; Practising differently and Policy and system change’. The article concludes by describing the apparent divergence between accounts that primarily suggest evidence of improved working relationships between social workers and those they serve via digital practices, and accounts suggesting that an increasingly authoritarian social work practice has emerged under COVID-19. We argue that, notwithstanding this divergence, an upsurge in activism within social work internationally during the pandemic provides a basis for believing that the emergence of a community-situated, socially engaged social work is possible post-pandemic.

We identify the broker each corporate insider trades through, and find that analysts and mutual fund managers affiliated with such “inside brokers” have a substantial information advantage on the insider’s firm. Affiliated analysts issue more accurate earnings forecasts, and affiliated mutual funds trade the insider’s stock more profitably than their peers, following insider trades through their brokerage. Notably, this advantage persists well after these insider trades are publicly disclosed. Our results challenge the prevalent perception that information asymmetry arising from insider trading is acute only before trade disclosure, and suggest that brokers facilitating these trades are in a position to exploit this asymmetry.

The lone granodiorite-hosted gold deposit at Dona sector of Jonnagiri, eastern Dharwar craton, India, contains typical shear-hosted and vein-hosted alteration zones. Pyrite is the dominant sulphide mineral in these alteration zones. Texturally three varieties of pyrites were identified in these alteration zones: early pyrite-I is coarse to medium grained and subhedral shaped and contains near margin-parallel silicate inclusions, main (ore)-stage pyrite-II overgrows early pyrite-I and also occurs as discrete grains invariably associated with visible gold, and late-stage pyrite-III is anhedral and coarse grained and contains randomly oriented inclusions of silicates, sulphides, and native gold grains. Electron microprobe analysis, with X-ray element mapping and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, reveals the trace element compositions in the three varieties of pyrite. A positive correlation of Au with Pb, Sb, Bi, and Te confirms the presence of nanoinclusions of mineral phases such as nagyagite, Pb-Sb-Bi tellurides, Au-Ag tellurides, tellurosulphides, and sulphosalts within pyrites, particularly in the vein-hosted zone. Based on evidence, a paragenetic sequence is proposed for pyrite formation at Dona, Jonnagiri. Changing fluid compositions caused by episodic fault-valve actions and associated boiling resulted in dissolution-reprecipitation of early formed pyrites and remobilisation of trace elements. This further resulted in precipitation of the bulk of gold within the inner vein-hosted zone during the later Sh2 shearing event. At the culmination of shearing, late-stage pyrite-IIIb precipitation occurs with very low concentrations of all trace elements, including gold., The lone granodiorite-hosted gold deposit at Dona sector of Jonnagiri, eastern Dharwar craton, India, contains typical shear-hosted and vein-hosted alteration zones. Pyrite is the dominant sulphide mineral in these alteration zones. Texturally three varieties of pyrites were identified in these alteration zones: early pyrite-I is coarse to medium grained and subhedral shaped and contains near margin-parallel silicate inclusions, main (ore)-stage pyrite-II overgrows early pyrite-I and also occurs as discrete grains invariably associated with visible gold, and late-stage pyrite-III is anhedral and coarse grained and contains randomly oriented inclusions of silicates, sulphides, and native gold grains. Electron microprobe analysis, with X-ray element mapping and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, reveals the trace element compositions in the three varieties of pyrite. A positive correlation of Au with Pb, Sb, Bi, and Te confirms the presence of nanoinclusions of mineral phases such as nagyagite, Pb-Sb-Bi tellurides, Au-Ag tellurides, tellurosulphides, and sulphosalts within pyrites, particularly in the vein-hosted zone. Based on evidence, a paragenetic sequence is proposed for pyrite formation at Dona, Jonnagiri. Changing fluid compositions caused by episodic fault-valve actions and associated boiling resulted in dissolution-reprecipitation of early formed pyrites and remobilisation of trace elements. This further resulted in precipitation of the bulk of gold within the inner vein-hosted zone during the later Sh2 shearing event. At the culmination of shearing, late-stage pyrite-IIIb precipitation occurs with very low concentrations of all trace elements, including gold.