Great piece by the venerable Jack Szostak👇

😮🇭🇺🗳️ THIS IS MASSIVE. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout hit 74.23% by 5pm (62.92% at this point in 2022; final: 70.21%). Opposition stronghold Budapest is at 77.18%, big cities 75.55%. Final turnout is set to exceed 80% – unprecedented. Polls close at 7pm CET.

Orban has lost. What a great day! (Unlike some sundowning clowns we know, he has admitted he lost, too.)

Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

BREAKING: Orbán defeated in Hungary after 16 years in power

Please stop by our posters and say hi at CDS 2026 in Montreal! #CognitivePsychology #DevelopmentalPsychology #DevPsyc

So grateful to have my first first-author publication out in Developmental Science! Here we (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social @erikblaser.bsky.social) used our Shopping Game to ask whether kids use all of their memory capacity if they don't have to (they don't! 🤭) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

The Developmental and Brain Sciences program at UMass Boston is looking for a half-time Program Coordinator. This colleague will be working directly with me (the Director of the program). Feel free to DM me with any questions! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

The Developmental and Brain Sciences program at UMass Boston is looking for a half-time Program Coordinator. This colleague would be working directly with me (the Director of the program). Feel free to DM me with any questions! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

Old, but still good Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’ — theonion.com/pretty-cute-...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

I was curious about the fact that there were seemingly no women scientists mentioned, even of equivalent caliber, and came across what is, seemingly, beef between Epstein and Brockman debating whether "the women are all weak" or not

Political data roundup for the last week: Democrats hit historic high in Fox News Poll as GOP loses ground on key issues www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

I'm attending Activist Evenings Brookline's event, “Postcarding to Michigan and updates from Force Multiplier” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe...

‼️Viktor Orbán’s already bad reelection chances just got worse after rumored successor János Lázár said Hungary’s Roma minority (~5–10%) should clean “shitty toilets” on trains since there are no migrants left to do such low-level jobs. Uproar in the mostly pro-Orbán Roma community is huge.

This extraordinary photo captures federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant into his face. It runs on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @startribune.com. It reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s.

ALERT: Congress may flat-fund science, but Vought, Bhattacharya, Memoli & RFK still have a bag of dirty tricks: impoundment, multi-year funding, termination of programs, appointment of cronies to leadership, changes in scientific review to ratfuck research in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Santa Fe is doing a walking vigil around the Roundhouse, Saturday from 2-4. 🚫👑💙🇺🇸 www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

#tdih 1966 Vernon Dahmer killed when home (family inside) was firebombed by KKK. 💔 Day before, he'd offered to pay poll tax for anyone who couldn't afford to register to vote. #Terrorism This was year after '65 VRA, still poll tax in local Miss. elections.🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3

The NEW LIST OF PROHIBITED TERMS . . . www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n... #AcademicSky #BlackSky #8647

“One of the world’s largest academic publishers is selling a book on the ethics of AI intelligence research that appears to be riddled with fake citations, including references to journals that do not exist.” www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a... #AI #academicsky #publishing

In case you know someone who should read this: I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I'm Actually a Really Good Person www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds. wrd.cm/49u9pdF

New on the Baby Blog - Could a toddler lose their keys? Proactive interference says yes by @ckoolh.bsky.social, Zane Mourad and @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social infantstudies.org/title-could-... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #memory

I got a similar message. My study section is being rescheduled for 2 partial days in January. Only 1/3 of grants will be discussed.

HAPPY PHILOSO-WEEN 🎃👻 #philsky #academicsky #edusky ALT TEXT...

Join APS on November 5 for a free workshop on science writing and storytelling. Learn tips for engaging and accessible science communication and make sure to bring your questions! #SciComm #AcademicSky https://instats.org/seminar/science-writing-and-storytelling

Have a student considering applying to Lehigh for graduate school? The CAS application fee is waived (!!!) if they submit their application between Nov 3rd and Nov 8th or between Dec 1st and Dec 6th! If they have questions, please direct them to email [email protected]! #psychologyphd #gradschool

We are getting ready for the Rutgers Symposium on Learning IV on November 9th!! See the amazing lineup of speakers and webinar info here: sites.rutgers.edu/symposium-le... In person last-minute walk-ins available 😉

I'm attending “Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings?” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25 www.umb.edu/academics/pr... #devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky

If you read this 2018 Paris Review interview with the Hungarian author, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature today, you will want to read his books teogrigoriadis.blogspot.com/2018/06/lasz...

Have you ever wondered whether going to school IN AND OF ITSELF improves children’s thinking skills? We found that it does! But not by much (about 1/4 standard deviations). Meta-analysis with Jamie Donenfeld and @erikblaser.bsky.social #DevPsySky #PsySciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June. It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map. We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

💰🦓 Viktor Orbán’s €30M Hatvanpuszta family dacha (ex-Habsburg estate) with zebras and antelopes around is now global news (New York Post etc.) after dominating 🇭🇺 media all summer. The world can see how “pro-family conservatism” simply masks classic post-Soviet kleptocracy. 🎥 by @telexhu.bsky.social

Children’s reasoning about possible outcomes of events in the present and the future 📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

Some universities think they can buy protection