Review of CH Waddington's influence on developmental biology and evo-devo: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... includes supp info with his 50th birthday songs!

Adam Rutherford says that maybe every vapid brainfart that these boykings utter in an attempt to either boost their egos or share price is not actually news worth reporting.

Contrast sensitivity is a critical but underused measure of vision, linked to falls and loss of independence in older adults. Using @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social, Shu Yu et al identify a threshold where older adults begin experiencing visual disability—a benchmark for interpreting measures. myumi.ch/NXM3G

Semyon Skrepetsky was an artist known for political paintings and happenings ridiculing putin and russian establishment. He was shot yesterday in Poland by "unknown" perpetrators who traveled there from Belarus. Read the alt text for explanations.

"On Monday morning, police in Biała Podlaska, a town of 55,000 in eastern Poland near the border with Belarus, received reports of a man being shot on a street near the city centre." notesfrompoland.com/2026/06/15/r...

Good point re social media bans for children: we are unable to properly regulate them or addictive algorithms so we tens to opt for seemingly “easy” but extreme option of total social media ban for children. Are we really unable to force BigTech to accept tougher regulation?

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

@infantstudies.bsky.social new paper in Infancy

New paper alert! doi.org/10.1111/infa... Object Identifier (DOI) Our BabylabPAN & @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social asked how do 9 mo infants interact with objects during lab-based play with their caregivers when no one places them in predefined body positions or hands them objects to manipulate? 1/2

You can read our related paper on knowledge of development during the transition to parenthood in the International Journal of Behavioral Development here @issbd.bsky.social @parentinfantfdn.bsky.social #IMHAW2026 #infantstudies #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's Infant Mental Health Awareness Week & the theme is attunement! I had a wonderful chat with Dr Liz Gregory from @parentinfantfdn.bsky.social about knowledge of development as a foundation for attuned parenting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yI4... #IMHAW2026 #infantstudies #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky

If we give the Ukrainians Patriots and sanction Russian energy the war is over. In other words, US policy at present is to keep the war going. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"According to OECD data, Poland spent 1.4% of GDP on research and development in 2024, among the lowest levels in the organisation, compared with an OECD average of 2.7% and an EU average of 2.1%." notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/27/p...

While there’s been plenty of attention on cuts in the US, a much less discussed issue is large economies where lawmakers dont appreciate the role of science in economic growth. Poland saw yesterday the biggest street protest of scientists in decades www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Idziemy pod Sejm, a nie pod siedzibę ministerstwa, bo chodzi tu o całą klasę polityczną. Działania, o które zabiegamy, muszą być podejmowane przez rząd. Nie da się tego załatwić jednym rozporządzeniem – mówi dzień przed protestem Adam Gendźwiłł, socjolog z UW forumakademickie.pl/nauka-decyde...

Neither Trump nor Putin has cards, writes @edwardluce.bsky.social giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Visual attention relies on coordinated activity across brain areas. Computational neural dynamics of goal-directed visual attention in macaques doi.org/10.1126/scia... #neuroscience

A huge issue! Many non-English populations got left behind with LLMs and this will only multiply disparities in access to research, health and education innovations between the Eng-speaking world and non-Eng countries. We really need the UN and every international body to start addressing this.

Niech to będzie lekcja dla @ministerstwonauki.bsky.social i @donald-tusk.bsky.social ze brak inwestycji w nauke moze zmienic sciezke rozwoju kraju w ciagu kilku lat. Czemu @kpkobywatelska.bsky.social zapomniala o sukcesach reform min. Kudryckiej i uznala ze chcemy byc montownia? #3procentnanauke

This month is William’s Syndrome awareness month! ❤️💙 Be sure to check out the brilliant work that organisations such as William’s Syndrome Foundation UK do to fundraise and raise awareness for the condition. #williamssyndromeawarenessmonth #williamssyndrome #shareyourheart

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

⚠️Bez laboratoriów, zespołów badawczych i stabilnego finansowania trudno mówić o technologicznej suwerenności. 3% PKB na naukę to nie dekoracja strategii. To decyzja o przyszłości. 🔗Więcej: 3procentnanauke.pl 🔗prof. Dariusz Jemielniak dla Portal zero: zero.pl/news/trzy-pr...

Woods et al. (2026): YouTube-watching tots had higher daily screen time, more likely lower SES; many attn-grabbing videos (bedazzled w/ extra light/sound effects, branded items or vicarious pleasure), only 17% educational (Sesame Street, PBS Kids, Ms Rachel) #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Now published! We studied the relationship between movement and sound in the singing Siamang, by multi-source acoustic-kinematic tracking two juvenile individuals from Jaderpark Tierpark Germany. escholarship.org/content/qt10... @mouniakehy @marcogamba.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

#RadioNaukowe w najnowszym odcinku o badaniach #BabylabPAN - o dramatycznych zmianach ciała, nauce jego wykorzystywania i jak to wszystko ma się do poczatkow rozwoju mowy u niemowląt? Całość tutaj: youtu.be/6x7FZq68ZPk?... @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social

The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment See MOOCs, and now AI Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain — a Perspective by Lisa Feldman Barrett & Earl K. Miller @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @earlkmiller.bsky.social #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Four years ago, Orbán gloated that his election victory was so big that it could be seen even from Brussels. Today's defeat is such that it can be seen even from Washington and Moscow.

New on the Baby Blog: Building growth charts of infant visual neurodevelopment across global contexts by @emma-margolis.bsky.social @chrisclaycamp.bsky.social @dscheinost.bsky.social & @laurelgd.bsky.social infantstudies.org/building-gro... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky

At the Capitol again today trying to make inroads on the disastrous plans to kill social science at the NSF. Your turn. Call your reps. Tell them Congress must act to preserve funding for SBE. Seriously. Today.

Background: Orbán is an entrenched but wildly unpopular oligarch and authoritarian. He is facing an election that he will decisively lose — unless he can manage some trick. This obvious false flag (which he will now blame on Ukraine) should not fool anyone. (1/2)

Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin.

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The whole Iran war is looking more and more like a gimmick to drop energy sanctions on Russia and pressure Europeans to do the same. A war to make Russia’s much larger war easier and possible to sustain.

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Hey trans folk! We see you, this Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 If you’ve ever felt you need to hide or disguise part of yourself (maybe on days that are not 31st March) this survey might be for you. Also if you’ve never felt that need!

Heritability is a statistical description of sources of trait variation in a specific set of people under a specific set of environmental conditions. It doesn’t show how malleable the trait is, doesn't index an underlying feature of human biology, & can’t say anything about you as an individual.

How do #prenatal & #postnatal periods shape the developing human #cortex? This study uses #neonatal MRI to show that time in the womb drives widespread, uniform maturation, whereas time after birth produces more region- & depth-specific changes across the cortex @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47o6rpk

“50k patients have written formal complaints to their hospitals & the BMA is telling members to explore ways around using Palantir…the Home Office border control, police forces across the country & current or future UK governments could use NHS data for other purposes” www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Uh-oh, this is big. It turns out you can extract verbatim passages from copyrighted books from LLMs if you finetune them (about 50% of a book, passages of up to ~500 words). This shows that 1) pirated books were used for training and 2) the data is somehow still encoded in the LLM

Happy World Down Syndrome Day from Cardiff Babylab! 💛 This year's theme is 'Together Against Loneliness' - check out our YouTube video that brings this message to life! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlOu... #WorldDownSyndromeDay #TogetherAgainstLoneliness

A nice summary on why "race" (as in, "black", "caucasian" etc.) is biologically, genetically not a thing. Repeat: human "races" do not exist in biology and do not reflect the genetic background of an individual.

Eksperci Uniwersytetu Medycznego we Wrocławiu przygotowali kompleksową publikację na potrzeby edukacji zdrowotnej. Łączy ona aktualną wiedzę medyczną, psychologiczną i społeczną z potrzebami edukacji. www.edunews.pl/edukacja-na-... #edukacjazdrowotna #podręczniki #zdrowie #nauczyciele #nauczanie

Trump lies "about American support for Ukraine,which he repeatedly describes as worth $300 billion or more.The real number is closer to $50 billion,over 3 years.At current rates,Trump will spend that much in 3 months in the Middle East,in the course of starting a war rather than trying to stop one"

War in the Middle East could bring Putin up to $250 billion if it drags on until September, Der Spiegel reports. For comparison, Ukraine has received around $100 billion in financial and military aid from partners throughout the war.

The US is attacking Iran. Russia is helping Iran target US forces. For all we know Russia is co-responsible for the deaths of US soldiers. And yet Trump has made Russia the main winner of the war thus far by lifting oil sanctions. I can’t think of anything like this.

Registration is now OPEN for the XXV #ICIS2026! infantstudies.org/registration/ At ICIS 2026 in Panama City, we will explore “Infancy in Context,” highlighting how cultural, social, environmental, and methodological contexts shape early development.

TL;DR: Languages ​​look the way they do because our brains find them easier to handle that way.