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Mateusz Kostecki

@mtkostecki.bsky.social

Postdoc at Jekely Lab, Uni Heidelberg The founder of Nencki Open Lab Project brainsbooks.substack.com

Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

On this graph we also see that animals spend less time close to bright shapes less when "Kikki" goes on repeat from a speaker, suggesting that this sound indeed is for some reason stressful for them. Mystery solved? Or am I missing something?

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Here we can see that this "innate" preference is visible when sound "Bubba" is playing in the background, but disappears when the sound is "Kikki". 3/4

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Here they mention that in a control group chicks preferred round shapes. 2/4

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Am I right that this paper just shows that 1) chicks have a basic preference for round shapes, 2) this preference disappears when a stress-evoking sound is being played in the background? 1/4

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What irritates me a lot in Cobbs' biography of Crick is that every time any appaling views of him are mentioned, we are spoon-fed an assurance that it was TYPICAL OF THE ERA, this paragraph being probably the most absurd case.

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Join us on the first edition of our Walking Book Club in Heidelberg! We meet on Saturday, Jan 31st at 11 AM to talk about The Party, a book by Tessa Hadley, @ powerful story about attention, power and sisterhood!

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Oh, I have been to so many of those lectures. (To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong).

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

VERY HARD TO PROVE AND YET WE MARCH ON

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Mateusz Kostecki @mtkostecki.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Yes, contrary to what many people would tell you, the whole is simpler than its parts. (biography of American chemist Willard Gibbs by Muriel Rukeyser, published by @mcnallyeditions.com)