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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The moment-to-moment speed of alpha and beta brain waves sculps perception via predictive coding. Alpha and Beta Frequency Modulations in Motion Prediction Reveal Mechanisms of Predictive Coding in Perception. doi.org/10.1162/jocn... #neuroscience

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Alpha and Beta Frequency Modulations in Motion Prediction Reveal Mechanisms of Predictive Coding in Perception

Abstract. Perception is an active process guided by prior knowledge and expectations, allowing the brain to optimize sensory processing and reduce uncertainty. Although modulations in alpha (7–13 Hz) ...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It is beyond the time point where people can claim ignorance of Musk’s behaviors. Anyone who uses his products, purchases anything from him is making a moral or ethical decision on where they stand on issues of neo Nazism, racism and fascism.

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Still got places for our Sep 25th event on socio-communicative development in neurodivergent infants - register for free here: forms.gle/8AzxPeiYX5xi...

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A strong recommendation 👇🏻 German Research Foundation @dfg.de describes the MAGA/AfD threat to science, and how one may prepare the defenses. Both the quiet and the loud ones. (Not specific to Germany and available in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.)

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses

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When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.

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BOLD @boldinsights.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

📖How do children learn to read? "Even when children within a classroom receive the same reading instruction... they learn at different paces." Iliana Karipidis, Simon Rammerstorfer & Silvia Brem explain that reading develops at different paces for different children. boldscience.org/how-do-child...

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How do children learn to read?

Reading develops at different paces for different children

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And a quick visual roundup of BabylabPAN’s talks by @agata-koziol.bsky.social and posters by @itziarlozano.bsky.social Joanna Duda-Goławska and Maria Garcia Marin at the last @infantstudies.bsky.social ICIS2026. All posters for download here babylab.edu.pl/osiagniecia/...

Pictures of posters and their presenters

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Function is not tied to specific brain structures or time scales. The brain is not just a set of parts that each “do their own job”. Instead, networks are multifunctional and active across different speeds simultaneously. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience

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Shared spatial and temporal principles govern connectome dynamics across timescales | PNAS

While the brain processes information at various speeds, little is known about how the functional connectome can concurrently support multiple spee...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Video: How Your Brain Beats AI on the Energy of a Light Bulb Earl K. Miller Neuroscience of Democracy Symposium May 19, 2026 MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory youtu.be/uC8QlVgNIac #neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social

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How Your Brain Beats AI on the Energy of a Light Bulb - Earl K. Miller

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Last day @infantstudies.bsky.social ICIS2026. Our posters: P3-1. M. Garcia Marin Indep sitting attainment is assoc with longer, but not more frequent, speech-like vocs P3-39. I. Lozano Lang exp as a driver of eyes and mouth-looking patterns to talking faces in bilingual toddlers

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Developing Systems Laboratory @borjonlab.com · 07/07/2026

The Developing Systems Lab is at #ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social in Panama! Find us at our presentation and posters to learn about our latest work. @jeremyborjon.com @valeriebambha.bsky.social

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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.

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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

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A Clinically Relevant Threshold of Impaired Contrast Sensitivity Among Older US Adults

This cohort study aims to identify a contrast sensitivity threshold associated with functional visual disability among Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older in the US.

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January Weiner @january3.github.io · 16/06/2026

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.

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joshuakdubrow.bsky.social @joshuakdubrow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"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...

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Russian man shot dead in Poland reportedly a Putin critic

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026

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/...

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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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

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Merideth Gattis @meridethgattis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Merideth Gattis @meridethgattis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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

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Knowledge of development as a foundation for attuned parenting

YouTube video by Cardiff University Psychology

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joshuakdubrow.bsky.social @joshuakdubrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"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...

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Polish academics protest underfunding of science and higher education

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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...

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Poland’s economy is thriving, but its science is dying

Letter to the Editor

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Forum Akademickie @forumakademickie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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

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Computational neural dynamics of goal-directed visual attention in macaques

Large-scale brain activity patterns coordinate goals, perception, and memory to guide efficient visual search.

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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.

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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

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Polska Akademia Nauk @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

⚠️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...

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Nauka w cieniu obronności. Tak wygląda budżet państwa

Polska nauka stoi przed widmem stagnacji, podczas gdy wydatki na obronność osiągają rekordowe 4,81 proc. PKB. W 2026 r. nakłady na badania i rozwój wyniosą 44,4 mld zł, co ledwie pokrywa inflację. Ten...

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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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...

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YouTube Viewing and Content Quality in Toddlers

YouTube is the most popular video-sharing platform for young children and is largely characterized by low content quality. This study examined associations between YouTube viewing in toddlers, family....

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 09/04/2026

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

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#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

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Rozwój małego dziecka – przez co przeszliśmy jako niemowlaki? | prof. Przemysław Tomalski

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/04/2026

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

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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.

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Viktor Orbán concedes defeat as opposition wins Hungarian election

Win for Tisza party ends rightwing populist’s 16-year grip on power and will likely reshape country’s relationship with EU

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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Building growth charts of infant visual neurodevelopment across global contexts by Emma T. Margolis, Chris C. Camp, Dustin Scheinost, and Laurel J. Gabard-Durnam against an image background of an infant lying in a supine position reading a book

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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.

Woman with sunglasses smiling in front of the US Capitol.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Come work with us, answering interesting questions in new ways

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