This is the beauty and wonder that we are being told has no value—or is even antithetical to American values.
Well they're wrong, as anyone can see if they simply take a moment to imagine, truly imagine, what superpowers science gives us to see into worlds where we could otherwise never tread.
Developing Systems Lab PI @jeremyborjon.com and Postdoc extraordinaire @valeriebambha.bsky.social had a blast meeting new colleagues and presenting exciting new data on the physiology of early infant behavior at #PuG2026 in Heidelberg, Germany!
Thank you to EnvisionBOX (@wimpouw.bsky.social, @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, and @sarkadava.bsky.social) for hosting an excellent summer school in Amsterdam on computer vision and advanced multimodal techniques. We learned a lot and had a great time!
Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The global fMRI signal is a substantial component of the arousal response governed by the autonomic nervous system."
In an age of triumphant managerialism, we must remember that giving researchers support, autonomy, and freedom results in miraculous things. Another point is that the government required AT&T to invest in basic research to avoid being treated as a monopoly. 1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-l...
Amazing work by @tomalski.bsky.social and team! Very happy to see this out. Independent replication of earlier work from the lab AND an extension to younger months. Very exciting!
Prof. @jeremyborjon.com and Manash are in Berlin at the @mps-cognition.bsky.social’s 13th MindBrainBody Symposium presenting a poster on some exciting preliminary data from the lab!
Now hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Come join our new Clinical Research Center for Developmental Language Disorder at the University of Houston! Reach out if you have any questions.
Proud to be one of many incredible investigators in this new Clinical Research Center on Developmental Language Disorders. We will follow 3,600 toddlers to better understand how language skills emerge and why some children experience delays.
Keep your eyes peeled. We'll be hiring soon! 👀
Another wonderful lab dinner in the books and a big welcome to our new graduate student Laura!
Department: Psychology
Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description:
Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge in area of specialization. Develops understanding ...
University of Houston researchers will follow thousands of Houston toddlers to better understand how language develops in early childhood and why some children experience speech delays.
www.uh.edu
The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.
Some of you have never sat at the bottom of the Cayman Trench watching a species whom no human has ever seen before or since swimming by and it shows.
youtu.be/UEdfrar1dLU?...
New paper alert from BabylabPAN
Spontaneous speech-like vocalisations of infants are coupled with increased arm and leg movements. Across most of the first year (4-12 mo) the onset of a vocalisation is coupled with a brief limb movements. A🧵below
OA text: rdcu.be/eWOko
Funding @ncn.gov.pl
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YouTube video by Andrew Thaler
Scientific Reports - Vocalisations are coupled with movement of all limbs throughout infancy
