Children's everyday lives are shaped by shifting rhythms of movement, suspension, and retrospection through which time becomes lived, imagined, and meaningful. This article brings together interdisciplinary and international perspectives, with members of a collective reflecting on temporality in children's lives. Across a prologue and nine reflective pieces developed through prolonged dialogue, the article explores time in children's diverse everyday contexts - including home, school, public, digital, and natural environments - in Canada, Czechia, Finland, and the USA. By applying a temporal lens to projects spanning literacy, ecology, placemaking, and media, the collection conceptualises time as non-linear, plural, situational, and relational. This perspective on time and childhood enables a closer understanding of how children's experiences unfold within tensions between progress-oriented social expectations, ecological timeframes, and their own ways of being and learning. It also highlights the importance of slow and stretched temporalities for creative, reflective, playful, and imaginative practices. By foregrounding dialogue and deep listening, the article promotes responsive and empathetic approaches to research with children. Developed through collaborative practices grounded in an ethics of care, it also manifests slow childhood scholarship.

Health and biomedical science-related academic societies have played significant roles in the development and evolution of science and medicine, as well as the evolution of disciplines, including the diversification of medicine into specialties and subspecialties. They have also had formative roles in the development of clinical practice, professionalism, and training standards. The communities they establish promote knowledge creation and dissemination, provide career and professional development opportunities, articulate professional matters, offer networking opportunities, provide recognition, support members, and perform public engagement and advocacy work. They also play increasingly important roles in educating the public and disseminating objective, evidence-based medical and scientific information. Academic societies face challenges related to membership (recruiting new members and engaging and retaining current members), technology, hosting meetings and conferences, generational shifts (e.g., in demographics and attitudes toward working conditions, career paths, work-life integration), costs and logistics related to operations, and morale within institutions and professions. The Council of Faculty and Academic Societies of the Association of American Medical Colleges plays a unique role in supporting academic medical and related societies by providing an interprofessional forum for their interaction and dialogue, and is a vehicle for asserting their collective voice. To the extent that past is prologue, future advances in health care and science will depend, in part, on the resilience of academic societies and on the health professional workforces that they nourish.

The purpose of this special issue is to showcase current research on language abilities in persons with dyslexia. Although dyslexia is most often defined as a word-level reading and spelling disorder rooted in phonology, a large and growing body of evidence shows that the language difficulties of dyslexia extend well beyond phonology and are too often overlooked in research and practice. The articles in this issue (a) examine how broader oral language has and has not been accounted for in dyslexia research and policy, (b) characterize the language profiles of children with dyslexia with and without co-occurring developmental language disorder (DLD), (c) trace early language markers and subtypes that precede and predict reading difficulty, and (d) consider practical tools for detecting language vulnerability and for tailoring intervention to it within populations with reading and language difficulty. Read together, these contributions converge on a single message: dyslexia is best understood as a language learning disability, and assessment and instruction that ignore broader oral language risk leaving the needs of many children unmet. Universal screening, evaluation, and intervention for children with or at risk for dyslexia should routinely include measures of and stimulation for all components of oral language.

The Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) 2025 annual meeting was held from July 10 to 12, 2025, in Bogotá, Colombia. It was attended by 206 rheumatologists, dermatologists, trainees, patient research partners, representatives of patient organizations, industry partners, and others. Here we provide an overview of the workshops and symposia featured at the GRAPPA 2025 annual meeting and introduce the manuscripts published together in this supplement as a meeting report.

Nonessential, supernumerary B chromosomes have been an intriguing anomaly known to researchers for over a century. B chromosomes were first identified in insects and have since been discovered in hundreds of species across many different taxa. Their prevalence has made it difficult to strictly define the nature of a B chromosome due to the variety of sizes, genetic compositions, and segregation behaviors; however, with modern molecular technologies, the impact, origin, and evolutionary trajectory of these B chromosomes are coming into focus. In this review, we consolidate what is currently known about B chromosomes, including their life cycle and evolutionary trajectory, the impact of B chromosomes on their host, and how B chromosomes are transmitted to the next generation. We highlight several prominent B chromosome model systems that have led to significant advances in B chromosome biology, serving as a prologue for the exciting future of the B chromosome field and its many unknowns.

As noted in this Guest Editors' Introduction, there was a vibrant surge in the 1980s and 1990s of scholarly work on violence against women (VAW) in sports-related contexts (SRC), but this wave receded over the past two decades and eventually disappeared. Recently, however, a small but growing international cadre of researchers is revisiting this major social problem. This prologue provides a brief overview of the current state of social scientific knowledge about VAW in SRC. Much more work is needed, and hopefully, this special issue will influence more scholars to develop a richer interdisciplinary understanding of the abuse of women in SRC.