There were some new developments in astronomical and cosmological physics.
The James Webb Space Telescope detected fully formed galaxies much closer in time to the Big Bang than had been expected. But this was actually predicted in a 1997 MOND paper by Bob Sanders, "Cosmology with Modified Newtonian Dynamics". Stacy McGaugh remarks that he also
correctly anticipated the size of the largest structures collapsing today (things like the local supercluster Laniakea) and the scale of homogeneity (a few hundred Mpc if there is a cosmological constant)
"Aether scalar tensor theory" is considered a promising new framework for MOND.
At the conference "MOND at 40", widely separated binary systems were a hot topic, with researchers divided on whether or not they show evidence of the MOND force law.
It's not new but I only just heard about it: there's an attempt to explain the Bullet Cluster in terms of MOND plus sterile neutrinos; see section 7.1 here.
And finally, something that's not MOND: a proposed explanation for the "CMB dipole", as resulting from gigantic flows in the early universe.
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