Applications are now open for the inaugural CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Course on Neurobiology of Sleep 😴🧠!!! 📅 Dates: 19 November – 8 December 2026 ⏳ Application Deadline: 3 July 🔗 Information and application: cajal-training.org/on-site/neur...

In this sharp and insightful essay, Hannah Critchlow takes us through the many ways in which our brains generate and use energy, and offers some helpful recommendations for looking after your brain health

Studies using fruit flies by @ox.ac.uk researchers @rafsarnataro.bsky.social & Dr Peter Hasenhuetl, are providing new insights into how sleep is controlled 💤 As two winners of the Emerging Neuroscientist Seminar Series 2025, they recently spoke at SWC ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/what-fr...

A neuronal population clock for interval timing in Drosophila #Drosophila

Why do we feel an irresistible drive to sleep after being awake for too long? A recent study led by Prof. Anissa Kempf has revealed that, in fruit flies, a small set of neurons can sense when the fly needs rest. Learn more 👉 www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/... @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch #sleep

Raffaele Sarnataro of ox.ac.uk presents this #SymposiumReview examining the #neurobiology of mitochondrial dynamics in #sleep 🧠 💤 🔗 Read the article here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Did you know that we are offering 4 travel grants every year? That's right! 500£ for conferences and workshops. Registration is still open for the last grant of 2025! Need some inspiration? Read about the experiences of our Q3 winner, @rafsarnataro.bsky.social www.antibodies.com/promotions/t....

The Erice Statement on the Importance of Molecular Life Sciences Education (shorturl.at/BNvfv) calls for a global effort to strengthen molecular literacy through inquiry-based and evidence-driven education, for responsible citizenship💡🧬 Endorse it here: shorturl.at/PTmsh @iapartnership.bsky.social

Congrats @rafsarnataro.bsky.social, the winner of our quarterly travel grant, who is currently at #SfN25. We are both excited and proud to support this cool research on the mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep! Shout out to @sfn.org!

Presynaptic Release Probability Determines the Need for Sleep https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682770v1

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

Sleep might be an “inescapable consequence” of aerobic metabolism, new findings in fruit flies suggest. By @vcallier.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sleep/mitoch...

✨ Now out in Biomedical Optics Express: Cleared tissue dual-view oblique plane microscopy 🔬: doi.org/10.1364/BOE.... (🧵1/6)

Happy to have given a tiny contribution (as tiny as a fly brain!) to this new light-sheet microscopy technology. Congratulations to @ld-light.bsky.social and the whole team

🚨 What's the interplay between sleep and mitochondrial dynamics in neurons? I am happy to share this invited review I wrote for The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social 👉 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Thread 👇 #Neuroscience #SleepResearch

Un nuovo studio condotto in D. melanogaster rivela che il bisogno di sonno potrebbe nascere direttamente dal metabolismo dei neuroni. Il sonno, insomma, sarebbe una conseguenza inevitabile della respirazione cellulare www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/cos...

Tired? Well that sleepy feeling may be driven by 'leaky' mitochondria, according to a new study. I spoke to Gero Miesenboeck from @ox.ac.uk for @nature.com all about the new study. It's here on the Nature Podcast at 12:11:

Congratulations to the SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series winners! - Dimokratis Karamanlis, University of Geneva - @rafsarnataro.bsky.social‬ & Peter S. Hasenhuetl, @ox.ac.uk - Saurabh Vyas, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social - @sblumenstock.bsky.social‬, University of California San Diego

Mitochondria may have been labelled the "energy powerhouses" of cells, but they also seem to have an underappreciated role in sleep.

Thanks @dereklowe.bsky.social for featuring our work in @science.org blog "The Pipeline"

1/ 🚨 Our new paper is online in @nature.com! As its first author, I’m enthusiastic to finally share it with you all! 🎉 🧠 We discovered a mechanistic link between cellular energy metabolism and the control of the need to sleep 💤 👉 rdcu.be/ewwrA @oxforddpag.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk 🧵 👇

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Honoured to be the guest on the 100th episode of the @neuroversepod.bsky.social podcast!🎙️ With Clara Lenherr and @carolina-soares.bsky.social, I discussed the neurobiology of sleep—a topic that continues to fascinate and challenge us. Thank you to the Neuroverse team for inviting me. 🧵👇

Cleared tissue dual-view oblique plane microscopy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.653537v1

Cleared tissue dual-view oblique plane microscopy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.653537v1

Nature research paper: Sleep pressure accumulates in a voltage-gated lipid peroxidation memory https://go.nature.com/4bG20He

Why do we need to sleep? In a preprint, researchers posit that it may be an "inescapable consequence" of how we power our cells. That and more of the best in Science and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪