A direct SCN-to-DMH output pathway organizes circadian behavioral timing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.21.726959v1

New preprint from our lab: even when the SCN (the central circadian pacemaker) looks broadly similar in diurnal and nocturnal animals, its underlying dynamics can differ substantially.

out now, the one mammalian paper I somehow found myself being a part of! With Michael Tackenberg, @jonesjeffr.bsky.social and Vinnie Cassone. In it, we discuss temporal niches, coupling and the organization of circadian networks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new article from Jordan Cook in our lab and Qijun Tang in the Hattar lab: best practices in long-term fiber photometry recording. We argue that the field needs a standardized framework for experiments and analysis. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Always a joy to catch up with the Texas Society for Circadian Biology & Medicine! This year we even got some cool new data from Michael Rosbash - it's not every day you get to ask a Nobel Prize winner a question!! 🤩 #chronobiology #circadian #SleepPeeps

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

How does the brain’s internal clock keep our bodies in sync with day and night? Dr. Jeff Jones in TAMU Biology is uncovering how the SCN, our central circadian timekeeper, shapes everything from sleep to metabolism! tx.ag/jones25

Do you want to automatically classify home-cage behaviors in real-time, indefinitely, across multiple animals? Try out our Circadian Behavioral Analysis Suite, now published here www.cell.com/cell-reports... and available to try out yourself on our Github page.

This week, we are highlighting the 2025 Student Post-Doc Research Conference 1st Place Post-Doctoral Winner, Vanessa Muhl! Congratulations to Vanessa on this outstanding achievement! tx.ag/3QzeELe

Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health. I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.

My lab swept the TAMU Institute of Neuroscience Winter Symposium poster session!

The Jones Lab mas migrated to BlueSky, and with it, an actogram of my daughter's sleep patterns over the course of a year.