Sleep colleagues, please submit tonight to be considered for a short talk.

The 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop is just 80 days away- Mar 6th in Vancouver! isrw.bio.uci.edu If you'd like to be considered to give a short talk, register by December 19th, 2025. General registration & poster submission ends February 15th, 2026. @cnsmtg.bsky.social Please repost

Thanks to @cnn.com for covering our research on London taxi drivers in their new, rather chatty, format 'Creators' Taxi driver Tom Scullion is the star of this piece. He trains others to learn the knowledge an has so many insights into that process. #neuroskyence www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7df...

CNS 2026! Be sure to register - it will be great to see so many cognitive science and neuroscience folks coming to Vancouver. And be sure to also check out the affiliated International Sleep Replay Workshop: isrw.bio.uci.edu

This critique of twin studies is well written and convincing. www.madinamerica.com/2024/09/the-...

Scientists have pinpointed how the brain generates ‘aha’ moments. Neuroscientists have identified a clear brain pattern behind the phenomenon of sudden insight, by scanning volunteers as they deciphered hidden images. buff.ly/pW93qmK #ShareGoodNewsToo

Announcing the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop (ISRW): March 6, 2026, Vancouver, prior to CNS. Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact. Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century: 1. Dream engineering "For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..." www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

Tomorrow 12pm (ET) at the MIT Consciousness Club. Consciousness Emerges From Neural Dynamics - Earl K. Miller (hey, that's me!). Join us via Zoom. sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

Come say hi if you're going to #sfn25 and want to chat about cognitive enhancement, sleep, or memory! I'm around starting this evening and will be postering on Tuesday morning !

The ISRW will happen again this coming March 6 in Vancouver

Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology. Transcript and video here www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...

There is no room for apathy right now. We must do what we can to peacefully resist the brutal and violent abuses of power meant to intimidate and terrify our communities.

Trump and the federal government continue to brutally violate protestors' rights. But don't take it from me -- hear it straight from Jennifer, an Evanston resident violently detained for hours on Halloween. Watch the full interview on youtube.com/@bissforcongress

Today, I went on CNN to inform people of the ways ICE is tormenting our communities with unwarranted violence and I will not let it stand. Watch the full interview on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/G_g7VD5mzWs?...

Registration is now! Come one, come all

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu @cnsnews.bsky.social

“For the first time” say these authors in 2025 — but what about glowacki et al 2022 www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1...

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Indiana (and any state) can #DitchDST in coordination with surrounding states. Tell your state legislators to file our pact bill now for this January! savestandardtime.com/legislation/...

New Speculative Article — I'm happy Andrew Budson invited me to write an article with him. We wondered what happens in our minds when we're sleeping? --> Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Announcing the return of the ISRW, this time in Vancouver!

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Thanks to Northwestern News for publishing an extended version of my @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social / @scholars.org op-ed! Grateful to have had an opportunity to speak in detail about memorable mentors @jnfrltackett.bsky.social & @cmbrandes.bsky.social 💜 news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Check out our latest preprint! BlueSky-less Gayathri Subramanian tried combining odor & sound presentation during sleep to shape memories and discovered that multisensory cuing of unassociated memories nullified the benefits of reactivation. @paller.bsky.social

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Dream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !

After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences” authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...

What would you like to dream about? Here's a suggestion. Our new paper, co-first-authored by PhD students Daniel Morris and Blaise Elliott, describes a way to provoke lucid dreams about revisiting a profound Virtual-Reality experience - academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

“Acquiescence to the administration’s tactics would make Northwestern complicit in an assault on institutions of higher education, which are an essential bulwark of civil society,” www.wbez.org/education/20...

Important read on how the attacks on science are going to destroy a generation of scientists and a generation of opportunities to advance science. @standupforscience.bsky.social

A very important message for people to see! Way to go @feliciatuchman.bsky.social

Interested in consciousness? The Landscape of Consciousness website has you covered. It has everything from science to not science. loc.closertotruth.com #neuroscience

Collection of websites I've seen highlighting the impact of federally funded research at various institutions First is Chicago's very own Northwestern University, which ended FY2024 with $>1 billion in research funding Northwestern University: Research Impact www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...

Mayor of Evanston

The Governor of Illinois fighting back

Thanks to @siliconrepublic.bsky.social for doing this profile! @maynoothuniversity.ie www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/r...

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread! cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

What is on your mind when you are about to fall asleep? Help us unravel the diverse ways humans experience this mysterious transition! Please share your unique experiences by filling up this short online questionnaire: redcap.link/DriftingMinds

Visiting the amazing IMT-Lucca today where they are hosting my seminar on Sleep and its Benefits for Cognition - livestreamed on teams: urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

More leadership from the trenches Project McClintock Graduate students writing local op-eds [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back. @nidhisubs.bsky.social and Sara Randazzo report. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... via @wsj.com

My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers" All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back. (share link): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

Friends, we are in such a time

Amazing synthesis!

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc