Still pumped up from yesterday's international sleep replay workshop! Provocative talks, engaging discussion groups & enthusiastic engagement by all attendees from undergrads to full professors. Stay tuned for info on the next one. And now, on to @cnsmtg.bsky.social. Check out our lab's posters!

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @paller.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

Nice coverage of the recent Neuroscience-of-Consciousness article from the PhD dissertation of @karenkonkoly.bsky.social here in TIME magazine, with a photo showing how dreams help you put all the puzzle pieces of your life together time.com/7381398/can-...

@carolynyjohnson.bsky.social did an excellent job today of summarizing the research and key issues surrounding the idea of "sleeping on it" (Not A Myth) — Thank You Carolyn! wapo.st/4rqb1LF

Cool results from @tschreiner.bsky.social and colleagues: memory reactivation and retrieval found to vary with phase of respiration

More coverage of Karen's @karenkonkoly.bsky.social study www.vice.com/en/article/h...

Nice coverage of present and future hopes for research using dream engineering — from the PhD dissertation work of Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social and her new publication in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social — here at The Debrief thedebrief.org/did-scientis...

Karen Konkoly's @karenkonkoly.bsky.social latest dream research on the front page of The Times, with the heading: Harnessing dreams to solve puzzles is no fantasy

New publication out today from the amazing PhD dissertation of Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social in Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social : Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Come to the International Sleep Replay Workshop in Vancouver on March 6th — registration and poster submission closes Feb 15 isrw.bio.uci.edu The workshop will include symposia, short talks, posters, discussion groups, and many opportunities to interact - Memory - Sleep - Dreaming - and more

This applies to everyone

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Registration for this satellite event is separate to CNS 2026. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Deadline, Feb 15th

I am so proud to be part of a community who does not rest in this fight for justice. We are a city that resists come rain or come shine.

Guest Essay: ICE committed murder in Minneapolis - where do we go from here? evanstonroundtable.com/2026/01/18/g...

This is actually extremely troubling because it means that every ICE employee has a 50K incentive to help ensure that Trump (or JD) is re-elected.

Please find the full PDF on our website and from the publisher here: meditation.mgh.harvard.edu meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/files/Prueit... doi.org/10.1093/nc/n... May this work become a benefit to all who grapple with the puzzles, perils, and possibilities of pain 🙏

About 100 people at this vigil in Evanston, IL, to mourn Renee Nicole Good, victim of ICE terrorism.

Laura’s great public service — advice related to possible early signs of dementia

Getting the word out about sleep apnea

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...