Actually a little disappointed this isn't an adaptation of the Michael Bay TV series about a US Naval ship and the search for a cure to a viral pandemic.

Three PhD scholarships available in our great department! Should be super projects. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n...

It's all fun and games until you're trying to explain circadian entrainment to a toddler at 1am (local, ~5pm internal). Why is there not an episode of Bluey on jet lag? Surely they have some relatives across the pond they could visit.

This year for mother's day we'll be taking a transatlantic flight with a 2.5 year old. All I ask is for some sleep🤞 See you soon, Europe!!

I love weird sensory biology 🤩 (it's only weird to us losers who no longer have it). Those extra (parietal) eyes are also key for navigation in some animals - if you cover it, lizards get very confused!! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When all the SRBR posts hit next week... #SRBR2026

If your conference can afford and plan for a nightly open bar, they can afford and plan for free or low-cost childcare for attendees with small children.

Sharing my Blogger page again! For anyone interested in Sighted Non-24 lived experiences, my blog includes interviews with others navigating it. #Non24 #Sleep totally-circadian.blogspot.com

I wonder how much of this is millennial parents still excited to see monster trucks and happy to encourage their kid's interest. The horror on our parents'/the grandparents' faces as our kid excitedly talks about Grave Digger is kinda fun 😀

Been in Texas for 5 years and finally made it to Big Bend on the way out! We need to protect these National Parks, folks, and especially the dark sky areas 🤩

Excited to share our editorial in @bmj.com - we discuss the need for targeted action to address the fact that the UK has lost its measles-free status. We highlight issues like public health spending cuts, fragmented infrastructure, training cuts that impacted vaccine access #HealthPolicy 🧵

Once upon a time, UT sent staff a copy of the calendar of religious observances from ADL (www.adl.org/education/re...), which is incredibly helpful for accommodations, mentoring, and just generally learning more about other cultures. That office/position no longer exists 😔

G is for Geode. And that's good enough for me.

LGBTQ+ youth have higher rates of mental illness and suicide compared to cis/het children. Increasing state sanctioned discrimination has only worsened this crisis. Let the LGBTQ+ people in your life know they are loved. Support orgs that support them www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/gu...

⏰ Time change incoming! ⏰ Daylight Savings Time begins in Europe on Sunday. Did you know scientific societies, including @esrs.bsky.social, advocate for permanent Central European Time (CET)? 💡Read more about why here: esrs.eu/wp-content/u...

An amazing opportunity for students to get their foot in the door for neuroscience research! Great to see a program explicitly welcome applicants from community colleges and folks with no prior experience!! www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/03/10/a...

❗Date change ❗ The 2026 meeting of the Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health (SLRCH) has been rescheduled to Sept 11-13 2026 (previously Sept 3-5). We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. Questions? Email us at [email protected]

Thank you for the highlight! This was a fun project testing the impact of restricting food availability to the active phase in aged mice. We saw increased sociability and transcriptomic changes indicating that this simple intervention has beneficial effects on age-associated neuroinflammation.

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Time-restricted feeding in mice reduced age-related hippocampal inflammation and social withdrawal, but had no effect on weight @louise-ince.bsky.social @fonken.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They're playing "Sugar we're goin down" on the UT tower bells, and honestly emo campanology works pretty well! I wonder if they take requests...

Daylight Savings Time changes are hitting many in the Northern Hemisphere this month! A circadian modeling study by Xu et al. shows how light exposure may speed adjustment to DST culminating in a few suggestions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #daylightsavings

"man is there a lot of interesting stuff out there that we haven't realized yet. . ." Completely agree (esp. for immunology)! This is super cool. Don't overlook the biophysics: gene expression & protein levels are great readouts, but are those proteins able to move/signal properly?

The next time politicians say there is no money for health or humanitarian aid, I will remember this: $1 billion per day on war

If you email me at 5:36 pm on a Friday to ask for something and then send a “gentle reminder” at 8:29 am on Monday, it makes me contrary.

If you think it’s absurd that essentially anyone can buy, load, and carry around a weapon made for war and/or to hunt giant game from a distance, please stand for gun control.

One of many reasons why equitable access to healthcare is so critical. My heart breaks for these children (yes, children). Nobody should be forced to carry a child, and this could well have lethal consequences. Don't tell me you're "pro life" while committing these atrocities.

Really valuable insight into under-appreciated biology: non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder. #Circadian #SleepPeeps

As I go to sleep around 5 am, after cooking for my adult child who woke up at 3:30 am, I'd like to share this link about Non-24. Considered rare in sighted people, it is also mis/under diagnosed. Below I'll share 4 reasons why. #Non24 #RareDiseaseDay rarediseases.org/rare-disease...

Nasal vaccines are a type of mucosal vaccine which look to be a real game changer in vaccination as they are better able to induce immune memory in the places we need them - in this case the lungs- than traditional shot in the arm vaccines. Really hope this research IS taken forward

This is very exciting!! Both the nasal vaccine tech and the broad results.

Freshly Lit! A recently published paper co-authored by members of SLRCH highlights the important role of sleep and circadian factors in the daily rhythms of positive affect during adolescence. Check it out here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41621053/. #circadiantiming #sleep #affect

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

The Da Mesquita lab at Mayo Clinic (www.mayo.edu/research/lab...) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on projects investigating the role(s) of the meningeal lymphatic vasculature in models of neurodegenerative diseases. Please spread the word and contact me in case you are interested! 😃

The SCRAP lab will be at @adaaanxiety.bsky.social this April presenting exciting work on #sleep and #anxiety! First, join us on Thursday 4/9 in the 11am session on sleep and #PTSD to hear about how last night's sleep predicts next-day PTSD symptoms in sexual assault survivors. 1/2

Just don't leave them unattended near any penguins!

The gasp I gusped when I saw the one re: sauce. Travesty. I'm invested now. I need to find out the final Sticky Toffee Pudding rankings.

Imprisoning children is child abuse. No matter how a child arrived in our country, we should not use government resources, taxpayer money, to abuse and traumatize children.

Bumping this to the science feed 🧪 Interesting science to ponder the interplay between seasonality and circadian rhythms.

🚨Gorton and Denton by-election PLEASE DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

A treat tonight watching Blade Runner with live music. One of my favourite films, and I will watch it in as many formats as possible! We joked whether it'd just be "one man and his Moog" (I'd still go). Nothing beats the 6-person theatrical production we once saw above a Manchester pub though 🦄

Freshly lit: Do psychiatric symptoms fluctuate across the day? Do the patterns differ by chronotype? A recent study by Balter et al. explores these questions in a sample of N = 515 adults. 💡 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #mentalhealth #earlybird #nightowl #chronotype

We need more whimsical science

Virology 2026 is here! Dr. Racaniello’s class, taught every spring at Columbia University and made available online...free, for anyone who wants to learn. Tap in! Tell a friend! Share widely!

Wait, this is important -- when they fed the mushrooms to mice, did they see little people or little mice?? www.bbc.com/future/artic...

“They say things are done for the majority Don't believe the half of what you see and none of what you hear” Lou knew. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWA_...

If current admin knew that vaccination might also prevent dementia, would they still be against it? As a neuroimmunologist my heart breaks twice at their anti-vax policies: once for the devastating effect it will have on infectious disease, and again for losing a potential tool against dementia.

4 year post doc post at Maynooth in Human Sleep and Respiratory Physiology. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Great* to hear from Dr. Walter Koroshetz at the Oskar Fischer series/TARCC symposium today. Lots of work for Neuroscience (and NINDS!) to be proud of but still a long way to go in preventing & treating dementia. Excited to see some immunology in the poster session too! *Bittersweet perhaps