❗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

Where do I get one of these ICE prevention signs?

The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging. erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...

"This project is the result of over two years of collaboration between Martin, Hussey and the circadian scientist of CBMR. Displayed in different locations throughout Center, the works aim to provoke and inspire the scientists to ask new questions about their research." cbmr.ku.dk/news/2023/an...

RFK vs lysosomes

The death drop try 🤩😂 some commitment in those tackles too! I love everything about this.

I come back to this constantly

New Year?! New Job! I’m excited to share that I will be joining Pomona College as an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience this year!! 🧠 Very grateful to all who have encouraged me along this path, and I'm looking forward to this next adventure in science. @pomonacollege.bsky.social

Excellent crossover between @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @microbetv.bsky.social on US public health policy re: vaccines. I hope there are more of these discussions!

Same procedure as every year! Happy New Year, bluesky!! Keeping up our adopted German tradition of Dinner for One 🥳🐯 youtu.be/5n7VI0rC8ZA?...

ATTN: Los Angeles! @ologies.bsky.social & I are hosting an evening of ART & ACTIVISM. We're going to be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city. RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social! Please repost, LA!

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

Introducing the toddler to an institution this winter: Wallace and Gromit!! "Gromit and the Rocket" and "Robot Trousers" both big hits so far 🤩 although he does now want to go skiing on the moon.

My bio mom is in the hospital right now for a COPD flare up and one of my spicy medical takes is that we have a lot research about how sleep deprivation is horrible for health and recovery but somehow this is totally ignored in clinical situations and waking you up every two hours is fine

Paging @epigenetichulk.bsky.social

That's my paper!! 🤩 I meant to do a thread but life got in the way... We found some really cool effects of restricting food availability to the active phase in aged mice, including increased sociability and transcriptomic changes in the brain regulating inflammation & autophagy.

Controlling our immune system like a rheostat is not only helping to treat cancer (dialing it up) but now leading to cures of autoimmune diseases (dialing it down). Mirror images. Shared technologies. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...