When planting our garden, I sowed year-round wildflower varieties (here = Central Valley) so that bees in hive boxes in the orchards would know to visit anytime for food. Hoping that they'd also pollinate my fruit trees in the spring. Worked fine so far. This is a very cool visualization of that.

Definitely a huge win for higher ed. I think it's important to point out that the suit that led to this outcome was brought by *UC faculty and unions* and not the UC system. The academic workers are fighting back, and we should support them.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Depressed? Anxious? Lonely? What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media? In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵Thread

Regardless of your political views or perspectives on the region, this is a moment when simple acts of compassion, such as brief messages of support or offers of collaboration with colleagues based in Iran, can make a meaningful difference. hashtag#science_diplomacy.

If you have a chance to collaborate with an Iranian scientist, do it: I've always been struck by the quality and ingenuity of the work of my colleague/collaborator in Tehran. With devastatingly few resources, he makes big things happen! I wish we have a chance to meet in person one of these days.

Join us as we post the answers to the #AMA #AskMeAnything with Editors in Chief Drs. Allan Pack (SLEEP) and Sean Drummond (SLEEPAdvances) over the next two weeks! Question 1: What types of paper submissions would you like to see more of in 2026? 📝 🎤See the EICs' responses below!

Question 2: What advice do you have for a trainee interested in getting more experience with editorial responsibilities? 🎙️See the Editor-in-Chiefs' responses below!

I don’t know what the people on this golf course are doing but they really should knock it off…

Quite the quakeswarm in San Ramon this morning. Been going on for weeks now, but today is just a few more than normal.

Excited to share newly minted PhD Anu Korukonda's tour de force thesis work describing the impact of pathogenic tau on #locuscoeruleus function in a mouse model of early #Alzheimers. A must for #BlueSpot researchers! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/3

The grant that I'm writing. The state of funding it's in: "Like an Alzheimer's thing. Well, I don't have it." www.rawstory.com/trump-267503...

What’s that weird turn in the flight plan (after the actual turn back on the flight path) just past Long Island? Did he demand they tilt at windmills for him?

He’s gonna need a jet from Qatar and an autonomous arctic island to hedge against that.

“DBS demonstrates a favorable safety profile with substantially lower complication rates compared with the most widely performed elective surgeries”

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴? That I don't know but D Brooks discusses some ideas of my book, The Entangled Brain: '"neuronal ensembles distributed across multiple brain regions,” which, like a murmuration of starlings, “forms a single pattern from the collective behavior."' www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

The 18 homicides investigated by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office in 2025 are the fewest since the 1980s, sheriff’s officials said.

cheese eating surrender monkeys…

Here's a weird question: How do whales sleep without drowning? These sperm whales are power-napping below the water's surface, hanging like cocoons in the ocean. But whales evolved from land creatures: they breathe under *voluntary control*. What happens when the conscious mind shuts down?

"Take naps" is #8. We're getting there...

Looks to me that when he drew his gun, the driver briefly interrupted her plans to move the vehicle to the right until he moved out of the way. The fact she continues moving towards the right would indicate that she knew the gun was pointed at her but assumed he wouldn't shoot because he cleared.

Noradrenergic infraslow rhythm during sleep is the critical link between heart-rate dynamics and memory consolidation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.06.697926v1

Not satisfied with taking healthcare away from millions of Americans, Trump sets his sites on Danes…

It is also the night that we remember that the only time zone that matters to anyone is Eastern.

It is the night that we open enough bottles to keep us busy for the month of January. 6 currently open, one more to go. This one is a 2000.

Says the guy who…podcasts for a living. (And this guy too apparently). Do you know how many people met between 50-64 were just fired by the hundreds of thousands by the #federal #government? And how nobody in the private sector wants to hire anyone over age 50?

More news (not good) from NIH The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied. I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.

So I guess we got AD solved then, right? www.cell.com/cell-reports...

"If really good, would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make “hosting” a full time job?" Yes, sir! You will be the greatest host of the Trump-Kennedy Center Honors the world has ever seen! Only Trump can do this job! Thank you for your attention to this matter. x.com/realDonaldTr...

And ended it with: “merry f*ckin Christmas, you ungrateful biatchez!”

THE SUN IS OUT 🌞

We can't work with foreign collaborators, but they can send money to a foreign PI to conduct an ethically questionable study in a vulnerable population in another foreign country? This is what corruption looks like.

Tule fog has occupied the skies of California's Central Valley for over three weeks.

Local neuronal ensembles that co-reactivate across regions during sleep are preferentially stabilized www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

Hmmh. A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Control group should have been given apricots. coloproctol.org/journal/view...

Science says the avocado tree needs a shade net. www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14...

New study results indicate that lifestyle changes can protect aging brains. The U.S. POINTER study tested whether a structured, healthy lifestyle program could protect cognitive function in at-risk older adults. The answer is YES. Explore this news and more from #CTAD2025: https://bit.ly/4pTAgoa

Is glymphatic clearance the secret to restorative sleep? academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Orexin-A and Circadian Disruption in Alzheimer’s Disease: Implications for Amyloid-Beta Pathology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We wrote a couple things about the locus coeruleus... www.frontiersin.org/journals/agi...

"Restoring native landscapes, even in areas where only small spaces are available such as hedgerows, roadsides, and backyards, has great potential for increasing the amount of suitable habitat for butterflies and other insects (30)." Native wildflowers are easy to sow and maintain, help fight weeds

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...

"Here, we explore human receptors responsive to molecules displaying in vivo oscillatory patterns and identify melatonin receptor 1A (MTNR1A) as a promising molecular sensor to trigger transgene expression." rdcu.be/eRnoo

Characterization of locus coeruleus neuronal properties with aging in two mouse models of tauopathy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is the cabinet where we keep Ted’s dry food. Conditioned place preference?

#SfN25 attendees - make sure to head to the posters when you get to the meeting on Saturday afternoon (V7-V11: Gretchen, Megan, Margaret, Louisa, Bella) and Sunday morning (KK17: Micaela) to hear about our work. We're printing the posters now and they look rad.

Excellent review article by @grandner.bsky.social about A-β. Finishes up a lot of thoughts that I had only begun to ponder. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...