Save the date!! 🗓️ The 2nd edition of the Summer School on the Neuroscience of Dreaming 💤 will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Lucca, Italy, at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. 📍 The official website will be released soon: stay tuned for updates!

If you are at #WorldSleep25 and interested in Dreaming, come by my Poster 75 at 5.30 today! Also happy to chat about any other of my interests, such as infant sleep, gut microbiota, and so on, at the poster or over a tea! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

From sleep 💤 to dreams 🌙 to daydreams ☁️ - what is the brain up to? I’m excited to host a mini-symposium before my PhD defense! Join us in person or online, details in the flyer! @sarahschoch.bsky.social @dresler.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social

Excited to present our new work reading minds! Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6

New opinion piece! @amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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...

💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤 After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com **A dream EEG and mentation database** rdcu.be/eAwni

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜 I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep. In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social #sleep #dreams #EEG

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...

I'm happy to start my @snf-fns.ch Return Grant at the Kispi Zürich with Flavia Wehrle, where we are following up the cohort from my PhD (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) to see how early sleep and gut microbiota predict outcomes at school age. #sleeppeeps

***🚨 New Paper 🚨*** Both #sleep and eyes-closed waking rest improve memory. But sleep also increases FALSE recall in some paradigms. Q: Does eyes-closed rest similarly increase false recall? A: No. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYgb3qNaA... #sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

👋 #sleeppeeps In this new work, we show how multiple LLMs appear to easily process #dreams, and reflect previously observed differences in reports (e.g., male-female, blind-sighted). We also argue for caution linking dreams and bizarreness when using #LLMs www.frontiersin.org/journals/sle...

In this study, led by BlueSky-less superstar undergrad Andrew Lazarus, we set out to ask whether longer reactivation events during sleep lead to more memory benefits. Results suggest this is not the case, but there are some disclaimers. Read all about it! #sleep www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's the weekend! Plenty of time to answer our less-than-20-minutes survey on your experiences when you fall asleep! 🧠🧪💤 We really want to know what *you* experience. But we can't know if you don't tell us! 😀 The link: redcap.link/DriftingMinds Thank you for participating or sharing!

Since Lullabyte began, we’ve been collaborating on a project blending Sleep, Music & Data Science. We're excited to share Somnosphere at the Long Night of Sciences in Berlin on June 28th, an immersive AV experience exploring how can we share the private nature of sleep. tinyurl.com/LNDWLullabyte

"SO-spindle coupling was linked to elevated activation in both the thalamus and hippocampus, alongside increased functional connectivity from the hippocampus to the thalamus and from the thalamus to the medial prefrontal cortex" doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Next, we have DreamRater github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a flexible tool for manual rating of dream content. You can upload your own scales (radio or numerical scales) and rate dreams whole or in parts. Here's a video explainer: tinyurl.com/DreamRater #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

I made some tools for our (MANY!) dream reports. I am making them openly available for others to use! First DreamProcessor github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a simple tool to preprocess dream reports (clean, anonymize, split) that integrates semiautomatic approaches. #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

New preprint! How do we integrate new information into prior knowledge? We find that existing knowledge enables rapid new learning but that interleaved replay during sleep promotes integration of new and old information. Modeling suggests a sleep context suppression mechanism. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Out now in Collabra: Psychology: Automated Reproducibility Testing in R Markdown. The R package reproducibleRchunks, which stores metadata about original computational results and verifies later reproduction attempts automatically. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Curious about how your brain’s excitability aligns with your breath, even while asleep? Check out our new preprint!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A great collaboration between @tschreiner.bsky.social 's lab and @danlikesbrains.bsky.social 's lab. (1/5)

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action

Among ~250K psych papers, those with the word "sleep" have a particularly high rate of suspicious "just-below-0.05" p-values. In fact, sleep is in the 96th%tile for fragile p-value rate. We can do better #sleeppeeps. 1/x Data from pbogdan.com/meganal/inde..., in association with: bit.ly/43Bz2WJ.

🧠💭 Why do some people remember their dreams more than others? In our new preprint, we used multimodal neuroimaging (qMRI, DTI, rs-fMRI) and data-driven analysis (LICA) in 258 participants (!!!), revealing unique structural and functional brain signatures linked to dream recall frequency.

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

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

When a woman is empowered, the world is empowered.💜️ #InternationalWomensDay

🚨🧪 We’ve been talking to scientists at rallies today across the country in DC, Boston, Seattle, and NJ. Here’s why scientists are “Dismayed, depressed, disgusted” and what they’re doing about it 🧵 ⤵️ for more #StandUpforScience #StandUpforScience2025 @nature.com

Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

SEE YOU IN ONE WEEK ☀️ March 7th, 2025! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org! #standupforscience2025

I think about this headline all of the time.

NEXT FRIDAY! San Francisco. I'll be there. @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpforScience #SciComm #Science

Does sleep affect the relationship between representations formed in different memory systems? Check out our new preprint on how sleep resolves the competition between explicit and implicit memory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please also consider speaking at our Stand Up For Science Rally Sacramento on March 7th. The cuts to #sciencefunding will have a devastating impact on #SacramentoCounty families as well, by removing upwards of $50M from the local economy, and countless jobs as well. @standupforscience.bsky.social

New preprint from our lab on memory incorporation into dreams! 🧠 💭 💤 Palmieri et al. Incorporation of complex narratives into dreaming doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

If it weren't for the NSF and NIH, I probably wouldn't be a scientist today. Neither would many of the students I've trained. As much as the current cuts are hurting today's scientists, the impact on the next generation will far greater. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #academicsky

Beyond happy and proud to share our new study about the individual determinants of morning dream recall in the general Italian population, just published on @commspsychol.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

Resistance is not futile.

We've gotten a lot of questions about who's behind #standupforscience2025 - and in the spirit of transparency, we made a starter pack of our core team ☀️ We're a group of early-career scientists who are passionate about the ability of science to drive progress! go.bsky.app/SHLNvG1

Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf

For all of you who, like me, are feeling frustrated, angry and scared about the cuts to NIH funding (or anything else the Trump administration is doing) here is a useful app that makes it super-easy to call your representatives and make your voices heard. It’s very satisfying. 5calls.org

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence