💡Need more light science in your life?💡 🚨Check out Daylight Awareness Week 3-7 November 2025 by the Daylight Academy! 🌟This year’s Daylight Awareness Week explores how daylight can help build healthier, more sustainable, and fairer societies daylight.academy/daylight-awa...

🎉 Save the Date! The 37th Annual SLRCH Meeting will take place 3–5 June 2026 at the University of Milan, La Statale, Italy! Join us for three inspiring days of science, collaboration & connection ! Stay tuned for more details on submissions, Trainee Day, and the programme 🌍www.slrch.org #SLRCH2026

🎃 Trick or Treat? 🎃 ⏰ DST ends in the US this weekend. Sleep and circadian science tells us that the biannual time change is harmful for health. Learn more at savestandardtime.com including ways to advocate for permanent ST! @savestandard.bsky.social

💡 Save the date! deLIGHTed Talks #9 – Good Light: Creating Healthy Indoor Spaces 🗓️ 3 November 2025 🕒 15:00–16:30 CET | 💻 Free attendance Moderated by our very own SLRCH Board Member Lisa M. Wu, Ph.D. @amerikiwiphd.bsky.social Register here: www.goodlightgroup.org/delighted-ta...

⏰Time to turn back the clocks!⏰ ☀️DST ends in Europe this weekend. SLRCH is proud to support ending the biannual time change and remaining on permanent Standard Time. Check out a snippet of the position statement to the 2020 EU Commission on DST and read more here: slrch.org/wp-content/u...

☀️Want to analyze personal light exposure data from a wearable device but aren't sure how to get started? 💡Register for an upcoming workshop on using the LightLogR workflow for wearable light exposure data! tum-conf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Have you ever wondered whether chronotypes change over time? The now classic paper by Fischer and colleagues gives us the answers. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #chronotypes #circadian #chronobiology

✨How much light exposure do we need for healthy circadian rhythms?✨ ☀️Healthy light exposure means brighter days and dimmer evenings!🌙 ❓Want to know more? Check out the paper by Brown et al. 2022: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35298459/

I will be recruiting at least 1 PhD student for the Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Psychopathology (SCRAP) Lab at WashU in STL this application cycle! ☀️⏰😴 Read more about our current projects here: sites.wustl.edu/scraplab/

We are saddened to share that Dr. Jacqueline Lane passed on August 26, 2025. Dr. Lane conducted impactful research on the genetics of sleep and circadian rhythms and will be missed by our scientific community. We invite you to read her obituary (www.solimine.com/obituaries/J...).

A fun and whimsical analysis of circadian and time aspects of songs and lives of #TheBeatles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Missing your daily dose of ⏰circadian science⏰ after SLRCH 2025? Then check out the FREE hybrid Colorado Sleep and Circadian Summer school! ☀️💡 www.colorado.edu/iphy/researc...

That’s a wrap on #SLRCH2025! This board is grateful to our speakers, attendees, and sponsors for a great conference 🤗 Stay tuned for updates about next years meeting and the curriculum coming in 2026! #light #circadian #science

In an exciting new addition to the Year in Review, Dr. Melissa St. Hilaire highlighted important advances in modeling 📈 and technology 📲 #SLRCH2025

Dr. Milena Pavlova then took us through recent advances in the application of ⏰chronobiology ⏰ to clinical practice 🥼🩺 #SLRCH2025

Next in Year in Review, Dr. Frank Scheer took us through exciting developments in translational research ⏰💡#SLRCH2025

Our Year in Review session began with an energizing overview of the basic literature from Dr. Jonathan Lipton #SLRCH2025

The final day of SLRCH began with an exciting lineup of talks selected from basic, translational, and clinical abstracts with methods ranging from gene knockout models to Apple Watches 🔥🔥 #SLRCH2025

Incredible keynote address by Dr. Charles Czeisler on the impact of light on human health. A wonderful review of the past, present, and future of our field! ⏰💡☀️ #SLRCH2025

The Basic session of selected talks covered exciting topics including diurnal protein rhythmicity, neuronal clock control of behavior, and effects of circadian rhythm disruption on neurodevelopment 🧠⏰ #SLRCH2025

Dr. Marta Garaulet finished the clinical session presenting on food timing, siesta, and obesity #SLRCH2025

Next up is Dr. Stephanie Crowley presenting data on ⏰circadian photoentrainment ☀️in teens #SLRCH2025

The clinical session kicks off with a talk by Dr. Jessica Lunsford-Avery on the role of 💡light irregularity 💡in ADHD #SLRCH2025

Dr. Andrew McHill kicks off our invited symposium in translational research with his work on circadian timing in the college years, including daily app-based tracking of meal timing & content 🍕🍔🌯 Side note: fire alarms are not a standard scale unit!

Another fantastic group of selected talks today! From the ISS to the science museum, our members show their creative approaches to studying light and its effects on human health ☀️ #SLRCH2025

⏰☀️Fabulous presentations at the data blitz from trained thru senior profs! The state of the light and circadian science is strong! #SLRCH2025

✨✨Congrats to Pablo Bonilla Villamil for winning the J. Christian Gillin early career award for his work on the effects of blue light at night on anxiety behavior!✨✨ #SLRCH2025

We had a great discussion about how scientists and industry can interface to promote circadian health. Thanks to our industry sponsors for supporting #SLRCH25! 💡💡💡

This afternoon we have a super collection of selected talks focused on clinical research and circadian health, including work in adolescents, aging, shift workers, and individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder or schizophrenia. Many great topics to continue the discussion over coffee ☕

Rounding out the Basic Invited session, Ashley Ingiosi @ashleyingiosi.bsky.social describes the role of astrocytes 🧠 in 💤sleep-wake💤 regulation #SLRCH2025

Next up in the Basic Invited session, Laura Fonken discusses the role of circadian rhythms in microglia and neuroinflammation #SLRCH2025

Exciting talk by Diego Fernandez about the effects of light💡💡 on brain regions beyond the SCN #SLRCH2025

Daniel Aeschbach shows data on oxygen sensing as a zeitgeber #SLRCH2025

Michael Do describes the spectral sensitivity of melanopsin #SLRCH2025

Opening talk by Michael Do on principles of photoentrainment by intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) #SLRCH2025

SLRCH President Corrado Garbazza introduces the new SLRCH board members. Welcome to the board! @delaineywescott.bsky.social @rebecca-cox.bsky.social @mspitschan.bsky.social @aliamidi.bsky.social #SLRCH2025

Just landed in Boston for #SLRCH2025!! Grabbing a beer & a burger next to Fenway. ⚾️

Good morning, Boston! SLRCH President Corrado Garbazza is opening SLRCH 2025 ☀️💡

Dr. Janis Anderson kicks off our program with an excellent tribute to our past (as SLTBR) and a look to the future of light research. Integration across different specialities is key!

🌞 Rise and shine, today's the day! 🌞 Our #SLRCH2025 presentations will be taking place at Simmons University and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Today we especially welcome our trainee members and those new to the field of light and circadian health: from basic science through to clinical practice.

Just 1 more sleep until #SLRCH2025, we look forward to hosting you in Boston!☀️⏰ Our keynote this year is from Dr. Charles Czeisler (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital), discussing the impact of natural and artificial light on human health.

We've made it to our last but not least SLRCH board member, ⏰☀️Dr. Rebecca Cox☀️⏰ @rebecca-cox.bsky.social ! The whole SLRCH board is eager to welcome you to Boston in ✨TWO DAYS!✨

2 days until #SLRCH2025! This year's J. Christian Gillin Early Career Award winner is Pablo Bonilla Villamil (University of South Carolina)! He will present the Early Career Keynote on the effects of evening blue light exposure during adolescence on avoidance behaviors and medial amygdala functions.

3 days to go until #SLRCH2025! Featuring our industry symposium on Saturday 14th June where we'll hear from our sponsors about the practical aspects of light & circadian health 💡

Onto our next SLRCH board member, introducing 🌟⏰Dr. Delainey Wescott⏰🌟! @delaineywescott.bsky.social Just a few more days until SLRCH 2025 in Boston! See you there! 👀☀️

4! 4 days to go until #SLRCH2025 kicks off with our trainee development day. This year we have practical sessions in remote circadian phenotyping and mathematical modelling, along with a careers panel with colleagues in academia and industry. Excellent resources for those new to the field!

Just 5 more days until #SLRCH2025 starts!! This year we also have a special announcement at our Members Assembly on Monday 16th. See you in Boston!

Good news, everyone! Our website now has a jobs page: slrch.org/jobs/ If you're a SLRCH-affiliated lab and have an open position, reach out via email or DM to get it posted and shared with our community ☀️

⏰💡Introducing our next board member, Dr. Beatriz Bano-Otalora!💡⏰ We are ✨ONE WEEK✨ away from SLRCH 2025 in Boston! Check out the great lineup of talks and posters here: slrch.org/wp-content/u... Don't forget to register! ✅ slrch2025.exordo.com

Next up in our "Meet the Board" series is 💡Dr. Louis Ince!💡 ☀️SLRCH 2025 kicks off in Boston next Friday, June 13! We can't wait to see you there!☀️ ⏰There's still time to register: slrch2025.exordo.com/login