The Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts for Sleep Europe 2026 is now open — and this is the only opportunity to present your most recent findings at Europe's foremost sleep science congress. 📅 31 July 2026, 17:00 CEST 🔗https://esrs.eu/sleep-congress/abstracts/ #SleepEurope2026

New paper from our group: using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we investigated the neural mechanisms underlying individual NREM sleep slow waves. Our findings suggest that slow waves are not a homogeneous phenomenon and may reflect distinct physiological processes. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Just published in the Journal of Sleep Research: Alessandrelli & Huwiler et al., "Cardiovascular Responses to Natural and Auditory Evoked Slow Waves Predict Post‐Sleep Cardiac Function." doi.org/10.1111/jsr....

What happens when the brain slips into a microsleep? An example from a highly drowsy participant showing a brief loss of responsiveness (at time 0s). Details of the research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans

Discover 40+ chapters on the science of consciousness: humans, babies, animals, artificial systems, etc! Experts from various disciplines and views came together under the lead of Umberto Olcese and Lucia Melloni A precious resource for anyone interested in #consciousness! www.horizon-minds.com

Massive study in @nature.com, converges with our past study of 750,000 people (Sea hero quest) to show u-shape curves for the impact of sleep. We studied cognition, here its disease impact: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Apply before 29 May!🚨 At MESEC, we believe that better science emerges from diverse perspectives and backgrounds.💙 💁🏽‍♀️We especially encourage women and researchers from underrepresented backgrounds to apply to our workshop 💸A limited number of bursaries will be available. mesec.co/event/worksh...

Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...

Tired of manually scoring your sleep recordings? Postdoc from our lab @paulzerr.bsky.social recently released NIDRA v0.2.3, an open-source autoscoring GUI & Python package for super simple sleep autoscoring using different established ML algorithms. Download here: nidra.netlify.app

New study in Communications Psychology: large-scale NLP analysis of dream reports reveals the structure, content, and determinants of dreaming. 💤💭 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #sleepscience #sleepresearch #dreamscience #dreamresearch

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Exciting new PhD opportunity (funded) in the lab of @larsmuckli.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

⚠️ Postdoc Opportunity in System Neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute ⚠️ Feel passionate about neuroscience and sleep 🧠? Want to learn cutting-edge techniques 🔬 to answer exciting basic science questions? Want to work in a multidisciplinary environment at the heart of Paris 🏨? Come join us !

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @romybeaute.bsky.social @introspection.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports... Congrats to Nicolas Decat!

Happy to share our recent theoretical review Why do we sleepwalk? A noradrenergic hypothesis of NREM sleep parasomnias www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social #neuroskyence #hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔔PREPRINT: Sleep ripples drive single-neuron reactivation for human memory consolidation 1/9: How does sleep support human memory consolidation? To test this, we recorded hundreds of neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) across learning, wakefulness, and sleep. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Perceived #sleep depth is generally thought to reflect reduced brain activity. @giuliobernardi.bsky.social &co show this relationship weakens during #dreaming, suggesting that dreaming helps sustain the subjective experience of deep sleep @spacelabimt.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4v8OxkH

🚨 New paper from our lab: "Immersive NREM2 dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." More on the determinants of dream content coming soon.

Cataldi et al., "Sensory processing reallocation from external to internal signals in REM sleep" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Paper alert 🚨 Our work on sleep intrusions in #ADHD is now published in Journal of Neuroscience @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2026/03/05/JNEUROSCI.1694-25.2025 Adults with ADHD show more sleep-like slow waves during wake, which partially account for ADHD symptoms 🧪💤

📢 New preprint from the lab🧠 ▶️doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.12.710517 What does fMRI connectivity actually reflect at the neural level? The natural intuition is: more neural activity = more connectivity! Using cortical perturbations we show this is not necessarily the case: sometimes less is more! 👇🧵

Cortex-specific inversion of visual responses during sleep https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702868v1

Could #SleepEngineering be developed to treat #depression and post-traumatic stress disorder? This Perspective proposes using machine learning with EEG signals to develop and optimize this type of intervention. 🧪 #NeuroSky

Registration open 🎉 MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...

Sleep to remember, sleep to protect: increased sleep spindle and theta activity predict fewer intrusive memories after analogue trauma www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Conserved Locus Coeruleus fMRI Signature of Brain-State Transitions across Sleep, Anesthesia, and Wakefulness: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mahmoud E.A. Abdellahi, Penelope A. Lewis, et al: Targeted memory reactivation elicits temporally compressed reactivation linked to spindles doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The EPA, ESRS and FENS are pleased to announce the webinar “Sleep as a Lifestyle Factor for Mental Health across the Lifespan”, taking place on Friday, 20 March 2026, from 16:30 to 17:30 CET. 🔗 Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/eb6hXs-5 #ESRS #EPA #FENS

New preprint alert, from a collaboration with @labluthi.bsky.social and Valerio Zerbi lab at Synapsy Center #GenevaUniversity - great collaboration, special thanks to Francesca Barcellini and Georgios Foustoukos for realizing this work ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The loss of consciousness during #sleep may be seen as an ecological disadvantage for wild animals. This article discusses sleep's importance and ubiquity across mammals, birds, and other species. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...

Entrained cortical delta–spindle activity, not periodic synchrony, prevents arousal by NREM thalamic bursts www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🚨 Preprint altert 🚨 **Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed** www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!

Research shows the positive impact of #dreaming on #memory and #learning. This study experimentally induces #dreams focused on #remoteemotionalmemories. academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...

Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal-cortical circuit https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.15.699122v1

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!! This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay! elifesciences.org/articles/99931

MIT News article about our new paper providing a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound for consciousness research: news.mit.edu/2026/new-too... (Original article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41270981/)

Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698827v1

⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)! A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking. 👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

If you are interested in learning more about sleep and dreams and live in the Boston area, there will be a symposium titled “Dream and Engineering” at #MIT on January 10-11, 2026. #dreams #research #Boston dxe.framer.website

Sleep and digital health in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Happy new year to all !

⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉 Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience. Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound! Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8

🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨 Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache Illustration: Ana Yael. 1/n

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲! Join us at 4:00 pm CET for our final ESRS/SRS Joint Seminar of the year, marking the Winter Solstice. 🔗 Register here: https://ow.ly/2bzt50XN1ib #ESRS #sleepscience