Michael Antle PhD 🇨🇦
@drmikeantle.bsky.social
Circadian Rhythms Researcher. Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary. Fan of interesting music, particularly music from 🇨🇦 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇬🇧
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Do you really hate the “spring forward” time change? Read this thread to learn why, and to learn why DST in the winter would be even worse 1/10
Spending Sunday with #GeddyLee. For the reissue on vinyl, they updated the album title to the Canadian spelling: "My Favourite Headache" 🇨🇦
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Spending Sunday with #GeddyLee. For the reissue on vinyl, they updated the album title to the Canadian spelling: "My Favourite Headache" 🇨🇦
I'm warming my ears up for the #NeObliviscaris show tomorrow night! They'll be performing this album Citadel and their most recent album Exul in full. And #RiversOfNihil will open by performing their newest album in full. Should be an amazing night!
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I'm warming my ears up for the #NeObliviscaris show tomorrow night! They'll be performing this album Citadel and their most recent album Exul in full. And #RiversOfNihil will open by performing their newest album in full. Should be an amazing night!
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"The circadian rhythm extends far beyond sleep. It controls metabolism, your mood, how sharp you are at what time of the day, your alertness, all kinds of things."
www.americanscientist.org/article/fixi...
www.americanscientist.org/article/fixi...
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"The circadian rhythm extends far beyond sleep. It controls metabolism, your mood, how sharp you are at what time of the day, your alertness, all kinds of things."
www.americanscientist.org/article/fixi...
www.americanscientist.org/article/fixi...
So proud of our amazing undergrad Shafaq Batool For being selected as a Rhodes Scholar!
www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgar...
www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgar...
UCalgary student named Rhodes Scholar for work in health equity and global advocacy
Fourth-year psychology student Shafaq Batool will head to Oxford to advance women’s health research and foster systems that empower marginalized communities
www.ucalgary.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So proud of our amazing undergrad Shafaq Batool For being selected as a Rhodes Scholar!
www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgar...
www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgar...
#NeObliviscaris are one of my recent addictions. Just got a copy of their first album on vinyl. MDM from Australia 🇦🇺 with a violin. It's an amazing album, but if you've got 12 minutes to spare, give "And plague flowers the kaleidoscope" a listen, so much going on in that track, I absolutely love it!
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
#NeObliviscaris are one of my recent addictions. Just got a copy of their first album on vinyl. MDM from Australia 🇦🇺 with a violin. It's an amazing album, but if you've got 12 minutes to spare, give "And plague flowers the kaleidoscope" a listen, so much going on in that track, I absolutely love it!
Magical Auroras in Calgary tonight! I can't remember seeing reds like this in quite some time!
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Magical Auroras in Calgary tonight! I can't remember seeing reds like this in quite some time!
My new favorite song of the season! #savestandardtime youtu.be/7b3I7NicGtM?...
Keep Standard Time ('Time after Time' parody) End Daylight Saving Time!
YouTube video by Trasea
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October 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My new favorite song of the season! #savestandardtime youtu.be/7b3I7NicGtM?...
Very excited to read this. Dr. Temple Grandin has made amazing contributions to Animal welfare and to positive narratives for Autism. It's wonderful that she's quite literally opened herself up to let the world have a peek inside psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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October 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Very excited to read this. Dr. Temple Grandin has made amazing contributions to Animal welfare and to positive narratives for Autism. It's wonderful that she's quite literally opened herself up to let the world have a peek inside psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Happy to share our newest pub, out now in Neuroscience. We show that neurons in the Hamster circadian clock, but not that of the rat or mouse, are surrounded by dense perineuronal nets, possibly explaining why this species has such a precise circadian rhythm. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Perineuronal nets in the rodent suprachiasmatic nucleus
The circadian system maintains highly stable rhythms over the lifespan. The precision of the circadian clock emerges from the network organization of …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Happy to share our newest pub, out now in Neuroscience. We show that neurons in the Hamster circadian clock, but not that of the rat or mouse, are surrounded by dense perineuronal nets, possibly explaining why this species has such a precise circadian rhythm. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Had an opportunity of a lifetime to go to the House of Commons and advocate for ending DST in Canada. Thanks to MP Lalonde and the Canadian Sleep Consortium for the initiative. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Should Canada stop changing the clocks twice a year? MP says it's time | CBC News
An MP says all of Canada should end the practice of changing the clocks twice a year — and is planning on introducing legislation she hopes will ensure the custom is lost to time.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Had an opportunity of a lifetime to go to the House of Commons and advocate for ending DST in Canada. Thanks to MP Lalonde and the Canadian Sleep Consortium for the initiative. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Thought I'd take a trip to my nation's capital.
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Thought I'd take a trip to my nation's capital.
Views from the Bow Valley Parkway during a fall bike ride in Banff. What an amazing country 🇨🇦
September 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Views from the Bow Valley Parkway during a fall bike ride in Banff. What an amazing country 🇨🇦
We're looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Prof in I/O Psychology. This hire is under our Justice theme, and would focus on Equity-Seeking people in the workforce, with particular interest in those who study integrating Indigenous people into the workplace. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1661564...
Assistant Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology in
Calgary,
AB,
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Assistant Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology in
Calgary,
AB,
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careers.ucalgary.ca
September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We're looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Prof in I/O Psychology. This hire is under our Justice theme, and would focus on Equity-Seeking people in the workforce, with particular interest in those who study integrating Indigenous people into the workplace. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1661564...
My copy of the new album from #Blackbraid arrived today. Wonderfully creative Indigenous black metal. I really loved the textures of Blackbraid II. So far, so good on Blackbraid III.
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My copy of the new album from #Blackbraid arrived today. Wonderfully creative Indigenous black metal. I really loved the textures of Blackbraid II. So far, so good on Blackbraid III.
A little #Fallujah to kick off the long weekend. Their new release Xenotaph is really strong. Got to see a couple of the band members guesting with Obscura and Born of Osiris earlier this year. Hopefully there will be a chance to see them preforming their own stuff soon.
August 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A little #Fallujah to kick off the long weekend. Their new release Xenotaph is really strong. Got to see a couple of the band members guesting with Obscura and Born of Osiris earlier this year. Hopefully there will be a chance to see them preforming their own stuff soon.
I'm excited to see the new book on #BiologicalRhytms from Danny Forger at UMich coming out in a couple weeks. Have you pre-ordered you copy yet? mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
Biological Rhythms
From the firing of neurons in a fraction of a second to the monthly cycle of ovulation to a seasonal shift in sleep patterns, the human body runs on rhythms&...
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August 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'm excited to see the new book on #BiologicalRhytms from Danny Forger at UMich coming out in a couple weeks. Have you pre-ordered you copy yet? mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
A fun and whimsical analysis of circadian and time aspects of songs and lives of #TheBeatles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A Hard Day’s Night: The Circadian Beatles - Diego A. Golombek, 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A fun and whimsical analysis of circadian and time aspects of songs and lives of #TheBeatles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Finally getting a chance to spin the new album from #RiversOfNihil. This self-titled release gives a nice overview of all their styles from their previous releases. And yes, the saxophone is still there 🎷
July 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Finally getting a chance to spin the new album from #RiversOfNihil. This self-titled release gives a nice overview of all their styles from their previous releases. And yes, the saxophone is still there 🎷
Finally found a vinyl copy of one of my all-time favorite albums, "In Absentia" from #PorcupineTree. Lots of great tracks, but Trains is a classic and the acoustic guitar section sounds so clear, as if Steven Wilson was right there in the room playing it just for you.
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Finally found a vinyl copy of one of my all-time favorite albums, "In Absentia" from #PorcupineTree. Lots of great tracks, but Trains is a classic and the acoustic guitar section sounds so clear, as if Steven Wilson was right there in the room playing it just for you.
Celebrating the Prince of Darkness with his final album, the Grammy-winning Patient Number 9. The lead-off track "Immortal" is strangly prophetic, as while we're all only on this spinning rock for a while, it is our legacy that makes us immortal, and few have left a legacy quite like #Ozzy
July 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Celebrating the Prince of Darkness with his final album, the Grammy-winning Patient Number 9. The lead-off track "Immortal" is strangly prophetic, as while we're all only on this spinning rock for a while, it is our legacy that makes us immortal, and few have left a legacy quite like #Ozzy
In honor of #BastilleDay, spinning some classic Rush. The lead-off track of Caress of Steel is "Bastille Day". Good track, but "The Necromancer" that ends side 1 and "The Fountain of Lamneth" that takes up all of side 2 are standout tracks for me.
July 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
In honor of #BastilleDay, spinning some classic Rush. The lead-off track of Caress of Steel is "Bastille Day". Good track, but "The Necromancer" that ends side 1 and "The Fountain of Lamneth" that takes up all of side 2 are standout tracks for me.
As a sleep researcher, neuroscientist, and cat owner, how have I never noticed this? Fascinating! 😺
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats
Isparta et al. find that two-thirds of cats prefer to sleep on their left side, indicating
asymmetry at the population level. Because the right hemisphere is specialized for
threat processing, this as...
www.cell.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
As a sleep researcher, neuroscientist, and cat owner, how have I never noticed this? Fascinating! 😺
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Very cool study that was able to use in vivo 2 photon imagining with a calcium reporter to watch how individual cells in our circadian clock respond to time cues (light exposure)
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...
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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment
Deep-brain imaging in awake mice reveals how light resets the circadian clock by activating complex SCN neuron networks.
medicalxpress.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Very cool study that was able to use in vivo 2 photon imagining with a calcium reporter to watch how individual cells in our circadian clock respond to time cues (light exposure)
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...
Daily rhythms affect all life forms, and I guess this includes grass. Turns out later in the day is the best time to mow your lawn. #CircadianRhythms and landscaping unite! www.marthastewart.com/worst-time-t...
This Is the Worst Time of Day to Mow Your Lawn, According to Landscaping Pros
Avoid lawn damage and disease by never mowing your lawn during these times of day, landscaping experts say.
www.marthastewart.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Daily rhythms affect all life forms, and I guess this includes grass. Turns out later in the day is the best time to mow your lawn. #CircadianRhythms and landscaping unite! www.marthastewart.com/worst-time-t...