Adam Spira
@adamspira.bsky.social
Husband, dad, professor (sleep and aging), & guitar player.
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My colleague and friend, Silvia Bunge, a developmental neuroscience professor at UC Berkeley, created these fantastic signs for Friday’s rally. Sharing them here in case they inspire others to make their own! @standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
March 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My colleague and friend, Silvia Bunge, a developmental neuroscience professor at UC Berkeley, created these fantastic signs for Friday’s rally. Sharing them here in case they inspire others to make their own! @standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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"VA researchers whose contracts are about to expire . . . will not be renewed, even when funding [through extramural grants is] in place to pay them. Should the VA continue this policy . . . over the months to come, the entire VA research workforce could be decimated."
NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan
prospect.org/health/2025-...
prospect.org/health/2025-...
VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
prospect.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"VA researchers whose contracts are about to expire . . . will not be renewed, even when funding [through extramural grants is] in place to pay them. Should the VA continue this policy . . . over the months to come, the entire VA research workforce could be decimated."
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Pleased to announce the Social Science & Medicine call for papers on "Education, ageing and global health". Extended abstracts due 3/31/2025. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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January 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Pleased to announce the Social Science & Medicine call for papers on "Education, ageing and global health". Extended abstracts due 3/31/2025. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Hi Everyone! My first post here. :)
Check out this video on sleep and brain health I made for the Alzheimer's Association...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7t...
Check out this video on sleep and brain health I made for the Alzheimer's Association...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7t...
Modifiable Risk Factors: Sleep | Alzheimer's Association
YouTube video by Alzheimer's Association
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January 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hi Everyone! My first post here. :)
Check out this video on sleep and brain health I made for the Alzheimer's Association...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7t...
Check out this video on sleep and brain health I made for the Alzheimer's Association...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7t...
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Night owl tendencies aren't always in one's best interest:
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”
Night owl behavior could hurt mental health, sleep study finds
In a new, large-scale study of sleep behavior, Stanford Medicine scientists found that night owls don’t really thrive late at night.
med.stanford.edu
November 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Night owl tendencies aren't always in one's best interest:
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”