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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 2d

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 2d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

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uk-nb.bsky.social @uk-nb.bsky.social · 7d

why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too

https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/173671/

The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have…

why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too - United Kingdom News Beep

The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have undoubtedly made

www.newsbeep.com

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 9d

New paper! 🧠💤

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Led by Pauline Dodet - @dreamteamicm.bsky.social

We show that #sleep stage mixing predicts poor prognosis in #Parkinson.

Stage mixing = intrusions of wake-like activity during sleep, and vice versa. Estimated with hypnodensities extracted from PSG.

Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson’s disease - npj Parkinson's Disease

npj Parkinson's Disease - Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson’s disease

www.nature.com

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 10d

The @dreamteamicm.bsky.social has launched an online survey about the things you experience when you fall asleep!

Everyone is different, so we need you to tell us!
It will take only 20 minutes, but it will mean a lot to dream researchers like us!
redcap.link/DriftingMinds

Please, share!
🧠💤

Landing Page

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Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Daily dynamics of the temporal orientations of mind wandering: chronotype matters!
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

#consciousness #sleep
🧠🧪💤

Daily dynamics of the temporal orientations of mind wandering: chronotype matters!

Abstract. Theoretical accounts link mind wandering with attentional and executive processes, both of which exhibit time-of-day fluctuations influenced by c

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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · 13d

📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social

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Nirmitee Mulay @nirmiteem.bsky.social · 14d

It's that time of the year! Come join us in sunny San Sebastian for three days of neuroscience, collaboration & (ofc) a lot of fun! :)

BrainHack Donostia @bhdonostia.bsky.social · 19d

Registration is now OPEN for BrainHack Donostia 2025!

📅 19–21 November 2025
📍 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

👉 Reserve your spot now:
brainhack-donostia.github.io/registration...

Let’s build open neuroscience together in Donostia!

#BHD2025 #BrainHack #OpenScience #Neuroscience #Donostia

BHD 2025 - Brainhack Donostia 2025

brainhack-donostia.github.io

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Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 19d

Cannabis and sleep architecture: A systematic review and meta-analysis

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A follow-up to this SRS podcast:

sleepresearchsocietypodcast.podbean.com/e/srs-podcas...

Cannabis and sleep architecture: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Cannabis use for sleep is increasingly prevalent, yet its effects on sleep architecture remain unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis exami…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨

We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:

⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling

If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...

2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

www.fens.org

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Thomas Schreiner @tschreiner.bsky.social · 23d

🚀 Excited to share our lab’s contributions at #ICON2025 in Porto!
Catch talks & posters from
@aprilzhao.bsky.social
@asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
@fabian31415.bsky.social
@estebanbt.bsky.social

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SPACE Lab @spacelabimt.bsky.social · 24d

🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!

Neuroscience of Dreaming - Summer School
May 4-8, 2026 @ IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 24d

"Sleep, like aging, may be an inescapable consequence of aerobic metabolism."

Really enjoyed this thought-provoking paper 🧠💤🪰 - congrats to @rafsarnataro.bsky.social and team on this impressive work!

No wonder the Krebs cycle always put me to sleep 😅

#neuroskyence

Nature @nature.com · Jul 22

Nature research paper: Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep

go.nature.com/40oC7Y4

Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature

Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.

go.nature.com

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SPACE Lab @spacelabimt.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New preprint 🚨
"Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." We analyzed 1,024 awakenings collected across 196 nights with high-density EEG (256 ch.) to explore the relationship between dreaming and subjective sleep depth.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure

Perceived sleep depth is a key determinant of subjective sleep quality, traditionally thought to reflect unconsciousness and reduced cortical activation. Here, we combined high-density EEG with a seri...

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Yuval Nir @labnir.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨(1/6)

Excited to share our work, out now in Science Advances

We show that a rapid norepinephrine surge along a brainstem pathway (LC→PRN) is a key driver of sound-evoked awakenings
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An early surge of norepinephrine along brainstem pathways drives sensory-evoked awakening

The locus coeruleus has a specialized pathway to the brainstem that controls sound-evoked awakening from sleep.

www.science.org

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Yuval Nir @labnir.bsky.social · 29d

Aperiodic EEG Activity Provides a Linear, Bidirectional, and Spatially Uniform Marker of Subjective and Objective Vigilance in Humans, Both Within and Across States www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Aperiodic EEG Activity Provides a Linear, Bidirectional, and Spatially Uniform Marker of Subjective and Objective Vigilance in Humans, Both Within and Across States

Vigilance is increasingly conceived as a continuum, ranging from full alertness to deep sleep. Despite its fundamental role in cognition, behaviour, and health, reliable physiological markers of vigil...

www.biorxiv.org

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Fosco Bernasconi @foscobernasconi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slow waves during sleep are fundamental for neural homeostasis and are impaired in neurodegenerative diseases. But what about sleep-like slow waves during wakefulness? Are these slow waves altered in Parkinson's disease? Are these slow waves uncovering psychosis?

Sleep-like slow waves during wakefulness uncover a malignant form of Parkinson’s disease

Slow waves during sleep are fundamental for neural homeostasis, metabolic regulation, and waste clearance, and are known to be altered in neurodegenerative diseases. Sleep-like slow waves (SLSW) have ...

www.medrxiv.org

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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Sep 7

🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪

What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?

We explore this possibility in a new review:
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!

#consciousness #dreaming

Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing

Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Sep 6

Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Sep 4

🧠 New preprint! 🧠

As part of a forthcoming book on consciousness, we wrote a chapter on:

Spontaneous thoughts and experiences across wakefulness and sleep
osf.io/preprints/ps...

with @parboulakis.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social and @jdsitt.bsky.social

A brief 🧵!

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Sep 3

📜 ¡New preprint! 📜

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧪🧠

With amazing alumni from @mesec-community.bsky.social and including:
@zefanzheng.bsky.social
@robertchisciure.bsky.social
@jaanaru.bsky.social
@bechir-jarraya.bsky.social

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Valentina Elce @valentinaelce.bsky.social · Sep 2

🔔New preprint out!

We reviewed how RBD medications affect dream content.

Take home message: the need for standardization and methodological rigor in future studies.

“The effects of RBD Medications on Dream Content: A Critical Review of Evidence” is now available here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Omer Sharon @omersharon.bsky.social · Aug 23

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...

REM Sleep Misfires: Intruding Delta Waves Forecast Tau, Amyloid, and Forgetting in Aging

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep degrades with age, and more severely in Alzheimer's disease (AD). REM sleep comprises about twenty percent of adult sleep, alternates between phasic and tonic periods, a...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Aug 24

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Martyna Rakowska, Penelope A. Lewis, et al:

Distributed and gradual microstructure changes are associated with the emergence of behavioural benefit from memory reactivation

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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