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Eti Ben Simon @sleepingeti.bsky.social · 1d

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Eti Ben Simon @sleepingeti.bsky.social · 1d

Our research on sleep loss and misinformation is nominated for the Mind Science People’s Choice Award🥳Help us win by casting your vote in the link below🙌Voting closes October 14th.
#MindScience #BrainStorm2025 #SleepScience

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Eti Ben Simon @sleepingeti.bsky.social · Dec 5

A 4-day working week boosts sleep *and* work performance. What are we waiting for? 🙌
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

How can a 4-day working week increase wellbeing at no cost to performance?

The 4-day working week is gaining interest, with international trials reporting enhanced staff wellbeing and performance, despite spending less time on the job. Here, we argue that improved performance on a 4-day working week arises through two psychological mechanisms of recovery and motivation: because better rested, better motivated brains, create better work.

www.cell.com

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Dec 2

POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to [email protected]] - please repost

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Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social · Nov 21

"Congratulations! You didn’t die of measles." @laurahelmuth.bsky.social on the miracle of vaccines are, and the dangers of RFK Jr.
slate.com/_pages/cm3qc...

There Are Three Main Reasons You Are Alive Right Now. RFK Jr. Is Fighting Tooth and Nail Against One of Them.

Things could get really bad.

slate.com

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · Nov 21

Fantastic piece from Cecilie, who had three kids during her PhD but was also incredibly productive publishing top papers & doing groundbreaking work whilst facing many challenges. Immensely proud of all she's achieved! Excellent call for how academia could better accommodate life-work balance! 👇👏

Cecilie S Traberg @cecilietraberg.bsky.social · Nov 21

Sharing this feels vulnerable but meaningful. 💛

In this piece for @natureportfolio.bsky.social, I reflect on having 3 children during my PhD - why I’d do it all over again, but also why academia shouldn’t make it this hard for parents to thrive.🍼🎓

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I had three children during my PhD: here’s what I learnt

Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg worried that choosing to have children during her graduate studies might signal a lack of career dedication.

www.nature.com

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · Oct 12

Is anyone looking for post-doc experience and pubs in sleep/circadian science and/or clinical psychology and/or implementation science? If so, please reach out! [email protected] #impsci #sleep&circadian @ABCTNOW @PCSASNews

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · Oct 3

We're starting to get September updates to global temperature data sets. First up is ERA5. The plot shows Septembers from 1850-2023. Not only does ERA5 break the record, it breaks it by a record amount and a huge margin. 🧵

Graph of global mean temperature for Septembers from September 1850 to September 2023. September 2023 is by far and away the warmest September on record globally. Six datasets are shown with good agreement between them, but only ERA5 is updated to 2023 so far.

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · Sep 29

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology! I am search committee chair! Help us find a new excellent colleague - please share!

uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa...

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Eti Ben Simon @sleepingeti.bsky.social · Oct 2

Definitely evening time. 5 to 10 pm 🦉

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Oct 2

I used to use Pew research data in a PSY111 class demonstration of cognitive biases, showing that although students strongly believed gun violence was on the rise, it had actually been declining for many years.

Have had to ditch that demonstration in recent years... 😔

#PsySciSky

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Oct 1

The number of kids killed by gunfire in the US rose 50% in two years. 2021, the most recent year with available data, had the highest recorded count of kids killed by gunfire since at least 1999, when the CDC began making this data available.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Chart showing that in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590.

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Eti Ben Simon @sleepingeti.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thanks Allison! That's a wonderful idea.