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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 Fridayโ€™s rally. Sharing them here in case they inspire others to make their own! @standupforscience.bsky.socialโ€ฌ
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

02.03.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 515    ๐Ÿ” 95    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

"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."

25.02.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Social Science & Medicine | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Social Science & Medicine | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect Read the latest articles of Social Science & Medicine at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevierโ€™s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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...

11.01.2025 00:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Associations of personality traits with actigraphic sleep in middle-aged and older adults - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Associations of personality traits with actigraphic sleep in middle-aged and older adults

Hot off the (virtual) press! #personality #sleep #actigraphy #aging

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10.01.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Modifiable Risk Factors: Sleep | Alzheimer's Association
YouTube video by Alzheimer's Association Modifiable Risk Factors: Sleep | Alzheimer's Association

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...

10.01.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 donโ€™t really thrive late at night.

Night owl tendencies aren't always in one's best interest:
"aligning with oneโ€™s chronotype was not the best choice for everyoneโ€™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 couldnโ€™t'.โ€

18.11.2024 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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