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Rebecca Spencer

@rebicca.bsky.social

Sleep neuroscientist๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿง , trail runner ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ, triathlete๐Ÿšด๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ, explorer of WMass/VT/the world, ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ง + ๐Ÿพ, UMass fan, traveler โœˆ๏ธ, Made in MI โœ‹๐Ÿผ

411 Followers  |  145 Following  |  15 Posts  |  Joined: 04.10.2023  |  1.4809

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Hey #sleeppeeps - Iโ€™m in the northeast U.S. going to #worldsleep2025 in Singapore: give me your long-haul flight, 12 timezone sleep adaptation plan. Prescription or OTC meds? Itโ€™s going to be too cool to be a zombie!

18.08.2025 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New podcast alert!

Check out the Brain Architects new lest episode wherever you listen!

#sleeppeeps

29.07.2025 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pediatric sleep electrophysiology: Using polysomnography in developmental cognitive neuroscience Research suggests a bidirectional relationship between brain and cognitive development and sleep in early childhood. Polysomnography is essential for โ€ฆ

Check out our new paper helping more labs include PSG in their developmental cogneuro toolbox! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#devcogneuro #sleeppeeps #cogdevsoc

29.04.2025 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love my #textbookupdatingpeeps !โค๏ธ

20.12.2024 00:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Does slow oscillation-spindle coupling contribute to sleep-dependent memory consolidation? A Bayesian meta-analysis

#sleeppeeps check out this new meta-analysis which provides great guidance on spindle-slow oscillation measurement which has been highly variable across papers! This work was done in my lab @umass by Thea Ng, an undergraduate @MountHolyoke!

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

19.12.2024 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Weโ€™ve been using the Activinsight Genactivs for over a year. Theyโ€™re great. We had a study with Fitbits and fits hitting the shan accessing that data now that Google took over!

09.11.2024 10:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Power Of Distributed Sleep | Article | Child & Family Blog Discover the benefits and drawbacks of distributed sleep for infants and babies. Backed by data and research.

Our lab has extended our work to infants. Hereโ€™s a piece I wrote describing our preliminary study that led to the current R01 work weโ€™re doing. Check it out! childandfamilyblog.com/the-power-of... #infantsleep #sleepscience #babysleep #sleeppeeps

19.12.2023 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey #sleeppeeps! The SLEEP 2024 session proposal deadline is 12/20. Plenty of time to get together with colleagues and come up with an amazing submission! Sleepmeeting.org/session-proposals/

16.11.2023 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Session Proposals โ€“ SLEEP Meeting

#Sleep&Circadian #sleeppeeps - please submit a session proposal for SLEEP2024! Due 12/20.

tinyurl.com/393w6fh3

28.10.2023 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NOT-OD-24-010: Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Project Grant Applications NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Project Grant Applications NOT-OD-24-010. NIH

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Will this
A. be a major shift in the review process or
B. reviewers will force-fit their biased ways into the new structure and nothing will change?
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21.10.2023 12:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, their examples were quite extreme!! Sheesh!

21.10.2023 01:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is more conservative than I thought we should be. If NIH funded a dataset that is analyzed to answer something quite different than the grant scope, wouldnโ€™t you still credit that grant? (E.g., If someone uses my actigraphy data to study physical activity) This would say no?

21.10.2023 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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! aharvey@berkeley.edu #impsci #sleep&circadian @ABCTNOW @PCSASNews

12.10.2023 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The older population would probably sleep better if reassured of a natural decline in sleep with age that may not all be linked to devastating consequences. We donโ€™t actually know how much they need so to say itโ€™s not enough is a bit of a lie. Itโ€™s the dirty little secret of the sleep field!

13.10.2023 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And tacos! ๐ŸŒฎ ๐Ÿบ

06.10.2023 11:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My absolute favorite day of the year! And the only thing we have to show for it is our brand spanking new BlueSky connection! (And a beer in my hotel fridge!) ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

06.10.2023 04:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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