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Tony Cunningham

@tonycunningham.bsky.social

Fiona & Cormac's dad | Assistant Professor & Director of the Center for Sleep & Cognition (CfSC) at Harvard Medical School & Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center | Licensed Clin Psychologist #BLM he/him Go Irish!☘️ https://www.centerforsleepandcognition.com/

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𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗦𝗥𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀

As an EC, have you ever missed out on a conference because of costs, visa issues, or caregiving responsibilities? 🧵

Take part in our survey & share your experiences warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

⏱️ 10-15 min

01.09.2025 09:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Been awhile since i bumped this. Love scrolling thru the feeds (and wouldn't be surprised if there is an easier way to do this now)

29.08.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FEMA Suspends Staff Who Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

Fuck these fascists. Keep writing letters. #Standupforscience!

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27.08.2025 12:48 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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On the next Call In Show Aparna Nancherla and I want to hear your NIGHTTIME WEIRDNESS stories! Tell us about the weird shit that happened to you at night. Fill out the Google Form in my bio or leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604

21.08.2025 23:06 — 👍 83    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

Any reason why Grants.gov passwords are expiring every 60 days aside from being wildly annoying, esp given the criteria to generate new ones?

25.08.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

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...

23.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 25    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

I volunteered for this.

I don't exactly have time, but... my life is enriched whenever I find new ways to productively procrastinate on bullshit that doesn't matter, using an overcommitment that DOES matter.

#psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦

24.08.2025 11:59 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas!

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

24.08.2025 22:15 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

#sleeppeeps:

22.08.2025 12:02 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.

15.08.2025 17:22 — 👍 25    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 0
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LOL the 15 forms i have to fill out just to get reimbursed for conference travel would like a word....

13.08.2025 01:19 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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One thing I learned as a father is just how ridiculous low the bar is set for us culturally. Literally just holding our child gets profuse praise while our female partners would get judged for not doing enough while doing the same thing.

09.08.2025 12:15 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

#SleepPeeps... If my students and I did a study on #dreaming, and tried to recruit participants on Bluesky, would you do it?

Would involve 30min Zoom meeting and recording your dreams + answering lengthy surveys across a week or so. Small $$ compensation.

__yes
__no

#psychscisky
#neuroskyence

17.06.2025 11:59 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0
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My wife bought me and my daughter tickets to a movie for Father's Day and of course my daughter decided it needed to be a formal affair. Best dressed in our row at the very least!

Happy Dad's Day! 🥰🫶🌈

16.06.2025 02:45 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Even the Marriott knows we got a little more to go... Happy Wednesday #SLEEP2025!

11.06.2025 16:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unihemispheric sleep has its limits, a new study in birds:
www-cell-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/current-biol...

10.06.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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GitHub - SarahSchoch/DreamProcessor: A tool to process dream reports before rating. A tool to process dream reports before rating. Contribute to SarahSchoch/DreamProcessor development by creating an account on GitHub.

I made some tools for our (MANY!) dream reports. I am making them openly available for others to use! First DreamProcessor github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a simple tool to preprocess dream reports (clean, anonymize, split) that integrates semiautomatic approaches. #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

10.06.2025 14:07 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

😭😭😭

10.06.2025 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I still get so proud when I hear #UCSF mentioned at a conference. Listening to Dr. Sonia Ancoli-Israel talk about her career trajectory, mentees, colleagues--she trained at UCSF. Not a dry eye in the room at #SLEEP2025.

09.06.2025 20:47 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking forward to sharing our recent work at #SLEEP2025! Circadian Medicine session starting in about an hour and I’ll be discussing approaches to timing cancer immunotherapy. See you there!

09.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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So many great talks at #SLEEP2025! If you missed my poster today, you can stop by tomorrow for my next one!

10:00-10:45
Depressive and Dysregulated: Examining Personality Factors Among Bedtime Procrastinators
Poster 43

09.06.2025 21:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

How do astronauts sleep in space? Learning right now at #SLEEP2025 from #NASA scientist. Talking position (tethered to wall) fluid distribution (face gets puffy), noise (printer going, communications), temperature, air quality (CO2), lighting (eye masks to block light), workload/schedule issues.

09.06.2025 21:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

He's gotta catch me first 😭

09.06.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Even though I lived in Washington for 12 years during my grad and postdoc training, it always felt temporary. But being back in Seattle feels a bit like home. 🌲🗻☕️ #SLEEP2025

09.06.2025 19:56 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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🌙✨ SHINE Science at #SLEEP2025 - featuring the CASH Lab ✨🌙

🧠💤 The Cognitive Aging in Sleep Health (CASH) Lab will be at the upcoming SLEEP 2025 Conference in Seattle, WA.

📍Check them out and learn more about their exciting work!

#SHINEscienceatSLEEP #Cognition #Sleep #HealthyAging #AASM #SRS

04.06.2025 20:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm in Seattle at #SLEEP2025! Come see me at poster 52 on Tuesday 6/10 at 11am! It's called "No Added Benefit of Targeted Memory Reactivation During Naps on Negative Memory Rescripting" because that is what we found!

08.06.2025 21:29 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ready for our picture @matthorsnell.bsky.social!!

09.06.2025 16:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Ready for you @matthorsnell.bsky.social !!

09.06.2025 06:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tony's feet with marvelously painted toenails by his 7 year old daughter

Tony's feet with marvelously painted toenails by his 7 year old daughter

Forgot to get an action shot of the artist, but the daddy-daughter pedicure tradition continues in preparation for #SLEEP2025! 💅🫶🌈

08.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a hat is sitting in a crowd and says boo this man boo ! ALT: a man in a hat is sitting in a crowd and says boo this man boo !
07.06.2025 03:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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