Nat Marshall

Definately my weirdest scientific idea yet: Can humans sleep one half of their brains at a time when they sleep in water, like dolphins do? Certainly no proof of that yet - but we have a method to maybe catch it. And, Yes, a human can fall asleep floating in a fluid. lnkd.in/gUHSRjug

Cannabinoid products may reduce total sleep time in adults with insomnia: new study Any reduction in sleep time for people with clinical insomnia could be concerning.

Cannabinoid products may reduce total sleep time in adults with insomnia: new study
theconversation.com/cannabinoid-...

Completely scoobied: the confusing world of temperature and pollution effects on sleep apnoea - PubMed Completely scoobied: the confusing world of temperature and pollution effects on sleep apnoea

There’s definately something different between bedroom temp and outdoor temperature that still has me completely scoobied pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26521276/

Ambient temperature and obstructive sleep apnea: effects on sleep, sleep apnea, and morning alertness - PubMed This study is registered in ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00544752.

Fantastic analysis @bastien-lechat.bsky.social but then I'm thinking back to this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22467989/

Venn (1866) described the problem with the "sharpshooter fallacy": 🎯 painting the bullseye on the spot where a bullet hits a door.
In psychology, we call this "HARKing" — Hypothesizing After Results Are Known.

We're going to need a bigger boat

Are you assuming your audience is highly educated in the right way?

A graph showing the change from baseline in average sleep latency on the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT)

In the TAK-861-2001 trial involving 112 participants with narcolepsy type 1, oveporexton significantly improved measures of wakefulness, sleepiness, and cataplexy over a period of 8 weeks. Full trial results: nej.md/3ZdlKNi

#MedSky #NeuroSky

Facepalm

Figure of survival curve showing no difference

There you have it: BEDMED published in @jama.com

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

h/t @drjmluther.bsky.social

No difference in bedtime versus morning BP meds - as expected

#NephSky #Hypertension
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SPIRIT 2025 explanation and elaboration: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials High quality protocols facilitate proper planning, conduct, reporting, and external review of randomised trials, yet their completeness varies and key elements are often not considered. To strengthen ...

The new SPIRIT statement 2025 for how to write your clinical trial protocol www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Improving the completeness and transparency of protocols and reports of randomized trials: SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

New treatments to put insomnia to bed Drugs that eliminate wakefulness, molecules in cannabis and wearable devices that modulate brain activity could help those with the condition.

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

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Authors, editors, reviewers, and other potential users should use CONSORT 2025 when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent.

Learn more in this Special Communication. https://ja.ma/3Yyu0Hh

Hardly anybody has been trained to read the methods section

Bias written in wooden blocks

Risk of bias assessment of randomised controlled trials has become an essential step in the systematic review process.

A new tool allows users to assess risk of bias of RCTs included in systematic reviews in a user friendly way
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

What role for wakefulness promotors? How well do they really work and what are the side-effects? Julia Chapman and I's latest editorial discussing the latest trial evidence authors.elsevier.com/c/1kkb52p-lG...

Because you don't need a license or any training to publish 'epidemiology'?

People in industrial societies get more sleep than hunter-gatherers Individuals in industrialised societies seem to sleep for longer than people in non-industrialised ones, but their circadian rhythms are more out of sync

Do modern post-industrialised society members sleep more than hunter-gatherers? Somewhat accurately partially quoted in New Scientist. Big sample sizes don't fix the non-representative sampling problem. www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

Not historic enough. Need to upgrade to the Antonine Plague or cholera reactivated from handling John Snow's lab equipment.

Interventions for gut flora to improve health?

And of course one by Senn too...

It seems to have learned German since your trip

19 pieces of teaching advice Because it's a new semester

New post:
smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/19-pieces-...

Do you hurkle-durkle? What you should know about the Scots word for lying in bed If you’re active on social media, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen this Scots word floating around.

Hurkle-durkle. I'm a year late to the party but this is a useful Scots word to know #SleepPeeps www.scotsman.com/news/scotlan...

Congrats!

I just get my integral specialists to write a sentence or two about what they did. Then they meet the requirements.

It's gone away for 20 minutes and double cross checked and promised not to make up references. Came back with only one peer-reviewed journal article and it's made up. It's very sorry and has gone away for 20 more minutes to not make up any in the next iteration.

Have spent an entertaining 20 minutes trying to convince chat GPT to stop lying about it's reference section on a topic I know quite well. No matter what it tells you it's making up references. It seems to not be able to not make up references.

Phew!