Dr. Ana Pocivavsek

American Insomnia Tossing and turning through our national sleep crisis

The tips one commonly reads to get better sleep—eight hours a night, avoiding naps, cool rooms—are abundant. They’re also as insipid as they sound, @jennifersenior.bsky.social writes.

From The Atlantic’s August issue, what Americans get so wrong about sleep:

A deep learning software tool for automated sleep staging in rats via single channel EEG - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience Our study presents a new deep learning model for automatically analyzing sleep patterns in rats using EEG data. This model was trained on one dataset and tested on two others, showing it can adapt to ...

🌟 New paper alert 🌟 Collaboration with computer science 💻colleagues using #DeepLearningModel to classify #sleep stages #NREMsleep #REMsleep #wake in single channel EEG recordings from rats 🐀

Published in @dpn-journal.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Functional Impairments in Learning and Signal Propagation Following Prenatal Kynurenine Treatment in Mice The levels of kynurenic acid (KYNA), a metabolite of the kynurenine pathway (KP) of tryptophan degradation, are elevated in the brain of persons with schizophrenia (SZ) and may be linked to cognitive...

📣 📣 New publication alert 📣 📣 Long-lasting impairments (behavior, electrophysiology) in mice 🐭 that received prenatal exposure to elevated #kynurenine! International 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 collaboration made possible by support from NIMH P50 Conte Center! #schizophrenia

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So excited for the INAUGURAL #GRCPsychedelics !! Can't wait to see everyone and hear some great science 🧠🧠

GenAI and the psychology of work

Opinion by Erik Hermann, Stefano Puntoni, & Carey Morewedge
tinyurl.com/uzj7pnup

📣 #PNIRS2025 Full Program is now available!

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Tag us or use #PNIRS2025 as you post about the annual meeting — We’d love to connect and repost! 🤩

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Congrats 🎉🎊🍾 You are going to rock and roll as a leader… as you always have! 👏

Canada Excellence Research Chair Positions Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

Assistant Professor

🌟🧠 University of South Carolina School of Medicine seeks open rank tenure/tenure-track faculty ppn.med.sc.edu

🌟🧠 Are you conducting research in neuroscience across the lifespan using clinical, neuropsychological, genetic, and/or brain imaging approaches? APPLY HERE:
uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/178...

Excited to announce an official scientific statement from the @americanheart.bsky.social!

"Multidimensional Sleep Health: Definitions and Implications for Cardiometabolic Health"

Special thanks to @m-pst-ongephd.bsky.social

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

🥳 ⭐ 😍 Go Mike! Proud of you! Best of luck in the race!

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work!

Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week.

Please share widely!

Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring - Biology of Sex Differences Background Disruptions in brain development can impact behavioral traits and increase the risk of neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disord...

📣 ✨New Paper Alert✨ 📣 Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring published in @ossdcomm.bsky.social Biology of #SexDifferences 🐀😴 🧠 #sleep #mitochondria #cognition #breastmilk bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards

THE Michael Meaney

Incredible experience participating in this Resilience workshop @nationalacademies.org. Inspired and committed to this important research

ACNP Travel Award Submissions open on Thursday, March 31, 2025. For more information, visit https://t.co/zSCC9OJZ51 #ACNP2026 #travelawards

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

The importance of considering time of day for metabolic experiments

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

👏👏👏 congrats!!! 🥳🥳🥳

The Cost of Cutting NIH Research: Voices from the Frontlines A candid conversation between a professor and a Ph.D. candidate about potential NIH funding cuts and their impact on the future of medical research.

A great podcast accompanying the Tradeoffs story I posted yesterday...Worth the 20ish minutes but be prepared to be enraged...

tradeoffs.org/2025/03/13/c...

My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇

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Happy International Women’s Day

Chair - Department of Psychiatry - Chapel Hill, North Carolina job with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 863298 The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and visionary leader..

UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry.

Please share.

www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...

Well, that was quick!

From Charles River: Effective March 4, 2025, the US has imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products entering the US. This tariff applies to shipments of animals from our colonies in Canada including Hartley Guinea Pigs, NZW Rabbits, and B6ALBINO, C57BL/6-E, and CD1-E mice.

A new cookbook ties healthy eating to good sleep Eating greasy food can keep you awake at night. But does good food help you sleep? The answer is yes, according to Marie-Pierre St-Onge, a professor and sleep researcher at Columbia University.

Big thanks to Albert Stumm for digging into @m-pst-ongephd.bsky.social & my new sleep-supporting cookbook. Check out his piece for the AP (and one of our favorite recipes!) here: apnews.com/article/food...

Congrats @juliamitchell.bsky.social 👏👏 love to hear it!

Nailed it @itsmebenmarsh.substack.com

Today, we celebrated the groundbreaking for our new School of Medicine in the historic BullStreet District in downtown Columbia, a vision more than a decade in the making.

Learn more about the School of Medicine Columbia and our Health Sciences Campus. 🩺 go.sc.edu/SOMCGroundbreaking

Love this bright news today!!! Congrats Alissa!!!

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...