Martin Dresler

Please note that the duration not of the project, but of the application needs to be 6-18 months. Seems not unrealistic for writing up something transformative.

Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!

Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute:

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

FENS‐Kavli Network of Excellence: Postponed, non‐competitive peer review for research funding Receiving research grants is among the highlights of an academic career, affirming previous accomplishments and enabling new research endeavours. Much of the process of acquiring research funding, ho...

Some ideas how to fix/improve the system:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research Nature Human Behaviour - Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research

While much of the procedure is still inefficient, any reduction in the numbers of full proposals is likely a net win for the scientific community in a system that is to a large extent a lottery:

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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

According to the new NWO procedures, the project description isn’t considered at all for the evaluation of the pre-proposal though, it’s only intended to help with finding reviewers in case you make it to the second round.

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

Empirically, more extensive project descriptions do not affect the eventual decision anyway:

"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers | BBC Science Focus Magazine We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 20...

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century:

1. Dream engineering

"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."

www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total.
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#Musicscience

Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur

Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

I am now a Recommender (similar to Action Editor) at @pci-regreports.bsky.social. If you have any Registered Reports in the area of Sleep and Dreaming, I'd be very happy to take them on! #sleeppeeps

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Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

Arguably this is 2 pages too many, given that grant decisions are mostly based on CV + abstract:

"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming We asked experts to share tips on how to take control of dreams once you realize you’re in it

Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School

Neuroscience of Dreaming

Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy

Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab

Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring

🎶🛏️ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience

Hersenhacken voor een diepe slaap Een goede nachtrust komt zowel ons brein, als ons lichaam ten goede. Wetenschappers werken daarom aan methodes om onze diepe slaap te ‘hacken’. Wat mogen we daarvan de komende tijd verwachten?

NEMO museum in Amsterdam is located in a fantastic futuristic building, which looks like a spacecraft departing into the future
NEMO team also does a lot for science communication with their online journal
Some time ago, I gave them a short comment on the current sleep-enhancement technology

<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library Sleep and dreams are frequent themes in science fiction (Sci-Fi) literature and films, often used to explore questions about consciousness, reality, technology and the human experience. Sci-Fi author...

Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from?

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

Neuroscience of Dreaming - Summer School May 4-8, 2026 @ IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!

17,058 proposals received, 1,650 to be funded.

Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts).

Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...

Disturbed sleep is a leading symptom and likely causal factor for the development of psychiatric diseases such as mood disorders.

Here we review how sleep is altered in depression, and discuss the role of sleep for therapeutic approaches:

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Scientific poster on dreaming

If you are at #WorldSleep25 and interested in Dreaming, come by my Poster 75 at 5.30 today! Also happy to chat about any other of my interests, such as infant sleep, gut microbiota, and so on, at the poster or over a tea! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur

🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪

What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?

We explore this possibility in a new review:
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!

#consciousness #dreaming

From sleep 💤 to dreams 🌙 to daydreams ☁️ - what is the brain up to?

I’m excited to host a mini-symposium before my PhD defense! Join us in person or online, details in the flyer!

@sarahschoch.bsky.social @dresler.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social

Furman Sleep Lab Participate in Dream Research! Why do you dream? Help us find out via a remote 10-day survey. Participants will receive up to $75 on completion of the study. Sign up here: https://furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_574ifz2NqDP9oJU and email sleepandcognitionlab@gmail.com with any questions.

Our lab is starting a new study on dreaming
🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate!

If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦

‪Excited to share that the 1. International Conf. on Music & Sleep (May 6–8, 2026) takes place in the stunning Chamber Music Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus 🎶 A bright, elegant venue with views of ARoS. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
@lullabyte.bsky.social #ConfMusSleep #musicscience ‪‬

Experimentally Inducing Dreams of Remote Emotional Memory Abstract. People frequently dream of recent experiences, which may reflect the consolidation of memories in the sleeping brain. Many studies demonstrate th

🚨New Paper🚨

I spend a lot of time trying to control what people dream about.

Usually, we are looking at dreams of recent memory.

In this new paper, for the first time, we caused people to dream about a specific REMOTE memory from their distant past.

#cogsci
#psychscisky
🧠🟦

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

A dream EEG and mentation database Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...

Dream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep

Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !