Heinrich Gompf

I'm so glad that the pandemic finally made us figure out that we can appear for the first day of jury duty selection remotely. With the dogs and everything else, that would have been difficult to do in person tomorrow morning.

Couch. People from PDX will understand.

She flies with her own wings?

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Yep. He’s right. No stores in Portland anymore. I can only eat the food that grows in my garden. And I sew all my own clothing. It’s rough here.

Or….maybe grandpa’s dementia is getting the best of him

If their bloc attire looks like it’s brand new from Lululemon, that’s a huge clue.

My brain is boggling at how scientists are still finding clusters of neurons that they didn't know about before. In the parabrachial nucleus, no less. In my book I described the PBN as the fusebox in the basement #neuroscience

Volkswagen gekauft, kein Volk drin. Das ist Betrug.
#VeggieWurst

Intelligence officials confirm that aluminum tubes used to produce nuclear weapons have been found in Portland.

Will this interfere with the rapture?

The Role of Sleep in Dementia Prevention: Building the Case for Causality

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Today is World #AlzheimersDay
A note of optimism @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Disruption continues at Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin airports after cyber-attack Zaventem asks airlines to cancel half of Monday departures, while most of Heathrow flights expected to operate

Excellent news, the day before flying to Yurp.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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with the all-important "DO NOT USE" label still intact

Verbatim: "White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson described Mr Swain as a "longtime Democrat donor who has spent hundreds of dollars supporting liberal politicians, including loser Kamala Harris, with radical climate policies that the American people have repeatedly rejected."

Cannabis and sleep architecture: A systematic review and meta-analysis Cannabis use for sleep is increasingly prevalent, yet its effects on sleep architecture remain unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis exami…

Cannabis and sleep architecture: A systematic review and meta-analysis

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A follow-up to this SRS podcast:

sleepresearchsocietypodcast.podbean.com/e/srs-podcas...

I really hate this new trend. Having spent a part of my life learning how to fly and thinking of making it a profession, it frustrates the hell out of me to not be able to look out the window. I usually try to get a window seat to preempt anyone else from closing the shade.

Automated Locus Coeruleus segmentation and age-related signal changes across Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI and T1/T2-weighted images https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675918v1

Frontiers | The role of orexin and MCH neurons in the hypothalamus in sleep-wake regulation and learning-forgetting balance Orexin (Orx) and melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) neurons in the lateral hypothalamic area are central to regulating the sleep-wake cycle and coordinating...

The role of orexin and MCH neurons in the hypothalamus in sleep-wake regulation and learning-forgetting balance

www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Predator odor avoidance test in the open field outside the building where we do our behavioral experiments.

No need to worry about batteries with sodium nitrate concentrators. They're putting them up all over the Gobi desert / Hexi corridor (along areas that aren't very scenic and already have a highway and other things like wind farms).

The how and why of sleep: Motor theory and catecholamine hypothesis This perspective examines sleep’s mechanism (“how”) and function (“why”). The motor theory posits that sleep is governed by distributed motor-control circuits; the catecholamine hypothesis identifies ...

The paper itself:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

I have an entire lecture just on the history of sleep research for the undergrads. It helps orient them to the material that follows, but it still feels like it only scratches the surface and leads to one specific direction that I want the class to go in.

This review is wonderful, but it is a reminder that the history of 20th century #sleep research is difficult to fit into a paragraph; it's much more unruly once you dive into it @kenmillerwrites.bsky.social

Bidirectional modulation of sleep and wakefulness via prefrontal cortical chemogenetics The drive to sleep is inescapable but its biological substrate remains largely elusive. Until recently, the search for sleep centres in the mammalian brain focussed on subcortical neurons that promote...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rachael Seidler named director of UF’s Astraeus Space Institute Rachael Seidler, a professor of applied physiology and kinesiology who focuses on astronaut health, has been named director of the University of Florida Astraeus Space Institute.

New Director of the University of Florida Space Institute
news.ufl.edu/2025/09/astr...

Things must still be pretty crazy at NIH, even after months of responding to the crisis that is the current Administration. I feel for those who work hard to make things happen there, hope they'll all make it through this time of chaos well.

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To me this is science

Hippocrates, Galen, and the patient with epilepsy. Some new perspectives on the old masters This article reads the old masters with the eyes of a clinical epileptologist. “On the Sacred Disease” is a flaming pamphlet against beliefs in supern…

"Whereas Hippocrates only had outlined his therapeutic principles, Galen was quite explicit....it is important to avoid 'unexpected daily occurrences'....'frost and violent heat, strong winds and strenuous baths, repulsive food...sleeplessness....'”

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