🌙 Our new preprint is out! We present Nyx, an open-source unsupervised framework for sleep scoring across species, lifespan and modalities. Validated on 19 datasets and 8,000 hours of sleep, from mice to humans, lizards and birds, across development, ageing, health and disease.

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Nyx: a flexible framework for sleep scoring across species, lifespan and modalities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.24.740558v1

How does the brain track how much sleep has occurred, and gauge the likelihood of waking at each moment? Check out our new preprint: “A molecular integrator of sleep duration and interruption” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/10)

🟠 Now open: ERC Starting Grant 2027 call for proposals! 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Oct 2026 📄 Call details: link.europa.eu/RwNMpX Planning to apply? Let our ERC Classes videos guide you through the application evaluation process. 👉 t.co/qGPy7Y8UhS #ERCStG #FrontierResearch @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

Serotonin induces DOWN states across the anesthetized mouse forebrain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.14.738517v1

The final version of our review on intracranial EEG and consciousness is now out in @elife.bsky.social! 🥳🧠🔌@nfaivre.bsky.social @meaperei.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social

François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🥳Our review of intracranial EEG research on the neural correlates of consciousness is out in eLife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...! We think these methods offer a unique window on consciousness!🧠 A thread 👇

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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Ever wondered what having auditory stimulation does to the sleep itself? Random stimulation disturbs SWS, memory, and travelling dynamics of slow waves. New paper in iScience with @mschoenauer.bsky.social, @denizkumral.bsky.social, and Steffen Gais! doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #sleep #neuroskyence

What a splendid piece of work!!! "Brain-wide properties of slow waves across vigilance states" academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...

Brain-wide properties of slow waves across vigilance states

Using a large dataset of intracranial recordings in 106 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, we show that key morphological features of SWs change across

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The Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts for Sleep Europe 2026 is now open — and this is the only opportunity to present your most recent findings at Europe's foremost sleep science congress. 📅 31 July 2026, 17:00 CEST 🔗https://esrs.eu/sleep-congress/abstracts/ #SleepEurope2026

New paper from our group: using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we investigated the neural mechanisms underlying individual NREM sleep slow waves. Our findings suggest that slow waves are not a homogeneous phenomenon and may reflect distinct physiological processes. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep - Communications Biology

Using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we identify two types of NREM slow waves with distinct thalamic profiles. Large, synchronized waves involve early thalamic activation and arousal markers, whereas smaller ...

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Just published in the Journal of Sleep Research: Alessandrelli & Huwiler et al., "Cardiovascular Responses to Natural and Auditory Evoked Slow Waves Predict Post‐Sleep Cardiac Function." doi.org/10.1111/jsr....

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The importance of sleep as a key component of cardiovascular health has been increasingly recognized. Our previous research demonstrated that auditory-enhanced slow waves increase cardiac function, b...

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What happens when the brain slips into a microsleep? An example from a highly drowsy participant showing a brief loss of responsiveness (at time 0s). Details of the research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02446-zChowdhury et al. report the discovery of a 19–45-Hz thalamic oscillation that is present during human wakefulness and REM sleep, but not NREM sleep.

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Discover 40+ chapters on the science of consciousness: humans, babies, animals, artificial systems, etc! Experts from various disciplines and views came together under the lead of Umberto Olcese and Lucia Melloni A precious resource for anyone interested in #consciousness! www.horizon-minds.com

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Massive study in @nature.com, converges with our past study of 750,000 people (Sea hero quest) to show u-shape curves for the impact of sleep. We studied cognition, here its disease impact: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life - Nature

A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...

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🚨Apply before 29 May!🚨 At MESEC, we believe that better science emerges from diverse perspectives and backgrounds.💙 💁🏽‍♀️We especially encourage women and researchers from underrepresented backgrounds to apply to our workshop 💸A limited number of bursaries will be available. mesec.co/event/worksh...

Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...

The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal

The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal in real time.

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Tired of manually scoring your sleep recordings? Postdoc from our lab @paulzerr.bsky.social recently released NIDRA v0.2.3, an open-source autoscoring GUI & Python package for super simple sleep autoscoring using different established ML algorithms. Download here: nidra.netlify.app

New study in Communications Psychology: large-scale NLP analysis of dream reports reveals the structure, content, and determinants of dreaming. 💤💭 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #sleepscience #sleepresearch #dreamscience #dreamresearch

Individual traits and experiences predict the content of dreams - Communications Psychology

Individual traits and experiences jointly shape dream content. By analyzing the semantic structure of thousands of reports, we reveal systematic patterns showing how dreams reflect personality, sleep ...

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🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL

Discover Postdoctoral Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Exciting new PhD opportunity (funded) in the lab of @larsmuckli.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

FULLY FUNDED PhD - Ultra-high field brain imaging of imagery and aphantasia at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Ultra-high field brain imaging of imagery and aphantasia at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

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⚠️ Postdoc Opportunity in System Neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute ⚠️ Feel passionate about neuroscience and sleep 🧠? Want to learn cutting-edge techniques 🔬 to answer exciting basic science questions? Want to work in a multidisciplinary environment at the heart of Paris 🏨? Come join us !

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @romybeaute.bsky.social @introspection.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology

Abstract. Stroboscopic light stimulation (SLS) on closed eyes typically induces simple visual hallucinations, characterized by vivid, geometric, and colour

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New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports... Congrats to Nicolas Decat!

Happy to share our recent theoretical review Why do we sleepwalk? A noradrenergic hypothesis of NREM sleep parasomnias www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why do we sleepwalk? A noradrenergic hypothesis of NREM sleep parasomnias

Disorders of arousal (DOA), including sleepwalking, sleep terrors, and confusional arousals, are characterized by complex behaviors emerging from non-…

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Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social #neuroskyence #hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dorsoventral hippocampus neural assemblies reactivate during sleep following an aversive experience - Nature Neuroscience

Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.

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🔔PREPRINT: Sleep ripples drive single-neuron reactivation for human memory consolidation 1/9: How does sleep support human memory consolidation? To test this, we recorded hundreds of neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) across learning, wakefulness, and sleep. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Perceived #sleep depth is generally thought to reflect reduced brain activity. @giuliobernardi.bsky.social &co show this relationship weakens during #dreaming, suggesting that dreaming helps sustain the subjective experience of deep sleep @spacelabimt.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4v8OxkH

🚨 New paper from our lab: "Immersive NREM2 dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." More on the determinants of dream content coming soon.

SPACE Lab@spacelabimt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧠💤 New paper out in @plosbiology.org! Together with Adriana Michalak (@dr-adri.bsky.social), Davide Marzoli, Francesco Pietrogiacomi et al., we show that dreaming, especially immersive dreaming, plays a key role in how deep sleep feels. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... @erc.europa.eu #ERC-StG #sleep

Cataldi et al., "Sensory processing reallocation from external to internal signals in REM sleep" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...