End of August the University of Zurich is holding another Scientifica with the topic "Wie wir wissen schaffen". I am holding a presentation on how we study dreams, what we dream and why on Saturday 29. August at 4 pm. If you are interested, feel free to drop by! scientifica.ch/event/how-do...

📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess

Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience

In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...

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Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus 👀👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

Thompson, Rollik and colleagues show that, during sleep, the brain replays procedural memories in the striatum independently of the hippocampus. Replay content was shaped by prior reward and error out...

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Can we study MTL ripples non-invasively? New preprint! We show that source-resolved MEG tracks ripple-like activity during sleep that: • localizes to the MTL • follows the canonical SO–spindle hierarchy • matches an iEEG benchmark • indexes memory reactivation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Non-invasive tracking of ripple-like activity during human sleep using MEG

Hippocampal ripples are considered a key mechanism of sleep-dependent memory consolidation. In humans, however, their direct investigation has relied on invasive recordings from patients with epilepsy...

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Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

Are you a sleep researcher? Then we're interested in your opinion on preregistrations! Help advance the field by filling out this short (5-minute) survey redcap.link/1zg4tezm (Any career stage, doesn't matter if you've preregistered before or not, we need you. Please share!)

Incredibly proud to be a part of ManyBeds, a multi lab replication effort of targeted memory reactivation during sleep, which was just honoured with a SIPS commendation! I'm very excited about what will come out of this (and then never shut up about it).

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 2w ago

🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd

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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Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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This is a welcome and important step to normalize and popularize the use of Registered Reports. Thanks @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social for your leadership, and for the work of the neuroscience and behavioral research editors to test and validate the model at Nature.

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

Out now in Brain Structure and function: a practical guide for researchers interested in creating similar 'helpdesks'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 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

New study on ~7k individuals highlights link b/ gut microbiome & sleep. Lower microbial diversity correlates with poorer sleep quality, later chronotypes & increased social jet lag. Some Clostridia sp. found to mediate impact of coffee consumption on sleep timing too. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New preprint 🚨 "Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." We analyzed 1,024 awakenings collected across 196 nights with high-density EEG (256 ch.) to explore the relationship between dreaming and subjective sleep depth. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure

Perceived sleep depth is a key determinant of subjective sleep quality, traditionally thought to reflect unconsciousness and reduced cortical activation. Here, we combined high-density EEG with a seri...

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Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)

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...

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...

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😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

At #SFN2025? Into sleep, brain rhythms, or single-unit–based memory reactivation? Then you absolutely should check out @fabian31415.bsky.social's poster. I might be biased, but this is some truly awesome work. #neurosky #neuroskyence

Fabian Schwimmbeck@fabian31415.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excited to present our recent work on how sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal–cortical circuit. #SFN2025 Board NN12 Nov 19 8 AM–12 PM #sleep #memory #HumanSingleNeuron Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab

Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!

CNS 2026 Annual Meeting@cnsmtg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th @cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay

Hear ye, hear ye! Going to #SfN? Check out our posters! 1/3

Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social

Sage Journals@journals.sagepub.com · 9mo ago

📢 Join our upcoming Registered Reports webinar! Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics: - Two-stage review explained - Tips for Stage 1 protocols - Common author challenges Register now: https://ow.ly/R6yH50Xptt0 #RegisteredReports #Webinar

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 rr.peercommunityin.org/about/recomm...

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu @cnsnews.bsky.social

Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

✨ So excited to join #eSleepEurope2025 today and catch up on the latest advances in sleep research! Thank you @esrs.bsky.social & @sarahschoch.bsky.social for highlighting research on emotional memory during Year in Review session ! I hope to play a small part in keeping it a hot topic! 🌙

Save the date!! 🗓️ The 2nd edition of the Summer School on the Neuroscience of Dreaming 💤 will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Lucca, Italy, at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. 📍 The official website will be released soon: stay tuned for updates!

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

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

Excited to present our new work reading minds! Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6