University of Massachusetts|Cognitive Neuroscientist🧠|Sleep Scientist 😴|Athletic Rep|Ultra Runner 🏃🏻‍♀️ |Proud Mama to 👭 🐕🐕|Made in MI ✋🏼

Joined April 2009
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New preprint! Huge data collection feat from Morgan Barnes and analytic prowess from Thea Ng! Perturbations of aperiodic activity following learning are reversed in nREM resetting the brain by morning. This reset predicts consolidation! tinyurl.com/BarnesNg

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Check out our new paper helping more labs include PSG in their developmental cogneuro toolbox! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #devcogneuro #sleeppeeps #cogdevsoc

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#sleeppeeps check out this new meta-analysis which provides great guidance on spindle-slow oscillation measurement which has been highly variable across papers! This work was done in my lab @umass by Thea Ng, an undergraduate @MountHolyoke ! tinyurl.com/SPSOcoup

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50 mile ride around beautiful western Mass to support our neighbors. It’s not too late to give!
This group killed it today for 50 miles! All for Western Mass Food Bank. Here is the link to donate: engage.foodbankwma.org/site/…
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Who wants to join me? We're hiring in developmental science! We have a great program on a beautiful campus in the best place to live! (Please share) 🤰👶👩‍👧👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 For more information or to apply please go to: careers.massachusetts.edu/cw…

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It was great to be part of this. There is very cool and important work being done to benefit college athletes and really smart grad students behind these proposals!
Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of NCAA Graduate Student Research Grants! See the details on.ncaa.com/gradgrant2024.
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Come be my academic neighbor in the five colleges! Smith neuro faculty are part of umass neuro grad program. We’re happy to support and collaborate with Smith faculty. We look forward to more neuroscience in the Pioneer Valley!
We are hiring! Join the Neuroscience program @smithcollege and enjoy working with our talented students! We balance teaching with research and we enjoy the beauty of Western Massachusetts. apply.interfolio.com/152435 I am happy to answer questions about this tenure track position!
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We recently had a blast at #SLEEP2024 (with our very own @rebicca acting as chair)! Here's some pics of our grad students with their posters--it was really exciting to meet our fellow #sleeppeeps. Yay for #sleepscience 🎉
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Rebecca Spencer retweeted
The #Neuroscience of #Naps: @rebicca has contributed to the scientific understanding of children’s need for naps—and their links to #brain maturation, #memory, and #learning. #sleep #eeg buff.ly/4cjKuYv @TracyRigginsPhD @somneurolab @Activinsights

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Want to know what we do in @somneurolab ? Here’s a great piece on our developmental line of work, hot off the presses in @SleepReview. With @TracyRigginsPhD tinyurl.com/NapTimeSR #sleeppeeps #scienceofsleep

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Perspective by Kelly Coyne: How and why couples decide to sleep separately can make a huge difference in whether the arrangement is good or bad for a relationship. wapo.st/3yj5M9K

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Permanent Daylight Saving Time is the antiscience, antihealth, anticlimate, antiworker, antistudent position. Learn about the long term negative effects of being permanently misaligned from the sun youtu.be/zdoNP635Z7s?si=ucHB… @SaveStandard #DitchDST
Abolish standard time. Make daylight savings time permanent. That is all.
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It’s incredibly sad what @PhilipsResp has done to #Respironics and the legacy of the incredible company that Gerry McGinnis had built. It’s unfortunately ironic that Gerry passed away on the same day as this announcement. jobefuneralhome.com/obituary…

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#sleeppeeps check out these recs. We discuss here how to increase the quality of these findings and interpretations. I appreciate that costs and low funding get in the way. Hopefully this piece can be cited as evidence for a greater investment from founders!
In a new Perspective, Németh et al. review methodological challenges in studying the effects of sleep on learning & memory, and make recommendations for improving reliability of research in this field. 🚨FREE🚨 to access until January 22! go.nature.com/3GSjfpZ
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#sleeppeeps - send us your latest! We want to hear from you! #sleep #sleepscience #sleepresearch
The submission site is open for #SLEEP2024, the 38th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). Contribute to the premier meeting in the sleep field by submitting your research abstracts and session proposals by Dec. 20! ow.ly/x0qZ50QfGJJ
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Hey #sleeppeeps ! The SLEEP 2024 session proposal deadline is 12/20. Plenty of time to get your colleagues' ideas together on a proposal! Submit your session proposals and encourage your friends and colleagues to as well! sleepmeeting.org/session-pro… #sleep2024 #sleepscience
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#sleeppeeps please consider submitting a session proposal for Sleep 2024! tinyurl.com/393w6fh3

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Rebecca Spencer retweeted
THREE tenure-line openings @UMassBME at the Asst/Assoc/Full Prof levels. bit.ly/48p1U4N We are looking for talented researchers to join us in the state-of-the-art Life Science Laboratories with >20 core facilities to enable the translational mission of @UMassIALS 1/2

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I couldn’t be more proud of my @somneurolab alum and @rebeccabrossoit is a poster child for the value of the hands on undergrad research we offer. We are lucky to host 30 talented and fun undergrads in the lab each semester. We learn from each other!
Thank you @UMassAmherst Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences for inviting me for an alumni spotlight interview & to @rebicca and @swhitbo for being the best mentors and role models early on in my education at #UMass! @PBSamherst @CNS_UMass tinyurl.com/yrk3a664
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