Interesting: fruit flies fed intermittently only live longer if they have a functioning circadian (sleep/wake) clock in internal organs. Perhaps fasting is less about hunger and more about resetting our internal clocks. https://t.co/RsHpQOk3fh
DST disconnects wake time from sun-up increasing traffic accidents and cardiometabolic disease risk. Those are just the biggies. Sun in the evening might be nice, but it'll be EVEN HARDER to wake up in the morning (I can cite the literature). Permanent Standard Time or bust.
Honored to be an invited speaker at #grcsleep. The location on a hilltop in Tuscany is surreal. Grateful to be back at an in-person conference after 2 years of zoom talks.
Meanwhile: it's turns out sharks sleep as well.
https://t.co/WYAy5AmEWi
Wow! Germany is killing the new $10bn Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia.
That's a huge step after refusing to be drawn on it in public for months. It'll have major consequences for European energy security and suggests the western sanctions against Moscow will be tough.
"Our findings demonstrate that a function of the sharp wave-ripple is to modulate peripheral glucose homeostasis, and offer a mechanism for the link between sleep disruption and blood glucose dysregulation in type 2 diabetes" https://t.co/IJ7ErvOCyH
After advising PhD & Master students for over a decade, there is one thing I find most students need to unlearn: the half-ass work mentality acquired during years of tests and homework. Let me explain (thread 🧵). 1/N #AcademicTwitter
The endogenous circadian system worsens asthma at night independent of sleep and other daily behavioral or environmental cycles
https://t.co/89tFwuQp63