Aric A. Prather, PhD
aricprather.bsky.social
Aric A. Prather, PhD
@aricprather.bsky.social
Professor at @UCSF; Sleep, Stress, and Psychoneuroimmunology research; Author of The Sleep Prescription (Penguin Life)
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MAY 1 2025: THE FUTURE OF SLEEP INNOVATION + TECHNOLOGY⁠

Join me, Dr. Matt Walker and Dr. Wendy Troxel at the Global Sleep Symposium for an immersive experience.

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April 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I am so thrilled to join one-of-a-kind event!

MAY 1 2025: THE FUTURE OF SLEEP INNOVATION + TECHNOLOGY⁠

Join me, Dr. Matt Walker and Dr. Wendy Troxel at the Global Sleep Symposium for an immersive experience.

equinox-hotels.com/global-sleep...
April 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Our newest paper, in JAMA Open - randomized high stress employees at UCSF to Headspace or control and Headspace worked to reduce stress! Useful: the effect seems to happen as long as you hit 5 mins per day. Great leadership from @aricprather.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Digital Meditation to Target Employee Stress
This randomized clinical trial investigates whether a digital mindfulness meditation application reduces perceptions of global and job-related stress among adults employed at a large academic medical ...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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January 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Interested in joining the Early Career Editorial Board? Stay tuned for the next call for applications coming soon!
January 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The editorial office at @psychosommed.bsky.social will be closed next week through New Year’s (you didn’t want to get a review request next week anyway, right?) We come back as Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (BSAM)! Same great journal, new great title.
December 19, 2024 at 10:33 PM
It was an honor to join @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social on this Stress Puzzle episode! Less stress, better sleep = better immunity during the holidays 🎁 and into 2025!🎉🥳
Happy Holidays from the Stress Puzzle!🎁🧩

Listen in for a conversation with @aricprather.bsky.social about stress, sleep, & social experiences at the holidays + links between those factors and our susceptibility to infections & severity of illness.

Listen: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis...
December 19, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Designing one of these would be a great assignment concept for any class!
For the Connections fans among us
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Just back from Madagascar. Cuteness award to these sleeping spectacled tetrakas (one woke up briefly but quickly went back to sleep).
November 25, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Very excited to launch the Program on Identity, Democracy, and Justice at @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social!

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Join us Jan 11, 2024 for a conversation w/ Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt on the future of multiracial democracy:

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December 4, 2023 at 7:35 PM