Michael Antle PhD 🇨🇦
@drmikeantle.bsky.social
Circadian Rhythms Researcher. Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary. Fan of interesting music, particularly music from 🇨🇦 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇬🇧
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Do you really hate the “spring forward” time change? Read this thread to learn why, and to learn why DST in the winter would be even worse 1/10
Magical Auroras in Calgary tonight! I can't remember seeing reds like this in quite some time!
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Magical Auroras in Calgary tonight! I can't remember seeing reds like this in quite some time!
My new favorite song of the season! #savestandardtime youtu.be/7b3I7NicGtM?...
Keep Standard Time ('Time after Time' parody) End Daylight Saving Time!
YouTube video by Trasea
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October 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My new favorite song of the season! #savestandardtime youtu.be/7b3I7NicGtM?...
Very excited to read this. Dr. Temple Grandin has made amazing contributions to Animal welfare and to positive narratives for Autism. It's wonderful that she's quite literally opened herself up to let the world have a peek inside psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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October 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Very excited to read this. Dr. Temple Grandin has made amazing contributions to Animal welfare and to positive narratives for Autism. It's wonderful that she's quite literally opened herself up to let the world have a peek inside psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Happy to share our newest pub, out now in Neuroscience. We show that neurons in the Hamster circadian clock, but not that of the rat or mouse, are surrounded by dense perineuronal nets, possibly explaining why this species has such a precise circadian rhythm. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Perineuronal nets in the rodent suprachiasmatic nucleus
The circadian system maintains highly stable rhythms over the lifespan. The precision of the circadian clock emerges from the network organization of …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Happy to share our newest pub, out now in Neuroscience. We show that neurons in the Hamster circadian clock, but not that of the rat or mouse, are surrounded by dense perineuronal nets, possibly explaining why this species has such a precise circadian rhythm. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Had an opportunity of a lifetime to go to the House of Commons and advocate for ending DST in Canada. Thanks to MP Lalonde and the Canadian Sleep Consortium for the initiative. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Should Canada stop changing the clocks twice a year? MP says it's time | CBC News
An MP says all of Canada should end the practice of changing the clocks twice a year — and is planning on introducing legislation she hopes will ensure the custom is lost to time.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Had an opportunity of a lifetime to go to the House of Commons and advocate for ending DST in Canada. Thanks to MP Lalonde and the Canadian Sleep Consortium for the initiative. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Thought I'd take a trip to my nation's capital.
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Thought I'd take a trip to my nation's capital.
Views from the Bow Valley Parkway during a fall bike ride in Banff. What an amazing country 🇨🇦
September 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Views from the Bow Valley Parkway during a fall bike ride in Banff. What an amazing country 🇨🇦
We're looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Prof in I/O Psychology. This hire is under our Justice theme, and would focus on Equity-Seeking people in the workforce, with particular interest in those who study integrating Indigenous people into the workplace. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1661564...
Assistant Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology in
Calgary,
AB,
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Assistant Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology in
Calgary,
AB,
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careers.ucalgary.ca
September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We're looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Prof in I/O Psychology. This hire is under our Justice theme, and would focus on Equity-Seeking people in the workforce, with particular interest in those who study integrating Indigenous people into the workplace. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1661564...
My copy of the new album from #Blackbraid arrived today. Wonderfully creative Indigenous black metal. I really loved the textures of Blackbraid II. So far, so good on Blackbraid III.
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My copy of the new album from #Blackbraid arrived today. Wonderfully creative Indigenous black metal. I really loved the textures of Blackbraid II. So far, so good on Blackbraid III.
A little #Fallujah to kick off the long weekend. Their new release Xenotaph is really strong. Got to see a couple of the band members guesting with Obscura and Born of Osiris earlier this year. Hopefully there will be a chance to see them preforming their own stuff soon.
August 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A little #Fallujah to kick off the long weekend. Their new release Xenotaph is really strong. Got to see a couple of the band members guesting with Obscura and Born of Osiris earlier this year. Hopefully there will be a chance to see them preforming their own stuff soon.
I'm excited to see the new book on #BiologicalRhytms from Danny Forger at UMich coming out in a couple weeks. Have you pre-ordered you copy yet? mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
Biological Rhythms
From the firing of neurons in a fraction of a second to the monthly cycle of ovulation to a seasonal shift in sleep patterns, the human body runs on rhythms&...
mitpress.mit.edu
August 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'm excited to see the new book on #BiologicalRhytms from Danny Forger at UMich coming out in a couple weeks. Have you pre-ordered you copy yet? mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
A fun and whimsical analysis of circadian and time aspects of songs and lives of #TheBeatles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A Hard Day’s Night: The Circadian Beatles - Diego A. Golombek, 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A fun and whimsical analysis of circadian and time aspects of songs and lives of #TheBeatles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Finally getting a chance to spin the new album from #RiversOfNihil. This self-titled release gives a nice overview of all their styles from their previous releases. And yes, the saxophone is still there 🎷
July 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Finally getting a chance to spin the new album from #RiversOfNihil. This self-titled release gives a nice overview of all their styles from their previous releases. And yes, the saxophone is still there 🎷
Finally found a vinyl copy of one of my all-time favorite albums, "In Absentia" from #PorcupineTree. Lots of great tracks, but Trains is a classic and the acoustic guitar section sounds so clear, as if Steven Wilson was right there in the room playing it just for you.
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Finally found a vinyl copy of one of my all-time favorite albums, "In Absentia" from #PorcupineTree. Lots of great tracks, but Trains is a classic and the acoustic guitar section sounds so clear, as if Steven Wilson was right there in the room playing it just for you.
Celebrating the Prince of Darkness with his final album, the Grammy-winning Patient Number 9. The lead-off track "Immortal" is strangly prophetic, as while we're all only on this spinning rock for a while, it is our legacy that makes us immortal, and few have left a legacy quite like #Ozzy
July 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Celebrating the Prince of Darkness with his final album, the Grammy-winning Patient Number 9. The lead-off track "Immortal" is strangly prophetic, as while we're all only on this spinning rock for a while, it is our legacy that makes us immortal, and few have left a legacy quite like #Ozzy
In honor of #BastilleDay, spinning some classic Rush. The lead-off track of Caress of Steel is "Bastille Day". Good track, but "The Necromancer" that ends side 1 and "The Fountain of Lamneth" that takes up all of side 2 are standout tracks for me.
July 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
In honor of #BastilleDay, spinning some classic Rush. The lead-off track of Caress of Steel is "Bastille Day". Good track, but "The Necromancer" that ends side 1 and "The Fountain of Lamneth" that takes up all of side 2 are standout tracks for me.
As a sleep researcher, neuroscientist, and cat owner, how have I never noticed this? Fascinating! 😺
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats
Isparta et al. find that two-thirds of cats prefer to sleep on their left side, indicating
asymmetry at the population level. Because the right hemisphere is specialized for
threat processing, this as...
www.cell.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
As a sleep researcher, neuroscientist, and cat owner, how have I never noticed this? Fascinating! 😺
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
It's studies like this that help spark curiosity in the world around us.
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Very cool study that was able to use in vivo 2 photon imagining with a calcium reporter to watch how individual cells in our circadian clock respond to time cues (light exposure)
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...
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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment
Deep-brain imaging in awake mice reveals how light resets the circadian clock by activating complex SCN neuron networks.
medicalxpress.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Very cool study that was able to use in vivo 2 photon imagining with a calcium reporter to watch how individual cells in our circadian clock respond to time cues (light exposure)
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...
Daily rhythms affect all life forms, and I guess this includes grass. Turns out later in the day is the best time to mow your lawn. #CircadianRhythms and landscaping unite! www.marthastewart.com/worst-time-t...
This Is the Worst Time of Day to Mow Your Lawn, According to Landscaping Pros
Avoid lawn damage and disease by never mowing your lawn during these times of day, landscaping experts say.
www.marthastewart.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Daily rhythms affect all life forms, and I guess this includes grass. Turns out later in the day is the best time to mow your lawn. #CircadianRhythms and landscaping unite! www.marthastewart.com/worst-time-t...
Time to give the new #Ghost album a spin. The first track is giving off lots of 80's guitar rock vibes. Catchy, albeit a bit lighter than my usual fare. Let's see how the rest goes! 👻
June 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Time to give the new #Ghost album a spin. The first track is giving off lots of 80's guitar rock vibes. Catchy, albeit a bit lighter than my usual fare. Let's see how the rest goes! 👻
A little Dutch Symphonic Metal to start June. Design Your Universe from #Epica. Very much a "Beauty and the Beast" style for the vocals, and Simone Simons is an amazing singer for the Beauty part of that equation .... what control and range!
June 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A little Dutch Symphonic Metal to start June. Design Your Universe from #Epica. Very much a "Beauty and the Beast" style for the vocals, and Simone Simons is an amazing singer for the Beauty part of that equation .... what control and range!
Quote from Clarence Darrow, the lead defense lawyer during the Scope Monkey Trials (1925). Feels like something was lost over the last 100 years. 😔
May 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Quote from Clarence Darrow, the lead defense lawyer during the Scope Monkey Trials (1925). Feels like something was lost over the last 100 years. 😔
Was lucky enough to see #Obscura last week on the Shredfest tour. Picked up this copy of their new album A Sonication. Special treat was a couple members from the Prog Metal band Fractal Universe who opened the show filled in. Guess there's some drama going on there, but the show still rocked!
May 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Was lucky enough to see #Obscura last week on the Shredfest tour. Picked up this copy of their new album A Sonication. Special treat was a couple members from the Prog Metal band Fractal Universe who opened the show filled in. Guess there's some drama going on there, but the show still rocked!
Tonight felt like a great night for some Opera, the new album from #FleshgodApocalypse. (Be warned, this isn't your grandmother's opera ... probably) And this has to be about the most beautiful vinyl I've seen. Well done!
May 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Tonight felt like a great night for some Opera, the new album from #FleshgodApocalypse. (Be warned, this isn't your grandmother's opera ... probably) And this has to be about the most beautiful vinyl I've seen. Well done!