Michael Scullin
@baylorsleep.bsky.social
Associate Prof @Baylor. Translational cognitive scientist interested in sleep, memory, aging, & technology supports for Alzheimer's disease. We create/host museum exhibits to bring science to the public.
Prospective memory researchers! The next international meeting has been announced for July 12-16, 2026. Jan Rummel will be hosting it in Heidelberg, Germany.
Stay updated at: www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/konferenz/ic...
Stay updated at: www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/konferenz/ic...
Welcome
<center> <strong>International Conference on Prospective Memory</strong> </center> <center> <strong>July 12- 16, 2026 </strong></center> <center> ...
www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de
July 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Prospective memory researchers! The next international meeting has been announced for July 12-16, 2026. Jan Rummel will be hosting it in Heidelberg, Germany.
Stay updated at: www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/konferenz/ic...
Stay updated at: www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/konferenz/ic...
Excited to share Nat Hum Beh pub, a 5 year effort w/Jared Benge. Does digital tech use worsen risk for dementia? No. In the "digital pioneer generation," tech use reduced risk of cognitive decline (OR=0.42;k=57;N>400k). The findings support the tech reserve hypothesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging - Nature Human Behaviour
The first generation who engaged with digital technologies has reached the age where risks of dementia emerge, and the question emerges how digital technologies have affected cognitive capabilities. T...
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Excited to share Nat Hum Beh pub, a 5 year effort w/Jared Benge. Does digital tech use worsen risk for dementia? No. In the "digital pioneer generation," tech use reduced risk of cognitive decline (OR=0.42;k=57;N>400k). The findings support the tech reserve hypothesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lesson 3 from COVID-19: Teenagers need to sleep in, but schools won’t let them
#startschoollater #sleeppeeps www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#startschoollater #sleeppeeps www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
15 Lessons Scientists Learned About Us When the World Stood Still
The pandemic gave researchers a rare opportunity to study human behavior. Their work offers lessons about loneliness, remote work, high heels and more.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Lesson 3 from COVID-19: Teenagers need to sleep in, but schools won’t let them
#startschoollater #sleeppeeps www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#startschoollater #sleeppeeps www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Michael Scullin
The dynamic version is even more disturbing...
March 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The dynamic version is even more disturbing...
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Here is really good info on what indirect rates are and are not. TL;DR - the Republican administration’s plan to cut indirect rates will make Americans sicker, poorer, and more vulnerable. Call your congressional representatives to tell them to fund American success. research.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
February 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Here is really good info on what indirect rates are and are not. TL;DR - the Republican administration’s plan to cut indirect rates will make Americans sicker, poorer, and more vulnerable. Call your congressional representatives to tell them to fund American success. research.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
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New essay on NIH and indirect costs:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
goodscience.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New essay on NIH and indirect costs:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
Sleep Lab: The Exhibit has its soft opening tomorrow at the Mayborn Museum.
Great working with @paulpow.bsky.social and April Love at @baylor.bsky.social
Great working with @paulpow.bsky.social and April Love at @baylor.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Sleep Lab: The Exhibit has its soft opening tomorrow at the Mayborn Museum.
Great working with @paulpow.bsky.social and April Love at @baylor.bsky.social
Great working with @paulpow.bsky.social and April Love at @baylor.bsky.social
Museum exhibit installation is in progress! Pictured: REM-ee the dino-Snore-us welcomes kids to learn about sleep via 4 interactive fixtures.
This sleep exhibit was designed for the general public and made possible by grant funding from the National Science Foundation.
This sleep exhibit was designed for the general public and made possible by grant funding from the National Science Foundation.
January 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Museum exhibit installation is in progress! Pictured: REM-ee the dino-Snore-us welcomes kids to learn about sleep via 4 interactive fixtures.
This sleep exhibit was designed for the general public and made possible by grant funding from the National Science Foundation.
This sleep exhibit was designed for the general public and made possible by grant funding from the National Science Foundation.
Reposted by Michael Scullin
DEI-related content was still up on NSF's site last night, so thought maybe someone there was making a stand... but no... pages about diversity are now being removed.
LEFT: Yesterday
RIGHT: Today
[this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI]
#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
LEFT: Yesterday
RIGHT: Today
[this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI]
#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
January 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
DEI-related content was still up on NSF's site last night, so thought maybe someone there was making a stand... but no... pages about diversity are now being removed.
LEFT: Yesterday
RIGHT: Today
[this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI]
#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
LEFT: Yesterday
RIGHT: Today
[this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI]
#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Interesting analysis of 400 random samples of psychology articles in 2022:
"Relatively few articles had a preregistration (7%), materials (16%), raw/primary data (14%), or analysis scripts (8.5%) that were immediately accessible without contacting authors or third parties"
#psychscisky
"Relatively few articles had a preregistration (7%), materials (16%), raw/primary data (14%), or analysis scripts (8.5%) that were immediately accessible without contacting authors or third parties"
#psychscisky
Prevalence of Transparent Research Practices in Psychology: A Cross-Sectional Study of Empirical Articles Published in 2022 - Tom E. Hardwicke, Robert T. Thibault, Beth Clarke, Nicholas Moodie, Sophia...
More than a decade of advocacy and policy reforms have attempted to increase the uptake of transparent research practices in the field of psychology; however, t...
journals.sagepub.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Interesting analysis of 400 random samples of psychology articles in 2022:
"Relatively few articles had a preregistration (7%), materials (16%), raw/primary data (14%), or analysis scripts (8.5%) that were immediately accessible without contacting authors or third parties"
#psychscisky
"Relatively few articles had a preregistration (7%), materials (16%), raw/primary data (14%), or analysis scripts (8.5%) that were immediately accessible without contacting authors or third parties"
#psychscisky
Advice needed! I'm looking for teaching resources to help guide undergraduate students how to read journal articles effectively.
#EduSky #teaching #STEMteaching #ScienceEducation #cogpsy #psychscisky
#EduSky #teaching #STEMteaching #ScienceEducation #cogpsy #psychscisky
January 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Advice needed! I'm looking for teaching resources to help guide undergraduate students how to read journal articles effectively.
#EduSky #teaching #STEMteaching #ScienceEducation #cogpsy #psychscisky
#EduSky #teaching #STEMteaching #ScienceEducation #cogpsy #psychscisky
AWESOME research by Patricia Bauer on self-derivation of semantic memory.
(How we expand our world knowledge without it being directly taught).
Link introduces how to teach the concept in #psychology classes using #retrievalpractice
@psychscience.bsky.social #cogpysc #DevPsyc #teaching #Memory
(How we expand our world knowledge without it being directly taught).
Link introduces how to teach the concept in #psychology classes using #retrievalpractice
@psychscience.bsky.social #cogpysc #DevPsyc #teaching #Memory
How We Build Semantic Memory
Teaching: Teaching psychology students about semantic memory will inform them how we learn about the world, piece by piece, integration by integration, silently forming the basis for our academic achi...
www.psychologicalscience.org
December 20, 2024 at 4:35 PM
AWESOME research by Patricia Bauer on self-derivation of semantic memory.
(How we expand our world knowledge without it being directly taught).
Link introduces how to teach the concept in #psychology classes using #retrievalpractice
@psychscience.bsky.social #cogpysc #DevPsyc #teaching #Memory
(How we expand our world knowledge without it being directly taught).
Link introduces how to teach the concept in #psychology classes using #retrievalpractice
@psychscience.bsky.social #cogpysc #DevPsyc #teaching #Memory
7 years ago we found that writing a to-do list before bed helped people fall asleep quicker. It made the media rounds back then and somehow still continues to do so today #sleeppeeps
I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI.
bbc.com/future/artic...
I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI.
bbc.com/future/artic...
Stressed? Writing down a to-do list might help
If you find it hard to get to sleep, then a solution might be at hand – a pen and paper.
bbc.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:11 PM
7 years ago we found that writing a to-do list before bed helped people fall asleep quicker. It made the media rounds back then and somehow still continues to do so today #sleeppeeps
I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI.
bbc.com/future/artic...
I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI.
bbc.com/future/artic...
Reposted by Michael Scullin
Only 8 spots left in the #SleepPeeps Starter Pack Pt 1! There's no way i caught everyone, so please let me know and/or send peeps my way! If it's been awhile, you may want to re-follow the starter pack to connect with the latest additions & subscribe to the #SleepPeep feed!
go.bsky.app/7zW7D9J
go.bsky.app/7zW7D9J
November 26, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Only 8 spots left in the #SleepPeeps Starter Pack Pt 1! There's no way i caught everyone, so please let me know and/or send peeps my way! If it's been awhile, you may want to re-follow the starter pack to connect with the latest additions & subscribe to the #SleepPeep feed!
go.bsky.app/7zW7D9J
go.bsky.app/7zW7D9J
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Do you teach Neuroscience or Biopsychology? We’d love to have your insight on how you teach this course. We are also happy to collect resources for this as we work on our chapter for the Oxford Handbook for Undergraduate Psychology Education. tinyurl.com/teachingneural…#teachpsychc#neurosciencece
https://tinyurl.com/teachingneural…
November 25, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Do you teach Neuroscience or Biopsychology? We’d love to have your insight on how you teach this course. We are also happy to collect resources for this as we work on our chapter for the Oxford Handbook for Undergraduate Psychology Education. tinyurl.com/teachingneural…#teachpsychc#neurosciencece
Sleep loss is known to be bad for mental health; now documented is that extending sleep from 6.6 hours to 7.4 hours/night improves feelings of gratitude, resilience, life satisfaction, and purpose in life, even when accounting for people's current mood state (1/2) www.sleep.com/sleep-health...
The Key to Flourishing? Get Better Sleep
Can improving your sleep help you thrive? We explain the link between sleep and flourishing.
www.sleep.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Sleep loss is known to be bad for mental health; now documented is that extending sleep from 6.6 hours to 7.4 hours/night improves feelings of gratitude, resilience, life satisfaction, and purpose in life, even when accounting for people's current mood state (1/2) www.sleep.com/sleep-health...
Night owl tendencies aren't always in one's best interest:
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”
Night owl behavior could hurt mental health, sleep study finds
In a new, large-scale study of sleep behavior, Stanford Medicine scientists found that night owls don’t really thrive late at night.
med.stanford.edu
November 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Night owl tendencies aren't always in one's best interest:
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”
Reposted by Michael Scullin
Seriously loving this new work from @denisejcai.bsky.social on offline memory integration.
Its awesome on its own, but also... I think this kind of process will end up explaining a lot about dreaming.
#neuroskyence #sleeppeeps
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Its awesome on its own, but also... I think this kind of process will end up explaining a lot about dreaming.
#neuroskyence #sleeppeeps
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Offline ensemble co-reactivation links memories across days - Nature
In mice, a strong aversive experience drives offline ensemble reactivation of not only the recent aversive memory but also a neutral memory formed 2 days before, linking fear of the recent aversive me...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Seriously loving this new work from @denisejcai.bsky.social on offline memory integration.
Its awesome on its own, but also... I think this kind of process will end up explaining a lot about dreaming.
#neuroskyence #sleeppeeps
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Its awesome on its own, but also... I think this kind of process will end up explaining a lot about dreaming.
#neuroskyence #sleeppeeps
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Destroyed bilateral MTL and worse anterograde amnesia than H.M, but Patient A.V. still lives by himself, drives, and works two jobs. How? He offloads tasks to his smartphone 84x/day and texts with his mom >1hr/day.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Destroyed bilateral MTL and worse anterograde amnesia than H.M, but Patient A.V. still lives by himself, drives, and works two jobs. How? He offloads tasks to his smartphone 84x/day and texts with his mom >1hr/day.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Injecting amyloid-beta oligomers into the hippocampus increases some SWA metrics. This could explain why some studies have counterintuitively found negative associations between cognition and SWS outcomes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hippocampal injections of soluble amyloid-beta oligomers alter electroencephalographic activity duri...
Background Soluble amyloid-beta oligomers (Aβo) begin to accumulate in the human brain one to two decades before a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The literature supports that solub...
link.springer.com
October 18, 2023 at 3:01 PM
Injecting amyloid-beta oligomers into the hippocampus increases some SWA metrics. This could explain why some studies have counterintuitively found negative associations between cognition and SWS outcomes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Alway teaching sleepy students? End next class by giving them a simple 'sleep challenge' they hadn't thought of. #EduSky news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
October 12, 2023 at 2:41 PM
Alway teaching sleepy students? End next class by giving them a simple 'sleep challenge' they hadn't thought of. #EduSky news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
Textbook depictions show a linear, near-deterministic worsening of sleep in older age. However, such views arise from group-averaged cross-sectional data. Individual-level longitudinal PSG analyses in N=2,202 over 5 years from NSSR display severe heterogeneity. One size does not fit all.
Sleep Data - National Sleep Research Resource - NSRR
Offering free web access to large collections of de-identified physiological signals and clinical data elements in well-characterized research cohorts and clinical trials.
sleepdata.org
October 6, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Textbook depictions show a linear, near-deterministic worsening of sleep in older age. However, such views arise from group-averaged cross-sectional data. Individual-level longitudinal PSG analyses in N=2,202 over 5 years from NSSR display severe heterogeneity. One size does not fit all.