Roxanne Prichard, PhD
@roxanneprichard.bsky.social
Professor, Sleep Researcher, Speaker. Passionate about Inclusive Excellence in Teaching, Sleep as Social Justice, and Pleasure Activism.
I got up early this morning to watch the lights dance in St. Paul over the Big Dipper and stayed up late last night watching them too. :)
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I got up early this morning to watch the lights dance in St. Paul over the Big Dipper and stayed up late last night watching them too. :)
For me, this was epitome of Beaux-Arts glory, Fantasia come to life, transcendent choir and synesthetic splendor in one of the most magnificent buildings I've ever been in.
For my Gen alpha tween: "Meh, I've seen better filters on Reels."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
For my Gen alpha tween: "Meh, I've seen better filters on Reels."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Painting ‘transcendent beauty’ with sound, light and architecture at the Basilica
Hundreds gathered in the Basilica of St. Mary for “Luminiscence,” an immersive new light-and-sound spectacle. It is the first time the acclaimed European production has come to the U.S.
www.mprnews.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
For me, this was epitome of Beaux-Arts glory, Fantasia come to life, transcendent choir and synesthetic splendor in one of the most magnificent buildings I've ever been in.
For my Gen alpha tween: "Meh, I've seen better filters on Reels."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
For my Gen alpha tween: "Meh, I've seen better filters on Reels."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
I found this to be a convincing argument. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I found this to be a convincing argument. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Sleep capstone was a great discussion of maps, circadian health, and the legacy of imperialism. We compared the Peters projection vs. Mercator maps & noticed 80% of the world's population follows solar time. We listened to this podcast. On the Peters map, you can see AK 4 time zone width well.
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Sleep capstone was a great discussion of maps, circadian health, and the legacy of imperialism. We compared the Peters projection vs. Mercator maps & noticed 80% of the world's population follows solar time. We listened to this podcast. On the Peters map, you can see AK 4 time zone width well.
This is fantastic-- I'm showing this in my classes this week.
Share widely - especially with your friends and family who aren't in science! 🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is fantastic-- I'm showing this in my classes this week.
Excited to stay at the home with the newmexicosundial.com while at the Mentoring Conference! How do we keep this clock on time? Permanent Standard Time.
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excited to stay at the home with the newmexicosundial.com while at the Mentoring Conference! How do we keep this clock on time? Permanent Standard Time.
I'm at a mentoring conference in New Mexico, and enjoying getting away from the light pollution. This photoperiod extending space mirror plan- brighter than the moon!- has so many risks for sleep health and ecology. @darkskyintl.bsky.social @savestandard.bsky.social
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
Company's plan to launch 4,000 space mirrors alarms scientists
Reflect Orbital says their light-on-demand idea has generated significant interest from commercial and government customers.
www.space.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm at a mentoring conference in New Mexico, and enjoying getting away from the light pollution. This photoperiod extending space mirror plan- brighter than the moon!- has so many risks for sleep health and ecology. @darkskyintl.bsky.social @savestandard.bsky.social
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
No Kings!
San Juan Co.
San Juan Co.
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
No Kings!
San Juan Co.
San Juan Co.
October 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Observing Indigenous People’s Day on Wahpekute land in Minnesota, Dakota for “Sky-colored water”.
October 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Observing Indigenous People’s Day on Wahpekute land in Minnesota, Dakota for “Sky-colored water”.
As a sleep researcher, I know Black and Indigenous (and queer folks) have more exhaustion & trouble relaxing into and maintaining sleep. During talks, white audiences will sometimes ask what it is genetically that accounts for the sleep disturbance. It's not the melanin; it's the oppression.
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
rewirenewsgroup.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
As a sleep researcher, I know Black and Indigenous (and queer folks) have more exhaustion & trouble relaxing into and maintaining sleep. During talks, white audiences will sometimes ask what it is genetically that accounts for the sleep disturbance. It's not the melanin; it's the oppression.
This reminds me of how much I loved @naomialderman.bsky.social's never-more-relevant novel "The Future". We studied her first novel "The Power" in our Neuroscience of Gender course. Any other #WomenInSTEM Alderman fans out there?
Tech billionaires may be ‘doom prepping’, but have they sowed the seeds of their own downfall?
We’re living in an era of global catastrophic risks (climate change, polarisation, AI, and militarisation), in which ‘polluter’ and ‘cyber’ elites have a lot to answer for.🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We’re living in an era of global catastrophic risks (climate change, polarisation, AI, and militarisation), in which ‘polluter’ and ‘cyber’ elites have a lot to answer for.🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?
The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This reminds me of how much I loved @naomialderman.bsky.social's never-more-relevant novel "The Future". We studied her first novel "The Power" in our Neuroscience of Gender course. Any other #WomenInSTEM Alderman fans out there?
Gotta soak up these warm early fall days when we can. Our Sleep and Circadian Rhythms neuroscience class was held outside today.
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Gotta soak up these warm early fall days when we can. Our Sleep and Circadian Rhythms neuroscience class was held outside today.
I'm a sleep scientist, daughter of a space physicist, who studied Latin, and married an artist: of course I need this print!
Day 30 of #SciArtSeptember 🧪🐡🔭#histsci prompt dream: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler’s science fiction story Somnium, or “The Dream”. Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, 🧵
September 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm a sleep scientist, daughter of a space physicist, who studied Latin, and married an artist: of course I need this print!
I've been teaching about HD in my undergrad neuro classes for 20 years, and it's usually one of the most heart breaking units we cover. THIS IS AMAZING NEWS!!!
#StandUpForScience
#StandUpForScience
This is very exciting! A small clinical trial using gene therapy for Huntington's disease has been successful. microRNAs were used to edit the Huntington mRNA, stopping it making mutant protein that can damage neurons. Huge hopes now for treating such a devastating condition
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I've been teaching about HD in my undergrad neuro classes for 20 years, and it's usually one of the most heart breaking units we cover. THIS IS AMAZING NEWS!!!
#StandUpForScience
#StandUpForScience
Cancelled Disney+ and now thoroughly enjoying the @criterion.bsky.social collection. Our porch orb-weaver approves notes they have an excellent October lineup. #1A
September 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Cancelled Disney+ and now thoroughly enjoying the @criterion.bsky.social collection. Our porch orb-weaver approves notes they have an excellent October lineup. #1A
This is worse than the McCarthy era.
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is worse than the McCarthy era.
My Very Own Bed is a Twin Cities nonprofit that gets beds and bedding to families indeed. Students in our Neuroscience of Sleep class volunteered this week assembling bed frames. MVOB has delivered over 10,000 beds to local kids in need. Good health starts with good sleep.
www.myveryownbed.org
www.myveryownbed.org
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My Very Own Bed is a Twin Cities nonprofit that gets beds and bedding to families indeed. Students in our Neuroscience of Sleep class volunteered this week assembling bed frames. MVOB has delivered over 10,000 beds to local kids in need. Good health starts with good sleep.
www.myveryownbed.org
www.myveryownbed.org
AAC&U Transforming STEM education is one of my favorite conferences. Thank you for this year's theme: THIS AIN'T OVER!!!
September 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
AAC&U Transforming STEM education is one of my favorite conferences. Thank you for this year's theme: THIS AIN'T OVER!!!
In our First Year Experience course today, the topic was sleep! I love that sleep health is part of every first year's formal education. To get more circadian morning sun, I asked the students spend 15 minutes of class on our beautiful @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social campus & send photo proof.
September 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In our First Year Experience course today, the topic was sleep! I love that sleep health is part of every first year's formal education. To get more circadian morning sun, I asked the students spend 15 minutes of class on our beautiful @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social campus & send photo proof.
This week, I've talked to students who were previously considering PhDs, but no more over funding, outstanding students who are only looking for grad schools in Europe, Australia & Canada, and now jobless former students who have lost their NIH/NSF grad/postdoc funding.
The #BrainDrain is real.
The #BrainDrain is real.
Starting now in DC: funeral procession for the EPA with bagpipe, cello, dirges, a chorus of lamenters, roses, eulogies, and many marching tombstones.
Mine says RIP SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS. 🧪
More images to follow.
Climate crisis = public health crisis
Mine says RIP SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS. 🧪
More images to follow.
Climate crisis = public health crisis
September 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This week, I've talked to students who were previously considering PhDs, but no more over funding, outstanding students who are only looking for grad schools in Europe, Australia & Canada, and now jobless former students who have lost their NIH/NSF grad/postdoc funding.
The #BrainDrain is real.
The #BrainDrain is real.
Glad to provide commentary about the new PNAS modeling article by @laraweed.bsky.social about how permanent standard time vs. permanent daylight saving time vs. biannual switching impacts population level health by county. @savestandard.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nixi...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nixi...
Hate Daylight Saving Time? Our Body Clock Might Prefer Permanent Standard Time
A new study suggests that permanent standard time may reduce obesity and stroke
www.scientificamerican.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Glad to provide commentary about the new PNAS modeling article by @laraweed.bsky.social about how permanent standard time vs. permanent daylight saving time vs. biannual switching impacts population level health by county. @savestandard.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nixi...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nixi...
"“The biggest link to happiness, and the biggest link to depression, is sleep — always,” Twenge said."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...
She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"“The biggest link to happiness, and the biggest link to depression, is sleep — always,” Twenge said."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...
As a sleep researcher in Minnesota, one of my joys is to find insects who fall asleep in their food on chilly evenings.
September 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As a sleep researcher in Minnesota, one of my joys is to find insects who fall asleep in their food on chilly evenings.
Wow! Neuroscientist and visual artist Greg Dunn has the most amazing images-- free for use in talks with citation too!
www.gregadunn.com/self-reflect...
www.gregadunn.com/self-reflect...
Self Reflected Gallery
You can purchase traditional prints from Self Reflected here, and new specialized microetched prints with animated reflective effects here. Final Images: Process Images:
www.gregadunn.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Wow! Neuroscientist and visual artist Greg Dunn has the most amazing images-- free for use in talks with citation too!
www.gregadunn.com/self-reflect...
www.gregadunn.com/self-reflect...