Eti Ben Simon

How does sleep impact anxiety in older age? Our new study highlights the importance of slow wave activity in protecting emotional health in aging 😴

Impaired slow-wave sleep accounts for brain aging-related increases in anxiety - Communications Psychology Aging is not just a matter of cognitive decline but of mental health decline. This study reveals that in healthy older adults, anxiety is scaled with impaired slow-wave activity during sleep, accompan...

This study reveals that in healthy older adults, anxiety is scaled with impaired slow-wave activity during sleep, accompanied by atrophy in emotion-processing brain regions.
@sleepingeti.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Does sleep loss make us more vulnerable to fake news?
In a new collaboration with the University of Cambridge,we set to examine the impact of sleep deprivation on people’s ability to distinguish between true and false information.

Support our researcher by casting your vote below! 🙌

Our research on sleep loss and misinformation is nominated for the Mind Science People’s Choice Award🥳Help us win by casting your vote in the link below🙌Voting closes October 14th.
#MindScience #BrainStorm2025 #SleepScience

t.co/T9O49K4pu4

Our research on sleep loss and misinformation is nominated for the Mind Science People’s Choice Award🥳Help us win by casting your vote in the link below🙌Voting closes October 14th.
#MindScience #BrainStorm2025 #SleepScience

How can a 4-day working week increase wellbeing at no cost to performance? The 4-day working week is gaining interest, with international trials reporting enhanced staff wellbeing and performance, despite spending less time on the job. Here, we argue that improved performance on a 4-day working week arises through two psychological mechanisms of recovery and motivation: because better rested, better motivated brains, create better work.

A 4-day working week boosts sleep *and* work performance. What are we waiting for? 🙌
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost

There Are Three Main Reasons You Are Alive Right Now. RFK Jr. Is Fighting Tooth and Nail Against One of Them. Things could get really bad.

"Congratulations! You didn’t die of measles." @laurahelmuth.bsky.social on the miracle of vaccines are, and the dangers of RFK Jr.
slate.com/_pages/cm3qc...

Fantastic piece from Cecilie, who had three kids during her PhD but was also incredibly productive publishing top papers & doing groundbreaking work whilst facing many challenges. Immensely proud of all she's achieved! Excellent call for how academia could better accommodate life-work balance! 👇👏

Is anyone looking for post-doc experience and pubs in sleep/circadian science and/or clinical psychology and/or implementation science? If so, please reach out! aharvey@berkeley.edu #impsci #sleep&circadian @ABCTNOW @PCSASNews

Graph of global mean temperature for Septembers from September 1850 to September 2023. September 2023 is by far and away the warmest September on record globally. Six datasets are shown with good agreement between them, but only ERA5 is updated to 2023 so far.

We're starting to get September updates to global temperature data sets. First up is ERA5. The plot shows Septembers from 1850-2023. Not only does ERA5 break the record, it breaks it by a record amount and a huge margin. 🧵

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology! I am search committee chair! Help us find a new excellent colleague - please share!

uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa...

Definitely evening time. 5 to 10 pm 🦉

I used to use Pew research data in a PSY111 class demonstration of cognitive biases, showing that although students strongly believed gun violence was on the rise, it had actually been declining for many years.

Have had to ditch that demonstration in recent years... 😔

#PsySciSky

Thanks Allison! That's a wonderful idea.