Thank you very much for supporting the 'Sleep Cycle'! Dear friends, I’m pleased to share that we've reached almost 2.5 times the initial funding target! With the £2,780 raised, Homeless Oxfordshire will be able to provide a safe place to sleep for one person in Oxford, UK,

Exciting new insights into the dynamics and function of sleep spindles revealed through a new detection method and intracortical recordings. This wonderful international and interdisciplinary collaboration was led by my friend cristina in the Vlad Vyazovskiy lab.

Wonderful 30th anniversary event of the @MertonCollege Harvey Society yesterday. Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Ratcliffe spoke about the usefulness of useless knowledge emphasising that true knowledge in biology is always incomplete.

Our symposium 'Top down control of sleep/wake by the cerebral cortex' will take place today 13:30-15:00 in room Paris 1. I will present our original work and latest data on 'Cortical regulation of local and global aspects of sleep' ESRS #SleepEurope2024

Cortical layer 6b mediates state-dependent changes in brain activity and effects of orexin on waking and sleep biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So proud of the Merton Boat Club members, who just finished their impressive 24-hour 'ergathon' raising funds for @Homeless_Oxford to support their vital work throughout this winter. A few more donations will help to meet reach funding target: gofundme.com/f/mcbc-24-hour…

Excited and honoured to serve as the Staines Medical Research Fellow Exeter College, Oxford. Find out more about my work on the regulation and manipulation of sleep pressure: dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/lukas-kro…

How animals learned to hibernate and why we can’t do it (yet) | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/how-ani…

Exciting work by the Anita Luthi lab! In addition to the beautiful electrophysiology and imaging, the second part of the paper provides fascinating insights into the influence of the sleep environment on sleep physiology. Congratulations Alejandro Osorio-Forero and everyone involved!

Anything but small: Microarousals stand at the crossroad between noradrenaline signaling and key sleep functions: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Important work by Natalie Hauglund and the NedergaardLab providing a mechanistic link between infraslow oscillations, blood and CSF dynamics, and clearance during NREM sleep. Of particular note for clinicians is the impairment of these dynamics by zolpidem.

If you’re curious about the feasibility of modulating sleep in humans, you might find our new perspective "stimulating". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/js… Written with my wonderful colleagues Ines Violante Valeria Jaramillo and Michael Song.

Presenting my latest unpublished work in room 616 in 5 minute.

Wonderful Satellite Meeting on Basic Sleep Research happening @UiO_LifeSci in Oslo this Friday co-organised by Charlotte Boccara and Julia in collaboration with the ESRS Registration still open!

There is still time to register to the Basic sleep research satellite workshop – due to popular demand, we have now open an online registration for a live stream for those that cannot attend in person in Oslo : nettskjema.no/a/521323#/page…

If anyone has a spare ticket for tonight’s #WorldSleep2025 gala dinner or knows of a cancellation, I‘d be keen to buy it.

Our latest work shows that local modulation of cortical activity can bidirectionally change the amount of global sleep: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We welcome any feedback on this preprint!