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Michael Scullin

@baylorsleep.bsky.social
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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.

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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What happens when a professor goes all-in on helping students sleep more? I hope my story gives you a laugh. You may shake your head at a few moments…eek, I do in retrospect...but I think you just might nod in agreement by the end. TEDx talk: youtu.be/1bjrU7tvPXA?...
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I give students extra credit for sleeping—here’s why | Michael Scullin | TEDxBaylor University
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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...
psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de
Welcome
<center> <strong>International Conference on Prospective Memory</strong> </center> <center> <strong>July 12- 16, 2026 </strong></center> <center> ...
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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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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...
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Terra Ziporyn @terraziporyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Lesson 3 from COVID-19: Teenagers need to sleep in, but schools won’t let them #startschoollater #sleeppeeps www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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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.
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The dynamic version is even more disturbing...
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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...
Infographic on costs of federally sponsored research, showing what are direct costs, what are indirect costs, and what costs are not paid by federal funds.
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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
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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:
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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.
REM-ee the dino-Snore-us welcomes kids/families to learn about sleep via three interactive fixtures
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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 side of image shows a website for "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Engineering", right side of image shows a "Page Not Found" error.
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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
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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...
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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
psychologicalscience.org
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...
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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...
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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.
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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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… #teachpsych #neuroscience
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Fun time at #psynom24 NYC with the prospective memory peeps
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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...
sleep.com
The Key to Flourishing? Get Better Sleep
Can improving your sleep help you thrive? We explain the link between sleep and flourishing.
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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'.”
med.stanford.edu
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.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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...
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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...
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
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....
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
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...
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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...
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
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...
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
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.
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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.
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