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Matthew Horsnell

@matthorsnell.bsky.social
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Project Sleep’s Inaugural Sleep Advocacy Champion, Hypersomnia Foundation Patient Advocate Award Winner, Narcolepsy Renaissance Man, Pharma Consultant, Advocate-Author, and Social Support Guru

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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Let the gods decide…I request a Trial of Seven. Who will ride with Ser Matt the Swoll?
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
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The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
@sleepscientist.bsky.social did you see this? www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...
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Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b - NASA
A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
@sleepnp.bsky.social is second to none. Ellen’s credentials include FAASM and DBSM. She is cooking on research projects and she is sharing her wisdom with advocacy. Her present is bright, her future is brighter. Plus she is cool.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Got em
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Waiting for my selfie @tonycunningham.bsky.social
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/05/2025
VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid) ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.
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Fuck trumps regime @heisonthelist.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
As a white dude I agreed to this…. 👇🏼👇🏼
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/05/2025
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
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Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Psychedelics linked to religious disaffiliation—but not spiritual change—in large-scale study
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Psychedelics linked to religious disaffiliation—but not spiritual change—in large-scale study
Psychedelics are often described as spiritual tools—but do they change people’s religious beliefs? A large new study found that while psychedelic use was associated with religious disaffiliation, it did not cause lasting changes in religiosity or spirituality over time.
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
While America slept, House Republicans quietly unveiled their Medicaid plan. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it strips health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2025
I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Reductress
RFK Laments That People With Autism Might Never Get to Do Normal Things Like Dump a Dead Bear in Central Park
Print Edition - May 7, 2025 By: Janie Beaufore
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Please let me off this ride, I’m feeling ill.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
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Meidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
PSA: If you use a gender/sex-based insult then poof! Blocked. If it's a reply, I'll hide it from everyone, too. Insults are fine when deserved, but base them on the person themself and not their sex, gender, body type, attractiveness, fashion sense, etc.
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OxfordDPAG @oxforddpag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Sleep is the only ubiquitous behaviour whose function remains unknown. The Miesenböck group is looking for—and finding—clues to the mystery of sleep in the properties of sleep-inducing cells in the brain. www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/remembe...
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Remembering the Need for Sleep
Sleep is the only ubiquitous behaviour whose function remains unknown. The Miesenböck group is looking for—and finding—clues to the mystery of sleep in the properties of sleep-inducing cells in the br...
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Interesting tidbit that jives with the creativity of some of my PWN (people with narcolepsy) peers: “The findings indicate that damage to this circuit—caused by brain injuries or neurodegenerative diseases—may sometimes enhance creative abilities. “
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
after stealing every word they could find, they ran out of english text and couldn't improve the models further by volume, so they started generating fake text to help improve them more and also a bunch of the english text they fed in the first time is unreliable garbage because they didn't vet it
ouroborous
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Miranda Chappel-Farley, PhD @mgchappelfarley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Over the past few years, I’ve shared my personal journey as a sleep scientist living with sleep apnea with other scientists and students to raise awareness and reduce stigma. I’m excited to reach an even broader audience in my recent interview with Parade 🎉 parade.com/health/i-fel...
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I Fell Asleep While Driving, Which Led to This Diagnosis
This health condition is often overlooked in women.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#SleepPeeps, You may not know this, but apparently preventing SIDS is a woke neo-Marxist fraud.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
As Bukele prepares to arrest multiple journalists for reporting on the deal he made with gangs before the State of Exception in 2022, remember that the Trump admin chose to send him an MS-13 leader set for a trial in the US who might have testified about that deal, thus ensuring his silence.
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Emily (I'm not leaving) Feiner @emilyjaynef.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?
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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”
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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I see no flaws in this logic at all.
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tiffhoppe.swifties.social @tiffhoppe.swifties.social · 04/05/2025
ICE roundup bus leaving Nashville for parts unknown - rounded up in a raid overnight- this is a 3 minute clip but I watched this whole thing live and it’s horrifying #nashville #ice
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
RFK Jr: “autism destroys families” and is “an individual tragedy as well” NBC News: “he raised the profile of autism”
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Julian Cribb @juliancribb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Trump freezes science. www.scientificamerican.com/article/unde...
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Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists
National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that requires that grants be screened for “alignment with agency priorities”
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#Trump vs #Science: Medical journals including @nejm.org and @jama.com hit with threatening letters from Justice Department "It's an indication of the degree to which this administration will go to try to interfere with scientific research and the scientific community" www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Front page @nytimes.com today 1 of 6 charts of the 1st 100 days www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kenneth Miller @kenmillerwrites.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🤯🤯🤯https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/
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NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It's important to know that when tech bros say they are "data driven" what they mean by "data" is their own experience and the assumptions. This is why you regularly hear things like "UBI will destroy society" and "if you give away housing no one will work" despite all studies showing the contrary.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Discussed here sciencebasedmedicine.org/big-pharma/
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The Anti-Vaccine Movement Supports Big Pharma
It's common knowledge that anti-vaxxers are dedicated to filling the coffers of Big Coffin.  Simple math leads to another obvious conclusion: they also work extremely hard to enrich hospitals and Big
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Had to remind myself I'm a science reporter, not a political reporter😅, so I wrote this cool story on the search for a universal snake antivenom, something that's desperately needed to save lives across the developing world. www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/d...
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Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
Blood from a snake enthusiast who's been bitten hundreds of times aided the search for a universal snakebite treatment
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Alex Naka @gottapatchemall.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... broad spectrum antivenom
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In case you weren't yet sure this is about racism: The word cloud below shows the most common terms in the titles and abstracts of the 1,000+ NSF grants terminated in the last couple of weeks. (source: grant-watch.us/nsf-summary....) #academicsky
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Twitter’s iPhone App being down all day has been remarkable for my mental health. The world is still on fire, but I don’t see the folks actively throwing accelerant on the fire.
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Narcolepsy (narcolepsie coined by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Gélineau) has been around long enough that facial hair like this was in style.
Image of Dr. Jean-Baptiste Édouard Gélineau. The physician who coined the term narcolepsie. He has righteous facial hair.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
RFK Jr. logic: - I never heard of narcolepsy when I was a kid - Therefore, it didn't exist when I was a kid - Therefore, probably caused by red food dye Lesson: Maybe read at least 1 fucking article on a topic before spouting bullshit off the top of your head about it to the world? #sleeppeeps
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Descriptions of narcolepsy first in 1877 and the term “narcolepsie” was coined by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Gélineau in 1880. Evidence suggests most cases of NT1 (with cataplexy) are autoimmune disorders not “injuries.” #SleepPeeps
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
So “oops, but you are still going to be punished because you defended academic integrity and embarrassed DJT.” @tonycunningham.bsky.social I’ve been meaning to check in but it is always too late to text. You have my voice and support. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is bad for so many reasons. People with chronic and rare conditions struggle to pay for meds already. Some products require an ex-US supply chain. Others can adapt, but it will take time. Patients will suffer.
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Matthew Horsnell @matthorsnell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Grateful to voices like my dear friend Lindsay Jesteadt and good-ish friend* @drchriswinter.bsky.social for highlighting pediatric narcolepsy! #SleepPeeps * - just kidding Chris is fantastic thebalancingact.com/the-struggle...
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The Struggle to Stay Awake: Recognizing Pediatric Narcolepsy - The Balancing Act
Join us as we explore excessive daytime sleepiness in children and how it may be a key indicator of pediatric narcolepsy. Experts share insights on recognizing symptoms, seeking proper medical guidanc...
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