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Manuel Spitschan

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Visual (and) circadian neuroscience (Max Planck / Technical University of Munich)

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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
💡 Member Spotlight! 💡 Salma M. Thalji & @mspitschan.bsky.social have developed an #open-source R package for quantifying dim light melatonin onset (DLMO)! Read more about this new #circadian tool here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Ocular light and optical radiation exposure as a modifiable environmental determinant of health: expert consensus on research gaps and priorities - BMC Medicine
Background Light exposure over 24 h is a modifiable environmental influence on human physiology and behavior with significant implications for health and well-being, yet the field lacks coordinated re...
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
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Sabine Gysi @sabinegysi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Warum #WissKomm auch von Hochschulen, Forschungseinrichtungen & Förderern priorisiert werden sollte, und wie wichtig es ist, dass Wissenschaft ihre Relevanz aufzeigt: Darüber unterhalte ich mich in Ep 41 von SciComm Palaver mit @mspitschan.bsky.social. scicomm-palaver.simplecast.com/episodes/sci...
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SciComm Palaver, Episode 41: Manuel Spitschan | SciComm Palaver
Diese Podcast-Episode beleuchtet, warum Wissenschaftskommunikation auch von Hochschulen, Forschungseinrichtungen und Förderern priorisiert werden sollte, und wie wichtig es ist, dass Wissenschaft die ...
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Florian Sandhaeger @fsandhaeger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup! #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
SLRCH President Corrado Garbazza introduces the new SLRCH board members. Welcome to the board! @delaineywescott.bsky.social @rebecca-cox.bsky.social @mspitschan.bsky.social @aliamidi.bsky.social #SLRCH2025
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Good news, everyone! Our website now has a jobs page: slrch.org/jobs/ If you're a SLRCH-affiliated lab and have an open position, reach out via email or DM to get it posted and shared with our community ☀️
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Today we launch the Light for Public Health initiative. lightforpublichealth.org
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Light for Public Health - Evidence-based public health messaging on the non-visual effects of ocular light exposure
Consensus statements for a coordinated health communication campaign
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This year, my group is taking science on the road. nachtmensch-oder-fruehaufsteher.de
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Time for camping. 🏕️
Dog sitting in front of a tent on a red blanket
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Call for Papers – Light exposure in the Real world 💡🧠 We’re guest editing a special Collection in npj Biological Timing and Sleep that explores how light, the primary zeitgeber in humans, is measured and understood under naturalistic, everyday conditions. www.nature.com/collections/...
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Light exposure in the real world
This collection invites research on light exposure and its impact on human physiology and behaviour.
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Light O'Clock @lightoclock.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tune in to hear more about these and more topics in the latest episode of Light O'Clock! 👇 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/y9rtvn7f 🍏 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/5bfuh2dp 🌐 Website: www.tscnlab.org/podcast/s03e02 3/3
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Light O'Clock @lightoclock.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In the second episode of Season 3, Luísa Klaus Pilz (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) shares insights from fieldwork in Brazil on how urban living, electricity access, and camping outdoors affect our circadian rhythms. 2/3 ↪️
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Light O'Clock @lightoclock.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
How does life in cities versus rural areas shape our circadian rhythms? How does access to electricity — or the lack of it — impact sleep timing? And what happens to our circadian rhythms when we move from an urban setting to camping outside? 🌆🏕️ 1/3 ↪️
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Join now!
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Our talk series is kicking off tomorrow with a talk by Achim Kramer from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Make sure to register now! tum-conf.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Cathy Manning @cmanning.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Excited to be presenting at this in July - a range of interesting seminars on circadian and visual neuroscience open to all #visionscience
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
💡FINAL CALL - Tomorrow is the last day! Submit your abstract & apply for the J. Christian Gillin Early Career Investigator Award by April 22, 23:59 (EDT)! ‼️Early Bird extended until April 29! 👉Submit/Register: lnkd.in/e5prW_AV 🗂️Program: lnkd.in/ez8rssig 📧contact.slrch@gmail.com #36thAnnualMeeting
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Next up in our Meet the Board series is SLRCH Vice President, Renske Lok @renskelokphd.bsky.social 🌟✨ Today is the LAST DAY to submit your abstract for SLRCH 2025 in Boston! We can't wait to see you there 🤩 slrch2025.exordo.com/login
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The SLRCH board has been hard at work putting together this year's conference 💪 We would like to introduce you to our board members. First up is the SLRCH President, Corrado Garbazza! 👑 Don't forget to register for SLRCH 2025 by 4/22! slrch2025.exordo.com/login #circadian #sleepscience
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Delighted to announce this spring semester's programme for our Seminar Series "Current Topics in Circadian & Visual Neuroscience", featuring a roster of speakers discussing their cutting-edge research in vision and/or circadian rhythms. Register now! www.tscnlab.org/seminar
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Shervin is looking for a PhD student in his lab in Dresden. Looks like an amazing opportunity, with deadline approaching fast!
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Exploring the Vosges mountain range in Alsace. Rolling hills, fresh forest scent, stunning views.
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Starting off SLRCH 2025 strong with these two opening talks that you won't want to miss!💪 🚨5 days left to submit your abstract and be part of this exciting scientific program: slrch2025.exordo.com/login ☀️Join us Jun 13-16 in Boston for the latest light and circadian health science!☀️
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
☀️⏰ You won't want to miss the Year in Review session at the 2025 SLRCH meeting! We can't wait to welcome you in Boston, abstract submission is open until April 22! ☀️⏰
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Want to hear the latest in translational circadian biology? Join us in Boston at #SLRCH2025 on Sunday 15th June! Abstract submission is open until April 22nd, we look forward to seeing you there 🤩 slrch.org
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1. Andrew McHill, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA: Circadian Timing in the College Years and Implications for Health and Performance 
2.Jeanne Duffy, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA: Aging, Sleep, and Circadian Rhythmicity
3. Jacqueline Lane, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA: Biological and Clinical Insights from Genetics of Circadian Rhythms
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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Give your pets job roles on your lab website. Please. 👌🏼👇🏼
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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is the single most incredible thing I've seen.
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
✨ Good news! The abstract submission deadline for the 36th Annual Meeting has been EXTENDED! ✨ ⏳ New deadline: 22 April 2025 (Same for Early Bird registration!) 📢 Don’t miss this chance to share your research with a passionate audience! 🔗 Submit & register here: slrch2025.exordo.com/login
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Light O'Clock @lightoclock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This weekend, Europe will switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST), moving clocks forward by one hour ⏰ While many people may enjoy more daylight in the evening, scientists in sleep and circadian research argue that DST can be harmful to our health. But why, and what's the evidence? 1/3
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Light O'Clock @lightoclock.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🎙️ The Light O’Clock podcast is back with a brand new season! In the upcoming five episodes, we look beyond the biology of body clocks to explore how our modern world shapes our biological rhythms — and how politics and society influence decisions about our body clocks. 1/3 ↪️
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
ATTN undergrads! We're offering a special discounted rate for undergrad students for the 36th SLRCH Meeting in Boston USA (June 13-16)! 📩 Email contact.slrch@gmail.com w/ proof of student status for the discount code 🔗 Tag or share with colleagues Excited to welcome young scientists in Boston!
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New season of Light O'Clock is coming next Tuesday, 25 March 2025! Listen to the trailer now! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3WmK... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/s... Or on our website: tscnlab.org/podcast Make sure to follow as well: @lightoclock.bsky.social
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Season 3 – Trailer
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Delighted to share this interview with Dr Resshaya Murukesu, postdoc in my team: www.tum-create.edu.sg/news/breakin...
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Breaking Barriers: TUMCREATE Researcher Dr Resshaya Murukesu on Accelerating Action for Women in STEM
Women make up less than 30% of the global STEM workforce1, a statistic that highlights persistent gender biases in the field. Navigating a male-dominated industry as a woman in STEM comes with challen...
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Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health @slrch-society.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🌟 The Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health (SLRCH) is partnering to deliver the 8th deLIGHTed talks! 💡✨ 📅 24 April 2025 ⏰ 16:00 CEST 😴 Topic: Good Light – Good Sleep 🔗 Sign up here: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/a6798... Don't miss out! #deLIGHTedTalks #GoodLightGoodSleep #SLRCH
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Learn about integrating lived experience and co-design in research: open.spotify.com/episode/52ca...
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Spotlight: Research, rooted in reality – The power of lived experience in scientific studies
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
New preprint on our open-source implementation of the hockey-stick method for determining the dim-light melatonin onset is out now: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Circadian Mental Health Network @circadianmhnetw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We are here! The Circadian Mental Health Network is a network of researchers, clincians, lived experience individuals and many moredriving innovation in #mentalhealth #sleep #circadian science Find out more about the Network and what we do: circadianmentalhealth.org
Circadian Mental Health Network logo
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Data from longitudinal light exposure measurement campaigns are often zero-inflated due to darkness. How can we handle this in a principled way? Read our new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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How to deal with darkness: Modelling and visualization of zero-inflated personal light exposure data on a logarithmic scale
Personal light exposure, the pattern of ocular light levels across time under free-living conditions measured with wearable devices, has become increasingly important in circadian and myopia research....
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
When we measure light exposure from people, they sometimes need to take the light loggers off. How can we handle these non-wear intervals? Read our new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint led by Carolina Guidolin: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Collecting, detecting and handling non-wear intervals in longitudinal light exposure data
In field studies using wearable light loggers, participants often need to remove the devices, resulting in non-wear intervals of varying and unknown duration. Accurate detection of these intervals is ...
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I will use this account for two purposes. Talk about science, and post pictures of my dog. Making good on the latter.
Dog sleeping comfortably on a pillow on a couch.
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Manuel Spitschan @mspitschan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Read our new preprint on photic sneezing.
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