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Nat Marshall

@natsleep.bsky.social
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Sleep epidemiologist and clinical triallist at the Woolcock Institute and Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Editor at SLEEP and J Sleep Res. #SleepPeeps Clinical Researcher Development. Hurkle-durkler. Statistical grief counselor

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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Is this the hype peak we'll look back on?
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a confusing teaching technique because the picture on the right is also a True Positive = the test (boy) detected the wolf that was really there
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some of mine dump the AI slop into the title of the email. All 4 paragraphs of it
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
To be honest these middle 2 were the last 2
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You mean Horse Apples (see Shawshank Redemption)
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As if a University would have funded barnacle boy in the first place
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Randomised controlled trials because there is a pyramid of evidence @statsepi.bsky.social
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The right hand car should be built out of sand
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Citation farming & University Ranking lists.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
For 2 hours a week appointments
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In Australia Step 5 is outsource the solution to a consulting company for many millions of dollars staffed by people who got middling marks in the classes of the academics who already work for you. The report is actually written by AI.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
doi.org/10.1111/jsr.... Acute dosing effects of cannabinol (CBN) on the sleeping EEG in patients with insomnia
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<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Insomnia disorder is harmful and requires novel treatments. Cannabinol, an oxidative by-product of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is claimed to be a hypnotic, but its effects on objective sleep and insomni....
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Good band name
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Onion finally gets around to sleep studies.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Kingdom of Prance seems accurate
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
All my t-shirts are tax deductible #sleeppeeps
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
4 year post doc post at Maynooth in Human Sleep and Respiratory Physiology. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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Post-Doctoral Researcher in Human Physiology, Full time, Specified Purpose Contract, 4 Years, Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
*points
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Bonus sleep nerd for writing the label on micropore tape
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SLEEP and SLEEP Advances @sleepjournals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Join us for #AskMeAnything with Editors in Chief Drs. Allan Pack (SLEEP) and Sean Drummond (SLEEPAdvances). Send us your questions by adding a comment below. The Editors in Chief will be responding to all your questions on January 5th!
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Handed in and passed in 2005. Finished in 2012.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So. Much. Mass. Produced. Bullshit.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It would help if I could spell #SleepPeeps correctly...
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Hi. I study sleep and sleep disorders using epidemiology and clinical trials
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Does Sleep Apnea cause cancer and if so what kind/s? One of the ways we can check this is to look at the adverse event tables in the big CPAP randomised trials and see if anything changes. Frustrating answer = still not clear onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been hypothesised to promote cancer via intermittent hypoxia, and assessing what happens when OSA is controlled by continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may pro...
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Tax deductible beer if you’re a #sleepeep
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The map all Americans should see www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: A view of the earth with the Pacific Ocean as the center point.
Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I used to have children who did that
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Definately my weirdest scientific idea yet: Can humans sleep one half of their brains at a time when they sleep in water, like dolphins do? Certainly no proof of that yet - but we have a method to maybe catch it. And, Yes, a human can fall asleep floating in a fluid. lnkd.in/gUHSRjug
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Cannabinoid products may reduce total sleep time in adults with insomnia: new study theconversation.com/cannabinoid-...
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Cannabinoid products may reduce total sleep time in adults with insomnia: new study
Any reduction in sleep time for people with clinical insomnia could be concerning.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
There’s definately something different between bedroom temp and outdoor temperature that still has me completely scoobied pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26521276/
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Completely scoobied: the confusing world of temperature and pollution effects on sleep apnoea - PubMed
Completely scoobied: the confusing world of temperature and pollution effects on sleep apnoea
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Fantastic analysis @bastien-lechat.bsky.social but then I'm thinking back to this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22467989/
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Ambient temperature and obstructive sleep apnea: effects on sleep, sleep apnea, and morning alertness - PubMed
This study is registered in ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00544752.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Venn (1866) described the problem with the "sharpshooter fallacy": 🎯 painting the bullseye on the spot where a bullet hits a door. In psychology, we call this "HARKing" — Hypothesizing After Results Are Known.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We're going to need a bigger boat
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Are you assuming your audience is highly educated in the right way?
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 14/05/2025
In the TAK-861-2001 trial involving 112 participants with narcolepsy type 1, oveporexton significantly improved measures of wakefulness, sleepiness, and cataplexy over a period of 8 weeks. Full trial results: nej.md/3ZdlKNi #MedSky #NeuroSky
A graph showing the change from baseline in average sleep latency on the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT)
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Facepalm
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 12/05/2025
There you have it: BEDMED published in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... h/t @drjmluther.bsky.social No difference in bedtime versus morning BP meds - as expected #NephSky #Hypertension 1/
Figure of survival curve showing no difference
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The new SPIRIT statement 2025 for how to write your clinical trial protocol www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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SPIRIT 2025 explanation and elaboration: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials
High quality protocols facilitate proper planning, conduct, reporting, and external review of randomised trials, yet their completeness varies and key elements are often not considered. To strengthen ...
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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology @jclinepi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Improving the completeness and transparency of protocols and reports of randomized trials: SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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Improving the completeness and transparency of protocols and reports of randomized trials: SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025
We developed SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025 together and in a similar manner. To ascertain new evidence to inform both updates we completed two scoping reviews. The results of the scoping reviews helped...
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New treatments to put insomnia to bed
Drugs that eliminate wakefulness, molecules in cannabis and wearable devices that modulate brain activity could help those with the condition.
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JAMA @jama.com · 14/04/2025
Authors, editors, reviewers, and other potential users should use CONSORT 2025 when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent. Learn more in this Special Communication. ja.ma/3Yyu0Hh
Image shows PDF.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hardly anybody has been trained to read the methods section
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 25/03/2025
Risk of bias assessment of randomised controlled trials has become an essential step in the systematic review process. A new tool allows users to assess risk of bias of RCTs included in systematic reviews in a user friendly way www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Bias written in wooden blocks
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
What role for wakefulness promotors? How well do they really work and what are the side-effects? Julia Chapman and I's latest editorial discussing the latest trial evidence authors.elsevier.com/c/1kkb52p-lG...
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Because you don't need a license or any training to publish 'epidemiology'?
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Do modern post-industrialised society members sleep more than hunter-gatherers? Somewhat accurately partially quoted in New Scientist. Big sample sizes don't fix the non-representative sampling problem. www.newscientist.com/article/2469...
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People in industrial societies get more sleep than hunter-gatherers
Individuals in industrialised societies seem to sleep for longer than people in non-industrialised ones, but their circadian rhythms are more out of sync
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Not historic enough. Need to upgrade to the Antonine Plague or cholera reactivated from handling John Snow's lab equipment.
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Interventions for gut flora to improve health?
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Nat Marshall @natsleep.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
And of course one by Senn too...
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