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Rebecca Spencer

@rebicca.bsky.social
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Sleep neuroscientist😴🧠, trail runner 🏃🏻‍♀️, triathlete🚴🏼‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️, explorer of WMass/VT/the world, 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 + 🐾, UMass fan, traveler ✈️, Made in MI ✋🏼

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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Join me in Austin to talk sleep science! This is a fantastic speaker lineup! sleepresearchsociety.org/advances-in-...
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#sleeppeeps - Spread the word, we're looking for a post-doc to add to our team! careers.umass.edu/jobs/post-do...
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Post Doctoral Research Associate - Somneuro Lab - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate - Somneuro Lab Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work Location: Amherst Sche...
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New preprint! Huge data collection feat from Morgan Barnes and analytic prowess from Thea Ng! Perturbations of aperiodic activity following learning are reversed in nREM resetting the brain by morning. This reset predicts consolidation! tinyurl.com/BarnesNg
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hey #sleeppeeps - I’m in the northeast U.S. going to #worldsleep2025 in Singapore: give me your long-haul flight, 12 timezone sleep adaptation plan. Prescription or OTC meds? It’s going to be too cool to be a zombie!
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New podcast alert! Check out the Brain Architects new lest episode wherever you listen! #sleeppeeps
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Check out our new paper helping more labs include PSG in their developmental cogneuro toolbox! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #devcogneuro #sleeppeeps #cogdevsoc
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Pediatric sleep electrophysiology: Using polysomnography in developmental cognitive neuroscience
Research suggests a bidirectional relationship between brain and cognitive development and sleep in early childhood. Polysomnography is essential for …
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
#sleeppeeps check out this new meta-analysis which provides great guidance on spindle-slow oscillation measurement which has been highly variable across papers! This work was done in my lab @umass by Thea Ng, an undergraduate @MountHolyoke! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Does slow oscillation-spindle coupling contribute to sleep-dependent memory consolidation? A Bayesian meta-analysis
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Our lab has extended our work to infants. Here’s a piece I wrote describing our preliminary study that led to the current R01 work we’re doing. Check it out! childandfamilyblog.com/the-power-of... #infantsleep #sleepscience #babysleep #sleeppeeps
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The Power Of Distributed Sleep | Article | Child & Family Blog
Discover the benefits and drawbacks of distributed sleep for infants and babies. Backed by data and research.
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Hey #sleeppeeps! The SLEEP 2024 session proposal deadline is 12/20. Plenty of time to get together with colleagues and come up with an amazing submission! Sleepmeeting.org/session-proposals/
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
#Sleep&Circadian #sleeppeeps - please submit a session proposal for SLEEP2024! Due 12/20. tinyurl.com/393w6fh3
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Session Proposals – SLEEP Meeting
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Rebecca Spencer @rebicca.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Will this A. be a major shift in the review process or B. reviewers will force-fit their biased ways into the new structure and nothing will change? 🤔
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NOT-OD-24-010: Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Project Grant Applications
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Project Grant Applications NOT-OD-24-010. NIH
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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Is anyone looking for post-doc experience and pubs in sleep/circadian science and/or clinical psychology and/or implementation science? If so, please reach out! aharvey@berkeley.edu #impsci #sleep&circadian @ABCTNOW @PCSASNews
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