Martin Dresler
PI @ Donders Sleep & Memory Lab, studying functions of sleep. Also brain hacks incl. lucid dreaming, polyphasic sleep, mnemonics. http://dreslerlab.org
- Reposted by Martin DreslerJob alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)
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- Reposted by Martin Dresler⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)! A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking. 👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerApply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠 #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
- "I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how." www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/ho...
- Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy: Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Martin Dresler🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
- Reposted by Martin Dresler⏳ One month left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)! 👉 Register by January 15: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it #dreamresearch #sleepresearch #sleepscience #neuroscience
- Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
- The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century: 1. Dream engineering "For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..." www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerPlease repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
- Reposted by Martin Dresler🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
- Reposted by Martin DreslerI am now a Recommender (similar to Action Editor) at @pci-regreports.bsky.social. If you have any Registered Reports in the area of Sleep and Dreaming, I'd be very happy to take them on! #sleeppeeps rr.peercommunityin.org/about/recomm...
- Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
- Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
- Reposted by Martin DreslerJunior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
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- Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Martin Dresler🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it 👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
- 17,058 proposals received, 1,650 to be funded. Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts). Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
- The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide. A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades. Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment. → europa.eu/!jcnGgP #ChooseEurope
- Disturbed sleep is a leading symptom and likely causal factor for the development of psychiatric diseases such as mood disorders. Here we review how sleep is altered in depression, and discuss the role of sleep for therapeutic approaches: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
- Reposted by Martin DreslerIf you are at #WorldSleep25 and interested in Dreaming, come by my Poster 75 at 5.30 today! Also happy to chat about any other of my interests, such as infant sleep, gut microbiota, and so on, at the poster or over a tea! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerFrom sleep 💤 to dreams 🌙 to daydreams ☁️ - what is the brain up to? I’m excited to host a mini-symposium before my PhD defense! Join us in person or online, details in the flyer! @sarahschoch.bsky.social @dresler.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
- Reposted by Martin DreslerOur lab is starting a new study on dreaming 🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate! If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerInterested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
- Reposted by Martin DreslerDream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !
- Reposted by Martin DreslerAfter you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences” authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerSave the date!! 🗓️ The 2nd edition of the Summer School on the Neuroscience of Dreaming 💤 will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Lucca, Italy, at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. 📍 The official website will be released soon: stay tuned for updates!
- The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerSince Lullabyte began, we’ve been collaborating on a project blending Sleep, Music & Data Science. We're excited to share Somnosphere at the Long Night of Sciences in Berlin on June 28th, an immersive AV experience exploring how can we share the private nature of sleep. tinyurl.com/LNDWLullabyte
- Reposted by Martin DreslerWe need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤 If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then? Scientists know actually very little about this private moment. We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible! Here is the link: redcap.link/DriftingMinds
- Reposted by Martin DreslerWe are hiring! 2 PhD position available on semi-naturalistic behavioral phenotyping and housing projects to increase translation. www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
- Reposted by Martin DreslerNext, we have DreamRater github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a flexible tool for manual rating of dream content. You can upload your own scales (radio or numerical scales) and rate dreams whole or in parts. Here's a video explainer: tinyurl.com/DreamRater #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
- Reposted by Martin DreslerSleep disturbance as the strongest predictor of subsequent psychiatric disorders in young people (greater than family history and adverse childhood experiences). Sleep disturbance is modifiable, a key node for intervention. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- “Man, I feel completely focused and full of energy—it’s really disorienting”
- Reposted by Martin DreslerI made some tools for our (MANY!) dream reports. I am making them openly available for others to use! First DreamProcessor github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a simple tool to preprocess dream reports (clean, anonymize, split) that integrates semiautomatic approaches. #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
- Reposted by Martin Dresler🧠💭 Why do some people remember their dreams more than others? In our new preprint, we used multimodal neuroimaging (qMRI, DTI, rs-fMRI) and data-driven analysis (LICA) in 258 participants (!!!), revealing unique structural and functional brain signatures linked to dream recall frequency.
- Reposted by Martin Dresler📄 New preprint! 🎊 Elce et al., "The semantics of dreams": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We show that dream content is shaped by both wakefulness experiences and stable individual psychological/cognitive traits. 🌕
- Electrophysiological Correlates of Lucid Dreaming: Sensor and Source Level Signatures www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerI’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
- We do have funding available for some postdoc years - combined with a Marie Curie scholarship, this could make a longer-term postdoc position. Either way, if you are interested in computational / large-scale sleep EEG and citizen neuroscience infrastructure for sleep/dream research: get in touch!
- Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
- Reposted by Martin DreslerEver used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within. This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵 bsky.app/profile/imag...
- New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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- What distinguishes the brains of memory champions? Method of loci training yields unique neural representations that support effective memory encoding. - spearheaded by jingyuanren.bsky.social, borisnkonrad.bsky.social, isabellacwagner.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- REM sleep and nightmares as transdiagnostic features of psychiatric disorders: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- EEG Microstates reveal distinct network dynamics in lucid and non-lucid REM sleep www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming: We reviewed the link between lucid dreams and conditions like nightmare disorder, depression, anxiety, psychosis, and dissociative states, and the possible neurobiological basis of these associations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Martin DreslerI am currently trying to put together a symposium for WorldSleep on Open Science Practices in Sleep and Dream Research. If any of you are doing any (e.g., Many Labs, Citizen Science, Multiverse, etc.) in your research, please reach out or share and forward! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
- Reposted by Martin DreslerPOSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost
