We are working on it! Lead researchers are Somali students.
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We are working on it! Lead researchers are Somali students.
Flyer that has a QR to a take a survey "Stress and Sleep during Operation Metro Surge". The flyer has photos of "ICE OUT" protest signs and text explaining that the anonymous survey takes 10 - 15 minutes to take. People with questions should contact Prof. Prichard at jrprichard@stthomas.edu.
Hi! Our team is collecting data on sleep and wellbeing of adults living in the Twin Cities metro area during this winter’s ICE activities. The survey is available in English and Somali
stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share! (Thank you, @twincitiesgeek.com)
Ty! Will do!
I’m here today at the Minnesota State Capitol, offering expert testimony in favor of HF 1944 adopting permanent standard time. I was also the person to “fix” the clock in the senate committee room, winding it back one hour outside of natural time. @savestandard.bsky.social
Hi! Our team is collecting data on sleep and wellbeing of adults living in the Twin Cities metro area during this winter’s ICE activities. Please share! @twincitiesgeek.com
stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Pls Share:
Twin Cities metro area residents: We want to know about your experiences of stress and sleep during Operations Metro Surge. Take the 10 min anonymous survey here.
stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Congratulations to Dr. Williams! A title honoring Octavia E. Butler?
Same! Last night I was on an owl prowl near Bdote and each satellite got me cursing the Kessler effect disaster in making. And then there’s this insanity: darksky.org/news/organiz...
Yes! It’s early in the morning, I’m not wearing glasses, and the bottom line of text is quite small. Very excited for your documentary of course, but would have also supported a TMC Power to the People Y’all line of RUM.
I love speaking about sleep & mental health, athletics, and academic success! So many college students have questions about sleep health. Often I am able to help a student with an undiagnosed sleep disorder navigate to the appropriate clinician. www.hypersomniafoundation.org has a free webinar Th!
In winter, I like taking pictures of tree branches that look like dendrites.
I'm about halfway through this nearer-than-I-want-it-to-be AI takes over medicine speculative fiction novel and loving it. As a sleep neuroscientist and pre-health advisor, I particularly appreciate Dr. Key's precision throughout regarding MedEd culture & science discovery. Thank you!
Das Swarm! The cetaceans abide!
(Also I woke up from a dream asking our branch librarian to find a Scalzi / Judy Blume cross over.)
Minnesota great & respiratory titan Jessie Diggins! Medaling in three Olympics, already the most decorated US Nordic skier of all time before this morning’s epic kick for Bronze with bruised ribs. A fierce sleep and mental health advocate who openly discusses her ED recovery. Thank you.
A row of sunrise alarm clock globes in a dark room.
Then she is probably a totally healthy active teen who needs 10 hours of sleep whose body says that sleep should optimally be between midnight and 10:30 AM. I’ll send over a few tricks that will help a bit, like these, set half an hour before wake up time.
If she falls asleep throughout the day, that’s definitely a sign you would want want to talk to a sleep clinician. If once she’s up, she has plenty of energy throughout the day that’s less concerning. Email me jrprichard at stthomas edu if you want, and I can send you some assessments.
I’m so sorry for the diagnosis delay.
Hi. I am a mother of adolescents and a sleep neuroscientist. This is totally normal, which is why there’s a Start School Later public health push. If it’s harder for her than most other teens, she might have delayed phase sleep disorder; disability accommodations means priority registration.
Free share: Great suggestions here!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...
Veggie platter at an Ethiopian restaurant
Cuban coffee shop coffee and pastry
A group of white neighbors at St. Paul city hall with tape over their mouths representing people who don’t feel safe speaking.
A statement from Pope Leo supporting immigrant dignity surrounded by paper butterflies with stories of those held in prayer.
I’ve been supporting peace and democracy here in the Twin Cities through different avenues: education, legislative advocacy, mutual aid, coalition-building, but my favorite is delighting in immigrant-owned businesses.
Same. @naomialderman.bsky.social Four of us saw it together, and only my Jewish spouse enjoyed it. Reverse dog whistle, indeed. I think I went in with wrong expectations and completely wrong lenses. I appreciate it much more now having read your essay.
Yep. There’s a lot of privacy given away when we click those biotrackers consent forms. They could release avg time and number of orgasms by metro area if they wanted. Tricky when this data is subpoenaed. www.kqed.org/futureofyou/...
@fitbit.bsky.social could release a report on this right now-- Twin Cities area increase in resting Heart Rate and decrease in HRV over January compared with other metro areas.
Same feelings, but also for all my favorite businesses: coffee shops, restaurants, gym, community center, hair salon.
Side note: I am terrified of the Kessler effect, and my conversation with Papal astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, about its likelihood did little to calm my fears.
It's the start of #BlackHistoryMonth and the new semester.
Today, I'm grateful for the educational legacies of
George Washington Carver
Pauli Murray
bell hooks
Octavia E. Butler
Charles R. Drew
Ronald E. McNair
James Baldwin
What about you?
I needed to make an extra sign for yesterday’s neighborhood first amendment activities here in St. Paul, MN.
Wildly and drunk.
In December, I shared my Top 10 Sleep Threats on @drchriswinter.bsky.social Sleep Unplugged podcast. Here in these occupied but resilient Twin Cities, I stand by those rankings, but might temporarily switch #1 & #2.
Here in the Twin Cities, I just shared some extra crafting supplies with this boss of Gen X grandma who’s mass resistance crafting safety vests. We all know our super powers and lanes of effectiveness here. Feeder, fighter, crafter, purple phallus thrower; we’ve got them all.
