New article! Really enjoyed the opportunity to write about chronobiology and psychology for @NatRevPsych https://t.co/D0OGVZHqsn

Eating when we experience stress is a normal behaviour to meet increased energy needs. But sometimes our relationship with food becomes strained in the process. @cc_gupta @SKhalesi @CQU

Are any academics still on Twitter? If not I’ll just tell Elon Musk about my award, hope he’s happy for me (I’ll take a Tesla). An honour to receive the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding ECR. Lots of rejections this year, so it’s nice to celebrate a win!

I love research because it combines my two favorite things: sitting and anxiety

For now we can say: if eating at night, avoid large meals and opt for a small snack. A low GI, minimally processed snack MAY be less of a challenge to glucose metabolism at night and reduce the effect of the snack we saw in this study. Important next questions for research! (4/4)

So while no food at night may be best for glucose metabolism (and reducing long-term health burden of shiftwork), a snack could be best for performance and safety. This makes advice to workers challenging! (3/4)

We found that fasting at night maintained glucose tolerance (meal & snack had ⬇️glucose tolerance). Our other findings from this study (my PhD findings) show that a snack at night led to the best cog performance and lowest sleepiness https://t.co/ZqPfaATvA8 (2/4)

🧵Our lab study on the impact of a meal vs snack vs no eating during nightshifts on glucose metabolism is out now in Diabetologia! (1/4)

Attention NEST members that follow me (or anyone who would like to join our community of Aus/NZ students and ECRS in sleep research) 👇

Great fun presenting in the symposium on diet, sleep, and health - organised by @Yohannes_A_M_6. I could happily yap about our lab findings on diet and sleep for hours! (Luckily I didn’t) #SDU2024

I’m a savvy, modern researcher. I have dozens of windows and hundreds of tabs open at all times, each containing articles I’ll never read. I yearn for Chrome to crash and deliver me from a nightmare of my own creation.

Really great presentation from @PVarma_sleep on using an intersectional lens to understand sleep health disparities. Prerna I’ve written down many ideas and am publicly declaring my interest in collaborating on this! #SDU2024 @asa_nest

A privilege to interview Aaron live in this symposium session as he generously shared his experience living with narcolepsy. Hope to see more lived experience incorporated in future conference programs #SDU2024

Awesome presentation from @SleepHygienePhD on the Healthy From the Start project where we co-designed resources for young shiftworkers. Made the project team, and her supervisors (@PhDsleepy, Prof Sal Ferguson & Dr Gabby Rigney) proud! #SDU2024

Another great @asa_nest NEST Fest! Thankyou so much to the incredible speakers who joined us - we got so much from your presentations! Great to see so many awesome students and ECRs in attendance #SDU2024

Morning writing sesh for the gals @Dayna_Easton. Getting excited for @asa_nest NEST Fest later today! #SDU2024

Great @asa_nest webinar last week on Working with Industry! Great to have @drdeanjmiller & @GemmaPaechPhD sharing their insights & experiences with our audience of students/ECRs. Shoutout to @t_smithies for chairing! Follow @asa_nest to hear about upcoming webinars.

A great presentation today by honours student Danika on her scoping review into the built environment 🏠and sleep quality😴. A pleasure to supervise Danika alongside @CAIN_Lab friends Bella Bower and @scott_coussens. Excited to collab more on the built environment and sleep!

📢 It’s not too late to register for our upcoming NEST webinar, “Working with Industry”! Free for ASA members, or $10 for non-members.

Look forward to speaking at the next @ASAISleepHealth council meeting on our work into sleep hygiene and shiftwork!