Alice Gregory

Alice Gregory

@alice-gregory.bsky.social

Psychologist. Sleep Researcher. Royal Holloway, Uni London. Thoughts my own. RTs≠endorsement. Books: http://amzn.to/2B9ej17 https://tinyurl.com/sleepypebble

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Alice Gregory
@alice-gregory.bsky.social

Chronotype and psychopathology: insights from a genetically informative design academic.oup.com/sleep/articl.... Well done @juanjmv.bsky.social - for this work (which is amongst the most-read recent articles in the journal #SLEEP 🎉)

academic.oup.comChronotype and psychopathology: insights from a genetically informative designStatement of Significance Chronotype (and primarily late chronotype) has been linked to a wide variety of psychiatric conditions. This study deepens unders

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UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent
@cda-adolescence.bsky.social

A new article from @theguardian.com focuses on NSCA member @candiceodgers.bsky.social's research on adolescent mental health & digital technology, discusses the new U.K. social media ban, and dives into the big issues driving changes in adolescent well-being: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.comThe social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of...

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Candice Odgers
@candiceodgers.bsky.social

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

go.ted.comWhat we're getting wrong about teens and techFor years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

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Alina Marinca
@alinamarinca.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Professor Jennifer Lau for her mentorship,, @alice-gregory.bsky.social whose expertise has been a great inspiration to me,, Dr Afia Ali and DEER team and @acamh.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity.

ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health@acamh.bsky.social

#Sleep isn’t just a side issue in child #mentalhealth. In this #MindtheKids episode, @claragfaria.bsky.social speaks with Alina Marinca about new findings showing how specific sleep problems relate to emotional difficulties & behavioural difficulties in middle childhood. https://bit.ly/3SPdy5G

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

We’re hiring - Research Assistant for our Leverhulme‑funded project on adolescent sleep, learning, and memory. Ideal for candidates with strong quantitative skills and an interest in sleep research. @jakketamminen.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

jobs.royalholloway.ac.ukJob Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Research AssistantFull-Time, Fixed-Term until 31 October 2026.Applications are invited for a Research Assistant position at the Department of Psychology on the Leverhulme Trust funded project: “How does poor sleep in a...

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

Great news that the University of Arizona group has received a $3.8M NIH grant to explore how late‑night wakefulness affects cognition, emotion, and suicide risk through the Mind After Midnight framework. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social news.arizona.edu/news/new-38m...

news.arizona.eduNew $3.8M NIH grant funds research on 'mind after midnight' as a suicide risk factorResearchers in the Department of Psychiatry are studying the effects of being awake between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on decision-making.

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

Sharing our director’s new paper on how smartphone restrictions affect children who rely on them for medical care, a reminder of why our lab is working to build understanding of sleep and type 1 diabetes. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comWhen a smartphone‐free childhood is not a choice: Recognising smartphones as essential medical devicesRecently there have been initiatives to ban or reduce the use of smartphones in children and young people. While exemptions are typically made for tho…
Alice Gregory
@alice-gregory.bsky.social

Decisions about #smartphones and young people are happening now. Don’t forget smartphones can be #medical #devices @parthaskar.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @rhulpsychology.bsky.social @sleep-rhul.bsky.social

sciencedirect.comWhen a smartphone‐free childhood is not a choice: Recognising smartphones as essential medical devicesRecently there have been initiatives to ban or reduce the use of smartphones in children and young people. While exemptions are typically made for tho…

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

New study maps a U‑shaped link between sleep duration and biological ageing with 6.4–7.8 hours emerging as the sweet spot for longevity. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comSleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life - NatureA cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Vicki from The Sleep Charity for speaking to our lab yesterday. Incredible work with real impact and a powerful reminder that research matters most when it stays rooted in the real challenges families face. @thesleepcharity.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social thesleepcharity.org.uk

thesleepcharity.org.ukHome - The Sleep CharitySupporting people across all ages to improve sleep, and provides sleep training to professionals in the health, social and corporate sectors.

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

Celebrating new work from our friend Alina @alinamarinca.bsky.social and our director Alice @alice-gregory.bsky.social showing sleep anxiety as a central link across childhood emotional and behavioural symptoms. @jakketamminen.bsky.social acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.comJCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online LibraryBackground Sleep disturbances are widely considered to be a transdiagnostic feature of common behavioural and emotional difficulties in childhood, yet most studies treat sleep as a single construct....

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Alina Marinca
@alinamarinca.bsky.social

New paper!!! 🎉 I am very happy to share our paper published in JCPP Advances! 🎉 Our findings suggest that targeting specific sleep problems, such as bedtime anxiety, may improve interventions for children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.comJCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online LibraryBackground Sleep disturbances are widely considered to be a transdiagnostic feature of common behavioural and emotional difficulties in childhood, yet most studies treat sleep as a single construct....

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BioClocks UK
@bioclocksuk.bsky.social

We spring forward this weekend, but changing the clocks is increasingly controversial - why? #circadian #dst #springforward #chronobiology #clockchange #SciComm🧪

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Thalia Eley
@thaliaeley.bsky.social

Wonderful testament to the ongoing commitment of the TEDS twins that we have received funding for a further 5 years.

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience@kingsioppn.bsky.social

Twins Early Development Study (led by @thaliaeley.bsky.social, largest and one of the longest-running (over 30 years!) longitudinal twin study in the UK, receives £5 million from the Medical Research Council www.kcl.ac.uk/news/twins-e...

kcl.ac.ukTwins Early Development Study receives £5 million MRC funding | King's College LondonThis is the seventh consecutive Medical Research Council (MRC) grant for the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), totalling 35 years of continuous funding.

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

Strong review connecting neuromodulators, sleep disruption, and Alzheimer’s pathology—plus some excellent figures. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comWake‐promoting neuromodulators in Alzheimer's disease: Implications for sleep and brain clearanceNeuromodulatory subcortical systems (NSS) regulate arousal, cognition, and sleep–wake transitions through widespread influence on cortical and subcortical networks. Increasing evidence links dysfunct....

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Oxford Sleep Medicine
@oxsleepmed.bsky.social

🤩It’s #WorldSleepDay –a great day to share a new publication from a project involving members of our ECSM team, including lead author Dr Katrina Tse. 💤They introduce a comprehensive sleep questionnaire to the UK Biobank, with 185,000+ participants providing data🧵1/2 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41796014/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govSleep and circadian health in the UK Biobank: Report on the 2023 sleep questionnaire enhancement - PubMedPoor sleep quality and operationally defined sleep disorders are common in the UK Biobank cohort. Sleep questionnaire data can now be integrated with a range of biomedical information to advance understanding of sleep. Statement of significance A comprehensive sleep questionnaire was introduced to t …

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

On #InternationalWomensDay, a reminder that sex differences in sleep emerge from puberty onward — yet women’s sleep remains chronically under‑researched. Sharing an excellent deep‑dive on women’s sleep 👇 @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govSleep in women: a narrative review of hormonal influences, sex differences and health implicationsSleep is a fundamental biological behavior that affects various aspects of health and wellbeing. However, there are some differences in respect of sleep between men and women. Notably, there are sex differences in relation to sleep problems and the ...

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

A new study shows 77% US teens aren’t getting enough sleep, driven by a worrying rise in <5h sleepers (16%→22%).Its a trend we’re also tracking in the UK with our AdSleep study. @beckcrowley.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

jamanetwork.comInsufficient Sleep Among US Adolescents Across Behavioral Risk GroupsThis study examines national trends in insufficient sleep from 2007-2023 and whether trends differed by demographic or behavioral risk subgroups.

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Circadian Mental Health Network
@circadianmhnetw.bsky.social

A big announcement! 📣 Our paper: "Research priorities for mental health and circadian science: a priority setting partnership of individuals with lived experience, carers, clinicians and researchers" has been published in BMJ Mental Health mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/29/1...

mentalhealth.bmj.comResearch priorities for mental health and circadian science: a priority setting partnership of individuals with lived experience, carers, clinicians and researchersBackground Undisturbed circadian rhythms of rest/activity are crucial to health and well-being. There is growing evidence to suggest that circadian rhythm disruptions are also associated with adverse ...

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JAMA Psychiatry
@jamapsychiatry.com

Adult sleep GWAS-derived polygenic scores demonstrated comparable associations with corresponding sleep phenotypes in #Adolescents, suggesting genetic influences on sleep persist across developmental stages. ja.ma/4tT2274

Alice Gregory
@alice-gregory.bsky.social

Genetic variants identified in adult #GWAS may be relevant to #sleep phenotypes in #adolescents. Great work by Katie Lewis! @sleep-rhul.bsky.social @rhulpsychology.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

jamanetwork.comA Developmentally Informed Study of Sleep and Circadian Polygenic Scores in AdolescenceThis study uses polygenic scores derived using summary statistics from large adult genome-wide association studies to examine whether genetic variants that are associated with adult sleep phenotypes a...

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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
@sleep-rhul.bsky.social

Really excited to share this from our own fabulous Beatriz! @beatrizrvenancio.bsky.social eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.comMeet the SmartSocks®DISCOVERY Pioneers - Beatriz Venâncio, Royal Holloway, University of London - MilbotixAs part of the SmartSocks®DISCOVERY Pioneers Competition, we are showcasing researchers whose work is exploring new ways wearable technology can support real-world, person-centred health research. In...