New preprint from our lab: even when the SCN (the central circadian pacemaker) looks broadly similar in diurnal and nocturnal animals, its underlying dynamics can differ substantially.

Reconsidering mammalian circadian organization A circadian clock enables an organism to occupy a particular temporal niche, and the evolutionary pressures associated with that temporal niche in tur…

out now, the one mammalian paper I somehow found myself being a part of! With Michael Tackenberg, @jonesjeffr.bsky.social and Vinnie Cassone.

In it, we discuss temporal niches, coupling and the organization of circadian networks.

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Long-term optical monitoring of genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators Abstract. Over the past several decades, genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators (GEFIs) have revolutionized neuroscience by enabling cell-type-specific

A new article from Jordan Cook in our lab and Qijun Tang in the Hattar lab: best practices in long-term fiber photometry recording. We argue that the field needs a standardized framework for experiments and analysis. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

A man (Michael Rosbash) stands at a podium in front of a slideshow titled "recent studies addressing the regulation of circadian rhythms". Another man (Joe Takahashi) stands to his right, introducing him as our next speaker.

Always a joy to catch up with the Texas Society for Circadian Biology & Medicine! This year we even got some cool new data from Michael Rosbash - it's not every day you get to ask a Nobel Prize winner a question!! 🤩

#chronobiology #circadian #SleepPeeps

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Decoding the Brain’s Internal Clock, and What Happens When It Breaks? - Texas A&M Biology Decoding the Brain’s Internal Clock, and What Happens When It Breaks? By: TAMU Biology  From sleep cycles to hormone levels to body temperature, nearly every aspect of our biology follows a 24-h...

How does the brain’s internal clock keep our bodies in sync with day and night? Dr. Jeff Jones in TAMU Biology is uncovering how the SCN, our central circadian timekeeper, shapes everything from sleep to metabolism! tx.ag/jones25

A circadian behavioral analysis suite for real-time classification of daily rhythms in complex behaviors Perry et al. present CBAS, an open-source tool that uses machine learning to classify animal behavior in real time. By uncovering sex- and hormone-dependent circadian rhythms across multiple behaviors...

Do you want to automatically classify home-cage behaviors in real-time, indefinitely, across multiple animals? Try out our Circadian Behavioral Analysis Suite, now published here www.cell.com/cell-reports... and available to try out yourself on our Github page.

SPRC Spotlight: Vanessa Muhl - Texas A&M Biology SPRC Spotlight: Vanessa Muhl By: Gabby Wetwiski This week, we are highlighting the SPRC 1st Place Post-Doctoral Winner, Vanessa Muhl! Congratulations to Vanessa on this outstanding achievement. ...

This week, we are highlighting the 2025 Student Post-Doc Research Conference 1st Place Post-Doctoral Winner, Vanessa Muhl! Congratulations to Vanessa on this outstanding achievement! tx.ag/3QzeELe

Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health.

I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.

I disagree but I am curious to know their reasoning

My lab swept the TAMU Institute of Neuroscience Winter Symposium poster session!

Are axolotls your lab pet?

Of course I have a typo in my first Bluesky post!

The Jones Lab mas migrated to BlueSky, and with it, an actogram of my daughter's sleep patterns over the course of a year.