Brains, hormones, and behaviour: how biological systems keep time, adapt, and shape who we are.
NeuroPsychology
Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271We Should Compare Ourselves to Macaques, Not Just ApesGenetics says the great apes are our closest relatives. But if closeness means sharing the strategy that made humans successful (robustness, colonization, and a political kind of intelligence), the…
Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271Morning Light Moves Your Clock Earlier, Evening Light Moves It LaterHow light reaches the brain's master clock, why some of us are night owls, and how to use the phase response curve to beat jet lag. A neuroscience explainer I first wrote as a handout in 2020.
Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271An Unfunded Proposal: Clock Genes, the Histone H2A.Z, and Light Regulated Memory FormationA broken circadian clock damages memory more than having no clock at all. A research proposal I wrote in 2019 about why that might be, involving light, the brain's master clock, and a histone…