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Study Illuminates Circadian Rhythms, Psychiatric Disorders

Research by a team that includes Rebecca Senft, PhD '21, could help researchers understand the basis of mistimed sleep-wake and activity cycles, which can contribute to certain diseases, including neurologic, heart, and metabolic disorders.

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Seratonin glows green in a microscope image of cells in a mouse brain stem
Giacomo Maddoloni
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Putting Trump's Prosecutions into Perspective

New research from PhD student Andrew O'Donahue shows that messaging from Trump’s prosecutor bolstered support for the prosecution and democratic norms—but had a limited effect in reducing support for the former president.

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Speakers at Trump New York Press Event. April 15, 2024
Public Citizen, https://www.flickr.com/photos/publiccitizen/53674646680, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Colloquy Podcast: Punished in Utero

Harvard Griffin GSAS social scientist Bethany Kotlar on the Birth Beyond Bars study, the first of its kind to follow children exposed prenatally to their mother's incarceration—and their families—during the critical window for child development, from birth to age three.

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Bethany Kotlar at the Harvard Horizons Symposium, 2024.
Tony Rinaldo
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Deep, Dark . . . and Teeming with Life

Could you hold your breath for ten months? PhD candidate Brooke Travis studies a deep-sea clam that can, in the sense of going without oxygen. It's just one example of the thriving community in the ocean's depths.

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Brooke Travis on board the research vessel EV Nautilus
Courtesy Ocean Exploration Trust
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