The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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(Main Text) First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss big changes in science funding and government jobs this month, including an order to cut billions in contracts, lawsuits over funding caps and grant funding cancellations, and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. Next on the show, taking sleep loss more seriously. Jennifer Tudor, an associate professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University, talks about how skipping out on sleep has many metabolic consequences, from reducing protein synthesis in our brains to making our muscles less efficient at using ATP. Her new review in Science Signaling suggests that given these impacts, we should stop putting sleep last on our to-do lists. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Jocelyn Kaiser Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
0:07.4	The school is the academic arm of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.
0:11.6	It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding.
0:15.3	Researchers at the Icon School of Medicine in Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital to advancing the
0:21.7	health of patients, including cardiology, cancer, immunology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
0:28.9	The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.
0:43.9	This is a science podcast for April 11th, 2025. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week,
0:49.3	Science Insider editor, Jocelyn Kaiser, joins us to discuss big changes in science funding and government jobs this month, including in order to cut billions in contracts and mass firings at the National
0:55.8	Institutes of Health. Next on the show, we're taking sleep more seriously. Researcher Jennifer
1:01.5	Tudor talks about how skipping out on sleep has many metabolic consequences, from reducing
1:07.4	protein synthesis in our brains to making our muscles less efficient at using ATP.
1:12.5	And she suggests that given these impacts, we should stop putting sleep at the bottom of our to-do lists.
1:24.1	This week, we're checking back in with what's happening in the world of science policy and funding in the U.S.
1:30.6	Insider editor Jocelyn Kaiser is here with an April update for us.
1:33.9	A lot has already happened this month.
1:35.8	We're talking on Tuesday, April 8th.
1:38.6	Hi, Jocelyn.
1:39.2	Welcome back to the podcast.
1:40.4	Hey, Sarah.
1:41.3	Let's go back to April 1st, April Fool's Day, actually. On this day,
1:47.2	the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, announced a large reduction in force
1:51.7	and removal of multiple heads of institutes at NIH. Can you describe the overall picture of what
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