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Our latest study! Published in Nature Mental Health today, we show that bright days and dark nights are of fundamental importance for mental health. Individual light exposure data from >85,000 people…14 million hours of light data. Epic! Led by Angus Burns with

Just in time for World Mental Health Day! I'm proud to share the last paper from my Ph.D. out today in Nature Mental Health -- the largest analysis to date analysis of free-living light exposure patterns and mental health. Read here: rdcu.be/dn7VQ nature.com/articles/s4422…

Sleep *irregularity* and mortality: Study 60,977 participants. Those in the highest (regular) vs. lowest (worse) 20th% of sleep regularity, night to night = -49%⬇️⬇️ risk of all-cause mortality, -39%⬇️⬇️ risk of cancer mortality, -57%⬇️⬇️ risk of cardiometabolic mortality.

🌻Our November issue is live! 🌻 We bring a diverse collection of articles exploring the different external factors that may affect #mentalhealth such as #light exposure, #gutmicrobiome , #urbanicity & many more! 🌇🌃 Cover art by Marina Corral Spence 👇 nature.com/natmentalhealt…

PhD Scholarship Opportunity! Come work with us on a new NHMRC Ideas Grant-funded project, which will develop new ways to track circadian rhythms with wearable devices to deliver personalised light therapy. See more info here: flinders.edu.au/scholarships/p…

The Lane Lab is looking for a postdoc to lead our study of circadian rhythm disorders (CircadiaStudy.org). If interested, please send me your CV. Pay is above NIH scale and BWH offers retirement benefits to postdocs now (yeah). Details here: sleepresearchsociety.org/job/postdoctor…

Thanks to Jesse Cook and the SRS podcast team for having us on to discuss sleep regularity, it was lots of fun!

Out today in Lancet Regional Health we show for the first time that increased nocturnal light exposure longitudinally increases your risk for developing type 2 diabetes. thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

Our latest work on the health impacts of light is out in The Lancet Regional Health-Europe. We examined personal light exposure in 85,000 people and found that the risk of developing diabetes was far greater in people exposed to more light at night. The good news is that healthy

Analysing 13M hours of light data and 670K person-years follow-up, this study shows higher #Type2Diabetes risk in people exposed to brighter night light and disruptive light patterns affecting circadian rhythms. Andrew J K Phillips Sean W Cain Angus Burns tinyurl.com/4sa7xpr5

New pre-print out! Using epi and genetic methods we found that sleep inertia drives the association between evening chronotype and psychiatric disorders, possibly by acting as a biomarker of circadian misaligned wake. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

I enjoyed being part of this wonderful team effort to help us understand how light exposure patterns predict mortality in the UK Biobank. Further evidence to suggest that disrupted circadian rhythms have profound and lasting impacts on human health.