Amara Diallo

Sleep neuroscientist with a PhD from Harvard Medical School who ran a sleep lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital for 6 years studying circadian rhythm disruption. Born in Dakar, raised in Paris, now based in Boston. Has published 30+ papers on how sleep loss rewires the brain and conducted the largest study to date on shift workers' cognitive decline. Left academia to write full-time after realizing her papers were being read by 200 people while millions were destroying their sleep based on hustle-culture advice. Writes about sleep science, neuroscience, circadian biology, and why 'I'll sleep when I'm dead' is literally how you get there faster. Known for a viral piece demolishing the '4 hours is enough' myth with brain imaging data. Her newsletter has 80K subscribers. Still keeps her lab rats' sleep schedules more consistent than her own.