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Jamie Roitman

@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
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mom of 4 and member of reality-based community Penn State | U Washington | Duke Associate Professor and Head of Psychology University of Illinois Chicago jamiedroitman.wixsite.com/roitmande…

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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New lab paper led by @racheldonka.bsky.social! Sensor sensibility: dopamine sensors for fiber photometry respond differently to acute morphine treatment 🧠 link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
After 9 years, @jamiedroitman.bsky.social and I are OUT of the tuition biz!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Rapidly decreasing phasic dopamine responses precede a hedonic switch during satiation of sodium appetite www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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She Studied Ways to Make People Smarter. Then Her Grant Was Cut. (Gift Article)
Jessica Cantlon had a grant with the U.S. Navy to explore whether people could improve spatial problem-solving skills through training. Then the program was cut.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Photometry phriends preprint: excited to share @racheldonka.bsky.social's side quest to validate how multiple sensors of mesolimbic signaling respond to acute morphine treatment - with @mitchroitman.bsky.social and @basedownloh.bsky.social
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Only good vibes at my neighborhood’s reflecting pool
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Worth pointing out that - for an administration always banging on about merit - that's what the scores are. If the intent is to allow more discretion of how $$ is allocated, e.g. based on geography, the NIH had mechanisms to factor that into funding with its broad definitions of diversity.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Good day to listen to the original
original Star Wars soundtrack on vinyl, 1977
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Bruh - this is not a test for healthy people. My mom took them to track her cognitive function after a stroke. Attention, memory, executive control, orientation, language. Once you need a MoCA, you should not have launch codes
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
How about after their fourth?
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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Check out this great conversation between Professor Alan Spector and Professor Emeritus James C. Smith, highlighting his career and his involvement with SSIB! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWVp...
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Conversations with FSU Robert O. Lawton Professor Emeritus James C. Smith
YouTube video by FSU College of Arts & Sciences
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"The distribution of power and privilege was not random,” [Dr. Dannagal Young] said, “so the notion of the meritocracy is completely revealed to be gendered bullshit.”
chronicle.com
Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club
The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The one thing Trump should have wanted to put his name on as an actual success were mRNA vaccines. Instead, yet another way we will allow more chronic disease and preventable deaths
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”
nytimes.com
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Just received my BrainedGlass action potential (www.brainedglass.com) and it's even better than I hoped!! Science==art! Thanks so much @laurenatlas.bsky.social!
stained glass of action potential
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Happy Halloween from the Roitman labs! And thanks to @racheldonka.bsky.social for printing us festive, seasonal earrings!! @mitchroitman.bsky.social
3-D printed rat skull earrings
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If nothing else, check out Table 1. 😬
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/10/2025
We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust. From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad." I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another in Chicago
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems" - the MO of this administration
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
#mushroom experts - what’s happening behind this wall? These popped in over one night! #fungus #mycology @mitchroitman.bsky.social
Mushrooms growing out of a shower wall
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Map of Sinclair stations
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2025
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Another ruff morning on the south side of Chicago
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
As expected - cruelty is big business for corecivic : “The tech, surveillance and private prison providers arming Trump’s massive expansion and weaponization of immigration enforcement are running a victory lap after their latest financial results.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Why want a pocket full of PhD experts when you don't trust PhD expertise?
nbcnews.com
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 30/07/2025
Fascinating look into #iTeachChem in ASL 🧪🍎 #DisabledInSTEM
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"The Trump NIH animal research move is not about organoids, or animals. It's about politics." New contributed post on our blog today, about political wedge issues. 1/ 🧪
altnih4science.substack.com
The Trump NIH animal research move is not about organoids, or animals. It's about politics.
Be on the lookout for political wedge issues coming from the Trump administration. It's what they do.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congratulations to @RachelDonka - adolescents showed reduced sensitivity to ICSS and reduced VTA DA excitability during morphine withdrawal; and were more sensitive to ICSS during re-exposure in adulthood. doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Has not even one of these people ever seen Jurassic Park?? AI and 'organs-on-a-chip' are not whole, evolved organisms. NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
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NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A tradition unlike any other...Paula Bazzino cracks open her geode - signifying all the hard work she's done to show off her amazing studies and intellect! Congratulations to Paula Bazzino on her fantastic dissertation!!! @jamiedroitman.bsky.social @uiclin.bsky.social
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Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
requisite note that this all started from NIH work on Gila monsters
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
When they go low, we have a department-wide community lunch with empanadas, crafts, and a piñata fit for the times
dumpster-fire piñata
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is the line that runs through all of it - the cruelty is the only point
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Since we're talking subsistence farming, one of my hometowns is Norvelt, Pa. Created as a New Deal homestead, it was a path to home ownership and subsistence farming for a community of 254 families. The farming failed. A co-op sewing factory was built with govt loans, and subsequently privatized.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We’ve been walking past this site for years - excited to see it completed and opening!
wbez.org
The National Public Housing Museum opens this week in Chicago. Here’s a sneak peek.
The museum tells a less familiar story about the history of public housing. “It was a decent, lovely place to live,” a former resident says.
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uiclin.bsky.social @uiclin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The 2025 Careers in Neuroscience Seminar has been rescheduled for 4/10! lin.uic.edu/events/2025-...
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
IYKYK #neurosky
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Adult peers - time to get an MMR booster Feeling pretty glad that UW required me to get a free booster to enroll (or a $25 titer) when I didn't have my childhood vaccine records
yalemedicine.org
Should You Get a Measles Vaccine Booster?
As cases increase in some places, a Yale Medicine specialist reviews the groups, including some adults, who should get vaccinated.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just learned I spooked the American Cochlear Implant Alliance so much with my Lancet commentary they called it out in their January newsletter. I can receive no higher compliment so you can find the Lancet paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 1/2
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Primary health-care practices for deaf children should include early incorporation of a signed language
For the optimal care of deaf and hard-of-hearing children, primary care paediatricians and family practitioners should consider signed language acquisition normal and healthy. Early acquisition of a s...
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is the public health version of what Chicago did with its parking meters. At least the parking-meter contract was only a disaster for the city's finances.
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
So, mercury emissions are ok, but vaccines (which don't contain mercury) are dangerous? I got that right?
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Proud to note that Bernd das Brot was part of our children's upbringing @mitchroitman.bsky.social
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Gabrielle Roitman @gtroitman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Though this is the first Oscars in 3 years that I’m not in LA, I got to be in on the conversation with @utsavpgandhi.bsky.social and @doowndonnakim.bsky.social for our 2-part piece on The Substance.
henryjenkins.org
OSCARS WATCH 2025 – The Substance: Youth, Body, Women, Success (Part Two) — Pop Junctions
This piece is part of a series of critical responses to the films nominated for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. In this in-conversation piece, Do Own (Donna) Kim, Utsav Gandhi, and Gabrielle ...
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Jamie Roitman @jamiedroitman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Oscar's perspective on feminist media from @gtroitman.bsky.social henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/3/...
henryjenkins.org
OSCARS WATCH 2025 – The Substance: Youth, Body, Women, Success (Part Two) — Pop Junctions
This piece is part of a series of critical responses to the films nominated for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. In this in-conversation piece, Do Own (Donna) Kim, Utsav Gandhi, and Gabrielle ...
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