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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dopamine and sodium appetite! Sodium appetite causes a 'sign change' in the taste of hypertonic NaCl solutions. We've previously shown that generation of the appetite recruits phasic dopamine to the taste of NaCl; here we show the 'derecruitment' process during satiation.

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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Our labs first paper! Some 😳 surprising effects. Turns out everything comes back to context 🤓

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Want to learn about the OMB rule? We gotchu: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... Never written a public comment before? We gotchu: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... Need some moral support? We gotchu (fri @ 2pm et): events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

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OMG OMB! A Brief Overview of OMB-2026-0034 — Stand Up for Science Foundation

Our Policy team reviewed the new OMB proposal so you don’t have to read the 412 pages.

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Natale R. Sciolino, PhD @sciolinolab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Looking for a postdoc? The @sciolinolab.bsky.social at UConn is hiring! We investigate how neuromodulatory systems interact with central taste processing regions to regulate behavior using in vivo recordings, optogenetics & mouse behavior. Apply: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

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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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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Super proud of all my former trainees. Seeing #SamFortin (health.uconn.edu/medicine/for...) featured in a video about her own (relatively new) lab at UConn brought me great joy today. Check it out: today.uconn.edu/2026/06/scie...

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Science in Seconds: Improving GLP-1 - UConn Today

A UConn Health researcher explains how her lab is focusing on how GLP-1 medications affect the brain and how they can be improved for the future

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hi @barackobama.bsky.social, #MichelleObama: As you're back in the neighborhood, we wanted to invite you over (we're in the condo complex where you used to live). We can talk about attacks on science; but you might be exhausted and we can also just chill. Importantly, we have a wine rooster!

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My two most recent lab meeting presentations.

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Are you or someone you know graduating soon and looking for an exciting Post Bac opportunity? Come join us at Dartmouth!

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The world is a vampire...get yourself good colleagues. Thanks to @jonesparker.bsky.social for the invite to Northwestern and to Jones and @lbeutler.bsky.social for having me and @jamiedroitman.bsky.social over for post-visit dinner!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help:

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How to help the resistance to ICE in Minnesota — and beyond

What Minnesota’s immigrant communities need from you now.

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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Abstract submissions are open for SSIB's 33rd Annual Meeting! www.ssib.org/2026/abstrac... The annual meeting will be from August 5-9, 2026 in Philadelphia, PA. Travel Awards Available to support students, post-docs, and new and international investigators: www.ssib.org/web/awards.php

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SSIB 2026 | Philadelphia, PA

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is so great to see! Our daughter was diagnosed at a well-child check up at age 12 after a 'routine' (all too rare in the US) urine dip test for glucose. We caught #T1D early and "being forewarned IS being forearmed!". Too many kids are diagnosed in ketoacidosis. @jamiedroitman.bsky.social

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Miguel Á. Luján @lujanma.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

First light!! Today we recorded the first neurons in the lab. Couldn't be more stoked😁

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Happy #WorldDiabetesDay! Celebrating Banting, Best, Mcleod, Collip and those that came before/after in pursuit of treatment and a cure. Reflecting on how far we've come just since #T1D came to us and on the selflessness of Banting for selling his patents for just $1. @jamiedroitman.bsky.social

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The 2024 SSIB Special Edition of Physiology and Behavior is now available! Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Over the next few days we will be highlighting articles from this issue. Let us know which one you want to see covered first.

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Physiology & Behavior | Proceedings of the SSIB 2024 Annual Meeting | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

We are excited to introduce this Special Collection of Physiology and Behavior, featuring outstanding and innovative research showcased at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Inges...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Reflecting on #SSIB2025 and my time as Prez of @ssibsociety.bsky.social. Thrilled to be part of this community of scholars focusing on ingestive behaviors. Kicked things off with the 🔥 Presidential Symp featuring @jfcryan.bsky.social, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, Kimberly Smith and Suzanne Higgs

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Alexandra Keinath @atkeinath.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Trans rights are human rights. Fresh work incoming: Here we quantitatively compare the representational geometry of mouse CA1 and human spatial memory during environmental deformations. Briefest TLDR: Human memory looks like a change-resistant version of mouse CA1. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Change-resistance distinguishes the representational geometries of human spatial memory and mouse CA1 in deformed environments

Prior work has highlighted qualitative similarities between the neural instantiations of cognitive maps in rodents and memory-guided navigation in humans, suggesting a conservation of representational...

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Rachel Donka @racheldonka.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Very excited to share our new paper on the effects of adolescent opioid exposure on reward sensitivity during initial morphine administration and withdrawal, as well as during and after re-exposure in adulthood! Now out in Physiology & Behavior: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

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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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pritzker: As a Ukrainian American Jew who built a holocaust museum… let me say this to Donald Trump: Stop tearing down the constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about combatting anti-semitism.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

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The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist

"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

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danasmall.bsky.social @danasmall.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

open.substack.com/pub/markscha.... As a former president of the society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior @ssib, I recommend this great read describing what we are up against

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The Ingredients' Ingredients

Is it possible for science to grasp the complexity of ultraprocessed foods?

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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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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

When the kids show that they finally understand (sort of) what their parents have devoted their professional lives to...in their own words: @jamiedroitman.bsky.social

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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Reminder! SSIB abstract submission deadline is this Friday! Don't miss your chance to share your research, network, and compete for awards at #SSIB2025. 🔗 Submission details: shorturl.at/uWuqb 📢 Spread the word! #IngestiveBehavior #NewInvestigators

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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Calling all grad students and postdocs! Join #SSIBNIAB to connect with the international ingestive behavior community! ✅ Network with peers ✅ Compete for travel & presentation awards 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: March 21, 2025 #SSIB2025 #NewInvestigators

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Great research deserves to be shared...and now you have more time! The SSIB 2025 abstract deadline has been extended to March 21st at Midnight PT! 📅 New Deadline: March 21st 🔗 Submit Here: shorturl.at/j0BFo Submit your abstract and join us in Oxford!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

HEY! The abstract deadline for SSIB 2025 is in just 2 weeks! Time to get serious about submitting your work for inclusion in what is already a fantastic program. Check out the Preliminary Program here and hope to see you in Oxford, UK from July 28-August 1: www.ssib.org/2025/prelimi...

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

From here in Chicago, Bear is scrolling through your posts and seeing snow in some interesting places! He hopes you enjoy!

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Nice to drop into the Art Institute of Chicago @artinstitutechi.bsky.social and see Under the Wave off Kanagawa before it goes off display - with @jamiedroitman.bsky.social and @gtroitman.bsky.social Some others had the same idea.

A look down Michigan Ave from the Art Institute steps

Steps inside the Art Institute of Chicago

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Always great to return to Philly! Had the chance to pop into Monell Chemical Senses and see my SSIBlings @amberalhadeff.bsky.social and Will de Lartigue #ssiblingsinthewild @ssibsociety.bsky.social

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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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Neuroscience methods - YouTube

Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

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uiclin.bsky.social @uiclin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Join us today for the last #LINSeminar of the FA24 semester!

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