Jamie Roitman
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
mom of 4 and member of reality-based community
Penn State | U Washington | Duke
Associate Professor and Head of Psychology
University of Illinois Chicago
https://jamiedroitman.wixsite.com/roitmandecisionlab
Penn State | U Washington | Duke
Associate Professor and Head of Psychology
University of Illinois Chicago
https://jamiedroitman.wixsite.com/roitmandecisionlab
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!
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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!
Happy Halloween from the Roitman labs! And thanks to @racheldonka.bsky.social for printing us festive, seasonal earrings!!
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October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Happy Halloween from the Roitman labs! And thanks to @racheldonka.bsky.social for printing us festive, seasonal earrings!!
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If nothing else, check out Table 1. 😬
Commentary by @needhibhalla.bsky.social et al. on the recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research. Data show that diversity in the science increases creativity & success in tackling challenging problems.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If nothing else, check out Table 1. 😬
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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.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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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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/🧵
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/🧵
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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/🧵
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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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...
apnews.com/article/chic...
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...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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...
apnews.com/article/chic...
"completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems" - the MO of this administration
Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
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Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems" - the MO of this administration
#mushroom experts - what’s happening behind this wall? These popped in over one night! #fungus #mycology
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September 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#mushroom experts - what’s happening behind this wall? These popped in over one night! #fungus #mycology
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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/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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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?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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?"
Another ruff morning on the south side of Chicago
September 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Another ruff morning on the south side of Chicago
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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...
August 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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...
Why want a pocket full of PhD experts when you don't trust PhD expertise?
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.
www.nbcnews.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why want a pocket full of PhD experts when you don't trust PhD expertise?
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July 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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"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.
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New contributed post on our blog today, about political wedge issues.
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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.
altnih4science.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"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.
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New contributed post on our blog today, about political wedge issues.
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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...
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...
July 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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...
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...
NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
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.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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...
NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
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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.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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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!!!
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May 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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!!!
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requisite note that this all started from NIH work on Gila monsters
The pill GLP-1 isn’t just about convenience. It’s a logistical breakthrough in getting the drug to the 100s of millions who are expected to face Type 2/obesity around the world in the years to come.
$NVO
$NVO
Pill GLP-1s getting closer...
*NOVO NORDISK SAYS US FDA ACCEPTS NDA FOR ORAL SEMAGLUTIDE
*NOVO NORDISK: FDA ACCEPTS NDA SUBMISSION FOR ORAL WEGOVY
*NOVO NORDISK SAYS US FDA ACCEPTS NDA FOR ORAL SEMAGLUTIDE
*NOVO NORDISK: FDA ACCEPTS NDA SUBMISSION FOR ORAL WEGOVY
May 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
requisite note that this all started from NIH work on Gila monsters
When they go low, we have a department-wide community lunch with empanadas, crafts, and a piñata fit for the times
April 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
When they go low, we have a department-wide community lunch with empanadas, crafts, and a piñata fit for the times
This is the line that runs through all of it - the cruelty is the only point
April 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is the line that runs through all of it - the cruelty is the only point
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.
April 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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.
We’ve been walking past this site for years - excited to see it completed and opening!
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.
www.wbez.org
April 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We’ve been walking past this site for years - excited to see it completed and opening!