Mitch Roitman
@mitchroitman.bsky.social
Proud father (n=4), husband (n=1) and travel enthusiast. Studying the neural bases of the homeostasis to action arc. https://www.mroitmanlab.com
Past President of SSIB.org
Past President of SSIB.org
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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
Kicked things off with the 🔥 Presidential Symp featuring @jfcryan.bsky.social, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, Kimberly Smith and Suzanne Higgs
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
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“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
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“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
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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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.
Over the next few days we will be highlighting articles from this issue. Let us know which one you want to see covered first.
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...
www.sciencedirect.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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.
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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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."
"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."
September 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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."
"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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A landmark volume, The Handbook of Dopamine, is now online:
www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...
Big kudos to the editors, Stephanie Cragg and Mark Walton, for putting this together.
www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...
Big kudos to the editors, Stephanie Cragg and Mark Walton, for putting this together.
Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience | Volume 32: The Handbook of Dopamine | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest chapters of Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A landmark volume, The Handbook of Dopamine, is now online:
www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...
Big kudos to the editors, Stephanie Cragg and Mark Walton, for putting this together.
www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...
Big kudos to the editors, Stephanie Cragg and Mark Walton, for putting this together.
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
Kicked things off with the 🔥 Presidential Symp featuring @jfcryan.bsky.social, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, Kimberly Smith and Suzanne Higgs
August 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
Kicked things off with the 🔥 Presidential Symp featuring @jfcryan.bsky.social, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, Kimberly Smith and Suzanne Higgs
A fantastic session!
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A fantastic session!
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
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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/...
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/...
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...
www.biorxiv.org
July 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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/...
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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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 9:41 PM
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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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.
May 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.
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
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
@uiclin.bsky.social
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!!!
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
@uiclin.bsky.social
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
@uiclin.bsky.social
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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.
April 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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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.
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."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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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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
The Ingredients' Ingredients
Is it possible for science to grasp the complexity of ultraprocessed foods?
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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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.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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.
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
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
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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
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
March 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
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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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
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
March 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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
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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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
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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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!
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!
March 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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!
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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WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
March 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
Our VoR (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) is out! See how phasic DA to sucrose flips and changes during acq., maintenance & ext of a conditioned taste aversion. Makes for great reading on your way to your local @standupforscience.bsky.social tomorrow!
Dopamine activity encodes the changing valence of the same stimulus in conditioned taste aversion paradigms
Phasic dopamine cell body activity and release in the nucleus accumbens differentially respond to the taste of sucrose in correlation with its hedonic valuation.
doi.org
March 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Our VoR (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) is out! See how phasic DA to sucrose flips and changes during acq., maintenance & ext of a conditioned taste aversion. Makes for great reading on your way to your local @standupforscience.bsky.social tomorrow!
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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.
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 ...
henryjenkins.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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.
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