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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“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 · 29d

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.

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

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Aug 4

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.

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

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Finally, to be able to serve as #SSIB2025 President and attend @ssibsociety.bsky.social with my best colleague, friend and life partner - year after year - is priceless. Thank you @jamiedroitman.bsky.social for your unwavering support!

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Epic #SSIB2025 banquet @ssibsociety.bsky.social is the ultimate Nerd Prom

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Nothing beats the @ssibsociety.bsky.social banquet and, this year, the #SSIB2025 banquet at the Oxford University Natural History museum was epic! Part 1

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Seeing my trainees flourish at #SSIB2025 is special. @ssibsociety.bsky.social always does such an amazing job centering the work of early career investigators.Thrilled that @basedownloh.bsky.social won the Harry R Kissileff Award for outstanding talk by a postdoc and we could celebrate as a team.

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Aug 3

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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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Jul 29

A fantastic session!
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · Jul 29

The @ssibsociety.bsky.social Presidential Symposium is beginning!

@mitchroitman.bsky.social

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Jul 15

As your next door neighbor, I know how much work went into this and how awesome the data are!!!! Congrats!!!!!

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Alexandra Keinath @atkeinath.bsky.social · Jul 15

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/...

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

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Rachel Donka @racheldonka.bsky.social · Jul 11

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 · May 29

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 · May 13

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 · Apr 28

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 · Apr 8

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

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danasmall.bsky.social @danasmall.bsky.social · Apr 6

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

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Mar 27

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 · Mar 25

When the kids show that they finally understand (sort of) what their parents have devoted their professional lives to...in their own words:
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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · Mar 18

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 · Mar 18

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 · Mar 15

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 · Mar 7

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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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Mar 7

I 100% agree. The humor helps deflect the pain just a little. It is an ongoing tragedy amidst many other, simultaneous tragedies. But seriously, I'd make a good lab tech!

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