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!! @mitchroitman.bsky.social

If nothing else, check out Table 1. 😬

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.

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/🧵

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...

"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 @mitchroitman.bsky.social

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/

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

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?

Fascinating look into #iTeachChem in ASL 🧪🍎 #DisabledInSTEM

"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/ 🧪

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...

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.

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

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

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.

We’ve been walking past this site for years - excited to see it completed and opening!

The 2025 Careers in Neuroscience Seminar has been rescheduled for 4/10! lin.uic.edu/events/2025-...

IYKYK #neurosky

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

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.

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

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.

So, mercury emissions are ok, but vaccines (which don't contain mercury) are dangerous? I got that right?

Proud to note that Bernd das Brot was part of our children's upbringing @mitchroitman.bsky.social

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.

Oscar's perspective on feminist media from @gtroitman.bsky.social henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/3/...

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...

My lab will 100% continue using male and female animals. Whether this policy exists does not negate sex as a biological variable. Do good science.

NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled. Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.

I have spent 33 years as a scientist blissfully unaware of the federal register...because we had a functioning NIH and bipartisan support of science. This fuckery is exhausting. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Co-opting the language of the civil rights movement and Office for Civil Rights to bring back segregation: www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

The reason that NIH funding is such a strong economic driver in every state is that indirect costs provide infrastructure: business, HR, IT, facilities, student programs. Local jobs. Local purchasing. The pain will be felt far beyond the scientists and the science. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

omg. I'm a cis woman named Jamie. I can't tell you how many times I've met someone in person for the first time at a conference who failed to restrain their "I always thought you were a man"

Not the lesson I planned either, but started this conversation in my undergrad class by asking how many were doing research to build a strong med/vet/pharm/grad etc application. This directly affects them too

Another ruff morning on the South Side of Chicago

The NIH 'woke' definition of diversity includes disability and disadvantage - homeless, foster system, Pell eligible, free-lunch program, food stamps, raised in rural area or one with shortage of health professionals..those of us without connections to encourage or support a path to science careers

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Before I start processing Day 3 madness over NIH, can we just revisit Day 1 to ask if the two genders are going to be defined genotypically (XX, XO, XXY, XY, XYY) or phenotypically (androgen insensitivity, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, guevedoces)?

Save the Point!!!