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.

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."

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.

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

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

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/...

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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...

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Rare moment of Zen. #Chicago

What sorcery is upon this lake? #Chicago

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

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.

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

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 🧵

I’m honored and excited to step into the role of editor-in-chief of Physiology & Behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/phys...

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

I study ingestive behavior. @ssibsociety.bsky.social

Under the clearest of blue skies, the science of Ingestive Behavior awaits! Join us for discovery and fun!

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we're grateful for the publication of our paper in #eLife doi.org/10.7554/eLif... We measured dopamine and behavioral responses to intraorally delivered sucrose across acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion. 1/n

Packed house for the annual Chris Comer Undergraduate Seminar in Neuroscience at University of Illinois Chicago. Thank you to Dr. Gina Poe for an outstanding lecture and to @josephdzak.bsky.social for hosting!

Moody morning here in Chicago.

OPEN RANK #FACULTY #POSITION in #Pharmacology & #Neuroscience with expertise in #behavioral pharmacology/neuroscience of relevance to substance use disorders. Review of applications will start immediately. Target start date is Fall 2025. Come join us! Apply here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Neuroscience-related posts on Bluesky surged last week following an influx of users—including many neuroscientists. Chart by @callimcflurry.bsky.social.

I've been attending the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB.org) conference since 1996 as a grad student, pdoc, prof and I now have the honor of serving as its President. Its an exceptionally warm group of scientists. Join us in Oxford UK on July 28 for the 2025 meetng!

I made a starter pack for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior #SSIB for all interested in being a #SSIBling. Please let me know if you would like to join the starter pack! go.bsky.app/8Zvp83e

Hello? I'm new here and coming from a primitive and savage place. Eager to connect.