In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help:
Abstract submissions are open for SSIB's 33rd Annual Meeting!
www.ssib.org/2026/abstrac...
The annual meeting will be from August 5-9, 2026 in Philadelphia, PA.
Travel Awards Available to support students, post-docs, and new and international investigators:
www.ssib.org/web/awards.php
This is so great to see!
Our daughter was diagnosed at a well-child check up at age 12 after a 'routine' (all too rare in the US) urine dip test for glucose. We caught #T1D early and "being forewarned IS being forearmed!". Too many kids are diagnosed in ketoacidosis.
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First light!! Today we recorded the first neurons in the lab. Couldn't be more stoked😁
Even with all the advances, diabetes remains a 24/7 challenge for management. Hoping for continued advances. Would sure be nice if industry could remember Banting's selflessness.
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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.
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Research is MeSearch
(searching for our #ResearchDiets shipment; @jamiedroitman.bsky.social )!
“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
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.
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!
Epic #SSIB2025 banquet @ssibsociety.bsky.social is the ultimate Nerd Prom
Nothing beats the @ssibsociety.bsky.social banquet and, this year, the #SSIB2025 banquet at the Oxford University Natural History museum was epic! Part 1
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.
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
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As your next door neighbor, I know how much work went into this and how awesome the data are!!!! Congrats!!!!!
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!!!
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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.
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:
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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
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
