Jamie Roitman

Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

"The distribution of power and privilege was not random,” [Dr. Dannagal Young] said, “so the notion of the meritocracy is completely revealed to be gendered bullshit.”

The one thing Trump should have wanted to put his name on as an actual success were mRNA vaccines. Instead, yet another way we will allow more chronic disease and preventable deaths

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.

Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.

“Make America Healthy Again.”

stained glass of action potential

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!

3-D printed rat skull earrings

Happy Halloween from the Roitman labs! And thanks to @racheldonka.bsky.social for printing us festive, seasonal earrings!!

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If nothing else, check out Table 1. 😬

They are such colossal assholes. Why is it so difficult for them to understand risk pools?

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/🧵

Opinion | Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another in Chicago

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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...

Giving grad students the sunny, dry basement apartments!

"completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems" - the MO of this administration

There was a slow drip from the unit above that happened only while they ran the shower, since repaired. There was also a big storm ~36hours before these fruited

Mushrooms growing out of a shower wall

#mushroom experts - what’s happening behind this wall? These popped in over one night! #fungus #mycology

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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...

OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’ OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.

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. Be on the lookout for political wedge issues coming from the Trump administration. It's what they do.

"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.

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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...

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

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.

I loved that job. But also 100% Siri is spying on me because I was talking about my Spirit experience at a meeting yesterday, and your post pops up in my feed today

34 years ago, I was a host on the Spirit of Philadelphia. This summer I’m a dept head taking our admin staff on a Spirit cruise and I am so excited!

It was a looooong van ride @seeleyrj.bsky.social

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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requisite note that this all started from NIH work on Gila monsters