Now published in Research Policy: I looked at 27k postdoc salaries across the US, their relationship to cost of living, tenure-track job prospects, and how things have been changing over time. Here's what I found: doi.org/10.1016/j.resp…

Photometry Phriday: measuring dopamine and taste reactivity to intra-orally delivered sucrose Samantha Hurh CaMPing out in the VTA (right) Max K. Loh GRABing it in the latNAc lots of great stuff from them on the horizon

New lab preprint on our behavioral system for assessing motivated behavior in head-fixed mice. Work done by Adam Gordon-Fennell et al., in collaboration with the Mitch Roitman and mbruchas Labs. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Why do academics love the word "indeed" so much???

This is a Nicole Ferrara fan account from now on!

Congratulations on passing your dissertation defense, Dr. Alexandra Ritger from @AmielRosenkranz lab and RFU Brain Science Institute. We're very proud of you. All the very best for your future endeavors.

🔮Ever wished you could just say what behavioral analysis you wanted? ... "Plot the animal's trajectory" "Count the head hips in the open arm" 👀🪄we present AmadeusGPT🎻 to do this ... 🗞Shaokai Ye Jessy Lauer Zhou Mu @trackingplumes and me  arxiv.org/abs/2307.04858 🧵⬇️

This Halloween, our students chose violence.

...and there was more....

Meet the UIC Department of Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience Faculty (in trainee-form): Drs. Sparta, J. Roitman, Keinath, Raggozino, and M. Roitman!

y’all my back hurts

Our entry into the department's holiday party drink contest..."Conditioned Taste Aversion" (Mälort, lemon juice, simple syrup) and non-alcoholic "Extinction". We did not win. UIC Department of Psychology #aversivetastereactivity

Five generations of RFUMS Graduate Student Association presidents at Chicago Chapter - SfN !

Drugs like Ozempic are great for weight loss, but they make some people feel sick. We discovered that the brain circuits mediating the appetite suppression are distinct from those that mediate nausea – a finding that may be leveraged to develop more selective GLP1-based drugs.

Pointing out the #littlessib s— Deaglan and Sema who crushed their poster session! SSIB New Investigator Advisory Committee @ SSIB

Reviewer 2 Energy

How a crying baby is similar to denoising an ephys rig: 1) There's noise and you don't know why 2) You need to stay grounded 3) You have superstitious beliefs about what actions stop the noise 4) These actions work sometimes but not always 5) The noise can randomly start again

Excited to share our preprint focusing on flexible dopamine responses to intraoral sucrose across acquisition and extinction of conditioned taste aversion. Max K. Loh Samantha Hurh Paula Bazzino Rachel Alex Keinath Jamie Roitman