Cultivated meat companies raised ~$38M in Q4 2025, bringing the lifetime total for the industry to ~$3.4B Funding remains down, but slightly up from early 2025 Get quarterly updates to your inbox: gfi.org/newsletters/

Huh, I missed this until now. Great piece @tamarhaspel.bsky.social. Cheap and abundant GLP-1s could improve overall health (less junk food/smaller portions, more whole foods even??) AND environmental impacts (less meat consumption)

This is such a waste of everyone's time and of government resources. Let people use normal words that have been flexibly used in many contexts for centuries ffs www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Also, it looks like a detail from a Japanese watercolor

easy come easy go www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/f...

Am I missing something? The FDA has warned Novo Nordisk that their ad for the new Wegovy pill is misleading, and therefore distribution is in violation of the FD&C Act. Here's the text of the ad, per the FDA. (Reposting, this time with the actual text.) www.fda.gov/media/191020...

You know that coffee & dementia study that's going around? It's hogwash. For starters, it's not pre-registered (that I could find), which means it may have been the product of a fishing expedition looking for dementia associations. But even if it's not ... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Barstool Sports Spins Off New Literary Journal https://theonion.com/barstool-sports-spins-off-new-literary-journal/

On Adam Cifu's list of 10 things not to study, amen to #3! www.sensible-med.com/p/please-do-...

New paper projects that US obesity will increase from 42.5% to 46.9% by 2035. I'm betting against it. By 2035, I think obesity rates will be lower than they are today. Drugs, obviously. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

You guys SUBSIDIES DON'T SHAPE OUR DIET. (mostly) Subsidies generally FOLLOW farmer preferences, rather than create them. And farmers grow what people will buy. Here's @hannahritchie.bsky.social on how subsidies affect me at prices: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/meat-subsi...

I ask you, what's more superb than an owl in a hole?

Totally agree with @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social that we should stop demonizing industrial food. Demonize crap food, by all means! But not all industrial, or even ultra-processed food is crap, and some crap has only ingredients your grandmother would recognize.

We’re hiring a development director to power our climate-covering newsroom! The ideal candidate will drive our nonprofit fundraising strategy, and has a track record of foundation funding and major individual gifts.

You know how AI could be useful? It could make sure I don't see any results of the Olympics events I actually want to watch.

Attention undergrads! @pewresearch.org has more than a dozen paid internships for rising juniors and seniors this summer in Washington, DC. Find more info here: www.pewresearch.org/about/intern... Apply here: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Seems like nice things are thin on the ground, so I bring you this rando orchid attached to a tree on the side of the road in Coconut Grove.

Sometimes I hear, "we need to frame our research as associational otherwise the MDs reading it will not interpret it correctly." It took me a while to realize how bonkers this is. It's saying some important primary users of the knowledge created are unable to understand what they're reading.

I'm a freelance journalist only because I can afford it

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

It is gutting to watch the gutting of my beloved Post

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

We invite applications for the 2026 Richard Casement internship

My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!

putting the sick in sycophancy, they are

How come, when your down coat springs a leak and a little feather pops through, you can never pull it out without another feather coming through the same little hole? It's maddening.

Where is the outrage that a toxic substance is being routinely sprayed on a food crop? Instead, organic growers come to its defense. www.winespectator.com/articles/fre...

I don't think this adds up. 10% of global meat consumption: 34ish million tonnes. Even if we assume 100% of the reduction is beef, that cuts total beef by about 50%. Beef is maybe 10ish% of total GHG, so that's a 5% cut. Vehicles are about 15% of total GHG, changing to EVs would make it about 5%.

How come, when your down coat springs a leak and a little feather pops through, you can never pull it out without another feather coming through the same little hole? It's maddening.

Citation accuracy is, I think, an excellent indication of overall quality of a paper. Could this be something AI is useful for? If I could press a button and get the % of citations that are accurate, and a summary of the ones that aren't, that would be great.

Today in crimes against the y-axis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

One downside to hydroponics is the significant energy & other resources needed. That's why the Kratky method has taken off with growers who have limited resources — it's a completely passive, yet wholly effective hydroponic system. Read more from Mitch Hagney: ambrook.com/offrange/tec...

Opportunity for early- and mid-career journalists on the food system beat—and those who aspire to be. Applications open for the 2026 Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Food System Fellowship is now open. Please apply and/or share! clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

Breast cancer screening using AI is better than standard 2-radiologist screening. Yeah, it doesn't know how many bs are in blueberry but it sure does some things well. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The founder and host of NutritionFacts(dot)org sounds fair, but his vegan bias colours how he interprets studies. I look at Dr. Michael Greger and how bias plays a role in scicomm. @mcgilloss.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Dear Auto Journos - When you write about a truck, can you please include payload and towing capacity? Yours truly, Truck person with actual trucky needs

NEW: North Atlantic right whales - a species whose fortunes I've followed for years - are having a baby boom!! 21 mother-calf pairs have been sighted so far, the highest figure in years. And we're not even halfway through the calving season (which runs to mid-April). www.wired.com/story/a-nort...

We are hiring a plant biology / botany faculty member in my department! Please share widely with your networks :)

The UK has a warning on GLP-1s for pancreatitis. www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinolog... So far, in trials, we don't see increased risk: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31422062/ But side-effects have to be monitored rigorously for a drug that so many people are going to try.

BROOKE ROLLINS: Don't call a $12 billion payment to farmers a bailout BROOKE ROLLINS MOMENTS LATER: The American dream is not getting help from the government

GLP-1 drugs might do what food policy can’t — change the way we eat. The desire for smaller portions and fewer junk foods is affecting what the food industry is selling us, by @tamarhaspel.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/food/2026/01... via @postopinions.bsky.social

Our food environment is making us fat and sick. But RFK Jr.'s ideas about fixing it are mostly either bad (more beef tallow!) or ineffective (eliminate food dyes!). But it doesn't matter. Ozempic can do what regulations can't: change our food supply. (gift link) wapo.st/4qHLzAR

Heartiest of congratulations to @willmasters.bsky.social, whose work on food & ag I value very much.

Yes! We all need to just not eat crap. But we have a food environment stacked relentlessly against us. Which is why we get sold diet after diet, each claiming to be the ONE TRUE PATH to navigate the food environment. But people can't follow ANY path. The food environment always wins.

Here's my idea. Design data centers to be cooled by salt water (hey, it works for the engine in my boat), situate the data centers near the coast. Capture the resulting water vapor. Data center doubles as a desalination plant. www.eesi.org/articles/vie...

A century ago, tens of thousands of US houses were built from factory-made prefab kits sold by firms like Montgomery Ward. They were inexpensive but nice starter homes that launched many young families. Lots are still around. These guys are more or less trying to bring this back--good luck to them!

The other thing that really grinds my gears about the anti-"ultra-processed" crowd is the assertion that the profit motive somehow taints UPFs as a category, but not other foods. You don't think the profit motive is behind the factory farms that churn out billions of "unprocessed" chickens?

Apparently presidents can now invest billions of dollars in private companies without congressional approval or even congressional input. I hope the climate team for the next Democratic president remembers this. www.usare.com/article?i=16...

Dinosaur looks just like a shoebill stork