If you've ever picked up a pig you know it doesn't go like this.

It's a beautiful day on Nantucket Sound. All we need now is fish.

Vertical solar panels didn't decrease wheat yields at all. Although exposure to sunlight was decreased, wind protection seemed to make up for it. Everybody wins. techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

Do you have anyone with writing and editing experience who wants to come work for me? #medievalsky please share widely!

"Expecting Trump to have their back" = farmers wanting our tax money so they don't have to suffer the consequences of policies THEY VOTED FOR.

The push for more protein (a euphemism for meat): good, bad, indifferent? Protein is very much on the food agenda these days despite evidence that hardly anyone needs more of it than they are already getting.  This has led to at least two trends. I.  Nutritional hilarity.  Here's my current…

On the plus side, the price of cocaine is down. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Turning it off and on again fixes the problem 71.8% of the time.

No, glucose monitors aren't particularly helpful for people who don't have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Pathologizing insulin spikes is yet another distraction from the reality of an untenable food environment. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/09...

Thanks to @tamarhaspel.bsky.social for this piece in @washingtonpost.com on the utility (or lack thereof) of continuous glucose monitoring for people without diabetes. It includes a preview of a chapter of my book with @juliabelluz.bsky.social “Food Intelligence” coming Sept 23! wapo.st/3Ipznnm

WE ARE HIRING!! Official posting coming soon for a tenure track assistant professor job in Psychology at George Mason University. Focus on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and AI. I’m chairing the search committee, so DMs and emails welcome.

Part of a broader movement within trash papers -- fast analyses from available datasets. We've made it so easy to write a real-but-bad paper that they're outcompeting industrial fraud production. However, they still leave great big obvious clues...

"Willpower alone is unlikely to defeat perfectly tuned distraction machines." There's an exact parallel with food. We can't put down our phones or our Doritos. Both are designed to overwhelm ordinary human willpower. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

We are HIRING! Researchers & analysts Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

It is the aptly named string of pearls plant

Any houseplant people out there? What is this strange plant?

Bluefish update

Maybe I'm the only one, but I think "enshittification" has run its course.

Yesterday's bluefish, brined and peppered. We'll let them dry, and then smoke them in a kettle grill.

When we catch bluefish, dinner is usually blackened bluefish sandwiches with sauteed onions and tartar sauce. And today, caprese salad with late season tomatoes and basil from the garden. The rest of the bluefish are in brine, to be smoked tomorrow.

The @nytimes.com has rarely felt as hopelessly out of its depth as in the past two days or so. There is still much I admire, many journalists I respect and trust, but on the Charlie Kirk assassination it simply hasn’t been very informative - not to mention some atrocious opinion “journalism”.

Excellent list of food & nutrition people.

I think we all need to watch a cockatoo playing fetch with a puppy.

Three, count 'em, three!

The problem with full-fat milk isn't saturated fat. It's the damn CALORIES. Sat fat in milk, yogurt, and some cheese (but not butter) doesn't raises LDL the way sat fat in meat does. But in trials that pit low-fat against full-fat milk, people gain weight on full-fat. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Look who came a-calling at our camp ..

CNN Digital is hiring a climate and weather editor (five locations, US). buff.ly/1YoQC3a

Once more, with feeling. Using Kernza, a perennial grain with 1/3 the yield of wheat, to make crackers and beer for rich people is NOT a climate solution. Only at the end does this piece quote @mikegrunwald.bsky.social on Kernza's yield problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/b...

In which @sophieehill.bsky.social rips apart yet another bad study on artificial sweeteners, so I don't have to. She won't make any assertions about the authors' intent, but I will. They *want* to show that diet soda is bad, like so many researchers before them. But it isn't. It just isn't.

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Finally someone did the cows vs. bison math, and we have WAY more cows. But the "we've always had bison" is a weird argument anyway. So what? The fact that some other ruminant emitted historical methane has no bearing on cows today.

Diet-related chronic disease is a HUGE problem. But we're not sick because we don't *understand* the problem. We're sick because, in a food environment designed to get us to overeat crappy foods, most people can't *implement* the solution. Which is eating a healthful diet.

Hello. The MEP is hiring an intern (a paid one, not an 'ooh ooh think of the experience' one) retractionwatch.com/job-opportun... Feel free to direct this to anyone interested. I think it will fill quickly so pitter patter.

Evolution is just wild and amazing, Exhibit 62627272

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Make Up Over 50% Of Americans’ Thoughts https://theonion.com/study-finds-ultra-processed-foods-make-up-over-50-of-americans-thoughts/

We bought a hunting camp in New Hampshire and I swear Kevin just wanted an excuse to buy a tractor.

Wow. What a win

After years of work with @juliabelluz.bsky.social, it's hard to believe that our book FOOD INTELLIGENCE will be published this month! @barnesandnoble.com has 25% off pre-orders placed on Sept 3-5. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/food-intel...

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

Group that voted for tariffs up in arms about tariffs. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Might have gone with MacHopper.

Sure, electric cars save money and they're better for the climate. But why don't we talk more about how incredibly fast they are? We bought a Polestar a few months back and it has carnival-ride acceleration. These cars are FUN.

Louisiana is excluding soda from SNAP. But only if it's made with corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. Cane & beet sugar? AOK. @marionnestle.bsky.social reports www.foodpolitics.com/2025/08/nutr...

Even in the face of climate change, staple crops yields continue to grow. Why? Better seeds, plus better inputs. Opposition to genetic modification is nuts, when we need all the tools we have to make crops more resilient and productive. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Good question Toad

This is a 7-minute video of a parrotfish taking a nap. It's like those yule log screen savers. Sleep well, Ramon.

One thing about ultra-processed foods - they sure are keeping epidemiologists employed. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

A friend told me his grandfather left Spain because of Franco & his grandmother left Italy because of Mussolini. They went to Argentina. His parents left Argentina because of Peron, went to Venezuela. He left Venezuela because of Chavez, came to the US. And now he's wondering where his kids go.