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There's a new weight-loss drugs in town. It's not a GLP-1 (it's a "selective amylin receptor agonist" but I don't pretend to know what that is), and appears effective. Highest dose group lost 20% of their weight in 48 weeks. Lowest dose lost 9%. www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

My former UC Davis colleagues Ermias Kebreab and Paulo de Meo Filho went on Marketplace to talk about using seaweed and CRISPR to mitigate cattle enteric methane emissions! www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

I gave a short and kinda provocative talk about climate communications at B.U.'s inaugural Media Innovation and Social Impact summit. I posted it on my free Substack, which is called Emissions; I haven't emitted much yet but please sign up, I'm planning to start. open.substack.com/pub/michaelg...

A committee. They want a committee. 🤦

An early indication that patients can reduce the frequency of GLP-1s after they reach their goal, and maintain the weight loss. www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

Listeria kills. Check any pasta meals you bought from Trader Joe's, Albertson's, Kroger, Walmart, Giant Eagle, or Sprouts. Cooking doesn't kill listeria; it survives to kill us. Do not mess with it. www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...

If it's 135 million pounds (in the text), that's 6 oz. per American. If it's 135 billion pounds (in the video) that's 400 pounds per American. They just fucking say shit.

Food economist here 🙋🏽‍♂️ would like to disagree and point out that grocery inflation since Trump took office has accelerated relative to the preceding months. Also those price increases for coffee, ground beef, chocolate, bananas, and canned goods in recent months? That’s in large part the tariffs!

the kids, not alright

The NYC election establishes, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the rent IS too damn high.

I think the lesson of Mamdani's victory has little to do with policy & isn't a blueprint for Dems' future. It's that people like optimism, friendliness, charisma, and a focus on the issues that affect them personally. We need more of this. Godspeed, Mayor Mamdani. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

We interrupt the rare cheerful political news to bring you some rare cheerful health news. Researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine that prevented several kinds of cancers in mice, apparently very effectively. www.umass.edu/news/article...

Context: I pay $1300 for a year of unlimited golf at my local muni course.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Saute 1 lb. green beans (can be frozen!) in a super hot wok/pan until spotted black. Add grated ginger & garlic, then 1/4 c. soy sauce, 1 T. maple syrup, splash of rice wine vinegar & chili oil. When liquid is almost gone, add 1/2 pound of ground pork (or shrimp, tofu, nothing) Serve over rice

Take this seriously: At least 20 brands of supplements, labeled as containing either Brazil seeds (sometimes called nuts) or tejocote root have tested positive for oleander. And oleander is famously poisonous. 1/4

Wednesday Nov 5 I’ll be at my alma mater Tufts with Pulitzer winner and MIT KSJ director @usha.bsky.social discussing the importance of science journalism in this moment and the lessons and tools it offers us all Free and open to public w/ registration www.tuftstickets.com/event/lighti...

Since when is a 19% drop in adverse cardiac events and an 18% in mortality not clinically significant?? This review is bonkers. www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

not a deer

Happy The Clock in My Car Is Right Again Day to all who celebrate.

🚨BREAKING: 2 fed courts have issued orders blocking Trump’s attempt to defund SNAP. Congrats to @democracyforward.org, its co counsel and clients, and Dem State AGs.

"Tim Carman ALMOST makes me want to go to Arby's," my husband says to me this morning. This is why. Terrific piece. @timcarman.bsky.social writes so well about food.. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

Worth noting that the connection between COVID and autism comes from the same kind of research that connected Tylenol and autism. So if you're all "vaccines prevent autism!" that's an RFK Jr. mistake. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Also this is the Definitive Nut Ranking, best to worst: 1. macadamia 2. cashew 3. pecan 4. pistachio 5. hazelnut 6. almonds, walnuts, brazil nuts, tied for last

Oh fer crissake EAT THE NUTS YOU LIKE www.today.com/health/diet-...

Something like 80% of our collective misunderstandings about health can be pegged to the inability of observational research to suss out causal links. That's boring! So people don't pay attention. But that's the problem.

This is a very good idea.

Let's help Clay out here with some math. The $4200/yr. is for a household. Average SNAP household has 1.9 people. So that's $2210/person. $2210/year is $184/month, and that's a little over $6. per day. Clay, let's see you stockpile groceries on $6/day. Hell, let's see you eat on $6/day.

The problems were so pervasive they abandoned their review and instead began investigating how widespread image duplication was in their field. Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury

My inbox has some real gems. 2 things about this: 1. This is how grifters are gonna shift gears for GLP-1s 2. These folks definitely don't read my column

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

Walmart is selling Zepbound at $349 for the initial dose, $499 for higher doses, matching Costco. Prices will continue to drop. This is what reverses obesity. corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/10...

It has come to my attention that it is National Cat Day. Here is our dear departed Cat, who knew how to live her best life.

Time-restricted eating shows promise as a treatment for jet lag

If you are interested in a postdoc position on the Stanford campus on the climate effects of a slowdown/shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, please contact me. Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus. sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Great to see @washingtonpost.com cover cancer rates in the Corn Belt but nitrate pollution is mentioned as an aside while glyphosate is the "center of the controversy." This ignores reporting from @sentientmedia.org @investigatemidwest.bsky.social & others and research from... wapo.st/3Le1yXo

Serendipitous timeline juxtaposition

Wow. 1700 studies, most of them crappy. The conclusion: "There is no sufficient basis at this stage to estimate MNP (micro- and nano-plastic) exposure from FCM (food contact materials) during their uses." Tons of research, but we still have little idea about the risks (or not) of microplastics.

My money's on the one in the foreground

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA

The most important thing to know about protein is that it just doesn't matter very much. (Exception is if you don't get the minimum, but protein deficiency is uncommon in the US.) www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

Hliarous, @tamarhaspel.bsky.social. Great minds. I'm working on a piece right now! Of course, your piece terrific! www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

A marriage that survives tree-stand assembly will survive anything.

This is so sadly hilarious

I wish my superpower was something useful like cold fusion or battery design or finish carpentry but alas it's just making strangers laugh in the supermarket. (Although TBF I'm also really good at annoying people.)

For @wsj.com subscribers, I'll be doing a live Q&A on ultra-processed foods with Andrea Petersen & Jesse Newman this Thursday, Oct 23 between 2-3 pm ET. Post your questions here: www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Terrific explanation by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social in @vox.com of why you don't have to worry about lead in your protein powder. Setting unrealistic target levels for contaminants and then testing stuff and claiming it's unsafe has a long and storied history.