Don’t miss the @adiposebiology.bsky.social Conference in Montreal 🇨🇦 | Oct 7–9, 2026! 🔗#Earlybird deadline approaching fast: June 1, 2026 adiposebiology.com Join leaders in adipose biology, #metabolism, #obesity, #diabetes, #thermogenesis, & #development #ABC2026 @sablesys.bsky.social

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Our new paper is out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social - about metabolic acclimation to captivity in mole rats (photo by D Kleynhans). You can read it here - journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/.... Males and females respond differently to captivity!

This study was led by soon-to-graduate PhD student #ElinPersson @biologylu.bsky.social with important contributions by @mariaagc.bsky.social at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social. As always, @sablesys.bsky.social instruments made the work far easier.

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Well, I guess these days the Do Not Call registry means nothing 🤣 several scan loan offers per day - each immediately reported as spam to @TMobile but they keep pouring in 🙄

Just a normal day at Sable Systems International

I really miss Dave...

Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Cypess Join us for the 2nd annual #AdiposeBiology Conference in Montreal🇨🇦, Oct 7-9, 2026, to hear from this world expert in human BAT! Register before the early bird deadline at: adiposebiology.com #ABC2026 @mcgillgci.bsky.social @sablesys.bsky.social sys.bsky.social

🚨 Don’t miss #ABC2026! ⏳ Early Bird ends June 1! last chance for the best price (group discounts available 👥) Join us in Montréal 🇨🇦 (Oct 7–9) for cutting-edge adipose biology research 🧠🔥 🎟️ adiposebiology.com @kazaklab.bsky.social @beaudrj.bsky.social @sunglab.bsky.social @sablesys.bsky.social

Listening to Erika and Scott give back-to-back Sable Award lectures was an amazing way to bring METPHYS2026 to a close! So glad to be able to celebrate the people making waves in the metabolism community with our partners @sablesys.bsky.social

How to terminate >100 science US advisory committees. The unremitting path of destruction www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How about that. A post of mine reached an @medium digest. medium.com/@JohnLighton...

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan

Great news! We still have a couple of seats left for our highly rated advanced metabolic phenotyping course! Move quickly & attend this stimulating introduction to getting the best possible science from your experimental animals. Carpe diem, stat! 🧪 www.sablesys.com/high-resolut...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Consider attending the American Society of Mammalogist (ASM) Meeting at Norfolk this summer (June 12-15) and Join the symposium co organized by Jessica LaPrice & myself on flexible and inflexible responses in heterothermic species. This will be a fun symposium! mammalmeetings.org/program/symp...

#Irisin, an #exercise-induced #myokine, counters #obesity via effects on #adipose tissue — but how? With help from Promethion #Metabolic Cages, a Nature #Metabolism study has shown that irisin modulates adipose #IL33 levels to increase #thermogenesis. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Beyond delighted to share our amazing collaboration with Thierry Alquier's lab @alquierthierry.bsky.social on a conserved role for neuronal lipid droplets in regulating energy homeostasis in vivo led by Celena Cherian, Romane Manceau, Danie Majeur, and Colin Miller www.nature.com/articles/s42... /1

Speaker Spotlight: Barbara Kahn @harvardmed.bsky.social Join us @ #AdiposeBiology Conference in Montreal🇨🇦, Oct 7-9, 2026, to hear from this world leading expert in #adipocyte biology! 🔗Register before the early bird deadline at: adiposebiology.com @mcgillgci.bsky.social @sablesys.bsky.social

Choice words from Dr. Szostak here. And while I am no Nobel Prize-winning scientist, I identify with the same quandary as an immigrant, moving here in 2009 and (proudly) becoming a citizen in 2023. I, too, don't recognize that country anymore 😢🇺🇸🧳🛫. newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

#Throwback 🧪 COMMENT | Standardizing the analysis and visualization of human energy expenditure data JE Galgani, E Ravussin et al

New review article from the lab! In addition to discussing relatively easily studied hovering animals (hummingbirds, nectar bats), we call for further work studying energetics/fuel use in other nectar and fruit-feeders! With @giuliarossi.bsky.social @utscbiology.bsky.social @utsc.utoronto.ca 🦇🧪

This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.

How do genetic variants of #interleukin-6 (#IL6) contribute to #cardiometabolic disease? With help from Promethion #Metabolic Cages, scientists tested a knock-in mouse model of the IL6 promoter variant #rs1800795. 🧪 buff.ly/GDBusEN #Respirometry #Metabolism #CVD #HFD

How do genetic variants of #interleukin-6 (#IL6) contribute to #cardiometabolic disease? With help from Promethion #Metabolic Cages, scientists tested a knock-in mouse model of the IL6 promoter variant #rs1800795. 🧪 buff.ly/GDBusEN #Respirometry #Metabolism #CVD #HFD

I’m thrilled to co-organize the 2nd #AdiposeBiology with @sunglab.bsky.social, Jacqueline Beaudry, and @sablesys.bsky.social in Montreal on Oct 7-9 2026!🇨🇦 🔗 Register now – adiposebiology.com Hope to see you there! #ABC2026 #Metabolism #Energybalance #ObesityResearch @mcgillgci.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to finally have a discussion with Simon Hill about a wide range of topics in nutrition, metabolism, and obesity science! youtu.be/YWm386QmqFw?...

"Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available." Polio: 23k paralyzed Measles: 290k deaths Rubella: 41k born w/ congenital rubella syndrome Diphtheria: 138k-1M deaths

Well done. Every news outlet should run a piece like this. By my age, you will have lost someone to cancer. Or cardiovascular disease. Or another disease NIH funding combats. You will wish you had more time with them. That’s what NIH funding does. Buys us time with the people we love. #FundNIH.

This is 100% true. Pay the TSA agents.

The moment you look up and see these magnificent creatures, somehow there's a split second of communication and recognition. Impossible to verbalize.

Everything you need to know

Some ants will do anything to get at that sweet, sweet nectar

🧵1/15 Delighted to share our study on the naked mole-rat (NMR): a mammal with bizarre thermal biology, notorious longevity, and cancer resistance. But how do NMRs maintain (or fail to maintain) their body temperature? Our latest work digs deep! #ThermalBiology #Thermogenesis

REVIEW | A consensus guide to preclinical indirect calorimetry experiments 🧪 @bankslab.bsky.social et al Researchers establish consensus standards for indirect calorimetry experiments

Announcing a thorough, rational, science-based metabolic phenotyping course in beautiful Edinburgh! This course is a must if actionable insights & publication in top scientific journals are important to you 😎 🧪 www.linkedin.com/posts/bartos...

The #NIH comprises less than 1% of the federal budget. 80% of that is allocated to universities and research institutions. That $$ ($36B) yielded $94 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025.

The saddest piece I've ever read about the Trump administration's deliberate destruction of US health research The gutting of NIH has been as bad as the gutting of CDC "In 2024, NIH published 756 funding announcements In 2025, it published 120 In 2026, as of March 15, it has published 14" 1/n

The #NIH budget is <1% of the total federal budget. 99% of FDA approved drugs came from NIH supported work. This also supports generations of scientists. And Hegseth burns through the same amount on superfluous items IN ONE MONTH.🧪

Hundreds of EPA employees signed the Declaration of Dissent calling out the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency's science, a betrayal of the agency’s mandate. The consequences are real for every American: our clean air, water, and protections from pollution are under attack. (1/4🧵)

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

To be clear, the reduction in NOFOs does not really mean there is less money going out the door. Instead, it will allow political appointees to have more more control about where that money goes. It's the accelerating politicization of a scientific agency. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Republicans in Congress that stand behind funding science (they exist!) need to haul jay bhattacharya before a committee and make him provide answers about this

Happy memories of Pi Day on 3/14! This particular pie is a Cornish pasty, in the same genus as the conventional pie, in this case with a Reuben filling 😎

I was crying at the time as one does as a broken hearted teenager. The snake looked back at me, and then turned its head back to the sun. I felt a very real camaraderie somehow, and I also looked back at the sunset. As it got dark I looked over and the snake had gone. But I knew we were friends.

“If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It... prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its intricacy?” — Carl Sagan