Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

JOB ALERT: The CVD arm of my department in Germany is looking to hire a junior lab head, and yes this includes academic scientists with a PhD + postdoc experience: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

A variety of experimental approaches lead the authors to infer that that decreases in adipocyte NPY1R during #weightloss boost lipolytic capacity and contribute to improved systemic cardiometabolic health #MolecularMetabolism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The accessory protein MRAP2 identified as an important regulator of MC3R function providing further evidence for the crucial role of MRAP2 in energy homeostasis 🧪https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adu4315

Monday

By request of @stripplab.bsky.social : Lecture was on amino acids and had a quick excursion on D-amino acids which are featured in platypus venom, of course. Because why wouldn't platypuses add another layer of weirdness

From our latest issue: Katalin Susztak and colleagues review the mechanisms of diabetic kidney disease and established and emerging treatments (£) go.nature.com/4iPGKCt #EndoSky #MedSky

One of the things I was most excited about 1yr ago was joining 1 of the MOSIAC UE5s as a project scientist to work with those ECRs assigned to it. The opportunity to serve our greater communities. Truly a program that supported people across broad institutions, unlike the parent.

🚨 New #MyoBlue preprint: Today, we report a cellular cross-species RNA-seq atlas of myogenesis - using mouse & human cell culture models combined with in vivo snRNA-seq from muscle we provide a comprehensive resource for investigating #SkeletalMuscle differentiation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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In this Review, Félix-Soriano and Stanford discuss animal studies and data from human study participants that show how exercise affects the placenta, breast milk and sperm in ways that improve offspring health. (£) go.nature.com/48B4fdQ #EndoSky #MedSky

JOB ALERT: My colleagues in Germany are looking to hire a postdoc to submit innovative project proposals that can advance our understanding of neuromuscular junction biology in sarcopenia using innovative in vitro or ex vivo models. www.opnme.com/opn2talents/...

In a new @fralinbiomed.bsky.social study, 18- to 21-year-olds put on to a diet high in ultra-processed foods were more likely to overeat — even when full. ⬇️🔬Learn more.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's weird. A hundred years ago, only rich people owned cars while everyone else owned horses. Now only rich people own horses while everyone else owns cars. How the stables have turned.

Welcome to the bayou #AHA2025

Industry postdoc opening! My sister dept @ @boehringerglobal.bsky.social Germany (Obesity Research area) is seeking a post-PhD candidate with significant technical expertise in brain ephys & imaging. Feel free to DM me with any further questions.

Voice of reason. #3R #Replace www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I don't think that microdosing a GLP-1 will achieve the first endpoint in this ad, nor do I believe any of the other "outcomes" have been validated in in a fully randomized, placebo-controlled study.

On NAD+ supplement: "The science is almost nonexistent." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

Just before everything turns brown for 5 months.

Visceral adipose tissue acts as an endocrine organ that is involved in pathophysiological signalling affecting several organ systems, which contributes to the development of #MetabolicSyndrome https://www.nature.c...

Inaugural bluesky post to say the AWS outage has me thinking about @timmaughan.bsky.social and Infinite Detail even more than normal lol. Feel like every other week something happens that gives me a reason to recommend your book dude

calnewport.com/is-sora-the-... If anything, I'm spending more time offline due to the growing mess of AI slop. Not a bug, but a feature?

Pre-Nor'easter fall vibes with Samson #eastcoast #beastcoast

Oh, the “vomiting ferret” model is absolutely a real thing - I’ve encountered it in my own drug discovery career. They’re one of the smallest animals that show this response- weirdly, rodents can’t do it at all.

Living his best life. Amazing.

Why do optical illusions work? The culprit may be a group of neurons in the visual cortex that help us fill in missing information. @markjohnpost.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com dives into the science and how it could help demystify visual hallucinations: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

60 seconds of therapy

Despite the lack of recent rain, there sure are plenty of amphibians around my property #herpetology #moss

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Kind of weird that bluesky has a specific feed dedicated to #moss (and the outdoors), but I'm here for it. Here are some of the latest from my little 2-acre plot in the woods.

We have developed a new workflow to map in 3D at single-cell resolution whole human organs. Prof. Rong Fan (Yale) mapped out immune cell populations in the vicinity of ovarian precancerous lesions in healthy women and found no enrichment. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Even though I've spent most of my career focused on obesity, I'll be at @americanheart.bsky.social in NOLA in early November as my research group at @boehringerglobal.bsky.social builds up our cardiorenal focus. See you there!

That title is a mouthful 😆 Congrats to Darleen, @seeleyrj.bsky.social, @henningfenselau.bsky.social and team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's great to see that the piles of money and enormous amounts of electricity and other resources used to train these models has produced such stunning and useful results. And I'm SUPER glad that google now always shows me this garbage.

From the lizard venom and John Eng, in licensing to clinical development and approval April 28 2005. The remarkable story of Amylin Pharma and exenatide www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Remember to sign up for the Gut-Brain Axis @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting in March 2026! Upcoming deadlines: Scholarship Deadline: November 18, 2025 Short Talk Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2025 Organizers: Martin G. Myers, Jr., Darleen A. Sandoval and Tune H Pers keysym.us/KSGutBrain26

Chasing outcomes is often a recipe for disappointment. When you focus on the process, you can find success even if the outcome isn't what you expected. Do the small things each day & you'll develop better habits that will help you reach your goal in the long run.

This article is truly impressive, both for the significance of its findings and the enormous amount of work it represents! Briefly, it demonstrates that the gut-brain vagal axis exerts a considerable influence on dopamine-dependent reward-related processes... 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Identification of a neural basis for energy expenditure in the mouse arcuate hypothalamus: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

By identifying murine Agrp neurons as a target of LacPhe, the authors suggest this exercise-induced metabolite might have therapeutic benefits in various human diseases. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

FYI, neuro friends: To support ongoing research into mGluR1 function, we now offer two highly selective positive allosteric modulators of mGluR1, BI02982816 and its chemically optimized reiteration BI-1752. Access them for free via #opnMe: www.opnme.com/molecules/mg...

New commentary out from @kevinh-phd.bsky.social and @juliabelluz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

"It depends" is the answer to nearly any issue or problem. Embracing nuance and being okay muddling through uncertainty is a vital skill to develop. Not having an instant answer isn't a sign of hedging or not knowing. It's a sign of deep thinking and consideration.

#seenonmyrun: Greyhound telephone pole art and the infamous Tonka truck tree.