Do you study behavioral or community nutrition/exercise interventions? Do you want to work at the best department at Tech? Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise! We are objectively the most fun. Position info and app link: careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us... Feel free to email/DM w/questions!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

…The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity…

uhhhhh commons, you doing ok? I also can't access IAR, so, maybe uh oh?

The defendant list is absolutely wild. It’s everyone. California doesn’t mess around.

It is now my time to shine. I have placed the Christmas tree in a new corner of the living room and I already don’t like it. I will move it and rearrange the living room at least three times before deciding it should go where we put it last year.

Kicking off one of my family’s holiday traditions where I turn on the Thanksgiving Day Parade and listen to my husband mumble, baffled, “who is this” every time a musical guest comes on.

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

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.

And the full segment that aired last night! The lab is at the end but the whole segment is interesting. Never stand next to me at a party, I will at some point rant about gras… abcnews.go.com/Health/globa...

@davybrenda.bsky.social and I’s UPF RCT is finally published! We tested the effects of a eucaloric UPF vs no UPF diet on energy intake in young people. Our age subgroup analysis found adolescents ate more in a buffet meal after the UPF diet. 🧵🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Here’s the clip if anyone is interested! www.goodmorningamerica.com/video/127625...

The lab was on Good Morning America! Absolutely surreal. Everyone did so great on the filming day. I work with the best people ever.

Since I’m not at sfn, I can start Thanksgiving prep. Don’t forget the bay leaf, it is both an act of faith and an offering to the capricious universe. Will it impart flavor? Who knows? Just as our fates are unknowable.

I forgot to add Lily won a poster prize for the Neuroscience section!!

On the way to University of Michigan to give the biopsych colloquium. Dissertation flash backs in coming. If you are still in Ann Arbor let me know!

Don’t forget to grab your coffee and come to our symposium!

Come by to after the plenary!!

Get excited for Obesity Week! Today at 2:30 Zach Hutelin will be presenting on our work using indirect calorimetry and fMRI to measure acute responses to ultra-processed foods. It’s in the 1:30 Neuro Session.

Germans, look at any animal: this is some kind of pig or bear.

Our preprint is now a print print! rdcu.be/eK7wK Interested in GLP-1s and alcohol? Take a look at the thread below and the link. Thanks again to all the amazing people who worked on this project. The anniversary of Warrens passing was just a few weeks ago. He is deeply missed. 🧪

Also in this spirit and the people you can interact with on social media. Everything @amalelmohtar.com writes is insanely beautiful and if one day I write something a fraction as clear and evocative as even her NY times book reviews, I’ll be happy.

If you are from the Wilmington, NC area Kerr Avenue and Topsail Beach.

Hey everyone! Join our journal club on October 10th (12pm EST) to discuss two short papers on weight stigma and language. JC is drop in format: come once, come when you can. Reach out to @shanaadise.bsky.social or myself to get the zoom link and papers. Please share! @ssibsociety.bsky.social

It’s so wild that I just followed @diane.dianeduane.com on here. I’m pretty sure the So You Want To Be a Wizard series is the entire reason I love sci-fi and fantasy today. I loved it so much.

Are you going to Obesity Week? It starts on Election Day! If you are in VA that means you’re missing the Governors race. You can still apply for an absentee ballot! Or vote early at your local elections office.

🧪here’s the VT news write up of the study I posted about yesterday.

🧪 I might be the only author on Blueksy, so here we go. Serotonin in the caudate while doing uniquely human things (a social game) provides information about movement disorder diagnosis. This work started a long time ago with Ken (when he was at Wake Forest) working with Read at VT. rdcu.be/eDDPf

It’s guns. It’s guns. It’s guns. Regulate the guns.

They told us the plan was Roe, Obergefell, Loving.

I am once again asking manuscript central to actually be a central log in instead of 1,000 seperate log ins in a trench coat.

It’s just as good at being confidently wrong. Got it.

Congratulations to Zach for winning best oral presentation by a graduate student (track 2)!!!

🧪🧵ICYMI, the paper describing the behavioral findings in this poster is online at Physiology and Behavior! doi.org/10.1016/j.ph... In the words on Martin Yeomans, flavor nutrient conditioning in humans is an "elusive phenomenon." We chased it anyway.

I had a fantastic time sharing our work at the #ssib2025 @ssibsociety.bsky.social meeting in Oxford. What a fantastic community discussing everything you ever wanted to know about feeding. Made many new friends and I learned a lot. I hope we stay in touch! Thanks for the invitation!

@ssibsociety.bsky.social #SSIB2025 Grab your coffee early tomorrow! It's a full morning of DONNUT Lab, starting with ME's poster in the AM session (#301).

A fantastic session! Thank you to: @jfcryan.bsky.social @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social Kimberley Smith Suzanne Higgs @ssibsociety.bsky.social

I am beyond bummed to be missing #SSIB2025 -- I had back surgery and am not cleared to fly. Drowning my sorrows in this floof. But! If you want to know what the lab is up to, please visit our presentations 🧵🧪!

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We’re not clear on where consciousness comes from, at all.

They call it “herd immunity” but what that means is the young, the old, the vulnerable die. What does it say if your health “plan” plans for the death of children?

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

Or the food industry doesn’t sleep so neither should we.

As someone who has miscarried twice, knowing a doctor would be concerned with saving my life in the event of a complication and not if they are breaking an abortion law would be a small start.

The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).

I just can't imagine seeing people in need, people suffering, and thinking in some way they deserved it instead of but for grace go I. I'm starting to feel like that's the major divide. Those that want to destroy social safety nets simply can't imagine one day they might need them.

Let’s bring back some pre dark times silliness. Everybody tag yourself. I’m the Himpomusa.

Everything is trash but science still rocks. Concluding this project is bitter sweet, it’s my last collaboration with the late great Warren Bickel. It started at a faculty retreat and if you are also interested in the effects of glp-1s on alcohol consumption take a 👀. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I was really sorry to miss AChems and the talk I was supposed to give today! I herniated a disc and couldn't travel. Missing everyone!