I had to get a nerve block yesterday for an intractable migraine (8 days). Easily top 5 weirdest experiences of my life. But also medicine is amazing and I almost feel like a human today.

New paper out in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social! We used machine learning to identify nutritional charecteristics of foods with addictive potential as rated from a national sample. @fralinbiomed.bsky.social This was a big collaborative effort! 1/7 🧪 ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/suppl/10...

Being in science is especially wierd right now, it feels hard to be excited about milestones. But, I'm still trying to celebrate important things when they happen. Matt and I got tenure! news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Let them eat golden horses

I went to school here 20 years ago… Made it to the Dopamine Society Meeting in Seville!! I am so very tired.

Congratulations to the lab’s newest PhDs! Emma Leslie and Zach Hutelin!! @fralinbiomed.bsky.social

We have two post-doctoral fellow positions posted for the lab and for a collaborative project! If you are interested in understanding how diet affects the brain and how that influences eating behavior, please apply here: jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

The article on Mary Elizabeth's K01 is in the VT News! I'm excited for her to do this work and take the nex step in her career! She's also a triple hokie @virginiatech.bsky.social !! news.vt.edu/articles/202...

He did it with glee while posing with a chain saw. Hundreds of thousands of children dead.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

The fMRI outcomes are here (preprinted) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... The story is surprisingly similar! Little effect of intervention in the overall group but changes occurring in our younger participants. 1/ 🧪

Excited to be heading to the @achems.bsky.social meeting today! I’m honored to be presenting in the presidential symposium Saturday night. I’ll be presenting these new data and some more from the lab! See you there!

1. Keep you fingers out of car doors. 2. Pet your cat.

New preprint from the lab🧵🧪 Eating ultraprocessed foods leads to poor health outcomes, but HOW they do it isn't understood. "HOW?" is important, as "how" can allow targeted policy, reformulaiton, or recommendations to reduce harmful effects. We started to ask that question doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

In the spirit of celebrating what we can, I’m so proud of Mary Elizabeth Baugh, DONNUT Lab Research Associate, who got the NOA for her K01 today. 🎉🎉

DONNUT Lab at Brain School for Brain Awareness Week! @fralinbiomed.bsky.social

Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known. go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2

Reminder there are still 2000 active goons destroying our city and kidnapping civilians to such an extreme extent that kids cant even go to school normally

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

I started reading my son The Wee Free Men (first of the series this quote is from). I started reading it to him becuase Tiffany becomes a witch, not becuase she's chosen or special. Tiffany becomes a witch because she witnesses a wrong (death of Mrs. Snapperly) and says, not again, not on my watch.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college: 1. Democracy and Dictatorship in 20th Centuary Spain 2. History of the American Conquest 3. History of the Diffusion of 3 Cultures 4. Intro to Women's Sport and Culture 5. Men in Love (English course at a Women's College)

The feminine urge to search every man in your personal and professional network: www.justice.gov/epstein

People outside of Minnesota, in case you are wondering how to help the current situation, this website has many current opportunities to donate and support people who need help in Minnesota. Help pay rent, get groceries, and provide other support for people in hiding. www.standwithminnesota.com

The NRA having their I never thought the leopards would eat my face moment was not on my 2026 bingo card.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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.