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!

I was supposed to be going to ACHEMS today to give a talk on our intracranial recordings of DA, SE, and NE in humans consuming food, but I hurt my back and can't fly. Really bummed to be missing out! Everyone have lots of fun so I can live vicariously through you.

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

I missed this one yesterday. Taking a pause from destroying the economy, science, and America’s reputation abroad to deal with the important issues, I see. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

The best ever death metal band out of Denton will in time both outpace and outlive you.

I started getting teary at the F31s but the pages and pages of this now just make me want to throw up. Kids are going to die.

"🚨BREAKING🚨 On March 25th Tufts PhD grad worker Rumeysa Ozturk, a Fulbright scholar, was ambushed by ICE on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends ...first known abduction of a student activist in Boston. We must stand together against the deportation machine." www.instagram.com/p/DHpqYVIgl3I/

Anyone recently intimately familiar with the NIH grants process want a job on the other side? Locations in DC and Roanoke, VA. Jobs perks are my lab is just down the hall and I wear my office slippers to finance meetings. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

I know, I know, we all know it’s a double standard, but just…just for a moment…imagine if Hillary had done this. Imagine the sheer media carnage. Fox News anchors would be testing whether you can die from too many consecutive orgasms. Never thought I’d miss that. Huh.

Columbia could be using its $14.8 billion endowment to endure Trump's dictatorship for 2-4 years, resisting for other, less fortunate schools. But no. It's buckling to fascism. Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

One more day to submit an abstract and join us in Oxford this summer. #SSIB @ssibsociety.bsky.social #SSIB2025

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Because even with the world burning down science is still awesome. "Labrador retrievers are particularly obesity-prone and tend to be highly food motivated" Why did they have to call out labs like that? Figure 4 is 💯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have my dream job. If we all get fired because academic research doesn’t exist anymore I think there’s enough of us to run in every district in the country. All those unopposed republican districts no more…

and, again, the intent of going after Columbia is to "scare universities" into doing what the administration wants: www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/325...

No regime that jails student protesters has looked well in historical hindsight.

People keep saying oh your research program is probably safe. No it’s not. There’s is no “safe” research program unless they are all decided by merit and not political whim (which is how it was done until Jan 20th). The goal is to dismantle American universities.

I just got an ad on instagram from the Danish Government advertising working in Denmark as a scientist.

Blatantly illegal. It's time to start fighting, universities. The pretexts will change, but they are coming for all of you.

Me in my doctors office stuck in a 4 day intractable migraine: I don’t know what’s going on I’ve never had one last this long before. Dr: Have you been under any additional stress? Me: ooohhhh yes, yes, definitely, actually it does make sense now.

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

HEY! The abstract deadline for SSIB 2025 is in just 2 weeks! Time to get serious about submitting your work for inclusion in what is already a fantastic program. Check out the Preliminary Program here and hope to see you in Oxford, UK from July 28-August 1: www.ssib.org/2025/prelimi...

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

There's absolutely no reason that we, as grant/paper reviewers, HAVE to go back to the dark ages. Regardless of this admin's stupid policies, we can always ding bad science.

📢 Submit your abstract by Mar 14 and register by Jun 18 for #SSIB2025! Join us July 28–Aug 1 in Oxford, UK for the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. Details: ssib.org/2025/

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