Pleased to see our paper on #preeclampsia and cell #senescence and seeming prevention by #ergothioneine is now published, with @resiapretorius.bsky.social @louiseckenny.bsky.social @lorenkell.bsky.social @themoorelab.bsky.social and others doi.org/10.1016/j.jr.... Hope we can get RCTs done now.

How to “de-Americanize” global science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Crikey. UK worse than US on MMR vaccination rates. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

- Invest in research culture and infrastructure - Better manage and protect research time - Develop and retain research support staff - Constantly fight for the social mission of a university which is to produce knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

✨️The application deadline has been extended to July 1st. ✨️ Open to all PhD students and junior researchers with an interest in nutritional epidemiology.

Chicago

Los Angeles. Just wow.

#NoKings protest in Philadelphia

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

Heartening to see the people across America speak up.

Yes! I heard some people haven’t signed because they aren’t a scientist or academic. But this is about all of us. If you are against harming research participants, sign! If you want more life-saving treatments, sign! If you value free speech, sign!

Today I asked AI to summarise an academic paper. The actual results were the opposite to what was hypothesised (and to what others had shown). The AI summary assumed the study had found what everyone else had found. Hot tip: don’t use a stochastic parrot to summarise an outlier paper. #academicsky 🧪

It's a phrase from the prescient paper that got its authors fired from google: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas.... They make excellent follows on here

😳🤦‍♀️ academic freedom

How do you solve a problem like brand advertising...? Last year @emmaboyland.bsky.social & I had a discussion over breakfast* where we discussed our concerns about the rapidly emerging loophole of food brand ads and lack of a policy approach to address it... *Can confirm no crumpets were consumed

The Guardian view on owning the heavens: the perils of letting capitalism colonise the cosmos | Editorial

This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.

Chilling. All. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Our cover this week.

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities

Love this level of nerdiness. Kitchen physics. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/s...

Less than one month to nominate for the British Nutrition Foundation Prize 2025! The British Nutrition Foundation Prize is awarded annually to a person for their outstanding achievement in an area of nutrition over a number of years.

From the biomedical informatics view, this is a five alarm fire and a nuclear air raid siren. Up until now the NIH has spent millions studying federated models and other techniques to enable research progress while explicitly avoiding doing exactly this because of how dangerous and unethical it is.

A powerful call has just gone up on the website of the @aacu.org : “A Call for Constructive Engagement” signed by almost 200 college & university presidents (more sure to join), from community colleges to R1s! #academicsky #edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Go Harvard.

I think the proper interpretation of this study is: Among 100 adults w/ high ApoB/LDL on keto diet, nearly everyone had increase in plaque volume at 1 year. Those with the most plaque to begin with tended to have the most increase.

Sigh. This study claiming a lack of association between ApoB & plaque has blown up in the media with the typical podcaster/youtuber grifters jumping on it. Beyond the obvious (small N, non-randomized), here are a few reasons the study doesn't show what people claim 🧵: www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts. These cuts will impact Every Single American. Email [email protected] for PDF and xlsx.

Excellent. "As the bottleneck tightens, all survival will depend on heeding once again the ancient admonition: I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities. scim.ag/4ikYp2T

On empathy, at the #WashingtonMonument #handsoff #protest #protestsign #empathy #50501

Anyone else feeling like we are at next level insanity here? It's all been so *much* worse than I had imagined. 😭

🌎Did you know 1 in 3 adults worldwide has #MASLD? It’s tied to obesity, diabetes & high cholesterol, it can lead to fibrosis and cancer. This #WorldLiverDay remember: #FoodIsMedicine! 💪Let's make #liverhealth a priority @easlnews.bsky.social @ihieurope.bsky.social @europeliver.bsky.social

Below, from earlier today, confirmed @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/n...

'“If we’re going for going to mobilize, it’s going to be the most prominent, the most well-endowed, the most privileged and protected of us in civil society who have to take the lead,” Levitsky said.'

New research - Cuffe et al - Efficacy of dietary interventions in irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and network meta-analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #WorldIBSDay #IBSAwarenessMonth #GastroSky #MedSky #IBS #IrritableBowelSyndrome

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

In this new review 🧪, we dive into what we know about the impact of the gut microbiome on dietary energy absorption in humans. IMO-our perspectives on how to advance the field to facilitate precision nutrition interventions are worth a read. academic.oup.com/nutritionrev... #science

The world of science needs more colleagues like Dr. Kevin Hall. Honesty, integrity and high quality science, answering critical questions with broad implications for improving human health

This is really bad

This is a major loss for the NIH, but scientists cannot be expected to do their work under censorship. I applaud Dr Hall for his work and am hopeful he finds a good academic home for his research program