GTTs and ITTs: aim for shorter fasting times | Nature Metabolism- new data suggesting optimal fasting is 2 h for mice. nature.com/articles/s4225…

Aghagolzadeh and Pedrazzini et al. Demonstrate that a conserved long coding RNA, FIXER, may represent a novel target for preventing cardiac fibrosis #Circulation #OriginalResearch #AHAJournals ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

A few great tweets re: research advice (🧵):

Our new Bio-protocol to set up an activity-based #anorexia model ! Reach out if you want more info!

Today's Nobel is a reminder to focus on the work and not the journal. The key publications cited by the committee were published in Immunity, Molecular Therapy, and Nucleic Acids Research. Respectable journals, but not the Big 3. The discoveries are what's important, not a name.

I told mom: I never even get a grant

Garbage papers are produced not by bad scientists. It's the metrics-focused evaluation that creates them. Can you imagine 400,000 fake research papers? - 70,000 of them was published last year. This is 2% of ALL papers in 2023. - Paper mills produce huge number of papers at

France and Italy have been under-investing in basic research for years. And it shows.

There is an ongoing discussion involving Harvard and MIT, two institutions where I spent plenty of time during the past 20 years. I first came to Harvard as a visiting PhD student in 2005, then joined the Kennedy School as a postdoc in 2008, and in 2010 I joined the MIT faculty,

Anorexia Myths F.E.A.S.T. We had great care. And yet it was another mom who told me “focus on the fat, not just the calories.” And that’s when we started to see her come back. That was in 2012. Yale proved in 2020 that what we parents we’re doing has a reason for it to work. news.yale.edu/2020/10/28/yal…

Debunking Misconceptions about Eating Disorders Raising awareness and debunking common misconceptions about eating disorders is crucial to fostering a more informed and supportive society that can help individuals on their path to recovery. #eatingdisorderawareness

After how many rejections, do you give up on your top idea?#AcademicChatter

The psychiatric disorder with the highest mortality is anorexia nervosa. 🎁 Gift Link: bloomberg.com/news/features/… Bloomberg I worry about this too—missing, causing, or retriggering an undisclosed eating disorder in my patients. What can we do to increase safety? 1/

I am speaking at Human Milk Institute Symposium 2025. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! - #HMI25 #humanmilk #breastfeeding #PublicHealth

#MostPopular in Reprod. Med. "Human Milk and Brain Development in Infants" 📄 Read here: mdpi.com/2673-3897/2/2/… #HumanMilk #Neurodevelopment #Macronutrients #SialicAcid #Micronutrients #BioactiveComponents #PretermInfants #BreastMilkResearch #InfantNutrition

Join us for an exciting edition of the Bring your own Fluid Seminar series April 23rd 9:15 CET. We'll have exciting input from: Dr. Maria Miletta, Uni Hospital & Uni of Zurich, Mario Juan Gordillo-Perez, PhD candidate, Hasselt University, Dr. Vissarion Efthymiou, ETH Zürich

#4: Surprise drives growth Progress happens when reality defies expectation, what neuroscience calls a prediction error. Moments of surprise allow the brain to update its relational “rules.” Therapy becomes a space where these updates can occur safely. 5/9🧵

I miss the days of being a PhD student, or postdoc. I would give almost anything to have multiple full days at a time, just to concentrate deeply and single-mindedly on open-ended research.