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Check out this great conversation between Professor Alan Spector and Professor Emeritus James C. Smith, highlighting his career and his involvement with SSIB! youtube.com/watch?v=kWVp1V…

I know this is nit-picky, but even though we call it an RO1 (with the letter O in the middle), it's an R01 (with a zero in the middle). Please don't write it with the letter in the middle. It's not a good look. #NIH #Grants #Science #Pedantic

What a nice surprise in my mailbox this morning. #UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue

That’s not to say that I’ve never talked about politics with a job candidate or when I’ve been a candidate. I’m just saying that I would never bring it up when hiring. To me, it’s irrelevant and the promise of success in scholarship should be the key factor in hiring decisions.

I’m the chair of a bio department at a public university and I have never, nor would I ever, bring up political ideology when interviewing a faculty candidate. It’s simply not how we should define people (in my view) and imposing this tribalism feels so misguided to me.

We need more of this in America. Thank you @RepRaskin and @RepKnott.

Christmas has come early....SSIBlings in a box! #SSIB2025 Oxford, UK

Made it stateside after an excellent #SSIB2025. Oxford was amazing and the meeting was one of the better ones I can remember. I’m looking forward to Philly already. #SSIB2026! @SSIBsociety

We loved hosting Kellie for @ub_cibr #UBIB research day. #SSIBlingsInTheWild

The Competition is On! Balancing Ingestive and Competing Behaviors Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of @NIDDKgov! hear the latest from: Michael Krashes · Tatiana Kortokova · Celine Riera 🗓️ July 28–Aug 1 · 📍Oxford 👉 ssib.org/2025/registrat… #SSIB2025 #NIDDK75

Exercise as a Modifier of Feeding hear the latest from: David Thivel · Barbara Lieder · Kevin Williams 🗓️ July 28–Aug 1 · 📍Oxford 👉 Register: ssib.org/2025/registrat… #SSIB2025

What "Food Systems" Can Teach Us About Drug Use and Addiction hear the latest from: Sue Grigson · Brandon Henderson · Katherine Serafine 🗓️ July 28–Aug 1 · 📍Oxford 👉 Register: ssib.org/2025/registrat… #SSIB2025

👇Don’t miss the fantastic symposia @ #SSIB2025👇 GLP-1R Agonists: What Can We Learn From These Drugs? hear the latest from: Ralph DiLeone · Jessica Matheus Sa · Mette Kruse Klausen 🗓️ July 28–Aug 1 · 📍Oxford 👉 Register: ssib.org/2025/registrat… #SSIB2025

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. Lately, I’ve focused on unravelling the reasons why diets high in ultra-processed food are linked to epidemic proportions of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Our research leads the world on this topic. Given recent bipartisan goals to prevent diet-related chronic diseases, and new agency leadership professing to prioritize scientific investigation of ultra-processed foods, I had hoped to expand our research program with ambitious plans to more rapidly and efficiently determine how our food is likely making Americans chronically sick. Unfortunately, recent events have made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased science. Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction. I was hoping this was an aberration. So, weeks ago I wrote to my agency’s leadership expressing my concerns and requested time to discuss these issues, but I never received a response. Without any reassurance there wouldn’t be continued censorship or meddling in our research, I felt compelled to accept early retirement to preserve health insurance for my family. (Resigning later in protest of any future meddling or censorship would result in losing that benefit.) Due to very tight deadlines to make this decision, I don’t yet have plans for my future career. The NIH has been a wonderful place because it allows scientists to take risks, form unique collaborations, and do studies difficult to conduct elsewhere. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and I’m fortunate to have had such wonderful colleagues and scientific collaborators. I hope to someday return to government service and lead a research program that will continue to provide gold-standard science to make Americans healthy.

The tone-deafness is staggering. It’s good that he says that the vaccine is the best way to prevent the disease, but to fail to acknowledge the unforgivable role he’s played in the skepticism that caused the outbreak is infuriating.

@drugmonkeyblog I don't see notices like that at other websites. I did a quick check of NHLBI, NIDA, NIAAA, and NIMH.

Are all NIH Institute/Center websites being mothballed??

Calling all grad students and postdocs! Join @ssib_niab to connect with the international ingestive behavior community! ✅ Network with peers ✅ Compete for travel & presentation awards 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: March 21, 2025 #SSIB2025 #NewInvestigators

Science/academia friends: we’re looking for examples of recent teaching lab renovations/construction. Any examples out there?

Join SSIB Today! 📅 Annual Meeting Deadlines: Abstracts: March 14 Early Registration: June 18 📷 Learn more: ssib.org/2025/ Join a supportive and innovative community. Learn more from #ThomasLutz, former president (2011-12), below! #IngestiveBehavior

And finally, it turned into a meme.

And the faculty member with the kissing students gave the class a little quiz…which was also shared by students on Reddit.

A funny thing happened on Ubreddit…🧵 It all started with this. @UBBiology