This has been needed for a long time! Redefining obesity A new report of @TheLancetEndo commission that overrides current BMI categories and better defines features and pathophysiologic consequences of pre-clinical and clinical obesity thelancet.com/journals/landi… open-access (such as an athlete with no fat excess is not obese, but is according to current BMI based definition)

One reason you believe people are “crazy” for taking COVID precautions is because you don’t know how sick people are treated by society and the medical system. You think nothing bad will happen to you and you’ll be taken care of by medical professionals but you’re mistaken.

Just because an illness is chronic and/or won’t kill you - doesn’t meant it won’t ruin your quality of life. Many chronic illnesses score lower on quality of life scales than terminal cancer & other end stage diseases - but they’re treated as though they’re “no big deal.” /1

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Can’t help but think of the gravity of Arundhati Roy’s words lately: “There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

If I owe you an email, imagine what I owe myself

"It's a beautiful thing to have lungs that allow you to breathe air and legs that allow you to climb mountains, and it's a shame that sometimes we don't realize that that's enough." A friendly reminder to never take your cup-filling hobbies for granted. 🌤️

Excited to share a new study led by @Emily_M_Mercer studying how #microbiome alpha-diversity patterns shift during the first year of life at the individual level. Wonderful collaboration with @CHILDSTUDY @MeghanAzad @TurveyLab and many more. shorturl.at/bgsET @MicrobiomeJ

Cuddling Impacts Baby's Microbiome 😍 New RCT by @WeerthDe et al shows how maternal skin-to-skin contact (1 hr daily from birth to 5 wks) shapes infant gut #microbiome composition, maturation, and "volatility". So cool! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Beautiful microbial ecology to understand clinical microbiology. Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

A dash of seasonal goodness.

📢 Our new meta-analysis in World Psychiatry showed that in 206 studies and >500k participants, the distribution of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) was: 0 ACEs = 39.9% 1 ACE = 22.4% 2 ACEs = 13.0% 3 ACEs = 8.7% 4 ACEs = 16.1% 🧵 (1/4) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

validation is just counterfeit medicine, being seen doesn’t concern me as much as never losing sight of myself.

Our society would be so different if folks deeply understood how temporary their current privilege and comfortable existence truly is. You're housed today. You're abled-bodied today. You're not marginalized today. Privilege shields today, but empathy protects tomorrow.

So pleased that our new paper on multigenerational adversity, gut microbiome, and socioemotional functioning in early childhood has just come out in @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22… 1/6

This thread.👇 Reflection we could all use, regularly, regardless of who or what we are trying to support.

“Everyone is welcome” is drastically different from “we built this with you in mind.” People don't want to go where they are merely tolerated, they want to go where they are included.

You belong somewhere you feel free. 🎶🦋

RT @sycurol: Long, long way to go folks. These numbers mean we lack fundamental understanding of female bodies. Compounded by the historica…