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Do we grow wiser as we age? Can we? I spent over 15 years chasing glam journals and wasted a lot of time and energy (and this chase caused a lot of frustration to my team and co-authors). I don’t want to wake up at 70 and realize my life went into convincing a few editors my work was trendy enough. Enough is enough. I'll try to be smarter.

agree, or D2/D3 football players

The South Region MOP grew up minutes from my house, went to my old high school, was a classmate of my son’s and I’ve been playing pickup with him for a few years. My hometown is so proud of Keaton Wagler. Was my honor to tell his story this year. ICYMI: nytimes.com/athletic/6992977…

Today we celebrate registered dietitian nutritionists for their expert, evidence-based nutrition care in obesity and health research. #nationalnutritionmonth #RegisteredDietitianNutritionistDay #RDNs

Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door. The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo. A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work. Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.

Obesity is linked to at least 12 cancers. Here’s part of the biology in @JAMA_current Dysfunctional adipose tissue becomes a pro-tumor endocrine organ, driving insulin signaling, estrogen excess, chronic inflammation, and immune suppression. In other words: obesity can help create the ecosystem cancer needs to grow. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @OncoAlert

Our translational science review on obesity and cancer is out today in @JAMA_current Here, we delve into several mechanisms driving the relationship and look forward to seeing how the field evolves with the emergence of novel strategies for intervention. @KUcancercenter

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.) In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.

Day 5 of Obesity Care Week! Watch Dr. Stephen Cook's video and answer: ❓ What obesity research should lead the next decade? Comment or post your video! TOS 💜's obesity research! #CommitToCare #ObesityCareWeek #ObesityResearch #TheObesitySociety

Word - physical health and confidence go hand in hand with learning.

Woah. This is a bleak outlook. Excellent analysis by @Jori_health shows the NIH grants being hit hardest are the very ones designed to bring new scientists into the system - small R, R21s, and K awards. Dismantling the system one generation at a time.

❓ How does obesity research shape global health systems, access, innovation, outcomes, and equity? Watch Richele Corrado's video and share your answer! 💜 #CommitToCare #ObesityCareWeek #ObesityResearch #TheObesitySociety

I am proud to see the official launch of the Obesity, Metabolic Health and Cancer Research Program at @KUcancercenter - a first of its kind for an NCI-designated or comprehensive cancer center! kumc.edu/about/news/news-arc…

WELL SAID! The @EricTopol post on VO2max is misleading

I bet those super agers have higher than normal cardiorespiratory fitness - :) - but i'm serious too.

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time biohacker. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Huberman on Rogan, probably. Now you think it’s the end of chronic disease and seed oils are the devil. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “The Glucose Goddess Method”. Then you’ll strap on an Oura Ring, track your HRV on a Whoop app, and say we’re all just a couple sauna sessions away from living to 120. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover NAD boosters, and then you're gonna be talking about how mitochondria are the key to everything and reposting Levels marketing graphics. “Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the health tech stack is just ….” The health tech stack is just quantified self on top of a fitness tracker. You got that from Peter Attia’s episode on Tim Ferriss, March 2025, right? Yeah, I heard that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a longevity ticker. You listen to some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long on biotech? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on peptides and supplement stacks to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by reading primary sources on PubMed.

I bet we could get enough donations to pay @franfraschilla to not do KU games for the rest of his career. 20 years listening to him talk about the same things and say this team isn't talented, etc. is enough. He can't even see the best defensive player on the floor.

There should be more attention on what the Trump administration has done to scientific research funding. Here's a new report from Bernie Sander's HELP committee staff sanders.senate.gov/wp-conten…