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Suzi Gerber, PhD

@chefsuzigerber.bsky.social
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Food, nutrition & behavior scientist 👩🏽‍🔬— Chef — Author of 📚 Plant-Based Gourmet 👩🏽‍🍳— Protein diversification — Team Fiber 🌱🫘— “something of a food polymath” (Feed the People)— Research Prof at Tufts and George Mason. Opinions=mine.

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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Researchers and public research grant program managers should read this- the cost of applications are exceeding the return. We can’t advance science like this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your surveys might ask real people questions, but do they get real answers? Everyday use of AI means generated content can dilute insights & distort findings. While “bots” are known, our new paper explores AI used by genuine human respondents & provides guidance on safeguards @seanbcash.bsky.social👇🏽
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Temple Grandin is the Oppenheimer of CAFOs/factory farming You cannot change my mind.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Seeing bad advice about dealing with ticks by getting chickens. Sure, they eat ticks. But you know what else they do? Provide a highly reliable human-animal interface that walks right up to you and delivers those same ticks directly onto your skin.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
An estimated 100,000 chat GPT queries uses the water content of 1 gallon of milk. Reducing a gallon of milk can save a similar amount of water of high-average daily gpt use for 2-3 years. No one wants to face the real problem.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
An estimated 100,000 chat GPT queries uses the water content of 1lb of beef. Skipping beef for a couple days could save a similar amount of water of high-average daily gpt use for 2-3 years.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
How can we get people to eat more healthy, minimally processed, plant-foods; feed people w/o ultra processing; increase farmer revenue; make plant foods more delicious— at the same time? We propose one viable solution to these in our new review paper out today! www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
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Frontiers | Advancing solid-state fermentation with culinary fungi for nutrient-dense, minimally processed, whole-foods and resilient food systems—a narrative review
IntroductionSolid-state fermentation with culinary fungi (mushrooms commonly used in cooking) could be a scalable means of producing nutrient-dense protein f...
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Appeal to naturalness fallacies aren’t about evidence or health. They are tools of colonialism and post-colonialism that leverage feelings of disconnection and serve to try and justify commodification of indigenous and heritage practices. 1/n
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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hausfather's recent blog said methane's influence was only for 10 years, that of CO2 10,000 years. That's a huge exaggeration. A pulse of methane has real climate impacts for 40+ years, and those from CO2 are declining by 20% after 100 years. Figure below is based on IPCC 2013.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As a vegan chef I am going to definitively tell you that no matter how hard you wish upon a star, chia seeds will NEVER be a good caviar. Never. 💫
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Honored to teach students how to make healthy meals with cultivated salmon (Wildtype) and introduce future chefs and nutritionists to the future of food
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I reject the concept of taste parity for alt proteins as an illusion. Aim to satisfy not mimic. No 2 steaks taste exact. Meat ranges & sensory exp cant control for range. When liking is =, unblinded choice favors familiar vs new. The star alt-milk in coffee- isnt bc taste parity it’s function…
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My epitaph, by way of description, in the book Feed the Peopl by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabe Rosenberg
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"Improving the American food system further will require engaging, improving, and fairly distributing modern agriculture’s productivity, not tossing it on the compost heap." @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I on the concept of democratic hedonism in food system reform. newrepublic.com/article/2067...
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What the Foodies Get Wrong About Food Reform
Telling people to eat more home-cooked meals and start gardening isn’t a realistic prescription for widespread change.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Unboxing video of @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabe Rosenberg’s new book! I know what I’m doing this weekend 📖
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"The policy tools exist to minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of a system that provides food, much of it healthy, in abundance. But first we need to stop demonizing industrial food, and instead think about how to make it better." Gabe & I for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
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Opinion | We Shouldn’t Want to Eat Like Our Great-Great-Grandparents
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"To the extent the guidelines ... represent an agenda, it is not simply to facilitate a particular outcome favored by meat corporations but also to invert good governance liberalism." @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I on the new food pyramid for @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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How the New Food Pyramid Fits Into the Broader Conservative Project
Trump and MAHA have found a way to shrink government that Reagan never thought of: discredit it entirely.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Blow them all away with this knock out vegan pecan pie recipe.
Vegan chocolate bourbon pecan pie recipe with instructions. For text version reply. Image of 2 freshly baked pecan pies on a baking sheet.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The US Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider the following professional degrees: Education (incl teaching) Nursing Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech pathology Engineering Counseling & therapy
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Today the RFI for US UPF policy is due. I want to say, by way of example, that if you can’t explain how some brown sugar forms into solid bricks & others remain granular for years—w/ identical ingredient lists—you might not be qualified to shape policy about food processing.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
You may have read that your protein supplements are giving you lead poisoning. That's not the case. If you want to have protein shakes, that's fine. But whether you need to and whether they're safely regulated is a different story. My latest for @vox.com. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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No, your protein powder isn’t poisoning you
New testing finds two-thirds of popular protein powders exceed lead limits — especially plant-based brands. What you need to know before your next scoop — and why the reality is different.
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The new EAT-Lancet report is out and I wrote about it -- and also what I saw at Climate Week NYC: An environmental movement still cozying up to Big Meat, and still unafraid to confront scientific consensus on food, agriculture, and livestock.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Comment for the World Health Organization on whether and how much animal sourced foods are needed and/or optimal for the diet: www.who.int/news-room/ar...
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Call for comment on the scope of the WHO guideline on optimal intake of animal-source foods
To provide much-needed, evidence-informed guidance on this important topic, WHO has brought together experts from all over the globe (WHO guideline development group or ‘GDG’), with a wide range of re...
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Big news in research- the Pubmed image has changed!
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Barnabas Szaszi @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts? … probably not, right? In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z Summary👇
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Generalizability of choice architecture interventions
Nature Reviews Psychology - Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this...
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Excited to see major progress in the cultivated meat industry this year- the US has kept its promise to prioritize biotechnology & advance safe, scientifically rigorous new foods. 2 milestones for US today- Mission Barns cultivated pork fat approved, & Believer cultivated chicken FDA NQL
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The world’s first cultivated pork has now been cleared for sale by the USDA! @missionbarns.bsky.social pork and fat is the 4th product and 3rd species approved in the US. A banner year for the cultivated meat industry! Read more: ampsinnovation.org/amps-congrat...
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AMPS Congratulates Mission Barns as the World’s First Approved Food Made from Cultivated Pork and Fat – Now Cleared by the USDA - Association For Meat, Poultry And Seafood Innovation
The Association for Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Innovation (AMPS) congratulates Mission Barns on this major global milestone. After the very thorough scientific FDA pre-market consultation Mission Barn...
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“The tool carries significant implications for research and policy…to support the design of new interventions, and to refine predictive models linking diet to chronic disease risk…” solutions.tufts.edu/pioneering-m...
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Tomorrow! Massachusetts H539 seeks to redefine crucial foods like infant formula & Glucerna, foods that save lives, as “particularly harmful” UPF. Not just UPF but particularly harmful UPF. Tell Massachusetts that we need evidence-based standards for nutrition! malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
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Hearing Details - Joint Committee on Education
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Always odd when someone writes about your work but doesn't mention you or talk to you directly..... just discovered this @plantbasednews.bsky.social article from 8 months ago about upcycling peanut hulls. (Link below)
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
@lastweektonight.com this feels like a you thing really. Anytime you share an article indexed on Pubmed you see these two people. Do your thing John!
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I’d like to see a “where are they now” or Reunion photo for these two
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
My favorite carnivore diet argument is the Maasai as an ex. of untouched, non-Western ancestral diet— they’re only 500yo & adapted this diet 300ys ago after migrating away from the Fertile Crescent. Meanwhile Vedic texts (basis of Hindu Ayurveda) go back 4000ys w/ detailed contradictory diet recs.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It’s never been about healthy diets 🌈
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
1st-of-its-kind study alert! 🚨 What happens when ppl taste cultivated meat at a public tasting—4 days before a state ban? Do ppl see personal & cultural value in CM? We found out. The 1st non-experimental study of voluntary tasting approved CM! Beyond flavor, results are complex--& hopeful. 🧵
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How can we better enable MD recommendations of nutrition? Better metrics and tools to support diet. See insights from our recent research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Scoring adherence to voluntary restriction diets (SAVoReD) in the ADAPT study
Voluntary adoption of popular food-group-restricting diets like Paleo and plant-based diets (PBDs) are often health-motivated. However, unlike the the…
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It’s time to put the narrative of a fraught US regulatory environment for cultivated meat/seafood to bed! 4 products, 3 species, 3 commercially approved, 2 cleared this year. AgSec supports innovation. White House supports tech solutions. States will get sorted. The US is leading. Let’s go!
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The world’s first cell-cultivated fish is now available in US restaurants. Congratulations Wildtype on trailblazing. Read more: ampsinnovation.org/statement-fr...
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Statement from AMPS on Wildtype Becoming the First Cultivated Fish Available for Sale in the World– Approved and available NOW in US restaurants - Association For Meat, Poultry And Seafood Innovation
AMPS congratulates leading member Wildtype, a pioneer in producing American cultivated seafood, on the world’s first approval for cultivated seafood for their cultivated salmon. This will mean 100% Am...
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In this piece, I lay out the reasons why cultivated meat is not an ultra-processed food, and why we shouldn’t be so quick to resist new food innovations or indeed lump all UPF together. Read it now at NewFoodTech (see comments) 👇🏽
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Pup C @pupcraw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
NY’s “food service giant Sodexo, which has now served the city’s patients more than 2 million plant-based meals, reports a 98% satisfaction rate. The average vegetarian meal costs 59 cents less than meat, so the program has also saved the city more than $1 million” sentientmedia.org/nyc-hospital...
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NYC hospitals are nudging patients toward plant-based meals. It’s working.
New York City is cutting emissions and saving money by making vegetarian meals the default in public hospitals. It’s successful because most people go with the flow.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New study out now! 🚨 What happens when a novel food enters the American market, media, & political crossfire? 📣 Our team analyzed 34 U.S. news outlets’ coverage of the first-ever U.S. sale approval of cultivated meat—what we found speaks volumes abt the emerging public meaning of cultivated meat 🧵
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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Animal #agriculture accounts for 32% of global methane #emissions, a greenhouse gas 80x more potent than #carbon dioxide, with the breeding of #cattle for #milk & #meat a key driver. #Methane is responsible for ~half the global temperature rise since 1750… (1/3) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dairy companies ‘turning blind eye’ to global methane emissions, report suggests
Assessment of leading dairy and coffee shop chains reveals failure to set out methane reduction targets
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 New paper in Appetite busts myths about plant-based diets w/ a novel adherence score comparing vegan, veg, WFPB, & Paleo among long & short term followers. 🧵 1. PBDs are not equal. Big diffs in LEVEL of adherence, & association w/ duration, diet quality, & BMI. More below 👇🏽
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This needs to be shared
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Last week, Google Scholar let me know one of our recent papers got 2 new cites. By the end of the weekend it removed those cites. Meanwhile the 2 papers citing ours still exist and still cite our paper (in great journals too like Food Quality & Pref). Wtf!
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If the U.K. wants to avoid a political cascade akin to the US they would be wise to onboard those of us on the front lines on the US to forecast and strategize against these moves as they unfold: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...
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Opinion | Can Reform U.K. Be More Than a Vessel for Rage?
Much of the British political class laughed at Nigel Farage in 2016. It isn’t laughing now.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is disappointing, but not surprising. Chefs, we have our work cut out for us. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tell me what you cook and I'll tell you who you are. A study of the influence of the representations and identities of aspiring chefs on their intentions to reduce meat in favour of plant-based dishes
Faced with increasing recommendations for a more plant-based diet, the catering sector is particularly affected. This study investigates how future ch…
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The first clinical human subjects study I led, I was in kindergarten. N=20. My mom was the head of the NIH Rehabilitation Department & clinical center — she started me young. Here’s my Kindergarten science fair poster (hand made!) presenting results on nerve sensitivity by anatomic region.
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The American west public lands produce <1.6% of U.S. beef but cost taxpayers $229M/yr This grazing emits 12.4M t CO₂e/yr (not incl carbon drawdown opportunities), with social costs of carbon estimated at $1.1–2.4B/year. This exceeds industry benefits by over $926M link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Forum: Climate, Ecological, and Social Costs of Livestock Grazing on Western Public Lands - Environmental Management
Grazing by domestic livestock is the most widespread use of public lands in the American West (USA) and their effects on climate change and ways to mitigate those effects are of interest to land manag...
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What a massive blind-taste test of plant-based meat vs. animal meat found:
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A massive blind taste test fed people real and vegan meats. It revealed something surprising.
Some of your feelings about meat are just in your head.
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