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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
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Identifying generative AI use among genuine responders in online survey research - Communications Psychology
Surveys are compromised not only by bots, but also by the use of AI by genuine human survey respondents. How can researchers ensure that surveys reflect public opinion rather than recycled or programm...
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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
From an ecological perspective (ie not a human benefit perspective) hard not to land on a single side there.
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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
Farm raised cows aren’t wild buffalo; motorized boats with nets large and strong enough to catch elephants in mid air aren’t heritage fishing practices. Colonists killed off wild bovines, and replaced indigenous farming on every continent to have exclusive markets for products they developed instead
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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 · 27/03/2026
Yeah when is DCs Big dig???
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
✨is used to signify AI content.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I wonder if there’s an opportunity to create a global government consortium that effectively pays countries to maintain forests as natural resources on which the entire world depends. Incentivizing alternatives to deforestation.
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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
So many things called delicacies now require acquired tastes. Taste parity isn’t a value proposition and is an illusion. Function, benefit, perceived quality- these impart value and incentive to acquire that taste. Taste is social. Taste is not purely physiochemical.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Acidified pea protein would be closer in mech & nutrition, the right acids make it taste cheesy, but that’s $$$. We have seen tasters prefer alt dairy despite a different taste and pay more. The dairy alt market is larger & more price flexible….
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This & lack of scale manu/distro is why it’s in homes & cafes not high volume products. Alt Cheese, even when it tastes good, doesn’t function as a viscoelastic protein gel. We gell w/o thermoreversibility & w/ functional starches not proteins….
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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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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
a scoping review is to identify gaps, ie what can/can’t be concluded by evidence. Repeating statements about availability from other studies /=/ summarizing real analyses of composition. If it can’t address that fundamental point-that we have not characterized-then it cannot conclude this.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Yeah it always amazes me that the threat of invasive insects doesn’t raise more alarms for people. It’s a major risk. Not to mention potential shifts in allergen and heavy metal accumulation.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
My great great grandparents probably never ate a banana and I’m not up for going back to Shtetl living, thanks.
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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 · 12/01/2026
Also- something i haven’t seen mentioned is that since American food policy 1st aimed to increase grain research & intake, American grain has moved to feed rather than food. Animal food producers thus gain market competition for low cost feed when used for human foods. 🔻 is a twofer.
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Great piece! I’d argue that the 3rd core, explicit aim of DGAs beyond 1) science and 2) procurement has always been, in every country, a means of promoting domestic ag products to meet the goal #1 & preserve nutrition security. This one get #3 while losing the plot on #1.
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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 · 21/11/2025
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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 · 01/11/2025
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Do they use gelatin?
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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 · 03/09/2025
If you ever want to talk more, I can tell you a story about EDF and fishing interests…
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Yeah, funny to re-read that & realize all the things I left out to walk a professional line 😂 He told female delegates from the global south they didn’t represent their country when disagreeing w/ him. MethaneSAThad just received 100M from Bezos & intended to exclude ag, pretending not to be EDF
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Reporting * sorry!
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Suzi Gerber, PhD @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I started repeating the concentrated effort to discount cattle Methane when myself and a delegate from Brazil confronted The Methane Moment pavilion organizers from EDF/MethaneSAT at COP26. You can read more about it here: vegnews.com/opinion-cop2...
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Opinion: COP26 Shortcomings on Addressing Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
The United Nations’ COP26 climate conference skirted around the most pressing issue: animal agriculture. VegNews reports what happened and how we can strive for more.
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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
As i said, i support these drugs. But radical reductions in appetite do more than reduce weight. And a balanced diet may help more than weight loss by any means
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