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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Was fun to be interviewed about this exciting new study showing the link between increased heat and more soda consumption. Just weeks ago a food industry rep yelled at me at ICN for pointing out aggressive soda and ice cream marketing during heatwaves. Mic drop! www.npr.org/2025/09/10/n...

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You're more likely to reach for that soda when it's hot outside

People drink more sugary beverages when it's hot, researchers found, significantly increasing their sugar intake. That impact could grow as climate change raises the world's temperatures.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Prediction: in five years, UNC will have transitioned from research powerhouse to glorified stadium. Or at this rate, maybe by next year.

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N.C. Senate Proposes $56 Million for UNC Athletics - Carolina Alumni

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Among many other much more serious grievances, the writer in me is pissed off to have to replace the word "diverse" with "sociodemographically heterogeneous" in my grant proposals.

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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Some of MAHA's concerns -- like avoiding ultra-processed foods -- are backed up by mainstream science. Others, like a focus on food dyes, are less so. “If you ask me what would be the one thing that we need to do ... removing food dyes would be way down on the list." @lindseytaillie.bsky.social

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“You win more bees with honey than fire,” Dr. Makary said, adding “I believe in love, and let’s start in a friendly way and see if we can do this without any statutory or regulatory changes.” Decades of research show that this approach fails every single time.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Tell me you're a millennial without telling me you're a millennial. I'll go first: I marched into my hairstylists' yesterday and requested the Carrie Coon cut from White Lotus.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Our new commentary out in Lancet: The promises & pitfalls of MAHA. Of course, in the short time since we wrote this, much has changed. Most alarming is @kevinh-phd.bsky.social's early retirement from the NIH due over censorship of results that don't align with the MAHA message.

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The promise and pitfalls of “Make America Healthy Again”

The “Make America Healthy Again Movement” (MAHA) is arguably the largest, most energised movement to date to address the USA's twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Although MAHA does not foc...

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Every parent is so relieved when they’re finally done with paying for daycare. What they don’t realize is as your kids age, there’s something looming on the horizon, something that will drain your bank account even faster than a play-based French-themed nursery school: Athleisure.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I'm a little scared to post this, but I'm finally ready to talk about my big breakup. It's hard to say goodbye to your partner of multiple decades, but I did it and have lived to tell the tale. Get your tissues ready. It's a love story more tragic than Bennifer's.

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My Big Breakup

More tragic than Bennifer

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Me and my MPI going to project meetings these days.

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UConn Rudd Center @uconnrudd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In a sample of 1,226 school food authorities across 8 states, only 17% of schools reported serving scratch or modified scratch cooked foods (i.e., minimally processed) daily. Learn more in a new research brief: bit.ly/3DIZmnG

Smiling kids holding lunch trays in their school cafeteria

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today I did the bravest thing I've ever done. I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription. If you need me, you can find me in my bedroom, where I'll be playing Bon Jovi's "Always" on repeat while stroking my final cardboard box full of shit I could have bought at Walgreens.

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Ryan Barack @law4employees.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The media coverage associated with March Madness basketball is a great opportunity for universities to explain the importance of academic freedom and diversity of students, faculty, employees and thought.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Writing a grant in normal times is an act of optimism. You develop your plans, get genuinely excited about the value your science will bring the world, and convince other folks to join you. The odds are low, but you feel hopeful. Writing a grant during current times feels like an act of insanity.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My inbox is half emails from me attempting to remind myself of something I need to do, but they're totally undecipherable. "FOOD DYES" "EDGE PRODUCTS" "LEAVE COUNTRY" Hm, I guess that last one's a little clearer.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"As in psychological warfare — where destabilization is sought through confusion, fear, and mistrust — our current climate of chaos and apprehension has gripped researchers, federal workers, and Americans who rely on the government." minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/13/i...

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If we don’t act now, we risk losing the institutions that keep our society open, informed and free • Minnesota Reformer

History shows us the dangers of suppressing opposing views.

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you want to get ultraprocessed foods out of schools, which RJK Jr. and many other Republican legislators have claimed to want to do, this is the OPPOSITE approach the government should take: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I really wish media outlets would stop parroting the Trump line about rooting out "fraud, waste, and abuse" because we all know that's code for any program the groypers don't like. It's similar to how DEI has been used to eupehmize racism and resegregation.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

New article in Nature Food: how the food industry exploits our biology for profit.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause * up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths * 200k children paralyzed with polio * 1m children not treated for malnutrition * 28k new cases of infectious disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

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U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid

The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The food industry starts kids on the ultraprocessed food pipeline from infancy. It starts with toddler melts, snacks, flavored yogurts and flavored drinks and then escalates into the full array of junk food marketed straight to kids.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I'm in Bangladesh this week. At first, I was happy to have a break from everything happening at home. But my time here has been filled with stories about how USAID has improved health, malnutrition, and climate disaster management. Thinking about its loss is gutting. I am grieving for global health.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

For those who don't yet know, the 5calls app is so quick and easy. It gives phone #s and scripts. I used it this morning to call both my senators and my House rep and urge them to protect NSF and NIH. It took a total of 5 minutes and was as simple as clicking a button. Call your reps today!

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

An important question: why do universities do research, anyway? We do research because it enables us to fulfill a core part of our mission: generating new knowledge. Research also helps better educate students because it gives them access to cutting-edge knowledge, technology, and skills.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Is there a version of Severance but for reading the news? I want an Innie who can ingest the daily onslaught of horrible headlines and deal with the work fallout, and an Outie who can come home, chill with the cat, and gently drift off asleep while watching Love is Blind.

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Ben Chrisinger @bchrisinger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The PCD purge covers a wide variety of research topics. See the link for a list of all 2024 papers that were removed. Posting a sampling here, along with their archived versions #publichealth #academicsky 🛟

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Catch me on NPR this morning talking about my favorite topic, breakfast cereal, and a new study showing that targeted kids' ads increases purchases. It's more data to show that to improve pediatric health, we need to cut out the junk food marketing to kids. Industry can't & won't stop themselves.

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Advertising to kids, not adults, drives sugary cereal sales

High sugar cereal brands target TV ads directly to kids under age 12. And this targeted advertising leads to greater household purchases of unhealthy kid cereals, a new study finds.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Such a good idea- I also plan to add info on funding and the NIH to my syllabus. It never occurred to me to bring this up in a gen ed nutrition class but it’s become very clear we need higher public awareness of how the health science sausage gets made.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yikes y’all. The mood here in a school of public health is grim. I don’t quite have words for the vibe but it’s a cross between the fear from March 2020 and the distress from when Ohio State lost to Michigan for the 4th time in a row (oh wait, maybe that one’s just me). All jokes aside, it’s bad.

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Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Looking for a reliable source of practical and science-based health information straight to your inbox? Subscribe to our Substack and help amplify Nerdy voices (now more than ever). thosenerdygirls.substack.com #scicomm #publichealth

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News from Those Nerdy Girls | Substack

Your trusted messengers for practical and factual health information. Click to read News from Those Nerdy Girls, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here's what my colleague's pre-K in Ireland is serving for lunch next week: - tomato & lentil bake - rosemary lamb - salmon & broccoli tagliatelle Vs my kid's school: - mac n cheese - taco - chicken nuggets Why do Americans eat so much ultraprocessed food? Because we're teaching them to.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'm not one to give into doomerism, but wow, I had forgotten at how distracting it is to live under the Trump administration. With these executive orders, I feel like an owl with my head on a swivel.

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a black and white photo of an owl with a large eye looking at the camera .

ALT: a black and white photo of an owl with a large eye looking at the camera .

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is highly concerning. Into the void of scientific communication comes (even more) misinformation.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Mary Oliver: What will you do with your one wild and precious life? Me: Two-factor authentication.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Anyone else unsettled by what’s going on on LinkedIn lately? I mean, it’s all fine, but I’m reluctant to spend much time on it. It feels even more curated and self-promoting-y than other socials. Thoughts?

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🍎📃 As a new Substacker and old nutrition nerd I can confirm @kcklatt.bsky.social’s Substack is where it’s at! Check out this post for super helpful insights into this whole red food dye business.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Big week! FDA drops their labeling proposal, FDA bans red #3, and scientists are proposing to redefine obesity after decades of agonizing. Buckling up for a wild 2025.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m a huge supporter of public schools but they’re failing in one key way: my kids think the definition of “heavy winter coat” is "hoodie.” Also: A hat= a cat-ear headband Shoes= sandals Pants= booty shorts with tall socks Gloves= one single glove in the bottom of the backpack

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is fabulous- I didn’t know the FDA was considering this. Fixing date labels would go a long way towards helping consumers cut food waste.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Can testify, this is super fun! Bummed about the news? I am. Writing silly fake news headlines yesterday for this challenge was a fun (if fleeting) antidote. We need to load up on laughter where we can get it.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie @lindseytaillie.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

📯Breaking new, food policy nerds! The White House OMB has stopped taking meetings on the front-of-package labeling rule. Word on the street is that the proposal should drop any day.

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