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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Grateful for the encounters this experience makes possible. Today, a lecture by Giorgio Parisi at Harvard University Department of Physics—a clear talk on complexity and a room full of young minds looking ahead.

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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Spoiler: questo post farà arrabbiare la protagonista della foto. 23 agosto 2022, primo giorno nel nuovo laboratorio. Oggi è Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Io orgoglioso. Lei arrabbiata. Perfetto così. Ps. Brava ❤️

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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Dichiarazione del Presidente #Mattarella a tre anni dall'aggressione dell’Ucraina da parte della Federazione Russa. 🇮🇹

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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Thank you, Ilaria Iacoviello , for the great interview & your commitment to science! And to Fondazione Leonardo for making it possible. As for @menicgiulia.bsky.social , hearing her say these things fills me with pride every day. youtu.be/SkHrAXtvGXc

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Intervista a Giulia Menichetti: il coraggio di sbagliare per crescere nelle STEM

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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Kudos to my extraordinary wife, @menicgiulia.bsky.social who understands the complexity of foods better than I understand the shopping list. Jokes aside, I’m truly proud of you.

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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Proud husband moment! 🏆 My wife @menicgiulia.bsky.social received an award from the prestigious @BrighamWomens, an @harvardmed.bsky.social teaching hospital. The details are blurry (thanks to her backlit photo), but it reflects her incredible talent. Congrats on this well-deserved recognition!

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John Barnard, MD @drjohnbarnard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This seems to be a very practical resource. Love it. Important as the body of evidence linking consumption of ultra processed foods to adverse health outcomes is increasingly robust.

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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Nature Food: Our paper revealing the degree of food processing in 50K+ items sold by Walmart, Target & Whole Foods is just out! 🍎📊 PDF at barabasi.com/science/publ... See the data in action at www.truefood.tech Thank @menicgiulia, @BabakRavandi et al.

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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When I met my wife Giulia Menichetti I was amazed by the work behind a scientific paper. This one took 3 years to be published but just minutes to read. So much happens in 3 years… Check it out ⬇️

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores (Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients www.nature.com/articles/s43... Website for consumers www.truefood.tech

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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 08/01/2025

Italian journalist detained in Iran has been released. "The plane repatriating journalist Cecilia Sala took off a few minutes ago," the Italian government said in a statement.

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Italian journalist detained in Iran has been released

"The plane repatriating journalist Cecilia Sala took off a few minutes ago," the Italian government said in a statement.

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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Training course "Introduction to Network Medicine" Join us! Applications are due by January 20! 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 www.diag.uniroma1.it/network_medi...

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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

2/ Fast forward to today: My co-authors and I distilled this journey into "Decoding the Foodome: Molecular Networks Connecting Diet and Health" for @annualreviews.bsky.social Perfect reading for New Year’s resolutions about rethinking diets & research 😉 👉 Read it here: shorturl.at/GQeaW

$The dark matter of nutrition. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has systematically measured 188 nutritional components that encompass essential micro- and macronutrients related primarily to energy intake and vitamin deficiencies. Although this knowledge has been transformative for the health sciences, these nutritional components represent only a fraction of the more than 139,000 chemicals we have collected, many of which have documented effects. For example, the 69 nutrients documented by the USDA Standard Reference Legacy database for raw garlic include vitamins such as ascorbic acid and amino acids such as alanine but miss important bioactive compounds such as allicin, ajoene, and p-coumaric acid. The number of health effects/bioactivities documented in FooDB is shown for each compound.$

The network neighborhood of sulforaphane’s targets in the protein–protein interaction network generates a connected component comprising 49 targets, surrounded by 9 additional isolated targets. Green indicates both sulforaphane’s targets and the binding links connecting them. Gray indicates proteins close to sulforaphane’s targets. Within the same region of the interactome are proteins that are epigenetic modifiers (blue). Proteins that are both sulforaphane’s targets and associated with a therapeutic area are filled with the color of the selected therapeutic area, while their border is colored green.

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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

1/ 🎉 Happy New Year, everyone! 8 years ago, I was brainstorming BIG nutrition questions with colleagues—little did I know it would lead me across fields like cheminformatics, epidemiology, mass spectrometry, stochastic modeling, AI, and Network Science.

Nutrient composition of food. According to the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies, the consumption of 100 g of raw onion delivers 45 nutritional components, whose amounts (measured in grams) span eight orders of magnitude. Among these 45 nutrients are compounds from different chemical classes, such as copper (a mineral), linoleic acid (a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, the most typical isomer of fatty acid 18:2), and quercetin (a flavonol). We rank the nutrients in onion in descending order of concentration on the ordinate axis. The gram amount of nutrient n per 100 g is reported as xn.

Large-scale analysis of nutrient concentrations in food. (a) The concentration probability distribution Q(𝑥𝑛) for four nutrients across the 4,889 foods reported in NHANES 2009–2010 data, shown on a logarithmic horizontal axis. The four distributions are approximately symmetric on a log scale and have similar width and shape that are independent of the average concentration of the respective nutrient. Each symbol represents a histogram bin. (b,c) The observed common scale of nutrient fluctuations observed in the log space allows us to rescale all nutrients and compare them on a single plot, suggesting a methodology to detect foods with outlier concentrations. The pattern of nutrient outliers in different foods (quantified by a z score in the log space) is informative of the type and extent of processing, as shown here for (b) 100 g of raw onion compared with (c) 100 g of onion rings. (d,e) FoodProX is a random forest classifier that was trained over the nutrient concentrations within 100 g of each food, tasking the classifier to predict its processing level according to NOVA. FoodProX represents each food by a vector of probabilities {pi}, capturing the likelihood of the food being classified as an unprocessed food (NOVA 1), a processed culinary ingredient (NOVA 2), a processed food (NOVA 3), or an ultraprocessed food (NOVA 4). The final classification label, highlighted with a box on the right, is determined by the highest probability. The probability values were rounded to two decimal places.

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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It was an honor to be part of the group of people who contributed to the success of Consulate General of Italy in Boston: Capital of Italian Creativity in the World, whose festival took place in recent days in the heart of Massachusetts, USA. 🇮🇹✨ @menicgiulia.bsky.social

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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Join us tomorrow in Rome!

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