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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 6d

Very ready for a long weekend fully UNplugged starting tonight. Let the emails pile up!! My brain needs to blissfully avoid the inbox for a bit. This is your sign to do the same ;) 🧪🧪

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natimmunol.nature.com @natimmunol.nature.com · 9d

Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi - the 2025 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #Treg_cells #Foxp3 #Immune_regulation

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Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 10d

#Throwback 🧪

COMMENT | A brief guide to studying extracellular vesicle function in the context of metabolism

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A brief guide to studying extracellular vesicle function in the context of metabolism - Nature Metabolism

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are now recognized as powerful modulators of metabolism, and thus the new field of EV-mediated metabolic regulation is growing exponentially. Here, we discuss special experimental considerations for the study of EV function in metabolism.

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 13d

So well said, both. 🤩

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14d

I am filled with so much love and gratitude that I cannot grieve. Dr. Goodall worked tirelessly in her gentle, hopeful way for a better world for all life on Earth. She has laid down her field notebook for the last time; now it is for us to fill with wonder, joy, and connection, into infinity.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 13d

Those of us in this research field certainly understand the distinctions…

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 13d

Hahaha yes! But when we don’t have enough food and not obese, a great physiology hack! 🧪

Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.social · 13d

The biggest scam of the human body is the decrease in basal metabolic rate as you lose weight, thereby making it harder to lose more weight

Stupid homeostasis

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 15d

But but. Aren’t ALL these qualities a Type A?

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 19d

This only happens to you once

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 18d

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 18d

With Vicki, we reviewed current knowledge about estrogen’s actions in adipose - important functions that convey sex differences and explain changes to metabolism across menopause. #estrogenmatters #estrogen #menopause #adipose 🧪🧪

Nature Reviews Endocrinology @natrevendo.nature.com · 19d

New content online: Health of adipose tissue: oestrogen matters

Health of adipose tissue: oestrogen matters

Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Published online: 26 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41574-025-01180-2Oestrogen is a key regulator in many metabolic processes, particularly in adipose tissue. This Review discusses the role of oestrogen in adipose tissue metabolism and its wider implications for systemic metabolic health.

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 21d

Metabolomics gone spatial! 🧪

Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 21d

✨New issue!✨

Check out the latest in #metabolism research from across all disciplines.

Read about #Ferroptosis, #MASLD, #DietaryBiomarkers, #CoA metabolism, #Immune signaling, #Tumor biology and many more topics! 🧪

www.nature.com/natmetab/vol...

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 22d

A sweeping review reveals that everyday exposure to plastics—especially during childhood—poses lasting risks for heart disease, infertility, asthma, and even brain development issues.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Childhood plastic exposure could be fueling obesity, infertility, and asthma

A sweeping review from NYU Langone Health reveals that everyday exposure to plastics—especially during childhood—poses lasting risks for heart disease, infertility, asthma, and even brain development ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22d

The new Apple Watch high blood pressure detection feature only detected 41% of people who have hypertension in their prospective trial. apple.com/health/pdf/H...

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 27d

Looking forward to seeing colleagues at Michigan State soon! Love this time of year in Michigan 🍂🍁🧪

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 28d

Wonderful to see our paper on the #organelle signatures of #neurons and #astrocytes out in final form - congratulations, Shannon Rhoads and team!🎉 t.co/BPxKlbU6Ou

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 28d

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28d

A groundbreaking paper published @nature.com today—the first large health language model—predicts >1,000 diseases for a person and when.
Implications here:
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Dawn of A New Era of Primary Prevention in Medicine

Recent groundbreaking reports highlight our newfound potential to prevent diseases

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Sep 15

A simple way to help reduce obesity and stroke?
Stop the shifts in our clocks twice a year
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Circadian-informed modeling predicts regional variation in obesity and stroke outcomes under different permanent US time policies | PNAS

Seasonal changes in time policy, such as switching between Standard Time (SDT) and Daylight Saving Time (DST), have been adopted by many countries,...

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · Sep 14

Love an early writing sesh with my weekend writing buddy, over cappuccino! 🧪🧪

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 22

Body fat distribution predicts the pace of cardiovascular system aging, with sex-specific patterns, and protective effect of estrogen
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Sex-specific body fat distribution predicts cardiovascular ageing

AbstractBackground and Aims. Cardiovascular ageing is a progressive loss of physiological reserve, modified by environmental and genetic risk factors, that

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fluorescence Friday! Gargi images a lot of DRGs in the lab, and these two appeared as animals to her. Can you see them? #fluorescencefriday #peripheralnervoussystem #rorschach 🧪🧪

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Please consider sharing - new flyer for our clinical trial that is still recruiting patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy for spinal cord stimulation. #neuropathy #diabetes #neuromodulation 🧪🧪

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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · Aug 12

The grant that had so much care and attention, years of preliminary data, input from trusted colleagues, many rounds of edits. And it goes to peer review. 🧪🧪

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 11

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? The inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

www.newyorker.com

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