Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Who’s a Good Boy? Effects of Dog and Owner Body Weight on Veterinarian Perceptions and Treatment Recommendations.
• RCT: Effect of Telehealth Extended Care for Maintenance of Weight Loss in Rural US Communities.
• T. Rex Was a Slacker a Natural Wonder of the Big Theropod Was How It Conserved Energy.
• What If Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss?
• RCT: "Increased weight loading reduces body weight and fat mass in obese subjects in a similar way as previously shown in obese rodents. These findings demonstrate that there is weight loading dependent homeostatic regulation of body weight, the gravitostat, also in humans."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Menu Data Improves Health. Study Finds Posting Calorie Info Means Better Choices.
• Press-release: Study: National Calorie Menu Labeling Law Will Add Years of Healthy Living, Save Billions.
• Study: Microsimulation Study of Menu Labeling Law. No Observed Improvement in Health. No Observed Better Choices. No Observation of Added Years of Healthy Living or Billions Saved.

Contrary or Null Findings

• A High-protein Content Did Not Moderate the Triacylglycerol Response of Fructose.
• "Despite superior excess weight loss after RYGB, T2D remission rates did not differ significantly between RYGB and SG after 2 years." (pdf)
• "Weight-based dosing of vitamin D is not superior to a fixed dose in order to maintain stable 25OHD levels in IBD patients."
• RCT: "An intervention to reduce carbohydrate intake in GDM did not raise ketones to clinical significance, possibly because the target of 135 g/d was difficult to achieve in pregnancy."
• RCT: In adult ventilated ICU patients, "Tight Calorie Control guided by indirect calorimetry decreased the rate of infection and mortality but not significantly." (pdf)
• RCT: "Individualized counseling aiming at increasing self-selected out-of-home activity had nonsystematic effects on mobility and positively affected physical performance only."
• RCT: "short-term daily consumption of a large portion of mixed dried plums, figs, dates, and raisins, without structured dietary guidance, did not improve cardiometabolic risk factors, compared to carbohydrate-rich snacks, in adults with increased baseline cardiometabolic risk."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on HBA1C Pure Prairie Living Program in Type 2 Diabetes Participants.

Basic

• Obesity-Induced Excess of 17-Hydroxyprogesterone Promotes Hyperglycemia Through Activation of Glucocorticoid Receptor.
• Leptin Production Capacity Determines Food Intake and Susceptibility to Obesity-Induced Diabetes in Oikawa–Nagao Diabetes-Prone and Diabetes-Resistant Mice.
• Phosphocholine Accumulation and PHOSPHO1 Depletion Promote Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Tortuous and Torturous: Why Publishing a Critical Letter to the Editor Is So Difficult.
• What If the Traffic Light Diet Doesn’t Work?
• Peer Review Should Be an Honest, but Collegial, Conversation.

Clinical

• Obesity as a Risk Factor for COVID-19: An Overview.
• Association of FTO and ADRB2 Gene Variation with Energy Restriction Induced Adaptations in Resting Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity.
• RCT: Substituting Lean Beef for Carbohydrate in a Healthy Dietary Pattern Does Not Adversely Affect the Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Profile in Men and Women at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.
• Meta-analysis: "...Comparing heterogeneity in body mass responses between low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets"

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Associations of Telomere Length with Two Dietary Quality Indices After a Lifestyle Intervention in Children with Abdominal Obesity.
• Review: Precision Nutrition and Childhood Obesity.
• Review: The Bones of Children with Obesity.

Surgery

• Impact of Obesity on Male Urethral Sling Outcomes.
• Swallow Magnetic Resonance Imaging Compared to 3D-Computed Tomography for Pouch Assessment and Hiatal Hernias After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Different Malabsorptive Obesity Surgery Interventions Result in Distinct Postprandial Amino Acid Metabolomic Signatures.

Drugs

• Review: Obesity: The New Global Epidemic. Pharmacological Treatment, Opportunities and Limits for Personalized Therapy.
• Review: Existing and Emerging Molecular Targets for the Pharmacotherapy of Obesity.
• Review: Recent Development on Anti-Obesity Compounds and Their Mechanisms of Action.

Food & Diet

• RCT: DHA-enriched Fish Oil Reduces Insulin Resistance in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• RCT: Comparison of the Effect of Rapeseed Oil or Amaranth Seed Oil Supplementation on Weight Loss, Body Composition, and Changes in the Metabolic Profile of Obese Patients Following 3-week Body Mass Reduction Program.
• Determinants of Weekly Raw Milk Use By At-home Meal Preparers in the USA: Evidence From the 2014–2016 American Time Use Survey – Eating and Health Module.
• Commentary: “Really? Blame the Food Industry for COVID-19?”
• 2020 Food and Health Survey. (pdf)
• FDA Adds QR Code to Certain Export Certificates for Food.
• Association between Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction and Aging in Humans.
• Abstract: Leptin Treatment Prevents Impaired Hypoglycemic Counterregulation Induced By Exposure to Recurrent Hypoglycemia or Caloric Restriction.
• Changes Induced By Physical Activity, Weight Loss and Calorie Restriction in Body Composition, Lipoproteins and Functional Capacity in Obese Congolese Women.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Temporal Trends in the Sit-ups Performance of 9,939,289 Children and Adolescents between 1964 and 2017.
• Biomechanics of Breast Support for Active Women.

Economics & Sociology

• The Consequences of Living in a Small-town Food Desert: Mixed Methods Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment.
• Exploring Dietary Behavior Differences Among Children By Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities and Severe Obesity—Sex Differences in a Nationwide Study of 1.12 Million Israeli Adolescents.

Epidemiology

• Ambient Air Pollution and Body Weight Status in Adults.
• Anaemia, Iron Deficiency, Iron-deficiency Anaemia and Their Associations with Obesity Among Schoolchildren in Guangzhou, China.
• Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Exercise-induced Bronchospasm in Asthmatic Adolescents.
• Obesity, Race, and Long-term Prostate Cancer Outcomes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Vicious Cycle of Stressors, Food Advertising and Overeating: How Stigmatizing Anti-obesity PSAs, Which Precede Food Commercials, Influence Subsequent Implicit ….
• Higher Risk of Dementia in English Older Individuals Who are Overweight or Obese.
• Mori Cortex Radicis Attenuates High Fat Diet-Induced Cognitive Impairment Via an IRS/Akt Signaling Pathway.

Equity and Disparities

• Using Geo-mapping Technology to Assess Obesity and Food Insecurity in Detroit.
• Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status and the Nutritional Status of Chinese Children and Adolescents: Findings From Three Consecutive National Surveys between 2005 and 2014.
• Defining Abdominal Obesity as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease in the U.S.: Results From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).

Stigma

• Weight Stigma as a Risk Factor for Suicidality.
• Perceived Overweight and Suicidality Among US Adolescents From 1999 to 2017.
• The Disparate Influence of Bullying on Student Wellbeing: Race, Weight, and Place.

Policy Related

• "'Nothing about us without us': Fat people speak."
• A Qualitative Study to Explore the Role of Pharmacists in Healthy Weight Management in Adults in Pakistan: Current Scenario and Future Perspectives.
• Simulations of Future Cardiometabolic Disease and Life Expectancy Under Counterfactual Obesity Reduction Scenarios.
• Gain Vs. Loss-framing for Reducing Sugar Consumption: Insights From a Choice Experiment with Six Product Categories.

Intergenerational Effects

• High Fat Diet Induced Obesity Increases Proportion of Linoleic Acyl Residues in Dam Serum and Milk and in Suckling Neonate Circulation.
• Maternal Exercise Attenuates the Lower Skeletal Muscle Glucose Uptake and Insulin Secretion Caused By Paternal Obesity in Female Adult Rat Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: Mealtime - a Circadian Disruptor and Determinant of Energy Balance?
• The Interactions of Diet-induced Obesity and Organophosphate Flame Retardant Exposure on Energy Homeostasis in Adult Male and Female Mice.

Methods

• Identifying Geographic Differences in Children's Sugar-sweetened Beverage and 100% Fruit Juice Intake Using Health System Data.
• Association of Body Surface Scanner-based Abdominal Volume with Parameters of the Metabolic Syndrome and Comparison with Manually Measured Waist Circumference.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Priority-setting for Obesity Prevention—The Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of Obesity Prevention Policies in Australia (ACE-Obesity Policy) Study.
• Development and Validation of Prediction Model for Risk Reduction of Metabolic Syndrome By Body Weight Control: A Prospective Population-based Study.

Commentary

• Healthy Meat? Researchers Reignite Debate.
• Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Children.
• Use of Oral Contraceptives May Reduce Sustained Efficacy of Weight-Loss Interventions.
• Can a Food’s Taste Help You Run Faster?
• More Than One Trick in Obesity Innovation.
• Dietary Guidelines 2020: Plenty of Heat, Less Light.
• Doctors Add Diabetes to the List of COVID-triggered Conditions.
• Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Metabolically Unhealthy Fat Distribution.

General

• Estimation of the Genome-Wide Mutation Rate and Spectrum in the Archaeal Species Haloferax Volcanii.
• RCT: How Social Instant Messaging Questions Affect Replies.
• Nearly 1 in 3 Young Men in the US Report Having No Sex, Study Finds.
• Estimation of Genomic Breed Composition for Purebred and Crossbred Animals Using Sparsely Regularized Admixture Models.
• Duration of Female Parental Care and Their Survival in the Little Auk Alle Alle - are These Two Traits Linked?
• A Unifying Framework for the Transient Parasite Dynamics of Migratory Hosts.
• Audio: David Watkins, Ph.D.: A Masterclass in Immunology, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Vaccine Strategies for COVID-19.
• Validation of Stable Isotope Analysis for Determining Dietary Proportions and Trophic Dynamics in Plains Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus Phasianellus Jamesi).

Video & Audio

• Virtual Event: Food for Thought 2020: The Science and Politics of Nutrition [June 29-30].
• Integrating Systems and Sectors Toward Obesity Solutions: Part 2.

Announcements

• IU Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on DACA Program.
• Request for Information (RFI): Enhancing Rigor, Transparency, and Translatability to Improve Biomedical Research Involving Animal Models.
• Nutrition 2020 Access for Non-members Until July 5, 2020.
• Dr. Arya Sharma's Free Mentorship Offer.
• Virtual Short Course: Food Science for the Non-Food Scientist.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• RCT: Forecasting Your Future: Nutrition Matters Curriculum with Teacher Training Promotes Students to Try New Fruits and Vegetables.
• Body Mass Estimation in Hominins from Humeral Articular Dimensions.
• Effects of Dietary Fatty Acids on the Social Life of Male Guinea Pigs from Adolescence to Adulthood.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: People Who Eat a Late Dinner May Gain Weight.
• Study: Randomized, Cross-over Study of Single Late or Regular Dinner Meal.
• Headline: Fecal Transplants Show Promise as Treatment for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Study: RCT: Fecal Transplant Did Not Improve Insulin Resistance (Primary Outcome) or Liver Fat (Secondary Outcome).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The implementation of a progressive resistance exercise program during work breaks for perceived fatigue control was no more effective than exercises using elastic bands."
• RCT: No Effect of Resveratrol Supplementation After 6 Months on Insulin Sensitivity in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Oxidative Stress Does Not Influence Weight Loss Induced By Aerobic Training in Adults.
• RCT: "a nutrient-rich, food-based supplement given to rural Vietnamese women from pre-conception to term or mid-gestation to term did not affect maternal or infant outcomes."
• Caloric Restriction Does Not Protect Against the Development of Vascular Calcification. (pdf)
• RCT: "a five-year, low-intensive, family-based, multicomponent obesity intervention was not more effective than routine health care in either promoting behaviours or preventing obesity among children with overweight and obese parents."
• Meta-Analysis: "There is a lack of convincing evidence to suggest that true inter-individual response differences exist with respect to aerobic exercise training and changes in fat mass and percent body fat in overweight and obese children and adolescents."
• "This study found no significant effect of chronic high sucrose diet on inducing overeating, obesity and impaired glucose metabolism compared with low sucrose diet [in mice]."

Basic

• The Effects of Oxytocin to Rectify Metabolic Dysfunction in Obese Mice are Associated with Increased Thermogenesis.
• Leptin Improves Intestinal Flora Dysfunction in Mice with High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Obesity Induces Preadipocyte CD36 Expression Promoting Inflammation Via the Disruption of Lysosomal Calcium Homeostasis and Lysosome Function.
• High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity and Age Influence the Telomere Shelterin Complex and Telomerase Gene Expression in Mouse Adipose Tissue.
• Adrenergic-Independent Signaling Via CHRNA2 Regulates Beige Fat Activation.
• BAM15-mediated Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protects Against Obesity and Improves Glycemic Control.
• Exome Sequencing Identifies Genes and Gene Sets Contributing to Severe Childhood Obesity, Linking PHIP Variants to Repressed POMC Transcription.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Sleep, Obesity, and Injury Among US Male Career Firefighters.
• Letter: Sleep, Obesity, and Injury Among Male Firefighters.
• Reply: Response to Letter to the Editor on Sleep, Obesity, and Injury Among US Male Career Firefighters.
• Improving Scientific Rigour in Conservation Evaluations and a Plea Deal for Transparency on Potential Biases.
• Correlation, Causality, Breastfeeding, and Obesity.
• Adjusting Waist Circumference for Stature: Perspective on Ashwell and Gibson Comments.
• PubPeer Comment On: Healthy Food Procurement Policies and Their Impact.
• Red Meat Intake and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk: An Assessment of Causality Using the Bradford Hill Criteria.

Clinical

• RCT: Effect of Exercise Training on Insulin Sensitivity, Hyperinsulinemia and Ectopic Fat in Black South African Women.
• Accuracy of Different Indexes of Body Composition and Adiposity in Identifying Metabolic Syndrome in Adult Subjects with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
• RCT: Metabolic Effects of Late Dinner in Healthy Volunteers.
• RCT:: Effects of a Novel Combination of Orlistat and Acarbose on Tolerability, Appetite, and Glucose Metabolism in Persons with Obesity.
• Correlation of Plasma Metabolites with Glucose and Lipid Fluxes in Human Insulin Resistance.
• Systematic Review: The Biology of Human Overfeeding.
• Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Metabolically Unhealthy Fat Distribution.

Children and Adolescents

• Executive Function Phenotypes in Pediatric Obesity.
• A Review of the Short- and Long-term Impact of Weight Loss on Appetite in Youth: What Do We Know and Where to From Here?
• Childhood Obesity and Cancer Risk in Adulthood.
• Medications for the Treatment of Obesity in Adolescents.
• Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Lifestyle Behaviors in Children with Obesity Living in Verona, Italy: A Longitudinal Study.
• Exclusive Breastfeeding Can Attenuate Body-mass-index Increase Among Genetically Susceptible Children: A Longitudinal Study From the ALSPAC Cohort.

Surgery

• Family Meal Practices and Weight Talk between Adult Weight Management and Weight Loss Surgery Patients and Their Children.
• RCT: The Protective Effects of Butorphanol on Pulmonary Function of Patients with Obesity Undergoing Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Risk of Fracture in Patients with Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• Systematic Review: Comparative Impact of Pharmacological Treatments for Gestational Diabetes on Neonatal Anthropometry Independent of Maternal Glycaemic Control.
• Anti-Obesity Drugs: Long-Term Efficacy and Safety: An Updated Review.
• Recent Updates on Obesity Treatments: Available Drugs and Future Directions.
• The Fight Against Obesity Escalates: New Drugs on the Horizon and Metabolic Implications.
• Semaglutide 2.4 Mg for the Treatment of Obesity: Key Elements of the STEP Trials 1 to 5.

Food & Diet

• Human Postprandial Responses to Food and Potential for Precision Nutrition.
• Protein-Rich Diets for Weight Loss Maintenance.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Green Coffee Extract Supplementation on Anthropometric Measures in Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Restriction of Essential Amino Acids Dictates the Systemic Metabolic Response to Dietary Protein Dilution.
• Autologous Fecal Transplantation From a Lean State Potentiates Caloric Restriction Effects on Body Weight and Adiposity in Obese Mice.
• Determining the Fasting Length in Time-Restricted Feeding: Analysis of Endocrine Function Among Young, Healthy, Normal Weight, European Men.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Examining the Effectiveness of Ankle Prophylaxes on Reducing Lateral Ankle Sprain Mechanics Following Exercise.
• RCT: Effect of High-intensity Interval Training in Young Heart Transplant Recipients.
• Train Like an Athlete: Applying Exercise Interventions to Manage Type 2 Diabetes.
• High Self-efficacy – a Predictor of Reduced Pain and Higher Levels of Physical Activity Among Patients with Osteoarthritis: An Observational Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Association of Overweight, Obesity and Abdominal Obesity with Socioeconomic Status and Educational Level in Colombia.
• Neighbourhood Property Value and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Maastricht Study: A Multilevel Study.
• Clustering of Sedentary Behaviours, Physical Activity, and Energy-Dense Food Intake in Six-Year-Old Children: Associations with Family Socioeconomic Status.
• Using Concept Mapping Within a Community–Academic Partnership to Examine Obesity Among Mexican Immigrants.

Epidemiology

• Body Weight Status of Children Aged 7 to 9 in France Since 2000: Evolution and Associated Factors.
• Comparing the Predictive Ability of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System with the BMI for Use of Health Services and Pharmacotherapies in Australian Adults: A Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Study.
• Causal Association of Haptoglobin with Obesity in Mexican Children: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Obesity and the Risk of Incident Chronic Opioid Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
• Pre-pregnancy Maternal Obesity, Macrosomia, and Risk of Stillbirth: A Population-based Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Discrete Neuronal Circuit Induces a Hibernation-like State in Rodents.
• How Is Intuitive Eating Related to Self-reported and Laboratory Food Intake in Middle-aged Adults?
• RCT: Diet Adherence and Food Purchases After Week-long Episodic Future Thinking Intervention.
• Dietary Sugar Inhibits Satiation By Decreasing the Central Processing of Sweet Taste.
• Insights to the Neural Response to Food Cues in Class III Compared with Class I and II Obese Adults Using a Sample of Endometrial Cancer Survivors Seeking Weight Loss.
• Comorbid Obesity and Depressive Symptoms in Childhood Asthma: A Harmful Synergy.

Equity and Disparities

• Attention Span, Health Disparities, and Obesity.
• Response Heterogeneity to Lifestyle Intervention in Latino Adolescents with Obesity.
• Optimising Preschool Obesity Intervention: The Whānau Pakari Preschool Project.

Stigma

• Self-compassion and Body Checking Among Women: The Mediating Role of Stigmatizing Self-perceptions.
• Internalized Weight Stigma and the Progression of Food Addiction over Time.
• The Role of Psychological Attribution in Responses to Weight Stigma.
• Experiences of Weight Stigma in Everyday Life: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Policy Related

• Use of the GRADE Approach in Health Policymaking and Evaluation: A Scoping Review of Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies.
• Comment: It Is Time for a Universal Nutrition Policy in Very Preterm Neonates During the Neonatal Period?
• Reply: "It is Time for a Universal Nutrition Policy in Very Preterm Neonates during the Neonatal Period?"
• Prevalence of Current School-level Nutrition Policies and Practices of Secondary Schools in NSW, Australia.

Intergenerational Effects

• Grand-Maternal Lifestyle During Pregnancy and Anthropometric Characteristics in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: An Intergenerational Cohort Study.
• Intakes of Major Types of Fat Before Pregnancy and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.
• The Influence of Parents on Childhood Weight Status: Relation with Eating Behaviour.
• Fetal–Maternal Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors: Correlation with Diet Intake and Pregnancy Outcomes.
• Maternal BMI and Risks of Neonatal Mortality and Offspring Overweight and Obesity: Findings From 0.5 Million Samples in 61 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Effects of Oxytocin to Rectify Metabolic Dysfunction in Obese Mice are Associated with Increased Thermogenesis.
• Mitochondrial Performance of a Continually Growing Marine Bivalve, Mytilus Edulis Linnaeus, Depends on the Body Size.

Methods

• Preprint: Non-parametric Causal Effects Based on Longitudinal Modified Treatment Policies.
• Electrical Impedance Tomography-Based Abdominal Subcutaneous Fat Estimation Method Using Deep Learning.

Commentary

• Transparency Helps Maintain Scientific Integrity of Clinical Trials.
• What Do We Know About Diet and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease?
• Remdesivir in the Plague Year: “Observations of the Most Remarkable Occurrences”.
• Challenges and Insights Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic Nutrition, the Immune System and Disease Risk.
• Sex Differences in Disease Activity and Efficacy of Treatment in Spondyloarthritis: Is Body Composition the Cause?
• 'Fat Burning' Molecule Has Implications for Treatment of Obesity.
• Study Shows Lean Beef Does Not Adversely Affect Diabetes and Heart Health.
• The Moral Determinants of Health.

General

• Age of the Breeders, but Not Territory Quality, Explains Hatching Sex Ratio in Booted Eagles.
• Determinants of Disparities in Covid-19 Job Losses.
• A Seasonal Shift in Offspring Sex Ratio of the Brood Parasitic Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus Ater).
• New Statistical Metrics for Multisite Replication Projects.
• Meta-Analysis: Physical Distancing, Face Masks, and Eye Protection to Prevent Person-to-person Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.
• RCT: Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results. (pdf)
• The Odd Case of Tobacco, Nicotine, and COVID-19.
• Let Game Theory Tell You When It’s Time to Go Shopping.

Announcements

• The National Institute on Aging (NIA): Strategic Directions for Research.
• IU Intramural Center Renamed for Trailblazing Basketball Star Bill Garrett.
• Department of Health and Wellness Design Becomes the Newest Academic Department in School.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• Revisiting Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Using Contemporary Measurements.
• Determining the Fasting Length in Time-Restricted Feeding: Analysis of Endocrine Function Among Young, Healthy, Normal Weight, European Men.
• GWAS for Lifespan and Decline in Climbing Ability in Flies upon Dietary Restriction Reveal Decima as a Mediator of Insulin-like Peptide Production.
• Ketogenic Diets Alter the Gut Microbiome Resulting in Decreased Intestinal Th17 Cells. (pdf)

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Genetic Interaction with Contraceptives Can Cause Weight Gain.
• Study: "An exploratory analysis" of the associations among genetic variants and weight change in a series of individuals receiving etonogestrel contraceptive implants, and no no-treatment control for interaction testing.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Abstract: "Contrary to our hypothesis, consuming 30 g of protein at breakfast, lunch, and dinner did not provide better protection against loss of fat-free mass during weight loss than consuming the majority of daily protein intake at a single meal."
• Dietary Gluten Does Not Increase Crohn’s, UC Among Women Without Celiac Disease.
• Single One-off Dose of Nigella Sativa Does Not Attenuate Indirect Markers of Exercise-induced Muscle Damage as a Model of Inflammation. (pdf)
• Postnatal Loss of the Insulin Receptor in Osteoprogenitor Cells Does Not Impart a Metabolic Phenotype.
• Obesity with High BMI Does Not Influence Sperm Retrieval in Males with Azoospermia.
• RCT [Abstract]: Adding Unprocessed Lean Red Meat to a Healthy Vegetarian Eating Pattern Does Not Impact Short-Term Improvements in Cardiometabolic Health in Young Adults.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, the nonsurgery group showed higher levels of hopelessness than the BS [bariatric surgery] group." (pdf)
• Abstract: No Effect of the Dietary Inflammatory Index on Psychological Health During Caloric Restriction: A Secondary Analysis of the CALERIE Trial Data.

Basic

• Wu-Mei-Wan Prevents High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity By Reducing White Adipose Tissue and Enhancing Brown Adipose Tissue Function.
• A Sympathetic Treatment for Obesity.
• Thermoneutral Conditions Correct the Obese Phenotype in Female, but Not Male, Kiss1r Knockout Mice.
• Type I Interferon Sensing Unlocks Dormant Adipocyte Inflammatory Potential.
• Chronically Elevating Circulating Ketones Can Reduce Cardiac Inflammation and Blunt the Development of Heart Failure.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Abstract: Traffic Light Diets Per Se Have Limited Evidence for Effectiveness on Childhood Obesity: A Review.
• Considerations for the Design and Conduct of Human Gut Microbiota Intervention Studies Relating to Foods.
• Using Financial Incentives to Promote Physical Activity in American Indian Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Comment: Corrected Analysis of ‘Using Financial Incentives to Promote Physical Activity in American Indian Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial’ Confirms Conclusions.

Clinical

• Differential Effects of 11 Years of Long-term Injectable Testosterone Undecanoate Therapy on Anthropometric and Metabolic Parameters in Hypogonadal Men with Normal Weight, Overweight and Obesity in Comparison with Untreated Controls: Real-world Data From a Controlled Registry Study.
• Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Glucose Control: Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data From People with Diabetes on Intensive Insulin Therapy.
• RCT: Effect of Resveratrol Supplementation After 6 Months on Metabolic Health in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Effect of High-Intensity Interval Training on Visceral and Liver Fat in Cardiac Rehabilitation.
• Relationship between Age and Weight Loss in Noom: Quasi-Experimental Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Daily Branched-Chain Amino Acid Intake and Risks of Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Latina Elementary School Girls’ Experiences in an Urban After-School Physical Education and Literacy Program.
• Meta-analysis: Cross-sectional studies of adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Obesity.
• Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity and Its Psychological and Health Comorbidities.
• Meta-analysis: Association between Breastfeeding and Early Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• RCT: Effect of Gastric Bypass vs Best Medical Treatment on Early-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery Significantly Improves Carotid and Cardiac Function in Apparently Healthy People with Morbid Obesity.
• Improvements in Heart Rate Variability in Women with Obesity: Short-term Effects of Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Semaglutide 2.4 Mg Demonstrates Superior and Sustained Weight Loss Versus Placebo and in Addition a 17.4% Weight Loss After 68 Weeks in STEP 4 Trial.
• The Association between Obesity and Poor Outcome After COVID-19 Indicates a Potential Therapeutic Role for Montelukast.
• Multi-drug Approaches to NASH: What's in the Development Pipeline?
• Topiramate and Phentermine.

Food & Diet

• Personalized Nutrition: Pretreatment Glucose Metabolism Determines Individual Long-term Weight Loss Responsiveness in Individuals with Obesity on Low-carbohydrate Versus Low-fat Diet.
• Effects of Royal Jelly and Tocotrienol Rich Fraction in Obesity Treatment of Calorie-Restricted Obese Rats: A Focus on White Fat Browning Properties and Thermogenic Capacity.
• RCT: The Effect of 12 Weeks of Equicaloric High Protein Diet in Regulating Appetite and Body Composition of Women with Normal Weight Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Association between Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and Calorie Restriction in Obese Females.
• 2 -Deoxy –D-glucose at Chronic Low Dose Acts as a Caloric Restriction Mimetic Through a Mitohormetic Induction of ROS in the Brain of Accelerated Senescence Model of Rat.
• Review: Unravelling the Health Effects of Fasting: A Long Road From Obesity Treatment to Healthy Life Span Increase and Improved Cognition.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise and Browning of White Adipose Tissue – a Translational Perspective.
• Diurnal Regulation of Peripheral Glucose Metabolism: Potential Effects of Exercise Timing.
• RCT: Effect of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Bodyweight and Glycaemia in Early Type 2 Diabetes.
• Early Life Stress Reduces Voluntary Exercise and Its Prevention of Diet-induced Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction in Mice.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations between Area Socioeconomic Status, Individual Mental Health, Physical Activity, Diet and Change in Cardiometabolic Risk Amongst a Cohort of Australian Adults.
• Tamil Traditions: Women Cooking and Eating for Heritage and Health in South India.
• Time-varying Effects of Screen Media Exposure in the Relationship between Socioeconomic Background and Childhood Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Correlates of Intentional Weight Loss Among American Adults.
• Concomitant Exposure to Area-level Poverty, Ambient Air Volatile Organic Compounds and Cardiometabolic Dysfunction: A Cross-sectional Study of US Adolescents.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Low Subjective Socioeconomic Status Alters Taste-based Perceptual Sensitivity to the Energy Density of Beverages.
• Hippocampal Neural Cell Degeneration and Memory Deficit in High-fat Diet-induced Postnatal Obese Rats– Exploring the Comparable Benefits of Choline and DHA or Environmental Enrichment.
• Abnormal Regional Neural Activity and Reorganized Neural Network in Obesity: Evidence From Resting-State FMRI.

Equity and Disparities

• The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity.
• Examining the Impact of Urban Neighborhood Disparities on the Treatment of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity Using Mixture Modelling.
• Obesity in Total Hip Arthroplasty: Demographic Disparities and Outcome Incongruities.
• Mortgage Possessions, Spatial Inequality, and Obesity in Large US Metropolitan Areas.

Stigma

• Geographic and Longitudinal Trends in Media Framing of Obesity in the United States.
• The Association between Body Appreciation and BMI Among Males and Females.

Policy Related

• A Comparison of Strategies to Improve Population Diets: Government Policy Versus Education and Advice.
• Public Acceptability of a Sugar-sweetened Beverage Tax and Its Associated Factors in the Netherlands. (pdf)
• Double-duty Actions: Seizing Programme and Policy Opportunities to Address Malnutrition in All Its Forms.
• Reframing Childhood Obesity: The Role of Local Communities in Change Implementation Failure.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prenatal Epigenetics Diets Play Protective Roles Against Environmental Pollution.
• Associations between Bottle-Feeding During Infancy and Obesity at Age 6 Years are Mediated By Greater Infancy Weight Gain.
• Maternal Factors Associated with Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes: A Brazilian Reference Center Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Metabolic Response to an Immune Challenge in a Viviparous Snake, Sistrurus Miliarius.
• Review: The Physiological Role of Ghrelin in the Regulation of Energy and Glucose Homeostasis.

Methods

• Construction and Use of Body Weight Measures From Administrative Data in a Large National Health System: A Systematic Review.
• Report of a Member-led Meeting: How Stable Isotope Techniques Can Enhance Human Nutrition Research.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Testing the Nutritional Relevance of Food-based Dietary Guidelines with Mathematical Optimisation of Individual Diets.
• Using a System Dynamics Model to Study the Obesity Transition by Socioeconomic Status in Colombia at the Country, Regional and Department Levels.

Commentary

• Weight Regain After Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery: A Wake-Up Call.
• Bariatric Surgery in Teens: 7 Things Every PCP Should Know.
• The Role of Brown Adipose Tissue and the Thermogenic Adipocytes in Glucose Metabolism: Recent Advances and Open Questions.
• A Guide to Being the Elephant in the Room : A Study on the Residual Behaviours Stemming From Bodyweight Stigma.
• Does Walking 1 Hour Every Day Aid Weight Loss?
• A Dichotomy of Extremes on Obesity: Bigotry and Denial.
• PTEN: A Thrifty Gene That Causes Disease in Times of Plenty?
• The Debate on Saturated Fat: Great or Tiresome?
• Fat: Death in the Time of COVID-19.
• Exercise May Not Boost Weight Loss Compared with Diet Alone.

General

• The Raging Cytokine Storm.
• A 10-year Follow-up Study of Sex Inclusion in the Biological Sciences.
• “Forever Young ”—Postnatal Growth Inhibition of the Turbinal Skeleton in Brachycephalic Dog Breeds (Canis Lupus Familiaris).
• Cytogenetic Mechanisms of Unisexuality in Rock Lizards.
• Enhanced Self-compassion in Female Martial Arts Athletes.
• Self-compassion, Social Rank, and Psychological Distress in Athletes of Varying Competitive Levels.
• Spatial Variation in Diet-microbe Associations Across Populations of a Generalist North American Carnivore.
• Maternal Microchimerism Protects Hemophilia a Patients From Inhibitor Development.
• The Lancet Has Made One of the Biggest Retractions in Modern History. How Could This Happen?
• Mice on Acid: To Get a Legal Hallucinogen to Market, Rodents Need to Take the First Trip.

Video & Audio

• PODCAST: #114 – Eileen White, Ph.D.: Autophagy, Fasting, and Promising New Cancer Therapies.
• Webinar: Calories, Carbs, or Quality? What Matters Most for Body Weight [June 24th].
• Webinar: Utilizing Stable Isotope Tracers in Preclinical Models of Obesity [June 17].
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• Identification of ALK in Thinness.
• RCT: High-intensity Training in Normobaric Hypoxia Enhances Exercise Performance and Aerobic Capacity in Thoroughbred Horses.
• The Effects of Carbohydrate-Restricted Dietary Patterns and Physical Activity on Body Weight and Glycemic Control.

Headline vs Study

• Press release: COVID-19 Lockdowns Worsen Childhood Obesity.
• Study: Differences in Lifestyle Behaviors in Children with Obesity the Year Prior to and Three Weeks Into National Lockdown. Changes in Childhood Obesity Not Measured; Cause Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Preoperative Carbohydrate Drinks Do Not Decrease Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty.
• Dairy Intake Is Not Associated with Improvements in Bone Mineral Density or Risk of Fractures Across the Menopause Transition: Data From the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
• Intermittent Fasting Does Not Uniformly Impact Genes Involved in Circadian Regulation in Women with Obesity.
• RCT: No Differential Effect of Intermittent and Traditional Physical Fitness-based Teaching Units on Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Physical Activity Levels in High School Students During Physical Education Sessions.
• "This review revealed non-significant association between wheat germ interventions and metabolic markers."
• "...our findings indicate that there is little robust evidence that reducing meal frequency is beneficial."
• RCT: "We found no evidence that changes in feeding practices or changes in child food habits mediated child weight loss."
• RCT: Dietary Protein Intake Does Not Modulate Daily Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis Rates or Loss of Muscle Mass and Function During Short-term Immobilization in Young Men.

Basic

• Bilirubin Remodels Murine White Adipose Tissue By Reshaping Mitochondrial Activity and the Coregulator Profile of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α.
• Truncation of Pik3r1 Causes Severe Insulin Resistance Uncoupled From Obesity and Dyslipidemia By Increased Energy Expenditure.
• GLP-1 Receptor Signaling in Astrocytes Regulates Fatty Acid Oxidation, Mitochondrial Integrity, and Function.
• Chatuphalatika, a Thai Herbal Formula, Ameliorate Obesity and Dyslipidemia in High-fat Diet Fed Mice.
• Effects of Piperine on Lipid Metabolism in High-fat Diet Induced Obese Mice.
• Administration of Exogenous Melatonin Improves the Diurnal Rhythms of the Gut Microbiota in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Prolonged Bisphenol-A Exposure Decreases Endocrine Pancreatic Proliferation in Response to Obesogenic Diet in Ovariectomized Mice.
• Deletion of H-ferritin in Macrophages Alleviates Obesity and Diabetes Induced By High-Fat Diet in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Videos: Statistical Topics for Reproducible Animal Research.
• Transparent Reporting of Multivariable Prediction Models in Journal and Conference Abstracts: TRIPOD for Abstracts.
• Editorial: Correcting Measurement Error in Dietary Exposure Assessments: No Piece of Cake.
• Letter to the Editor From Melanson et al (second Letter): Twice as High Diet-Induced Thermogenesis After Breakfast vs Dinner on High-Calorie as Well as Low-Calorie Meals.

Clinical

• Energy Requirement Is Higher During Weight-Loss Maintenance in Adults Consuming a Low- Compared with High-Carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: Effect of Lean Red Meat Combined with a Multicomponent Exercise Program on Muscle and Cognitive Function in Older Adults.
• Managing Excessive Weight Gain in Children Less Than 2 Years of Age: Interviews with Primary Care Providers.

Children and Adolescents

• Household Food Insecurity: Associations with Disordered Eating Behaviours and Overweight in a Population-based Sample of Adolescents.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Access to Bike Lanes and Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Non-alcoholic Liver Disease and Childhood Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: The Effects of Physical Activity and Diet Interventions on BMI in Latin American Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Is Routine Preoperative Esophagogastroduodenoscopy Prior to Bariatric Surgery Mandatory?
• A Structured Approach for Safely Reintroducing Bariatric Surgery in a COVID-19 Environment.
• Elastic Fibers Density: A New Parameter of Improvement of NAFLD in Bariatric Surgery Patients.

Drugs

• What We Know and What We Need to Know About Adenovirus 36-induced Obesity.
• Phytocannabinoids: Useful Drugs for the Treatment of Obesity? Special Focus on Cannabidiol.
• Statin Use Is Associated with Insulin Resistance in Participants of the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study.

Food & Diet

• Longevity-promoting Efficacies of Rutin in High Fat Diet Fed Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Systematic Review: Yogurt, Cultured Fermented Milk, and Health: A Systematic Review.
• Systematic Review: Effects of Total Fat Intake on Body Fatness in Adults.
• RCT: Very-Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diets with Whey, Vegetable or Animal Protein in Patients with Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Regulation of Energy Intake and Mechanisms of Metabolic Adaptation or Maladaptation After Caloric Restriction.
• Caloric Restriction, Resting Metabolic Rate and Cognitive Performance in Non-obese Adults: A Post-hoc Analysis From CALERIE Study.
• Functional Changes Induced By Caloric Restriction in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria.
• Editorial: Intermittent Fasting - the New Lifestyle?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Examining Mediators of Intervention Efficacy in a Randomised Controlled M-health Trial to Improve Physical Activity and Sleep Health in Adults.
• Association between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Social Cognition in Healthy Adults.
• Incorporating Behavior Change Strategies Into an Exercise Trial to Improve Physical Activity Maintenance Among Adults at High Risk for Type II Diabetes.
• What Motivates Nurses to Exercise? Determinants of Physical Activity Among Canadian Nurses Using Self-Determination Theory.

Economics & Sociology

• The Impact of Socioeconomic Position on Non-communicable Diseases: What Do We Know About?
• Flavonoid Intakes in the US Diet are Linked to Higher Socioeconomic Status and to Tea Consumption: Analyses of NHANES 2011–16 Data.
• Meta-analysis: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Obesity.
• Associations between the Neighbourhood Characteristics and BMI, Waist Circumference, and Waist-to-hip Ratio: Findings From Alberta's Tomorrow Project.

Epidemiology

• Obesity and Its Implications for COVID-19 Mortality.
• Associations between Essential Metals Exposure and Metabolic Syndrome (MetS).
• Neighborhood Deprivation Predicts Diet Quality at One Year of Age.
• Can Anthropometry and Physical Fitness Testing Explain Physical Activity Levels in Children and Adolescents with Obesity? (pdf)
• Neighborhood Environmental Factors Associated with Leisure Walking in Adolescents.
• Prevalence of Obesity Among Adult Inpatients with COVID-19 in France.
• Phenotypic Characteristics and Prognosis of Inpatients with COVID-19 and Diabetes: The CORONADO Study.
• Body Weight Variability Increases Dementia Risk Among Older Adults: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Beyond the Average: The Role of Variable Reward Sensitivity in Eating Disorders.
• Brain Structural Abnormalities in Obesity: Relation to Age, Genetic Risk, and Common Psychiatric Disorders: Evidence Through Univariate and Multivariate Mega-analysis Including 6420 Participants From the ENIGMA MDD Working Group.
• Minimum Reporting Guidelines and the Role of Causal Inference in Functional Neuroimaging for Obesity Research.
• Decreased Inhibitory Control After Partial Sleep Deprivation in Individuals Reporting Binge Eating: Preliminary Findings.
• Brain Structural Abnormalities in Obesity: Relation to Age, Genetic Risk, and Common Psychiatric Disorders.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in the Nutritional Status of Children (0–23 Months) in Kenya.
• Emotional Eating Partially Mediates the Relationship between Food Insecurity and Obesity in Latina Women Residing in the Northeast U.S.

Stigma

• Towards a Sociocultural Model of Weight Stigma.
• Exposure to Written Content Eliciting Weight Stigmatization.
• Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Healthy Lifestyles and Weight Loss Among Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• The Impact of Obesity in Rehabilitation: A Mismatch between Staff Perception and Hospital Outcomes.
• Review: Physical Activity Based Pediatric Obesity Treatment, Depression, Self-esteem and Body Image.
• Weight Discrimination, Psychological Health Risk, and Academic Impairment in Sexual Minority College Students.

Policy Related

• Understanding Policy Change for Obesity Prevention: Learning From Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Taxes in Mexico and Chile.
• Effects of Menu Labeling Policies on Transnational Restaurant Chains to Promote a Healthy Diet: A Scoping Review to Inform Policy and Research.
• Obesity, Cardiovascular Risk and Healthcare Resource Utilization in the UK.
• Food Insecurity and Dietary Quality in Older Adults: Do Nutrition Assistance Programs Play a Protective Role?
• Do Sugary Drink Policies Increase Purchases of Non-Calorically Sweetened Beverages? Evidence From Chile.
• Dietary Policies and Programs in the United States: A Narrative Review.
• Systematic Review: Fruit and Vegetable Purchases and Consumption Among WIC Participants After the 2009 WIC Food Package Revision.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Policies in the Broader Legal Context: Health and Safety Warning Laws and the First Amendment.

Intergenerational Effects

• Identifying Mediators Underlying the Intergenerational Cycle of Obesity: A Causal Mediation Analysis.
• A Prospective Study of Relations Among Infant, Maternal, and Paternal Adiposity Indicators.
• Examining Pathways Underlying the Association between Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Infant Weight Outcomes.
• Differential Effects of Post-Weaning Diet and Maternal Obesity on Mouse Liver and Brain Metabolomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Limits of the Energetical Perspective: Life-history Decisions in Lizard Growth. (pdf)
• Metabolism and Growth Adaptation to Environmental Conditions in Drosophila. (pdf)
• Effects of Membrane Fatty Acid Composition on Cellular Metabolism and Oxidative Stress in Dermal Fibroblasts From Small and Large Breed Dogs.

Methods

• RCT: The Validity, Time Burden, and User Satisfaction of the Food Image Smartphone App for Food Waste Measurement Versus Diaries.
• "the population size from which an adequate sample would need to be drawn to identify walnut intake as a significant predictor of cognitive decline would exceed the number of adults age 65 and older currently living in the US. "
• Potential Markers of Dietary Glycemic Exposures for Sustained Dietary Interventions in Populations Without Diabetes.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Organ Size Increases with Obesity and Correlates with Cancer Risk. (pdf)
• Abstract: What Proportion of Planned Missing Data Is Allowed for Unbiased Estimates of the Association between Energy Intake and Body Weight Using Multiple Imputation?

Commentary

• Is Obesity a Disease?—the Evolving Concepts, Cancer Paradox and Association with Improved Cancer Immunotherapy Efficacy.
• Is Sarcopenic Obesity Superior to Sarcopenia as a Predicting Indicator in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following Hepatic Resection?
• Commentary on the Impact of Obesity and Puberty on Insulin Sensitivity.
• Where Do Obesity and Racism Really Collide?
• Why Two Pandemics are Better Than One: The COVID19 Opportunity.
• Really? Low-Carb Fights the Pandemic?
• Medicine Is Failing Patients with Obesity.
• A Low-Carb Strategy for Fighting the Pandemic’s Toll.

General

• A Scaling Law of Multilevel Selection on a Continuous Trait. (pdf)
• A Male-biased Sex-distorter Gene Drive for the Human Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae.
• The Promises and the Challenges of Integrating Multi-omics and Systems Biology in Comparative Stress Biology.
• Some Aphid Babies are Born Already Pregnant.
• Volatile Fatty Acid and Aldehyde Abundances Evolve with Behavior and Habitat Temperature in Sceloporus Lizards.
• Ticks Pose Risks to Americans Flocking Outdoors During Pandemic.
• Audio: Forrest Elephant Research in Central Africa W/Dr Daniella Chusyd.
• Impacts of State Reopening Policy on Human Mobility.
• US Astronauts Disembark SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Board the International Space Station.
• The Current State of Food Insecurity in America.

Video & Audio

• Video: The GateKeeper, the GoGetter, and the Sleepy Executive.

Announcements

• Drain Pirate Ships of the Caribbean - World Premiere National Geographic Channel US Featuring IU's Charlie Beeker.
• Clearinghouse for Training Modules to Enhance Data Reproducibility.
• Indiana University Ranked in Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2019. (pdf)
• NSF Awards Indiana University $10M to Build ‘Jetstream 2’ Cloud Computing System.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.