Corruption, graft and NIH grants drugmonkey.wordpress.com/202… via @drugmonkeyblog

Our Diabetes Day Symposium takes place on Thursday, November 5, and we’re pleased to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Randy J. Seeley of @umichmedicine! For information on poster presenting or our new Data Blitz Session, visit bit.ly/4iH1f6i.

0/3 3 Ks in his debut never been more obvious, this guy is such a bum.

Let’s reshare this moment. Let’s get the chills and eyes water up together! D-Will was really good at Basketballl. ILL #RealHooper

How would a cow even kill a shark?

Truly honored to receive the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Postdoctoral Fellowship for my research at @WashUDeptMed! Grateful for the incredible mentorship of @bnfinck. Thanks @AmDiabetesAssn for supporting my research!

A study to take to #heart This issue’s cover features work by Jiaxi Guo et al. on the protective role lipin1 plays in the heart following ischemic injury by preserving lipid homeostasis: doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.… The image shows neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (red) treated with stearic acid, lipid droplets (green), and nuclei (blue).

Happy to share our new paper in @Nature led by staff scientist Xuejing Liu @Jessielxj2. We report identification of a UCP1-independent pathway of brown fat thermogenesis involving ATP-consuming metabolism of BCFA in peroxisomes. #Obesity #T2D nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @WashUDeptMed

Breaking! The FDA has approved Wegovy #semaglutide to treat #MASH in adults with moderate-to-advanced fibrosis. fda.gov/drugs/news-events-hu…

Niemi lab grad student Hannah Pletcher recently joined @preLights and wrote up a nice highlight of recent work from @LucasBSullivan - check it out here! bit.ly/3Z0VeXo

Coolest part of this story is Yibin Wang and his group in Singapore have arrived at the same conclusion in parallel Independent co-discovery = reproducible science Stay tuned for the papers from both groups!

Abstract deadline for UMDF 2025 is TODAY! Submit your abstracts here: umdf.smapply.org/prog/2025po…

THE ENDING OF BULLS-LAKERS OMG 😱😱😱

Is it a bad sign if the weather is the most certain part of your agricultural future? Here's what Project 2025 has to say about agriculture. farmprogress.com/farm-policy…

I had to slow it down Poster it!!!!

Celebrating the memory of David Wasserman

It's a few days late for festivus, but one of my grievances is when people misuse "less" instead of "fewer" (fewer applies to anything you can count). Meanwhile, I cannot spell "restaurant" correctly without spellcheck.

Beyond ketosis: the search for the mechanism underlying SGLT2-inhibitor benefit continues: jci.org/articles/view/187097 Justin H. Berger and @bnfinck @washumedicine comment on Goedeke et al. (jci.org/articles/view/176708)

So incredibly happy to announce I have been awarded a 2-year Predoctoral Fellowship from the @AHAScience. Thank you to my amazing PI (@nieminm), co-mentor (@bnfinck), rec letter writers, and @The_DataDragon for all the support, feedback, and encouragement during this process.🫀🥳