Colby Vorland
@nutsci
Assistant Research Scientist at @IUSPH. Meta-science, nutrition, obesity, and aging. Made @LazyScholarExt @ http://colbyvorland.bsky.social
"The administration has terminated more than 80% of USAID grants. "A BU global health professor estimated these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children. "That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished." nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opi…
After a couple years of tons of work.. very excited to see that the pre-order for the 5th edition of Biochemical, Physiological and Molecular Aspects of Human Nutrition is live! This 5th Edition has a ton of updates in terms of both content and figures and I think continues to…
Rules for thee but not for me
"You’ve got to stay healthy, as well. Be vital. Do the most you can do to really live up to … your God-given potential to live a full and healthy life. Don’t eat carrot cake.” 🔗 rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
The PRC program is now online! Using #GPT to Identify Changes in RCT Outcomes Registered on ClinicalTrials.gov from @iSchoolUI @nutsci is part of Day 3’s 'Use of #AI to Assess Quality & Reporting’ session Register at peerreviewcongress.org! @METRICStanford @bmj_latest
Thanks to all the organizations of the past that chose to be silent about Dr. Oz and pseudoscience, he is now facilitating the loss of healthcare coverage to millions of people
"Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase [US CO2] emissions, and the warming of the climate they are driving, for decades to come." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
A brief guide to statistical analysis of grouped data in preclinical research rdcu.be/er3HG
I'm pleased to announce the publication of two important papers in Sports Medicine on the first every large replication project in sport and exercise science. Read the full papers: link.springer.com/article/10.100… link.springer.com/article/10.100…
I'd love to hear what @drjohnm and @adamcifu feel about this. Single-case, anecdotal evidence can be “causal until proven otherwise,” Makary said. h/t @gorskon cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/…
I'd love to hear what @drjohnm and @adamcifu feel about this. Single-case, anecdotal evidence can be “causal until proven otherwise,” Makary said. h/t @gorskon cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/…
Our latest: Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… #badscience #papermills #opendata
Another day of freely reviewing for a journal whose publisher's profit margin was 23% last year and getting a PDF without even any line numbers after resetting my password twice to get in.😑
The SPIRIT 2025 statement provides guidance on items to address in trial protocols, reflecting methodological advances and feedback from users bmj.com/content/389/bm…
We desperately need regulation of this stuff
Two teenagers built a nutrition app using just a camera. No funding. No team. No ads. 12 months later? $8M in ARR. Just snap a meal photo—get calories, macros, and portions. No barcodes. No logging. This is how Cal AI quietly took over food tracking.
New research on the potential impact of the US government foreign aid freeze. Ending foreign health aid will cause an estimated ~25M deaths over 15 years, mostly from AIDS and maternal/child health problems.
In major announcement yesterday, RFK Jr and his allies said they had an "understanding" with the food industry to phase out artificial food dyes. But @wkubz @rachelcohrs report that there's no agreement with the food industry to do so. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Join us this summer for "Statistical Methods, Developments, and Challenges in Geroscience": training.publichealth.indiana.edu/campaign/geros… scholarships available to support attendance!
WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr. "What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?" youtu.be/CyoW6kFCSWk
Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. Watch the full video here: tinyurl.com/4fhc6k2c