Asher Rosinger
@asherrosinger.bsky.social
Human biologist | Associate professor @PennState Biobehavioral Health & Anthropology | Climate & health | If you like #water, you'll already like 62% of me | #UNC #UGA #CDCEIS Alum (he/him) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c89wo3AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University!
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke - HBES
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783 Position Description The Pontzer Lab in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University seeks two Postdoctoral Associates for research in h...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University!
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
I was on @npr.org's #Shortwave Science Podcast in which they discuss whether you really need sports drinks talking about #hydration, oral rehydration salts, and more! Check it out: www.npr.org/transcripts/...
In the quest to maximize hydration, do you really need extra electrolytes? : Short Wave
U.S. consumers spend more than $10 billion a year on sports drinks, according to Beverage Industry, a trade publication. And we can’t lie that sometimes a Gatorade or electrolyte tablet sounds really ...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I was on @npr.org's #Shortwave Science Podcast in which they discuss whether you really need sports drinks talking about #hydration, oral rehydration salts, and more! Check it out: www.npr.org/transcripts/...
In this new paper led by Amanda McGrosky, we demonstrate that #water needs are substantially higher among pastoralists living in a hot, semi-arid environment than worldwide water recommendations.
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High water turnover, hydration status, and heat stress among Daasanach pastoralists in a hot, semi-arid climate
AbstractBackground and objectives. Water is essential for proper physiological function. As temperatures increase, populations may struggle to meet water n
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September 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In this new paper led by Amanda McGrosky, we demonstrate that #water needs are substantially higher among pastoralists living in a hot, semi-arid environment than worldwide water recommendations.
academic.oup.com/emph/article...
academic.oup.com/emph/article...
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🎙️ JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: @ciddpsu.bsky.social Ctr for Infectious Disease Dynamics at PSU is searching for a Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling. This is a unique, cross-university search for someone to become a leader in our community!
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🎙️ JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: @ciddpsu.bsky.social Ctr for Infectious Disease Dynamics at PSU is searching for a Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling. This is a unique, cross-university search for someone to become a leader in our community!
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This is great. And it’s even more fun when that person is one of the best students you ever had the privilege to teach. Well done!
August 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is great. And it’s even more fun when that person is one of the best students you ever had the privilege to teach. Well done!
It was really fun getting texts and calls from old friends that they heard me on NPR this morning! Really enjoyed talking to NPR's @pien-huang.bsky.social about #water needs and #dehydration - have a listen! @psuanthro.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu
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What's the deal with electrolyte drinks — do you need them to stay hydrated?
Seems like nobody's drinking plain water these days. Electrolyte packets or colorful sports drinks are everywhere. But do you need them?
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August 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It was really fun getting texts and calls from old friends that they heard me on NPR this morning! Really enjoyed talking to NPR's @pien-huang.bsky.social about #water needs and #dehydration - have a listen! @psuanthro.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
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one of my favorite things about knowing so many amazing researchers is hearing them on @npr.org! I woke up to texts this morning from people saying they heard @asherrosinger.bsky.social talking about hydration!! www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
What's the deal with electrolyte drinks — do you need them to stay hydrated?
Seems like nobody's drinking plain water these days. Electrolyte packets or colorful sports drinks are everywhere. But do you need them?
www.npr.org
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
one of my favorite things about knowing so many amazing researchers is hearing them on @npr.org! I woke up to texts this morning from people saying they heard @asherrosinger.bsky.social talking about hydration!! www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
Excited to share our paper in the Aug issue of Hypertension! Shockingly no health standards exist for sodium & chloride in drinking water, only palatability standards. We show water NaCl is assoc w higher BP, hypertension & albuminuria w effects below palatability
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July 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Excited to share our paper in the Aug issue of Hypertension! Shockingly no health standards exist for sodium & chloride in drinking water, only palatability standards. We show water NaCl is assoc w higher BP, hypertension & albuminuria w effects below palatability
www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....
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All-star alert! Huge congratulations to @kellyrosinger.bsky.social and team on their Gates Foundation grant!
The College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative, with Associate Professor @kellyrosinger.bsky.social as a key partner, has secured a $560K grant to study the long-term impact of test-optional admissions on student success—aiming to inform more equitable policies. bit.ly/424Otob
Long-term impact of test-optional admissions focus of grant | Penn State University
Kelly Rosinger, associate professor of education and public policy in the Penn State College of Education, has received a $560,000 grant from the Gates Foundation to study the long-term effects of tes...
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May 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
All-star alert! Huge congratulations to @kellyrosinger.bsky.social and team on their Gates Foundation grant!
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New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
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Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
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April 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
On this #WorldWaterDay2025, I'm up in northern Kenya working to better understand how variation in drinking water salinity is affecting human health & potential interventions. This issue will be increasingly important as freshwater salinization affects more water supplies hhd.psu.edu/college-news...
Drinking water is getting saltier. How does that affect humans? | Penn State College of Health and Human Developmenthomecaret-downcaret-upcaret-downcaret-upcaret-downcaret-upsearchtimes-circleusersear...
In the United States and across the world, research shows that groundwater is becoming saltier. Higher levels of salts in water may be harmful to people, reducing kidney function and increasing blood ...
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March 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
On this #WorldWaterDay2025, I'm up in northern Kenya working to better understand how variation in drinking water salinity is affecting human health & potential interventions. This issue will be increasingly important as freshwater salinization affects more water supplies hhd.psu.edu/college-news...
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🌎HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY
Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability
This contribution to our latest Article Collection reports on hydration status & heat perception among children & adults in a semi-arid environment in relation to heat stress measures
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Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability
This contribution to our latest Article Collection reports on hydration status & heat perception among children & adults in a semi-arid environment in relation to heat stress measures
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ambient temperature and wet bulb globe temperature outperform heat index in predicting hydration status and heat perception in a semi-arid environment
Climate change is increasing temperatures, frequency of heatwaves, and erratic rainfall, which threatens human biology and health, particularly in already extreme environments. Therefore, it is imp...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🌎HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY
Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability
This contribution to our latest Article Collection reports on hydration status & heat perception among children & adults in a semi-arid environment in relation to heat stress measures
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability
This contribution to our latest Article Collection reports on hydration status & heat perception among children & adults in a semi-arid environment in relation to heat stress measures
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Salt intake is a key risk factor for hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Yet, drinking water is overlooked as a source of salt,” Rosinger explained. “This study will help us understand how much it matters when saltwater enters our drinking water”
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Drinking water is getting saltier. How does that affect humans?
In the United States and across the world, research shows that groundwater is becoming saltier. Higher levels of salts in water may be harmful to people...
smartwatermagazine.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“Salt intake is a key risk factor for hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Yet, drinking water is overlooked as a source of salt,” Rosinger explained. “This study will help us understand how much it matters when saltwater enters our drinking water”
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World. Story by @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link nyti.ms/41yWNgN
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article)
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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February 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World. Story by @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link nyti.ms/41yWNgN
Really important thread from one of the best program officers NSF had - if you are wondering about NSF read below
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Really important thread from one of the best program officers NSF had - if you are wondering about NSF read below
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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YIKES!!! The climate change and health initiative website at NIH is gone! All these websites from climateandhealth.nih.gov are down
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
YIKES!!! The climate change and health initiative website at NIH is gone! All these websites from climateandhealth.nih.gov are down
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
A bright spot - one of my mentored undergrads just had a first author paper published!! We evaluated how different #heatstress measures relate to #hydration status & #thermal #heat perception in a semi-arid environment.
tl/dr: Ambient temp & WBGT > heat index
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tl/dr: Ambient temp & WBGT > heat index
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February 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A bright spot - one of my mentored undergrads just had a first author paper published!! We evaluated how different #heatstress measures relate to #hydration status & #thermal #heat perception in a semi-arid environment.
tl/dr: Ambient temp & WBGT > heat index
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tl/dr: Ambient temp & WBGT > heat index
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
YIKES!!! The climate change and health initiative website at NIH is gone! All these websites from climateandhealth.nih.gov are down
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
YIKES!!! The climate change and health initiative website at NIH is gone! All these websites from climateandhealth.nih.gov are down
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
cc' @katharinehayhoe.com @cchyale.bsky.social @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social
The Epidemic Intelligence Service was incredibly formative for me & 2 of the best years of my career. This is such a travesty and utterly thoughtless. EIS is the best of the best. They are losing those who could go into medicine, industry, etc & instead choose to make less to serve public health
The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to emerging outbreaks.
February 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Epidemic Intelligence Service was incredibly formative for me & 2 of the best years of my career. This is such a travesty and utterly thoughtless. EIS is the best of the best. They are losing those who could go into medicine, industry, etc & instead choose to make less to serve public health
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The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to emerging outbreaks.
February 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to emerging outbreaks.
Apparently all institute directors are being asked to retire - this would set back NIH to the stone age
We are hearing that there is a meeting of all NIH IC directors happening now. We are also hearing, from several sources, rumors about director and assistant director level removals coming soon.
The impact of this wld be enormous.
IC directors have all grantmaking authority for each institute. 🧪
The impact of this wld be enormous.
IC directors have all grantmaking authority for each institute. 🧪
February 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Apparently all institute directors are being asked to retire - this would set back NIH to the stone age
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🌊 Proud to share our new paper showing how during a historic 2022 drought in n. Kenya chronic #stress (via nail cortisol) & high levels of #waterinsecurity were assoc. with ⬆️ levels of inflammation. Climate change negatively affects human health & biology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🌊 Proud to share our new paper showing how during a historic 2022 drought in n. Kenya chronic #stress (via nail cortisol) & high levels of #waterinsecurity were assoc. with ⬆️ levels of inflammation. Climate change negatively affects human health & biology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This headline literally reads like an @theonion.com post
This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...
Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says
Louisiana's Bill Cassidy said the state's maternal death rate isn't so high if you "correct our population for race," Politico reported.
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February 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This headline literally reads like an @theonion.com post
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...