Jesse Lunsford, PhD
jesselunsford.bsky.social
Jesse Lunsford, PhD
@jesselunsford.bsky.social
Nutrition. Public health, health justice, food access. Anti racist. Pro labor forever and always. Evidence based. #COYS
Just learned @carlbergstrom.com will be talking to a group I’m involved in as Graduate Director. Plenty of past Twitter interactions make me excited to hear from someone fighting similar fights.
October 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
ICE tried to stopped my student from getting a degree, but I just got out of a series of meetings that will allow them to complete it from Mexico while they wait for all the legal processes to occur. Creating an individualized degree for them.

This is my biggest win of this administration so far.
September 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A student of mine, here since toddler, and currently of legal status, was removed from the country for 10 years due to coming here illegally.

They were then told if they wrote a letter of of apology to homeland for coming here illegally they'd consider dropping it to 18 months.

Done in our names
August 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If you’ve ever been tempted to say “Hey, RFK Jr has a few good points” - just keep in mind, people who are not creepy eugenicist white supremacists also have those few good points, amplify them.
August 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
RFK Jr is an evil eugenicist. Don't ever let that be forgotten.
August 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The “Take things out of context to get people they disagree with in trouble at work” brigade has apparently made it here.
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
28 million a year for PBS Kids is just an insane return on investment.
May 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The “could have been” food budget increases by the passing hour.
We could have fed all the kids in this country with those sunken jets.
May 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
We could have fed all the kids in this country with those sunken jets.
May 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Imagine cheering for Partey.
May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
More succinct and better states than I've been.
It’s not a difference of opinion. It’s not a nuanced scientific debate.

What RFK Jr. is doing is ushering in the complete destruction of US public health infrastructure.
May 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My daughter said she had to paint my nails for champions league.
May 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I had to miss second half of Nuggets game, but a Westbrook assist to beat them in OKC is so incredible. Couldn’t have scripted it better.
May 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I personally know of 3 local research grants that are cut.

In-home mental health care being one of them, and I believe they were mid trial. Consider the ethics of in-home mental health care research being cut during a treatment. Doesn’t take much imagination to craft a disastrous scenario.
RFK Jr. went on Fox News and lied through his teeth.

He said they weren’t cutting critical research.

Terminated grants so far have included studies on cancer, Alzheimer’s, HIV, and tuberculosis.

Ohio researchers lost funding for kidney disease and TB projects.

This guy doesn’t care about health.
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I know I’m doing something right when someone gives me a call back to clarifying deportation vs rendition from earlier in the term.
May 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Who knew being born during COVID would end up also being the “last of the full childhood vaccination series” generations.
May 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
At this rate Kevin Bass has to be up for an executive branch position any day now.
May 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For the record, this is the exact opposite. You can see some mortality data that shows despite the structural obstacles people persisted better. Suggesting, Mexico was sending abled bodied healthy individuals (to work and send money home).

This also is supported by the workforce stats.
May 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Kermit Ruffins is a true goat. His Skokiaan is one of the finest pieces of music ever written.

My grandpa was a professional jazz bassist, I went to his shows a lot as a kid. Kermit remains among the greats.
Kermit Ruffins closing out Jazz Fest, “get up and dance — I want it to look like a Charlie Brown movie out there”
🧡 💛 ❤️ 🎶 Lovely Day 🎶
May 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Mikey Moore!!! #coys
May 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
All these teen boy talk brings me back to one major point-

If straight dudes cared more about what women like than what other men think women like, we'd be a lot better off.
May 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Major spring project trellis rebuild: complete
May 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Let's pretend this is only a fraction of what is really out there.

How much money is being spent on something both statistically and practically insignificant?
This is what WH put in their weekly newsletter today. No explanation, no details. Nothing.
May 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Woke up missing Pat Stay today.
May 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My kid rules. At home science just because she's curious.
May 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM