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Andrew Thorne-Lyman
@andrewtl.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @livablefuture and Center for Human Nutrition | Seafood and public health | Nutrition Epidemiology | Growing veggies | Pomona College '95, #1 Sagehen fan on Bluesky
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Bad crows, bad crows whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Opinion | Attack of the clever crows
What we can learn from the fish crows’ assault on our outdoor cushions.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Just created a starter pack to follow researchers and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future @livablefuture.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DKg6WCH
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Join The Culinary Institute of America's Menus of Change featuring @aspenfood.bsky.social Food Leaders Fellows:

Anne McBride (The James Beard Foundation)
Tariq Sheriff (DC food policy innovator)
Rebecca Chesney (regenerative food systems expert)

Watch: menusofchange.org/webcast
#MenusOfChange
Webcast — Menus of Change
Find videos of Menus of Change sessions and seminars.
menusofchange.org
June 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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CLF will watch closely to see what the #MAHA Commission includes in their first report. Here’s what we will look for when the 2025-2030 dietary guidelines are released. clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/d... #PublicHealth
May 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Just created a starter pack to follow researchers and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future @livablefuture.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DKg6WCH
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Every food (and food trend) has a story. I went looking for pistachio’s, with @tomphilpott.bsky.social @grocerynerd.bsky.social and baker Lena Derisavifard as my guides
On our new podcast episode, we explore a small but mighty food that seems to be everywhere lately — pistachios. How did pistachios — once mostly eaten by Middle Eastern Americans but stuck on the sidelines with everyone else — hit the mainstream? Listen to the episode: foodprint.org/what-youre-e...
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Curious about pistachios and their environmental footprint? Please join this discussion at noon with my friend and colleague @tomphilpott.bsky.social from @livablefuture.bsky.social and bring all your burning questions about pistachios!
Happening in 2 hours!
Our next podcast episode is about the latest pistachio craze (out 4/1!), so we’re hosting a live Q&A with episode guest @tomphilpott.bsky.social, next Thursday at 12pm ET. Submit your questions about the environmental impact of pistachios by replying 👇 and Tom will answer them next week in our feed!
April 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web buff.ly/ezNO1AW 🦑🌎🧪
Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web
Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I'll be participating in a webinar about balanced energy protein supplementation in pregnancy tomorrow organized by
@edesianutrition.bsky.social
Please join us!

📅 13th February
⏰ 9:00–10:15 AM EST
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/euC3ibv8
February 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy World Pulses Day everyone! Work some beans into your diets today!
We are excited to celebrate #WorldPulsesDay with @meatlessmonday.bsky.social !CLF's Daphene Altema-Johnson tells us about her favorite bean and why you should consume more beans. #CLFExpert
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Please follow @soiltosociety.bsky.social, a project bringing together nutritionists, crop and soil scientists, food scientists, economists and other discipines to create more nutritious, affordable and accessible whole-grain based foods. www.soiltosociety.org
Soil to Society: Optimizing Health and Nutrition
The Soil to Society (S2S) project is in funded through the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's (AFRI) Sustainable Agriculture Systems (SAS) program. This 5-year, $10 million project emp...
www.soiltosociety.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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“While our system is stunningly efficient at producing cheap milk, meat and eggs, it also has a well-documented relationship to serious public & planetary health issues." - @keevenachman.bsky.social #CLFExpert clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/s...
Sorry, but we need a transformation of agriculture
CLF researchers push back on a guest essay by Michael Grunwald.
clf.jhsph.edu
January 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Nice to see coverage of the dietary guidelines committee's great work. The big question now is how to get Americans to eat more whole grains and beans. We'll be publishing a lot of papers on that in 2025 stay tuned... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
U.S. dietary guidelines should emphasize beans and lentils as protein, new proposal says
The report, from an advisory committee to the USDA, also suggests encouraging people to reduce their intake of sugary drinks and sodium and eat more whole grains.
www.nbcnews.com
December 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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#nutrition nerds 🤓 ‼️

The scientific report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is live (this is the scientific report used to craft the Dietary Guidelines for Americans)

Big focus this edition on chronic disease & life-stage specific recs, with a health equity lens

DietaryGuidelines.gov
December 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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This was a fascinating meeting on UPF policies and I was happy to present some preliminary results of our ongoing RCT on mechanisms by which diets high in UPFs cause excess energy intake. Here’s a brief summary 🧵
I've arrived in London and I'm looking forward to this meeting tomorrow @imperialcollege on ultra-processed foods! I'll be presenting preliminary data on the mechanisms that diets high in UPFs can cause excess calorie intake and weight gain, Register here: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18424...
Ultra-processed food: the scope for Government action
Join us for a conference reviewing the science and scope for new policy approaches to address the harmful impacts of ultra-processed foods.
www.imperial.ac.uk
November 27, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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Outbreaks of H5N1 continue to rise in dairy cattle and poultry, as well as in other wild and domesticated animals, including the first confirmed infection in a pig. Human cases also continue to occur, primarily—but not exclusively—in people who had exposure to infected animals.
H5N1 Bird Flu in Dairy Cows, Poultry, and Humans | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The latest on the virus’s spread, potential economic impacts, vaccine development, and how concerned the general public should be.
publichealth.jhu.edu
November 26, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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With #Thanksgiving a few days away, seems a good time to re-run this on Bluesky:

Food from rivers likely dominated the 1st Thanksgiving, including ducks and geese, oysters, & fish - particularly eels. And the corn had been fertilized with alewives...

with recipes!
www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...
Giving Thanks For Rivers Of Food
Although Thanksgiving is associated with turkey, it is likely that food from rivers, including ducks and eels, provided much of the protein for the first Thanksgiving. This reflects the reality that, ...
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
One of the big challenges to getting people to eat more whole grain/high fiber foods is that many don't like the texture. These scientists came up with an interesting food technology solution. news.ku.dk/all_news/202...
Researchers eliminate the gritty mouth feel: How to make it easier to eat fiber-rich foods
Fiber is something that most of us get far too little of. To change that, we need to actually enjoy eating it. Food researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now invented a "disguise" that so...
news.ku.dk
November 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Hopeful that science comms can resurrect on here! Follow for content on #aquaticfoods #foodsystems #publichealth.
November 19, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Bluesky is number 1.
November 17, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Alright I finally moved over here. Starting fresh.
November 13, 2024 at 4:18 PM