John Hayes
tasteprof.bsky.social
John Hayes
@tasteprof.bsky.social
Full Prof at Penn State. I'm a chemosensory psychophysicist and ingestive behavior researcher with further interests in addiction, genetics, and anosmia. goo.gl/CLF2rh
WE ARE... hiring a new TT faculty member to work on Food Oral Processing. Please apply or reshare with your network, as we are looking for an early or mid career researcher to come join me, Helene Hopfer and the rest of our fantastic Food Science faculty.

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Assistant/Associate Professor, Food Oral Processing
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July 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What is the new pope’s position on Malort?
May 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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There's actually a bunch of families whose kids were injured and even killed by raw milk and if i were an editor I might try to interview them right now.
May 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
April 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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$9 billion a year for NSF is absolute chump change. It's nothing. And yet, cutting it will devastate American science for decades.

God, we're led by a morons, empowered by idiots.
Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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“It’s All in the Blend”: Effects of Combining Macronutrients on Food Intake and Reward

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🗓️ July 28–Aug 1 · 📍Oxford
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April 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Biden, 52%: “low end approval”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
At a hundred days into his presidency, Joe Biden had a 52% approval rating.

As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.

Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
April 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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🎉Congratulations #AChemS2025 Career Award Winners! Don't miss their award presentations tonight at 7 PM.
April 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
April 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Snark aside, I'm honestly baffled. I know I show my naïveté daily, but aren't even most rich, powerful people concerned about food safety? Seems like you'd have to be Zuck or Bezos rich to be safe(ish). Not state politician or large landowner rich. Don't these folks buy groceries like everyone else?
I guess GenX trained for this, at least
April 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Guys: This is the second most important thing to come out of the meeting.
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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April 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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April 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Well, that’s a new one. I have 440k lifetime miles with American Airlines and they just involuntarily denied me boarding because of a weight restriction. Fun!
April 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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“.. The new tariff regime is not reciprocal to anything, but instead is retaliatory in proportion to how big a surplus in goods trade a country happens to have with the US. This chart from @exante.bsky.social illustrates it beautifully.”
April 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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4/

Fossil fuels
• Emit greenhouse gases & damage ecosystems.
• Require ongoing extraction and are non-reusable.

Renewable energy
• Need only a one-time supply of minerals.
• Minerals can be recycled, reducing future mining.
• Net reduction in mining as fossil fuel use declines.

#climate
March 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Would love to hear an affirmative & persuasive theory from Republicans of how the US can maintain leadership on research, technology & development in a way that does not operate through universities

Because right now I do not see it!
March 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District.

Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
March 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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This news truly breaks my heart.

We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line!

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Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade
An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.
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February 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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🚨PA colleagues:

"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."

"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC

Get out your Other Support and share that info!
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February 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Without a robust and functional Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services, and more, new cancer cures don’t get found, don’t get tested, and don’t make it to you and me.
February 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM