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Deirdre Tobias, ScD

@deirdretobias.bsky.social

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Obesity & Nutrition Epidemiologist, Methods Thereof Assistant Professor @BrighamWomens @HarvardChanSPH @HarvardMed Editor @AJCN https://t.co/9jSfBogyts

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Feb 6

I enjoyed having the @vivalongevity.bsky.social crew over for a long chat about all things epidemiology last fall.

The full episode is here: youtu.be/JJeoYQ6FaAw?...

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Jan 23

Here's to hoping it's just a temporary transition 😬

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Jan 23

How are my fellow 100% soft money academic researchers doing this morning?

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Jan 15

the influencer-to-epidemiologist ratio is stressful

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Dec 12

Whooooooeyyyyy!

📑Here's the full 148-page ultra-processed foods civil lawsuit filing against a whole slew of major US food companies:

It's...a doozie🧨

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Dec 9

Heyyyyyyy! Thanks!

Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Dec 9

Longitudinal observational cohort studies are absolutely essential to public health and a critical pillar of chronic disease research. We would be virtually nowhere in the UPF storyline without nutritional epidemiology.

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Nov 25

To this day, no one enters my office for the first time without asking about my grandfather's portrait

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · Nov 22

It was a pleasure to host Meg Tirrell and colleagues from CNN to cover our ongoing study at the NIH Clinical Center on mechanisms of ultra-processed food. If you subscribe to CNN, you can see the video and read about it here: www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/h...

They’re up to 70% of the American diet. But the US has no policy on ultraprocessed foods | CNN

Federal guidance on the pitfalls of ultraprocessed foods, which likely play a key role in the US obesity epidemic, isn’t yet available. Here’s what’s at stake.

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Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdretobias.bsky.social · Nov 21

I was told this place had better science discourse. Where you nerds at?

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