Nick Foreman

Exercise physiology PhD student with @GWpublichealth interested in metabolism and disease. He/him/his

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

What was so offensive that the American Diabetes Association’s leadership had police place their own members in handcuffs and forcibly remove them from the conference?

An editorial published in ADA’s journal: Diabetes Care!

Read it for yourself:

[I4R @I4Replication]

7/ If we want a healthier research culture, we need fewer incentives to defend every line we've ever written and more incentives to update when new information arrives.

[Emma J Chory @chorye]

This one is hard to see.

The NIH Early Independence Award, one of the most competitive grants in the country for young scientists, will not go forward in FY2026. NIH says this is due to “administrative changes to funding opportunity processing and delays in approvals.”

[Cristina Muñoz Pinedo @crismunozp]

They were over the moon.

Apparently this is so unusual in our busy lives.
We congratulate people in person after seminars or talks, but we don't email strangers for that.

I would like to encourage everyone to do that. It takes 3 minutes!

Scientists are also human
-sometimes 😉

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

We are now witnessing the dismantling of independent scientific oversight.

The President has terminated, without reason, multiple members of the National Science Board, the independent body that guides NSF and advises Congress and the President on U.S. science policy.

[Nick Foreman @Nick_Foreman_]

@andrew_flatt Ah ok, I see that now, thank you. Good on you all for accounting for that in the analyses! I don’t see many people that do

[Alex Predhome, Track and Field Enjoyer @Predamame]

If MAHA were serious about tackling obesity and making everyone healthier/fitter, urbanism would be a top priority.

Making cities more enjoyable for walks means people would walk more.

[Nick Foreman @Nick_Foreman_]

@MishaTeplitskiy Interesting! Potentially of interest to @DavidEpstein too

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

This is not surprising:

NIH cuts show women losing more funding than men - 57.9% vs 48.2%.

And it gets worse: early-career scientists are being hit hardest, with women leading 60% of terminated grants among PhDs and assistant professor.

So much hard work lost.

[Nick Foreman @Nick_Foreman_]

@BrianSuttererMD Not my area of expertise per se but I believe most creatine intake comes from meat, not from supplements. I don’t disagree that this isn’t the strongest evidence in favor of creatine, but I don’t think exercise is a major confounder here

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What's the best exercise?

Running, cycling, aerobic, weights, HIIT?

The best exercise is the one that you can do consistently over the long haul.

Whatever that is, start there.

Don't get caught chasing optimum before you've ingrained it as a long term habit.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days https://t.co/HmBji9CmxK

[Nick Foreman @Nick_Foreman_]

@SteveAtkinsonV8 @AndrewHires @brady_h This study design is a really good setup to test these questions though. It’s a crossover study, so power is higher than an RCT. My gut says you’d need 40-50 people for an RCT vs. maybe 10-15 for a crossover. It’s also not feasible to blind fasting vs. 10g/kg CHO.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Obviously I’m being a bit hyperbolic here, but shouldn’t research be done by people who literally cannot help themselves. They think in p-values. They have hypotheses pouring out of their massive brains. Just like a surgeon only wants to be in the OR doing surgery. Instead, we have an army of pre-meds, med students, and residents who feel an obligation to “do research” as a means to an end. Doesn’t make sense. What are we doing?

[Dr. Spencer Nadolsky @DrNadolsky]

Changing Coke from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar is just like rearranging the chairs on the titanic.

Good work y’all 😂😂😂

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This is likely going to be another NAION:

Lots of panic over a weak study, followed by a debunking that never gets talked about.

[Drug Monkey @drugmonkeyblog]

The demonstrated power of the NIH system is that projects are funded because individual scientists decide to pursue them, but also because sometimes they respond to top-down Program priorities and sometimes they follow the priorities set by Congress, aka the vote of the ppls reps

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

If you say a crazy thing, it’s on you to prove the crazy thing is true. It’s not my responsibility to prove your crazy thing is not true.

[Nick Tiller, Ph.D. @NBTiller]

Why is a neuroscientist advising on dietary supplements? Because he sells them, endorses them, and is sponsored by them. 💰💰💰

Do you know who doesn't endorse supplements? Qualified nutritionists and dietitians—because most supplements don't work.