Elena Shekhova, PhD

Hi Erin, this Q is better to discuss with an endocrinologist. But yes, it is established that hormones play an important role in how the body regulates energy. For example, with age, estrogen declines, which can influence metabolism and how energy is stored or used in the body.

Please share more about sewing and animal rescue. I am learning how to sew so I can do some upcycling projects, and I adopted a senior rescue dog last year. I am glad to see more people on the same mission and with the same interests 🥰

I love everything in this post, even that creepy yet very skilful hand 😅
Thank you for what you do!

Nice chart! Protein content is high too.

Btw, you can post your work in the data viz feed, this way, more people will see it. There are instructions on how to be included in the list: bsky.app/profile/jacq...

thank you 🙏 colors are always hard for me

So needy 😅

A table from the Old Farmer’s Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook showing which plant are compatible with each other and which are not

This is so true and important to remember. I found a relevant table about this in the Old Farmer’s Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook:

Noted! I have a nice terracotta pot for mint 💚

The chart lives here: lumipie.com/data-vis/edi...

Chart titled “What do my garden plants need?”. A dot-matrix comparison of growing requirements for 20 edible plants, ordered vertically from high to low overall needs. Plants listed: aubergine, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, regular tomato, runner beans, bell pepper, basil, soybean, headed lettuce, borlotti beans, beetroot, dill, cress, onion, radish, rocket, thyme, rosemary, chives, and mint. Each row shows four colored dot groups representing requirements for sun (yellow), water (gray/blue), nutrients (green), and temperature sensitivity (red). More dots indicate higher needs. Aubergine appears among the most demanding, with many dots across categories. Mint appears among the least demanding. Annotations note: “Aubergine = DIVA – Prefers full sun; requires high water and nutrients. Temperature class: tender.” and “Mint = (should be) EASY – Prefers full sun, but requires low water and nutrients. Temperature class: very hardy.” Data source: The Edible Plant Database, GROW Observatory, a European Citizen Science project. Chart was designed and created by Elena Shekhova. The tool for data analysis is R. The tool for data viz is React.js.

My late submission to #TidyTuesday, week 5.

I couldn’t resist making this 📊, as I’m planning my first garden this year.

And since I’m ambitious (or delusional?), my plan is to grow more than 20 plants! I summarized the requirements for some of them.

#vegetablegarden #greenheart #gardening

Read article 'Is Fiber Important?' on LumiPie How the importance of dietary fiber was recognized, and how one scientist connected it to a disease more common in wealthy countries.

What a cool term “a multi-step gut–liver–vascular axis.” 🙂
I think, with fiber, it always comes down to its importance for the microorganisms in our gut.

I also wrote about the link between fiber and cancer here: lumipie.com/blog/fiber-d...

Could this be because people living near golf courses tend to be wealthier and therefore more likely to survive to older ages, when Parkinson’s disease is more likely to develop?
In contrast, those living farther away may have lower socioeconomic status and die earlier, before the disease develops.

Risk of cardiovascular disease across increasing levels of total fibre intake. RR=risk ratio

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Nutrition discourse often focuses on protein. Fiber is important too, but rarely talked about.

Here is an “oldish” paper showing a dose-dependent association between fiber intake (from cereals, fruits, and vegetables) and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.

🔗 www.bmj.com/content/347/...

I am glad that you found it informative. Thank you for your kind comment 🙏

That is why I am getting into permaculture. I want to practice it in my garden.

Good to know, we have a lot of birds here.

Something to look into, definitely. The good thing is that it will be easy to check as it seems that the bitterness of seeds correlates with the amount of alkaloids.

Nice, thanks for sharing!

Are they hard to grow? Pollinators are very important. I am designing my first vegetable garden now, ahead of spring, and planning what I want to plant. It seems there are some sweet, low-alkaloid varieties of lupines.
From the article:

Many of these protein sources are very sustainable and resilient to harsh growing conditions, so they are likely to become more important in future food systems.

🔗 www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15...

From paper "Alternative Protein Sources and Novel Foods: Benefits, Food Applications and Safety Issues": Figure 1. Underutilized legumes: (a) Winged beans (b) Grasspea (c) Lupins (d) Bambara groundnut.

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I stumbled across this article about alternative protein sources. Many of them I had never heard of before.

It mentioned:
-winged beans
-grasspea
-lupins
-Bambara groundnut

Also, duckweed species can have protein contents of up to 43% (dry matter) and provide all essential amino acids.

Absolutely 💯
Restaurants are also in a unique position to set an example of how plant-based alternatives can be nicely incorporated into typical dishes.

Agar plate with wood ear mushroom tissues. The red/pink pigment diffusing into the agar is likely metabolites produced by Fusarium mold. Bacterial growth is also visible. Petri dish is photographed against a lamp.

Agar plate with wood ear mushroom tissues. The red/pink pigment diffusing into the agar is likely metabolites produced by Fusarium mold. Bacterial growth is also visible. Petri dish is photographed against a lamp.

Agar plate with wood ear mushroom tissues. The red/pink pigment diffusing into the agar is likely metabolites produced by Fusarium mold. Bacterial growth is also visible. Petri dish is photographed against a lamp.

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I was cloning a wood ear mushroom that I foraged recently. One of my plates was contaminated, so I let it grow. Then I thought I should definitely photograph it against a lamp and share it here. Perfect for @contamclub.bsky.social

The red/pink pigment is likely produced by Fusarium mold.

An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS • Josh W. Comeau When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed intera...

You should check out articles by Josh Comeau @joshwcomeau.com . For example, this is the best (and most spectacular) guide to flexbox I have seen: www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interact...

And it actually worked. The schools reported that before the deposit was introduced, many people would stop attending, but wanting to get the deposit back was enough motivation to attend classes and pass the exams.

I’m not sure if this is helpful, but the experience I had with a language school here in Denmark might be relevant: it’s free for all immigrants, but you have to pay a deposit (I think it’s something like $300), which is returned only if you complete the course.

Fantastic, thank you! Then my plan for 2026 is to go through your book carefully and listen to the lectures

How I Built a Data Factory for 6,000 Years of History My journey building a 3D globe of history, wrestling with messy data, and creating an AI co-pilot to tell the story of our past.

Looks very interesting!
I found a blog post about how it was created: medium.muz.li/how-i-built-...

That's a good point.
More reasonably priced plant-based options should definitely boost sales. Something similar was shown in another study: at the university canteen, more vegetarian options led to more vegetarian sales and fewer meat sales.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Figure 2: Price Effect Simulations for Meat and PBMA Burgers (Study 2). Note: Consideration and choice probabilities are shown for the meat burger and PBMAs (aggregated) given a PBMA price range between $12.50 and $5, along with 95% credible intervals. Across PBMA price scenarios, the price of the meat burger was kept constant at $10. A PBMA price of $10 thus corresponds to price parity. The gray dashed lines display the population mean (representative of the United States). Education = high: college degree or higher; No Prior PBMAs = yes: self-report to never eat PBMAs.

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In this US study, people with a college degree were more likely to consider or choose plant-based burgers than those without a degree.

But when the prices of plant-based options were lowered, consumers without a college degree became more inclined to buy them.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....