
Jess Loyer
@jessloyer
Food Studies/Media & Cultural Studies/Health Sociology scholar at University of Adelaide & Cancer Council SA. Views expressed are my own.
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Now for a #foodstudies18 keynote in Wisc Hist Society, with @cadwego of Union of Concerned Scientists. tl:dr of talk = #scienceisnotneutral, is inherently political, cannot be objective, and has moral/ethical obligations to act upon it. YES.




"The solution is not to become savvier shoppers or ask for more labels on our food." Excuse me but my friend Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social is on fire this week. 🔥ucpress.edu/blog/36671/wan…



Amazing resource for food studies peeps! Thanks Emily Contois x.com/emilycontois/s…



If you were to ever amplify my writing, I hope it would be my latest for Nursing Clio. With genuine thanks to all who supported me to write back and through this. nursingclio.org/2018/07/17/i-w…

Toni Morrison: 40 Mark Twain: 41 Marcel Proust: 43 Henry Miller: 44 JRR Tolkien: 45 Raymond Chandler: 51 Richard Adams: 52 Annie Proulx: 57 Laura Ingalls Wilder: 65 Frank McCourt: 66 Harriett Doerr: 74 Harry Bernstein: 96 No, you’re not too old to publish your first book.

Three years after connecting with Christine Knight at OxfordFoodSymp 2015 I'm pleased to share our collaboration on #superfoods culture: 'Selling the “Inca superfood”: nutritional primitivism in superfoods books and maca marketing' doi.org/10.1080/155280…

Ok, calling something a "superfood" may be a marketing tactic but that doesn't make me want to smash the delicious-looking berry bowl at the top of this story any less. Thanks @synapse101 and Jess Loyer for sharing your expertise! abc.net.au/news/health/20… #nutrition #superfoods

How super is your #superfood? My latest Breakfasters 3RRR story and #blogpost. With thanks to Jess Loyer and @synapse101. espressoscience.com/2019/09/12/how… #HealthyEating #healthy #superfoods #science #scicomm #newonmyblog


New article, early online: Why would we believe them? Meat consumers’ reactions to online farm animal welfare activism in Australia by Dr Emily Buddle Dr Heather Bray & Rachel A. Ankeny tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We're always looking for new contributors at The Recipes Project on all things recipe-related--from remedies to artisanal secrets, or ingredients to teaching recipes... Interested? Just email us at [email protected] . #histSTM #recipes #foodhist #twitterstorians


Interested in 'big picture' thinking about our #food system? In food & #nutrition politics, policy & public health? PhD opportunities are now available to work with our outstanding Food Policy and Public Health Group at Deakin IPAN in Melbourne. For more: bit.ly/2vEAzx1
