A rundown of the 80th Golden Globes: After controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association last year over the organization’s lack of Black journalists, the Golden Globes kicked off earlier this week with award show host Jerrod Carmichael addressing the diversity controversy, Reuters reports.

Who took home which awards: Quinta Brunson won best actress for Abbott Elementary, Jeremy Allen White won best actor for The Bear, Michelle Yeoh won best actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once, Austin Butler landed best actor for Elvis, and Colin Farrell for Banshees of Inisherin. Ke Huy Quan took home the award for best supporting actor for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Angela Bassett won best supporting actress for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Jennifer Coolidge for the limited series for The White Lotus. Steven Spielberg took home the award for best director for his work on The Fablemans, while Abbott Elementary won the best comedy series and House of Dragons won the best drama series. You can catch the full list of nominees and awardwinners here.

Global warming isn’t going to leave behind a planet infested with parasites — but that’s still far from good news: Warm weather is driving a significant decline in parasitic populations — which include around 50% of all living organisms, according to a recent PNAS study. While there are some outliers that are thriving on the effects of global climate change (including some whose proliferation could result in the spread of more diseases such as Lyme disease and malaria), the broad majority of these parasitic species are crucial for maintaining a balanced ecosystem. The study found that around 85% of the unharmful species are facing population declines — and that figure doesn’t take into account “certain bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoans,” the New York Times reports.

The methodology: Scientists dissected 669 marine fish specimens, discovering around 17.7k parasites trapped and belonging to 85 different species, the study found. The researchers concluded that some species suffered more than others, implying that the most invasive species — or those with the most complex life cycles — are likely to be the first to become extinct as temperatures rise. Research was limited to marine species from the Gulf of Alaska, Rio Grande, the Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi and the Alabama River, and it is uncertain whether the findings apply to other ecosystems, scientists say, according to the NYT.

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Skip the late-night excursions to the fridge — studies show that meal timing really counts. Given the typically busy schedules many people are bound to, it may be convenient to pass up breakfast and opt for a later binge after work, but a recent study confirms that consuming more calories earlier rather than later in the day improves metabolic health and induces weight loss. This is potentially because it better aligns with our circadian rhythms — our inner clocks that regulate sleep-wake cycles and affect appetite, metabolism, and blood sugar levels. Eating late increases levels of ghrelin, which is also known as the “hunger hormone,” while suppressing leptin, a hormone that induces satiety.

10-hour windows are the body’s sweet spot: Another study that looked at firefighters working 24-hour shifts found that restricting all meals to a 10-hour period (a form of intermittent fasting) can stave off heart disease by decreasing the size of bad cholesterol particles. It also found that it can improve blood sugar levels and blood pressure, and is thus especially beneficial to those with cardiometabolic conditions, such as hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes.

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Gender parity in boardrooms in Europe’s financial sector is improving, albeit at a slow rate: Women’s share of board seats in European financial services firms increased five percentage points between June 2022 and January 2023, although new board appointments were “evenly split by gender over the past year,” according to a report by EY. However, the figures are not all moving in the same direction across the financial sector — which includes banking, ins., and wealth and asset management — with wealth and asset management players seeing a drop in the number of women occupying board seats between June and January.

There’s still a long way to go: Some 44% of European financial services investors support boardrooms with fair gender representations, while only 16% said it’s irrelevant to their decision-making, the report notes. Still, there’s a lot that needs to be done to close the parity gap, EY’s financial services managing partner for Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa Omar Ali said.