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Odette @ovdwillik.bsky.social · Aug 26

Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · Aug 25

We are so glad to share that the Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center (NSC3) will continue its mission after receiving a five-year grant renewal! The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) will lead NSC3 activities with the $5.7 million NIH award. Read more here: bit.ly/45yQz2B

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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · Aug 16

One month before SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER is released!

A prelim copy just arrived. I’m in Bolivia but my son opened the shipment and it appears that he approves.

Preorder now (30% discount code: PUP30): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) @afar.org · Jul 2

AFAR Experts in the News: AFAR Scientific Director @austad.bsky.social and Irving Wright Award winner S. Jay Olshansky, PhD, discuss the limits of human lifespan on The World as You’ll Know It podcast.
Listen to episode 1 of The World as You’ll Know It: The Future of Aging here:

The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150?

The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging · Episode

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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · May 29

This is really a thing of beauty.

Come At Me, Bro | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or des...

www.thecrimson.com

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Dario Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social · Mar 30

Cool bits from our recently concluded killifish field research work in the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe.
A nicely camouflaged lapwing nest (it’s a bird) and some giraffe spoors by one of our favorite seasonal ponds in the center of the park.

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Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · Mar 14

We are so glad to feature 2023 Oklahoma NSC Pilot Awardee Carlos Diaz Garcia in this Pilot Awardee Spotlight! Check out the full interview here: bit.ly/3DL8W9t #AgingResearch

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Rep. Salud Carbajal @carbajal.house.gov · Mar 13

I am heartbroken by the loss of my dear friend, Congressman Raul Grijalva. He was a tireless advocate for the people of Arizona and a champion for environmental justice — his legacy of compassion and leadership will live on in all the lives he touched.

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Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · Mar 11

Attending the 2025 AGE Annual Meeting? Consider joining the Nathan Shock Centers Directors' Symposium, a pre-conference symposium featuring pilot grantee presentations from each of the eight NSCs! Learn more here: bit.ly/3DtnU3R @americanaging.bsky.social

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Feb 16

And the Roberts' Supreme Court gave him permission to make this claim.

Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Feb 12

I’m stumped why we haven’t renamed that state between Arizona and Texas New America?

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Feb 5

Subscribe (for free) to the best monthly summary of vew and research about aging research. www.uab.edu/shockcenter/...

Aging Biology Update - UAB Nathan Shock Center

Aging Biology Update (ABU) is a monthly compilation of aging research as it appears in the scientific literature and lay press. ABU, a publication of the UAB N

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Jan 11

Subscribe now. Lands in you email box every month. view.reach.uab.edu?qs=a2aca352d...

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Jan 9

I doubt this photo is of the mouse species used in the paper. This looks like Peromyscus

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Dec 22

And this makes her one of the better Texas reps...

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · Dec 20

The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Dec 18

Good to see this nonsense paper on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 finally retracted as it should have been immediately. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga

Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.

www.nature.com

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Dec 18

Painting outside my usual lines, thoughts on the logic of retirement age for government pensions. academic.oup.com/ppar/advance...

Retirement Age Then and Now: A Biologist’s Perspective

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) was officially established in October 1974 as a consequence of the Research on Aging Act (Public Law 93-296) passed e

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Juleen R. Zierath @juleenrzierath.bsky.social · Dec 7

Great #Nobelprize lectures @karolinskainst @NobelPrize

A marvelous unfolding story of microRNAs
Victor Ambros, UMass Chan Med

A vast and ancient hidden world of microRNAs across the eukaryotes
Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Med

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Juleen R. Zierath @juleenrzierath.bsky.social · Dec 7

Welcome to this year’s Nobel Lectures with the Nobel Prize Laureates in Physiology or Medicine 2024.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
#Nobelprize

The lectures will be broadcast live at nobelprize.org ⁦‪@NobelPrize‬⁩

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Michael Ringel | Chief Operating Officer, Life Biosciences @michaelringel.bsky.social · Dec 2

On tomorrow, #GivingTuesday, and every day, I’m proud to be a board member of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR). Your tax-deductible, year-end donation today will help advance research to help everyone live healthier, longer. Give here: www.afar.org/donate

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Dec 1

Renewing my call to move New Year. Too many holidays in the mid-November to Jan 1 time frame. I suggest March 1st, which in case anyone forgot, is also National Pig Day. This would also significantly shrink the extra-long gap in raucously celebratory holidays between January 1st and July 4th.

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Nov 27

An interesting study that definitely needs replication.

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Nov 26

Let’s get our terminology straight

Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Nov 25

News flash. Polygraph evidence is 19th century junk science still around for some reason in the 21st century.

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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · Nov 25

Better yet. Get AI to do it for you.

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