📣Our Research Network's 2026-2027 RFA cycle are now open!📣
Applications for our Pilot & Feasibility awards (up to $20,000) and the McEwen Fellowship (up to $6,000) for early-career scientists are open through June 30.
Ready to apply? Click here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding
We are really thrilled to host this joint open special issue with among the two journals @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social
We are very interested to receive your best research at the intersection between stress, health and aging.
Details here lnkd.in/dGfV24ex
and in the linkedin post z.umn.edu/b971
🎉Huge congratulations to McEwen fellow @ewinternelson.bsky.social and Dr. Gagan Wig of UT Dallas on their recent publication in PNAS on large-scale brain network decline across aging mice and humans and its translational relevance. Read the paper here:
shorturl.at/gjau5
An announcement of Sabrina Mederos's fellowship and a description of her research.
🔦✨ Research Network Spotlight!✨🔦
Sabrina Mederos, PhD candidate at UC Davis, is one of two 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship awardees through our Research Network. Check out a description of Sabrina's research below.
@bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social
When Alexander Easton @durhameaston.bsky.social and I stepped in as EIC of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, we led the revision of the Aims and Scope of this highly successful journal.
Our Editorial outlines major updates/expansions to the Aims & Scope
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✨🔦Research Network Spotlight!🔦✨
@ctestard.bsky.social at Harvard University is the second recipient of a 2025-2026 Pilot & Feasibility award from our Research Network. Check out a description of Dr. Testard's project below.
@bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social
Proud to announce the publication of our new paper describing the design, chemical synthesis and testing of a novel class of Complement 3a Receptor (C3aR) agonists and antagonists derived from the TLQP-21 peptide
@pubs.acs.org Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Remider!
Applications for the McEwen Career Development fellowship in Social Determinants of Health supported by the NIA-BSR High Priority Research Network animalsocialaging-network.org are now open!
apply here animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...
📢Applications for the McEwen fellowship are now open!
We expect to award 1-3 fellowships (up to $6,000 each) to early-career scientists with a proposal within the broad scope of our research network’s interests.
Deadline: July 15
Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...
Reminder - funding opportunity available trough the @animalsocaging.bsky.social
Pilot & Feasibility Awards
Application period - June 1 to June 30
B. McEwen Career Development Fellowship
Application period - June 15 to July 15
Small/Working Group Awards
Application period - July 1 to July 31
📣 @animalsocaging.bsky.social NIA-funded high priority research network - funding available soon!📣
Stay tuned for 3 RFAs:
1. Pilot awards - June 30th
2. The Bruce McEwen Fellowship - July 15
3. Small/working group - July 31
More info on the network: www.animalsocialaging-network.org
New Study alert: “Epigenetic biomarkers of mortality risk in mice under chronic social stress" @geroscience.bsky.social
lnkd.in/dqPGrQx4
Mathematical models identified epigenetic biomarkers of mortality risk and an association with blood glucose levels, informing on individual aging trajectories.
A graphic describing the details related to applying for the Pilot awards of the Animal Models Social Aging network. Visit animalsocialaging-network.org for details.
📢Applications are OPEN for our Pilot awards!
Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below!
www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...
@smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
New Research Network publication alert!
@sheehanmj.bsky.social and @matthewzipple.bsky.social, both recipients of Network Pilot & Feasibility awards, have published a paper in Aging Cell on ecological realism and epigenetic aging in mice. Congratulations, Mike and Matthew! doi.org/10.1111/acel...
📣 @animalsocaging.bsky.social NIA-funded high priority research network - funding available soon!📣
Stay tuned for 3 RFAs:
1. Pilot awards - June 30th
2. The Bruce McEwen Fellowship - July 15
3. Small/working group - July 31
More info on the network: www.animalsocialaging-network.org
📣New network funding available soon!📣
The Request for Applications for our Research Network's pilot awards (June 1-June 30), the Bruce McEwen Fellowship (June 15-July 15), and small/working group awards (July 1-July 31) will be live on our website (www.animalsocialaging-network.org) in two weeks!
That`s a big one!
congrats to the outstanding team of co-authors
Our NIA funded High Priority Research network on Animal Models for the Social Dimension of Health and Aging just landed on Bsky @animalsocaging.bsky.social
- follow us for updates and new RFAs
www.animalsocialaging-network.org
@smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
🎤Hey, is this thing on?
The Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network is on Bluesky! We are an NIA-funded network headquartered at UMN, ASU, UNC, and Duke that supports early-career scientists using animal models to study social aging. New funding available soon!
🚨 Great opportunity for an excellent post doc with a fantastic international group of top notch scholars.
Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Post on the study by the first author @claudiagil93.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/clau...
Food insecurity drives obesity and adiposity, but how is unclear.
A recent study by @clemmensenc.bsky.social developed a mouse model for this phenomenon lnkd.in/d8pEp2qv
Happy to share a commentary written with @johnspeakman4.bsky.social with our take on that study
doi.org/10.1002/oby....
A woman riding a bicycle in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 14, 2018.
The gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest Swedes widened between 1960–2021. The cause of this trend was not increased inequality or a decline in social spending but an embrace of healthy lifestyles by the affluent. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
bad news for freshwater quality in minnesota and midwest, very bad in the Twin Cities.
🧠💥 For #Dopamine (DA) & #Memory lovers!
📢 New paper!! we show that memory capacity (MC) in mice can be expanded from 6 to 8 objects using low doses of a D1 receptor agonist. Higher doses? Paradoxically, they reduce MC.
#Tigem
#Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
lnkd.in/d9skfGeb
We recently published
@geroscience.bsky.social
the development and validation of the mouse social frailty index (mSFI) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We now report a detailed step-by-step resource paper describing how to conduct the mSFI.
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
I am thrilled to share that my first paper as the first author, Food insecurity promotes adiposity in mice, is now published in #ObesityJournal #ObesitySociety
doi.org/10.1002/oby....
#Foodinsecurity #Obesity #PhD
1/9🧵👇
Proud to share the work of my forst ever PhD student and first author of this paper @dylanduerre.bsky.social!! Here, he summarizes it perfectly! #brownfat #metabolism #BCAA #heme @uwmadison.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social
