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The AGE Meeting 2026 (Utah) will cover:
• #Biomarkers
• AI in aging
• New longevity tech
#Agingscience is going data-driven—and this is where it’s happening.
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Posts by Steven Austad
What's on @austad.bsky.social's mind? The 500-year-old clam with the secret to curing Alzheimer’s, his billion-dollar bet on whether the first 150-year-old human is already alive, & how to slow our biological clock
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Right. If you don’t have accurate accounting of bribes, what is the world coming to?
Tom Buford, Center Co-Director of the UAB Nathan Shock Center, comments on the importance of aerobic activity after 50 in this AARP article, "6 Proven Health Benefits of Aerobic Exercise for 50+." Read more here: bit.ly/4pnSBsV #AgingResearch #ExerciseMedicine
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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.
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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:
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.
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
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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And the Roberts' Supreme Court gave him permission to make this claim.
I’m stumped why we haven’t renamed that state between Arizona and Texas New America?
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I doubt this photo is of the mouse species used in the paper. This looks like Peromyscus
And this makes her one of the better Texas reps...
The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
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...
Painting outside my usual lines, thoughts on the logic of retirement age for government pensions. academic.oup.com/ppar/advance...
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
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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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.
An interesting study that definitely needs replication.
Let’s get our terminology straight
News flash. Polygraph evidence is 19th century junk science still around for some reason in the 21st century.