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If you’re in #AgingResearch, don’t miss this 👇
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.
Registration is still open.
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The 500-Year-Old Clam with the Secret to Curing Alzheimer’s
The 500-Year-Old Clam with the Secret to Curing Alzheimer’s YouTube video by The Dan Buettner Podcast

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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJnh... @oknathanshock.bsky.social @uw-nsc.bsky.social

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Right. If you don’t have accurate accounting of bribes, what is the world coming to?

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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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Archibald: Loss of beloved folk singer feels like a death in the family He was a storyteller, a poet, a philosopher who gave voice to those who “didn’t want to throw a fishing line in that old mainstream.”

I'm so very sad over the death of Todd Snider. This is why.

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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.

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

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The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150? The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging · Episode

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:

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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...

This is really a thing of beauty.

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope

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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.

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...

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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An interesting study that definitely needs replication.

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Let’s get our terminology straight

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

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