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

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

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

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...

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:

This is really a thing of beauty.

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.

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

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

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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

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

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.

Let’s get our terminology straight

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

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Thanksgiving info. Turkeys were named after the country they didn't come from. Jack-o-lantern pumpkins are more closely related to zucchini than to the filling in your pumpkin pie.