This evening UK time!

Please help spread the word about our inaugural public lecture on Wednesday. Sign up and if you are in the ageing field it’s a great opp for your family to finally understand what you do! 😀 Thanks for your support 🙏 bsra.org.uk/events/bsra-...

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

Interested in ageing? Sign up for our public lecture series starting next week Wednesday bsra.org.uk/events/bsra-...

We're also proud to see that long standing BSRA members Linda Partridge & Lynne Cox feature too! Both hold the BSRA's Lord Cohen medal, our highst award for contributions to Ageing Biology research🏅 Learn more about the BSRA's vision 👉 bsra.org.uk

🎙️ Ep1 of @briancoxtalks.bsky.social A Question of Science is out & it's on ageing research! As @statto.bsky.social says “The single most important thing… is to campaign for more funding for ageing research!” Here's how 👉 bsra.org.uk/donate/ #BSRA #AgeingResearch #SciencePodcast

At #BSRA2025 we heard about bone health and ageing. Help out our friends at @royalosteosoc.bsky.social. They want researchers interested in osteoporosis & bone health to feed back about their grants programme & it's future. visit: bit.ly/47k6rr2 and have your say

Annnndddddd... That's a wrap on #BSRA2025. WHAT. A. MEETING. Poster were presented, science was discussed, runs were 'fun', awards were given, and networks were built. See someone you know in our snazzy video below? Tag them and let them know!

Great pics - great conference!

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦 Key takeaways: 🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution 🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes 🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

This is a bit of a shock www.ft.com/content/5ace...

Annual BSRA fun run to kick off day two of #BSRA2025. As we heard yesterday, lifestyle factors and the exposome influence lifelong health, so a quick 5 km before today's full schedule of talks is great to see.

@cecerelab.bsky.social lab is doing outstanding work on C elegans sRNAs: a great opportunity for a PhD with them

. @techreviewjp.bsky.social story reports Putin & Xi musing about immortality through organ transplants on a hot mic. As it broke, journalist Jessica Hamzelou was at #BSRA2025, where our members provided a voice of reason against the hype. 🔗 (paywall) www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/05/1...

And we're ON! Day 1 starts with an ECR workshop on commercialisation of research, then an opening talk by Prof Gordon Lithgow of @buckinstitute.org "Ageing is influenced by everything, diet, exercise, stress, toxins". The interplay between exposome, genetics, and ageing #BSRA2025

Very useful discussion with an inspiring panel! Good communication of the value of ageing research is vital.

Prizes time! 🎁 At our conference dinner the best posters prizes and Korenchevsky Prize for best ECR oral presentation at #BSRA2025 were announced. First up, posters. Settle in for a thread of some awesome science from our fields emerging leaders 🧵

Scientists from our Biosciences Department have created the first full map of a hidden system that helps plants survive stress like drought, salt & disease. Learn more: durham.ac.uk/news-events/... #DUresearch

Ever seen a bear in a CT scanner? Peter Stenvinkel of @ki.se delivering a tour de force through exposome, novel drug pathways and mechanisms, and a surprising number of models including brown bears, to understand ageing and drug targets. #BSRA2025

Great to have @americanaging.bsky.social chair & @omrf.bsky.social Prof Benjamin Miller speaking on Metformin/exercise interactions data from in vivo and human studies, some intriguing data! #BSRA2025

Great to be at the BSRA @bsrageing.bsky.social meeting in Manchester and great to see @babrahaminst.bsky.social sponsoring it!

It's almost time, #BSRA2025 starts tomorrow. Are you on the way to Manchester as well? Let us know!

Will you be at the @bsrageing.bsky.social ‪#BSRA2025 this week? Look out for Institute contributions: - @martint-babraham.bsky.social: RNA binding proteins in Tregs (Friday) - Rahul Samant: proteostasis strategies, stress resilience & senescence (Friday) - Institute facilities showcase

Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds

🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday

💫NEW: Das, @fabianspill.bsky.social & co combine intracellular cartography and biophysical modelling to reveal how edge curvature governs endoplasmic reticulum (ER) morphology, showing that curvature-dependent ER reorganization directs distinct modes of epithelial cell migration. bit.ly/3HFAQ8S

We extended the registration deadline - the last day to register is now Sunday! #ageing #evolution

The neuropeptide neuromedin U receptor nmur-1 buffers insulin receptor signaling in bacteria-dependent C. elegans survival https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670582v1

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Worms love flies! Please consider donating to FlyBase. Model organisms unite! #celegans

Fascinating result regarding folate competition. Looking forward to delving in.

Very sad to see. www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

BSRA & @cysticfibrosis.org.uk form partnership to help people with Cystic Fibrosis to live longer, healthier lives Read more - bsra.org.uk/cystic-fibro...

Thanks for the coverage London Daily News! If you're in Manchester in September, do check out this year's public lecture. Internationally renowned expert to deliver one off lecture on protein and ageing in Manchester www.londondaily.news/internationa...

Chemistry teachers are going to love this story! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

📢 By popular demand (and in true academic style), we’ve extended the #BSRA2025 registration deadline! You now have until 11:59pm, Thurs 14 Aug to join us in Manchester for our biggest ageing research meeting yet. Register here: meetinghand.com/e/74th-annua... #BSRA2025

New from the Kinghorn Lab! 🧠🔬 Our latest preprint shows that in fly 🪰🧬 Gaucher’s & Parkinson’s 🧠 models, kidney dysfunction drives neurodegeneration - supporting emerging links between renal health & Parkinson's. You can read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kids I think your jobs are safe for now

A truly amazing article!

🚨Friday read!🚨 @dweinkove.bsky.social, Chair of BSRA, on Cancer Prevention Research Conference 2025 & importance to ageing biology of working with researchers of specific diseases. Cheers @cancerresearchuk.org & @acscan.bsky.social for such a great meeting! Read more - bsra.org.uk/cancer-preve...

A lateralized sensory signaling pathway mediates context-dependent olfactory plasticity in C. elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666858v1

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Still talking about @adelecliff.bsky.social ‘s standup at Durham Fringe Festival days later. It was both funny and kinda sad. Worth going to at @edfringe.bsky.social

Just over a week to go until the deadline for registration for BSRA 2025, our 74th annual scientific meeting and our largest meeting yet. Don't miss out! 🗓️ Deadline Friday 8th August 🔗 bsra.org.uk/events/74th-...

Read Hanane's blog for the @bsrageing.bsky.social describing her experience at #AGE2025 held in Alaska! * how her research @houseleylab.bsky.social has progressed since winning the 2024 Korenchevsky Award * conference highlights * sampling the Alaskan wilderness

So happy we could support this trip @bsrageing.bsky.social

We have been awarded funding through UK’s ARIA’s Programmable Plants programme to develop breakthrough tech that can temporarily transform crops using natural bacteria. Learn more: durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Apropos of nothing at all ...

#Autophagy and #mTOR papers from past two weeks, some interesting stuff, don’t miss it! biomed.news/bims-auttor/... biomed.news/bims-auttor/...

New preprint. ATF4 activation is thought to lead to longer lifespans. However, our study shows that suppression rather than activation extends lifespan in the fly. New Qs: how we can target ATF4 or its downstream targets to gain targeted longevity benefits. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...