For our 75th annual meeting we are pleased to announce an additional grant call for Travel Grants to attend our 75th ASM in Oxford from 9-11 September. CALL NOW OPEN. Closing date 1st May 2026 bsra.org.uk/2026_travel_...

🚨 #BSRA2026 is LIVE! Registration now open for our 75th Annual Meeting 📍 Oxford (Keble College) Great science, great people, and some special 75th year surprises 👀 Tag someone who should be there! 🔗 meetinghand.com/e/75th-asm-o...

Using EMS mutagenesis, authors generated & sequenced 12,069 viable C. elegans strains, identifying 541,102 missense mutations. They developed TaoChongBao, an open-access database integrating mutation data, greatly expanding functional variant resources. www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/6/...

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Aging killifish show systemic inflammation and accumulating DNA damage in progenitor-like immune cells, offering a window into the evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of vertebrate immune aging. Great work from Gabriele, @mdonertas.bsky.social, and the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Massive thanks to @danielwanoble.bsky.social and @gwendeconninck.bsky.social for some awesome quality of life additions to metRscreen (a shiny app for paper screening in R). Now updated: github.com/EIvimeyCook/...

Happy to share our new paper from the #dogagingproject. academic.oup.com/biomedgeront... It turns out that metabolite predictors of mortality in dogs overlap significantly with those in humans. @smacklab.bsky.social

Our tribute to colleague Emma Johnston - published in Nature Ecology and Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TODAY! We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Jennifer Frost, King's College London to the BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 11th March, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.08. Talk title "The role of transposable elements in pregnancy complications". Hosted by Prof. David Monk. All welcome #BioOpenLectures #UEAScience

Some molecular machines, like ribosomes, can persist for long periods of time in cells. Could molecular aging of ribosomes shape how proteins are made? In our new preprint we track ribosomes as they age in cells and uncover unexpected effects on translation (1/10) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It was great to host @jpsenescence.bsky.social over a couple of days @biouea.bsky.social, great seminar on the new approaches to the old problem of ageing )

Great Revolution at @animecol-uu.bsky.social : thank you for inviting me, fun to be on the other side of the barricades this time 😀

Do natural substances from blueberries and blue grapes protect nerve cells from aging?A www.bionity.com/en/news/1188...

The way UK govt funds science is in the midst of a major transition, with creation of a much more direct link between government priorities & UKRI research funding. My attempt to set in context the biggest upheaval in UK science funding policy since the 1980s: softmachines.org?p=3252

🧠⏰our latest paper is out now: how each neuron ages differently allowed us to define in silico screens for new therapeutic molecules that could prevent neurodegeneration @cecad.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @meyerdh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

How does pre- and post-natal environmental stress affect the seminal foam proteome of Japanese quail? Find out here, Chloe Mason’s second PhD thesis paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @martingarlovsky.bsky.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

The bots populating Moltbook apparently all come to sound like a familiar kind of internet denizen with delusions of philosophical grandeur. Manifestos and declarations all over the place.

DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @idikic.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. —Over 100,000 women in Sweden —radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up —AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and —Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕 @science.org Revising the heritability of lifespan, from 25% to ~50%, by correcting for extrinsic factors science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to some great comments and suggestions, we've updated TADA! Read it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Transferable, Available, Documented, Annotated.

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

Just renewed my membership for the 5th year with @sortee.bsky.social. A fantastic organisation to be a part of. If you want to become a member and are interested in open, reliable, and transparent EcoEvo, it’s worth joining! sortee.org/join/

Finding an em dash in the rejection email

Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill? Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes. Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.

Nature research paper: Disease tolerance and infection pathogenesis age-related tradeoffs in mice go.nature.com/4pBODwV

Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️ Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, using different orientations and motions, an example of multi-purpose tool use. This suggests scientists may have underestimated cows' cognitive abilities. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Pre-dauer starvation rapidly and reversibly reduces niche proliferative signaling to the C. elegans germ line journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪 www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek

Hoping the pivotal finding of increased inflammation with #LongCovid will be responsive to tirzepatide (Zepbound) in our ongoing 1,000+ participant randomized, placebo-controlled trial (full enrollment completed in <1 month!) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natimmunol.nature.com

A sex-adjusted 7-biomarker clinical aging clock for translational preventative medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Peaceful New Year from everyone in the School of Biological Sciences. Have a wonderful break. 🎄🥳

The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale. It's exercise. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excellent news!!!

What tools do we need to start engineering #aging and #longevity ? A🧵about something we've been cooking up in lab with Jeremy Vicencio at the @crg.eu : technology that lets us reach inside living animals and precisely dial multiple proteins' levels up and down. 1/10

Please share 📢 We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

🐻‍❄️❄️ New paper alert! From me Ben & @immler.bsky.social “Diverging transposon activity among polar bear sub-populations inhabiting different climate zones” (Godden, Rix & Immler, 2025). 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... A thread 🧵. #climate #transposons #TESky #polarbear #ursus @biouea.bsky.social

1/6 New preprint! Do changes to insulin/IGF-1 signalling (IIS) that extend lifespan also protect the germline, or do they come with a mutational cost? led by @eduxbury.bsky.social with @alicegodden.bsky.social @immler.bsky.social Johnny de Coriolis Hanne Carlsson www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 Job alert! The Fish Facility is looking for a student/research assistant (m/f/d)! Apply now! www.age.mpg.de/open-positions

🚀 Now out in print: AGE DECELERATION AND REVERSAL GENE PATTERNS IN DAUER DIAPAUSE. How we can learn from nature of to slow aging and rejuvenate. Big congrats to Khrystyna Totska, João Barata, Walter Sandt, and @meyerdavid.bsky.social! @cecad.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Controlled settings may offer limited insight into the complexities of ageing in natural and variable ecosystems, and why (and how) ageing patterns vary so widely across individuals, populations, and species. We call for more research on ecology of ageing! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!) 7th January www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

The Kapahi Lab is looking for two creative, motivated postdocs to join our team. We use Drosophila as a powerful discovery engine to study neurodegeneration and aging -combine it with human genetics, and mammalian models to uncover fundamental mechanisms of aging. [email protected]