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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Announcing the winners of our Pilot & Feasibility awards and the Bruce McEwen Career Development Fellowship for 2026-2027! Check out the graphics below to learn more about these scientists, and visit our website to learn more about their science. www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who viewed, shared, and submitted to our RFAs for our 2026-2027 Pilot & Feasibility Awards and Bruce McEwen Fellowship. So much incredible science related to the social determinants of aging! Stay tuned to learn more about the winners and their research!

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thanks to all who submitted their proposals for our Pilot & Feasibility awards and McEwen fellowships. We look forward to learning more about you and your science. We will be in touch with each of you with funding decisions in the coming weeks! @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

One more week to apply for the Bruce McEwen Fellowship! Up to $6,000 in individual funding for early-career scientists whose research includes animal models or comparative approaches to study the social determinants of aging! Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📣 One more week to apply! The application window for our Pilot & Feasibility awards closes on June 30. Check out the full RFA below and get your application submitted! www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo... @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Don't forget! We're accepting applications for our Pilot & Feasibility awards and the McEwen Fellowship until June 30. If you have a project relevant to Network science, check out our website for more information! @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Have a project related to animal models to study social aging? We welcome applications from early-career scientists for both our Pilot & Feasibility awards and the Bruce McEwen Fellowship. Applications are open until June 30. See details and apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

📣Our Research Network's 2026-2027 RFA cycle are now open!📣 Applications for our Pilot & Feasibility awards (up to $20,000) and the McEwen Fellowship (up to $6,000) for early-career scientists are open through June 30. Ready to apply? Click here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The second of two 2026 Network-the-networks meetings concluded successfully at the University of Minnesota earlier this week. We are so grateful for all who attended and look forward to the collaborations that will no doubt result between invited network representatives!

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our first of two Network-the-networks meeting was recently organized and conducted at Arizona State University by @smacklab.bsky.social. Thanks to all representatives of fellow networks who participated with the aim to "diversify the animal taxa used in the study of social determinants of aging"!

Welcome slide for the ASU Network-the-networks meeting, held in January 2026.

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JAMA @jama.com · 26/01/2026

Approximately 39% of US adults met criteria for metabolic syndrome in 2023, with persistent disparities by age and race highlighting the need for ongoing preventive efforts. ja.ma/4jXfqCV

JAMA research letter titled "Trends and Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among US Adults." It includes four graphs detailing trends in metabolic syndrome prevalence by sex, age group, race/ethnicity, and poverty income ratio from 2013-2023.

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🔦✨ Research Network Spotlight!✨🔦 Dr. Frank Raven, postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Dr. Sara Aton at University of Michigan, is the second awardee of a 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship through our Research Network. Check out a description of Dr. Raven's project below!

Portrait of Dr. Frank Raven and a description of his project.

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🔦✨ Research Network Spotlight!✨🔦 Sabrina Mederos, PhD candidate at UC Davis, is one of two 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship awardees through our Research Network. Check out a description of Sabrina's research below. @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social

An announcement of Sabrina Mederos's fellowship and a description of her research.

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Did you know that we offer funding opportunities for small/working group meetings in areas-of-interest to our Network? Want to meet with like-minded scientists to workshop the social determinants of health and aging? Accepting applications now! www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/smal...

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

✨🔦Research Network Spotlight!🔦✨ @ctestard.bsky.social at Harvard University is the second recipient of a 2025-2026 Pilot & Feasibility award from our Research Network. Check out a description of Dr. Testard's project below. @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

✨ 🔦 Research Network Spotlight! 🔦 ✨ Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés at the University of Texas at Dallas is one of two recipients of a 2025-2026 Pilot & Feasibility award from our Research Network. Check out a description of her project on early life programming and neuroimmune aging in the image below.

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

And congratulations to our 2025-2026 Pilot & Feasibility award winners Camille Testard (Harvard) and Millie Rincón-Cortés (UT Dallas). Their projects will focus on social bonds and early life programming in animal models to study the social determinants of health and aging.

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship awardees! Sabrina Mederos (UC Davis) Frank Raven (U Michigan) Congratulations also to travel fellowship awardee Stephanie Fox (UC Santa Barbara). We look forward to your project success!

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Alessandro Bartolomucci Lab @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Proud to announce the publication of our new paper describing the design, chemical synthesis and testing of a novel class of Complement 3a Receptor (C3aR) agonists and antagonists derived from the TLQP-21 peptide @pubs.acs.org Journal of Medicinal Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Network leader @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social has been named editor-in-chief of Neuroscience and BioBehavioral Reviews. This peer-reviewed journal publishes reviews that integrate brain function and behavior of model organism and humans in a range of areas. Congratulations, Alessandro!

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Today is the last day to apply for a small/working group meeting grant from our NIA-funded Research Network! Thanks to all of those who have applied to this and other Network funding mechanisms. Awardees selected soon! Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/smal...

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Congratulations to Bruce McEwen Fellowship recipient Dr. Sarah Wolf for publishing "Telomere-Related Gene Networks in the Ovary Shift Across Environmental Factors" in the Journal of Experimental Zoology - Part A! Read the full text here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The ovary is key to linking environmental factors with the timing and quality of offspring development. Focused on free-living female tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), we measured temporal variati....

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Last day for early-career scientists (advanced PhD, postdoc, and faculty) to apply for a McEwen Fellowship, an up-to-$6,000 individual award available for research related to animal models and the social determinants of health and aging. Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

One week left to apply for the McEwen Fellowship! Our Research Network awards 1-3 early-career scientists up to $6,000 for using animal models or comparative approaches to study the social determinants of aging. Details on how to apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...

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Alessandro Bartolomucci Lab @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Remider! Applications for the McEwen Career Development fellowship in Social Determinants of Health supported by the NIA-BSR High Priority Research Network animalsocialaging-network.org are now open! apply here animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Today is the last day to submit an application for our Network's Pilot & Feasibility awards! Individual or mentored projects available at up to $20,000 in total costs. See the quoted post for more details and visit our website for the full RFA: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The application window for our Pilot awards and McEwen fellowship closes soon! If you have a project proposal that focuses on animal models and comparative studies to study the social elements of human aging, we encourage you to apply! See more here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

📢Applications for the McEwen fellowship are now open! We expect to award 1-3 fellowships (up to $6,000 each) to early-career scientists with a proposal within the broad scope of our research network’s interests. Deadline: July 15 Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...

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Alessandro Bartolomucci Lab @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Reminder - funding opportunity available trough the @animalsocaging.bsky.social Pilot & Feasibility Awards Application period - June 1 to June 30 B. McEwen Career Development Fellowship Application period - June 15 to July 15 Small/Working Group Awards Application period - July 1 to July 31

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Interested in learning more about our NIA-funded network? Check out this @science.org feature video from 2020 shortly before our network launched, then visit our website to learn about new Pilot & Feasibility award opportunities! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwIC... animalsocialaging-network.org

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Animal and human studies reveal health impacts of social inequality

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

📢Applications are OPEN for our Pilot awards! Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below! www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo... @smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social

A graphic describing the details related to applying for the Pilot awards of the Animal Models Social Aging network. Visit animalsocialaging-network.org for details.

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Alessandro Bartolomucci Lab @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

📣 @animalsocaging.bsky.social NIA-funded high priority research network - funding available soon!📣 Stay tuned for 3 RFAs: 1. Pilot awards - June 30th 2. The Bruce McEwen Fellowship - July 15 3. Small/working group - July 31 More info on the network: www.animalsocialaging-network.org

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

📣New network funding available soon!📣 The Request for Applications for our Research Network's pilot awards (June 1-June 30), the Bruce McEwen Fellowship (June 15-July 15), and small/working group awards (July 1-July 31) will be live on our website (www.animalsocialaging-network.org) in two weeks!

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Alessandro Bartolomucci Lab @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Our NIA funded High Priority Research network on Animal Models for the Social Dimension of Health and Aging just landed on Bsky @animalsocaging.bsky.social - follow us for updates and new RFAs www.animalsocialaging-network.org @smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social

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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network @animalsocaging.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🎤Hey, is this thing on? The Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network is on Bluesky! We are an NIA-funded network headquartered at UMN, ASU, UNC, and Duke that supports early-career scientists using animal models to study social aging. New funding available soon!

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