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Steven Austad

@austad.bsky.social
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Scientist, writer interested in aging biology, criminal justice, wildlife, birds, the universe.

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Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · 22/06/2026
Great career growth opportunity for early career investigators in aging biology. Be part of the NSC Research to Impact: Building Science Communications program. Raise your communications game and tell your story better. But don't delay - deadline is Tues 6.30. nathanshockcenters.org/nsc-research...
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American Aging Association @americanaging.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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. age.memberclicks.net/index.php?opti… #Aging #Longevity #AIAging
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Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · 26/03/2026
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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The 500-Year-Old Clam with the Secret to Curing Alzheimer’s
YouTube video by The Dan Buettner Podcast
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Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · 08/01/2026
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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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I'm so very sad over the death of Todd Snider. This is why.
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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.”
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Odette @ovdwillik.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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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American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) @afar.org · 02/07/2025
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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The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150?
The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging · Episode
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is really a thing of beauty.
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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...
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Dario Riccardo Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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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Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · 14/03/2025
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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Rep. Salud Carbajal @carbajal.house.gov · 13/03/2025
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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Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center @nathanshockcenters.org · 11/03/2025
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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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
And the Roberts' Supreme Court gave him permission to make this claim.
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’m stumped why we haven’t renamed that state between Arizona and Texas New America?
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Subscribe (for free) to the best monthly summary of vew and research about aging research. www.uab.edu/shockcenter/...
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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
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Subscribe now. Lands in you email box every month. view.reach.uab.edu?qs=a2aca352d...
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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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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.
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Painting outside my usual lines, thoughts on the logic of retirement age for government pensions. academic.oup.com/ppar/advance...
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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
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Juleen R. Zierath @juleenrzierath.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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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Juleen R. Zierath @juleenrzierath.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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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Michael Ringel | Chief Operating Officer, Life Biosciences @michaelringel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Let’s get our terminology straight
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
News flash. Polygraph evidence is 19th century junk science still around for some reason in the 21st century.
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Keep up with latest in aging research, subscribable, monthly, curated links that land in your email box. www.uab.edu/shockcenter/...
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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
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Steven Austad @austad.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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.
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