I should have waited like Julia until I was a hundred to take up running. My knees certainly would have appreciated it.

Recording now available from AFAR’s recent #webinar, “How Realistic is a 100-Year Life Expectancy, and Why Does it Matter?” ft. Steven Austad S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D. and Andrew J Scott Watch here: ow.ly/QuCM50TVHyb #Healthspan #longevitydividend #geroscience

Excited to hear remarks from Steven Austad as he receives AFAR's Inaugural George M. Martin Award at a special awards ceremony on Nov 14 at #GSA2024 Learn more about the event here: afar.org/events/afar-at…

What’s happening in aging research? view.reach.uab.edu/?qs=f36e8173c3…

Excited to join this event Dec3 Buck Institute ! Hope to see you in person and talk #XPRIZEHealthspan XPRIZE

Dr. Kenny Chiou, assistant professor of biology, has been awarded a $1.5 million NIH grant to advance research on how social factors such as social connectivity or social status impact lifespans. uab.edu/news/people/it…

This Thanksgiving, we want to express our gratitude for your support of AFAR. Your contributions help advance research to help everyone live healthier, longer. We are grateful for you and hope you consider making a year-end gift this season: afar.org/donate

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends in the US! Wishing you all a lovely holiday from the team at TriviumVet 🦃

On this #GivingTuesday and every day, I’m proud to be a board member of AFAR. Your tax-deductible, year-end donation today will help advance research to help everyone live healthier, longer. Give here: afar.org/donate

AFAR is pleased to announce 2024 McKnight Brain Innovator Award recipient Sanaz Sedaghat, PhD, of University of Minnesota. Learn more about her supported research through this grant here: afar.org/grantee-profil…

"Just as Arizonans adjust their lives around the monsoon and winter rains, these tortoises have adapted their behaviors to fit their environment" - Greer Dolby, UAB Biology assistant prof. & senior author of a new paper on tortoises in Molecular Ecology: news.asu.edu/20241206-scien…

AFAR Board Member Richard Besdine featured in Parade Mag article on the impact of #exercising on biological #aging and extending #healthspan. Read more here: ow.ly/2VPh50UwWkZ

In this episode (#333) of The Drive, I explore the rapidly evolving field of geroscience with three renowned experts in longevity science— Steven Austad, Richard Miller, and Matt Kaeberlein. bit.ly/40sbT61

Join us this Thursday evening as the Biology Dept celebrates Darwin Day with a reception, poster session, and keynote lecture by evolutionary geneticist and NASA astrobiologist Dr. Frank Rosenzweig.

Anyone else notice that Elon Musk's demented lies are now showing up in your notification?

🌟Congratulations to AGE 2025 Early Career Scholar Alison Kochersberger, Buck Institute for Research on Aging!! Learn More>> americanagingassociation.org/age-2025-early…

On this day in 1942, the United States evicted Japanese Americans from their homes in Washington and forced them into internment camps. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

One month away. Can't wait.

Sad to learn that Richard Fortey, trilobite enthusiast and scientist/writer par excellence, has passed. Read one of his books if you enjoy a beguiling amalgam of poetry and biology.

Elump & RFK are destroying the labs and research programs that make American research great. If there was any doubt, here's proof. If there were real interest in research to fix our broken food system, they would support labs like Hall's, not drive them out of the NIH