Steven Austad
@austad.bsky.social
Scientist, writer interested in aging biology, criminal justice, wildlife, birds, the universe.
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
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November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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We are so glad to share that the Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center (NSC3) will continue its mission after receiving a five-year grant renewal! The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) will lead NSC3 activities with the $5.7 million NIH award. Read more here: bit.ly/45yQz2B
August 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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...
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...
August 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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...
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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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:
Listen to episode 1 of The World as You’ll Know It: The Future of Aging here:
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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July 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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:
Listen to episode 1 of The World as You’ll Know It: The Future of Aging here:
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This is really a thing of beauty.
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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May 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is really a thing of beauty.
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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.
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.
March 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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.
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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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
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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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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.
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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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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
March 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
I’m stumped why we haven’t renamed that state between Arizona and Texas New America?
February 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I’m stumped why we haven’t renamed that state between Arizona and Texas New America?
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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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February 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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January 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
December 20, 2024 at 4:30 PM
The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
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...
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.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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...
Painting outside my usual lines, thoughts on the logic of retirement age for government pensions. academic.oup.com/ppar/advance...
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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December 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Painting outside my usual lines, thoughts on the logic of retirement age for government pensions. academic.oup.com/ppar/advance...
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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
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
December 7, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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
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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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
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
#Nobelprize
The lectures will be broadcast live at nobelprize.org @NobelPrize
December 7, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
#Nobelprize
The lectures will be broadcast live at nobelprize.org @NobelPrize
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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
December 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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
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.
December 1, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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.
Let’s get our terminology straight
November 26, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Let’s get our terminology straight
News flash. Polygraph evidence is 19th century junk science still around for some reason in the 21st century.
November 25, 2024 at 10:58 PM
News flash. Polygraph evidence is 19th century junk science still around for some reason in the 21st century.
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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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November 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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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.
November 25, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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.