Andrew Steele
@statto.bsky.social
Ageing biologist (aren’t we all?)
My book: https://ageless.link/
My videos: https://www.youtube.com/DrAndrewSteele
My website: https://andrewsteele.co.uk/
Location: Berlin, DE
My book: https://ageless.link/
My videos: https://www.youtube.com/DrAndrewSteele
My website: https://andrewsteele.co.uk/
Location: Berlin, DE
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Andrew Steele
@statto.bsky.social
· Oct 23
Hi! I’m a longevity scientist, writer and campaigner. #introduction
My book, Ageless, is out in paperback! ‘A tour de force of anti-ageing science’ – The Times ageless.link
Or, check out my YouTube channel! This is a video on the most promising longevity drugs: youtu.be/RODwPAdtrw8
My book, Ageless, is out in paperback! ‘A tour de force of anti-ageing science’ – The Times ageless.link
Or, check out my YouTube channel! This is a video on the most promising longevity drugs: youtu.be/RODwPAdtrw8
Today I’m at a big Norwegian medical conference, and they’ve bought a copy of my book for every speaker!
Thanks, EHiN!
Thanks, EHiN!
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today I’m at a big Norwegian medical conference, and they’ve bought a copy of my book for every speaker!
Thanks, EHiN!
Thanks, EHiN!
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Very sad to hear about Jim Watson’s death. If you think he was always a racist you are wrong. He refused to support genes/IQ research in the 70s. He boycotted Greece because of the military coup in 1967 and he called for a boycott of meetings in Chicago after the police riot of 1968. 1/2
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Very sad to hear about Jim Watson’s death. If you think he was always a racist you are wrong. He refused to support genes/IQ research in the 70s. He boycotted Greece because of the military coup in 1967 and he called for a boycott of meetings in Chicago after the police riot of 1968. 1/2
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
What was that, did Bill Gates say something about climate change?
I’ve been too busy to read Gates’s piece, the counterpoints and the counter-counterpoints…so I was very happy to have @climateadam.bsky.social explain it all to me succinctly over breakfast.
Thanks Adam, great video!
I’ve been too busy to read Gates’s piece, the counterpoints and the counter-counterpoints…so I was very happy to have @climateadam.bsky.social explain it all to me succinctly over breakfast.
Thanks Adam, great video!
Climate Scientist Responds to Bill Gates
YouTube video by ClimateAdam
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What was that, did Bill Gates say something about climate change?
I’ve been too busy to read Gates’s piece, the counterpoints and the counter-counterpoints…so I was very happy to have @climateadam.bsky.social explain it all to me succinctly over breakfast.
Thanks Adam, great video!
I’ve been too busy to read Gates’s piece, the counterpoints and the counter-counterpoints…so I was very happy to have @climateadam.bsky.social explain it all to me succinctly over breakfast.
Thanks Adam, great video!
Great to chat to Phil for this piece!
‘Steele is happy to see billionaires investing in research, because there’s good reason to believe ageing can be slowed. “I think we could make some pretty serious progress against ageing for perhaps $100bn – peanuts for the billionaires, if they teamed up.”’
‘Steele is happy to see billionaires investing in research, because there’s good reason to believe ageing can be slowed. “I think we could make some pretty serious progress against ageing for perhaps $100bn – peanuts for the billionaires, if they teamed up.”’
With the help of @statto.bsky.social and @erictopol.bsky.social (🙏) I have delved a little into the often bizarre efforts of tech billionairres to live forever. Is there anything at all in it? My column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
The tech lords' quest for eternal life
Nothing is more transparent than Silicon Valley’s fixation with longevity and, ideally, immortality, revealing a desperate fear of death
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Great to chat to Phil for this piece!
‘Steele is happy to see billionaires investing in research, because there’s good reason to believe ageing can be slowed. “I think we could make some pretty serious progress against ageing for perhaps $100bn – peanuts for the billionaires, if they teamed up.”’
‘Steele is happy to see billionaires investing in research, because there’s good reason to believe ageing can be slowed. “I think we could make some pretty serious progress against ageing for perhaps $100bn – peanuts for the billionaires, if they teamed up.”’
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With the help of @statto.bsky.social and @erictopol.bsky.social (🙏) I have delved a little into the often bizarre efforts of tech billionairres to live forever. Is there anything at all in it? My column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
The tech lords' quest for eternal life
Nothing is more transparent than Silicon Valley’s fixation with longevity and, ideally, immortality, revealing a desperate fear of death
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
With the help of @statto.bsky.social and @erictopol.bsky.social (🙏) I have delved a little into the often bizarre efforts of tech billionairres to live forever. Is there anything at all in it? My column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
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What a terrible bit of journalism. Doesn't even address the topic of how these might enable covert surveillance. My favourite insight was this below...
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What a terrible bit of journalism. Doesn't even address the topic of how these might enable covert surveillance. My favourite insight was this below...
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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This is such a crying shame, and so short-sighted. But there it is.
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is such a crying shame, and so short-sighted. But there it is.
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I'm getting a lot of LLM-generated inbound.
Someone pushed a button forcing me to spend more time reading the message than they spent creating it.
Please, give me your authenticity, typos & bad grammar.
Someone pushed a button forcing me to spend more time reading the message than they spent creating it.
Please, give me your authenticity, typos & bad grammar.
October 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I'm getting a lot of LLM-generated inbound.
Someone pushed a button forcing me to spend more time reading the message than they spent creating it.
Please, give me your authenticity, typos & bad grammar.
Someone pushed a button forcing me to spend more time reading the message than they spent creating it.
Please, give me your authenticity, typos & bad grammar.
Fascinating—and one assumes the covid vaccine isn’t close to the optimal way to do this, just the first one we’ve happened across!
October 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Fascinating—and one assumes the covid vaccine isn’t close to the optimal way to do this, just the first one we’ve happened across!
Very sad news.
Gurdon shared the Nobel with Shinya Yamanaka for showing how we can turn the clock back inside cells through reprogramming—now one of the most promising potential longevity interventions.
Gurdon shared the Nobel with Shinya Yamanaka for showing how we can turn the clock back inside cells through reprogramming—now one of the most promising potential longevity interventions.
It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r
Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r
October 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Very sad news.
Gurdon shared the Nobel with Shinya Yamanaka for showing how we can turn the clock back inside cells through reprogramming—now one of the most promising potential longevity interventions.
Gurdon shared the Nobel with Shinya Yamanaka for showing how we can turn the clock back inside cells through reprogramming—now one of the most promising potential longevity interventions.
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Reposted by Andrew Steele
Want a sub-15-minute introduction to longevity science?
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
Aging is the biggest unsolved problem in medicine | Andrew Steele
YouTube video by Freethink
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Want a sub-15-minute introduction to longevity science?
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
Want a sub-15-minute introduction to longevity science?
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
Aging is the biggest unsolved problem in medicine | Andrew Steele
YouTube video by Freethink
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Want a sub-15-minute introduction to longevity science?
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
This is my new go-to video: the @freethink.com team did an amazing job cutting two hours of me chatting down to this gorgeous brief intro to longevity.
Please share far and ultra-wide!
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Aging is the biggest unsolved problem in medicine | Andrew Steele
YouTube video by Freethink
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Interesting/depressing finding!
Previous studies found that we get busier and less happy in middle aged but that reverses as we get fewer and more sage in retirement. This graph looks almost like the exponential risk of death graph but upside-down!
We really need to do something about ageing…
Previous studies found that we get busier and less happy in middle aged but that reverses as we get fewer and more sage in retirement. This graph looks almost like the exponential risk of death graph but upside-down!
We really need to do something about ageing…
Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
September 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Interesting/depressing finding!
Previous studies found that we get busier and less happy in middle aged but that reverses as we get fewer and more sage in retirement. This graph looks almost like the exponential risk of death graph but upside-down!
We really need to do something about ageing…
Previous studies found that we get busier and less happy in middle aged but that reverses as we get fewer and more sage in retirement. This graph looks almost like the exponential risk of death graph but upside-down!
We really need to do something about ageing…
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Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Reposted by Andrew Steele
Ooof.
“Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps” ☢️
Now this IS interesting, noting if I had one thing in my gift, it would be to remove the word “dump” from all reporting on a highly engineered geological disposal facility…
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
“Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps” ☢️
Now this IS interesting, noting if I had one thing in my gift, it would be to remove the word “dump” from all reporting on a highly engineered geological disposal facility…
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps
Opposition to nuclear waste dumps in the English countryside could be bypassed as Ed Miliband considers scrapping the need for local consent.
www.yahoo.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Ooof.
“Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps” ☢️
Now this IS interesting, noting if I had one thing in my gift, it would be to remove the word “dump” from all reporting on a highly engineered geological disposal facility…
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
“Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps” ☢️
Now this IS interesting, noting if I had one thing in my gift, it would be to remove the word “dump” from all reporting on a highly engineered geological disposal facility…
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Just got an email from a university based teacher trainer about “Why Don’t Things Fall Up? saying he has used it for “examples of good clear science communication, pitched to the right level for the right audience”. The audience is *you* and it is just 99p on Kindle for few more days (til end Sept)
Why Don't Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained eBook : Shaha, Alom: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Why Don't Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained eBook : Shaha, Alom: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just got an email from a university based teacher trainer about “Why Don’t Things Fall Up? saying he has used it for “examples of good clear science communication, pitched to the right level for the right audience”. The audience is *you* and it is just 99p on Kindle for few more days (til end Sept)
This is one of those use-cases where AI is terrible: we should just create a standard format for flight times so app data are interoperable.
AI makes baffling mistakes some significant minority of the time. If we'd invested the $00bns in standards instead of AI, the world would be a better place.
AI makes baffling mistakes some significant minority of the time. If we'd invested the $00bns in standards instead of AI, the world would be a better place.
Apple Intelligence is so clever, it found my mum’s flight details buried in an email and sent me a notification at 4am to go to the airport. To catch my mum’s flight. Who isn’t me. And is in another country.
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This is one of those use-cases where AI is terrible: we should just create a standard format for flight times so app data are interoperable.
AI makes baffling mistakes some significant minority of the time. If we'd invested the $00bns in standards instead of AI, the world would be a better place.
AI makes baffling mistakes some significant minority of the time. If we'd invested the $00bns in standards instead of AI, the world would be a better place.
New ITP paper just dropped! 🧪 #longevityscience
• Epicatechin, a flavanol found in cocoa, increased average lifespan by 5% in male mice.
• Halofuginone, a compound that simulates protein restriction, +9%, again only in males.
• Mitoglitazone, an experimental diabetes drug, also +9% in males only.
• Epicatechin, a flavanol found in cocoa, increased average lifespan by 5% in male mice.
• Halofuginone, a compound that simulates protein restriction, +9%, again only in males.
• Mitoglitazone, an experimental diabetes drug, also +9% in males only.
September 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New ITP paper just dropped! 🧪 #longevityscience
• Epicatechin, a flavanol found in cocoa, increased average lifespan by 5% in male mice.
• Halofuginone, a compound that simulates protein restriction, +9%, again only in males.
• Mitoglitazone, an experimental diabetes drug, also +9% in males only.
• Epicatechin, a flavanol found in cocoa, increased average lifespan by 5% in male mice.
• Halofuginone, a compound that simulates protein restriction, +9%, again only in males.
• Mitoglitazone, an experimental diabetes drug, also +9% in males only.
Reposted by Andrew Steele
🎙️ Ep1 of @briancoxtalks.bsky.social A Question of Science is out & it's on ageing research!
As @statto.bsky.social says “The single most important thing… is to campaign for more funding for ageing research!”
Here's how 👉 bsra.org.uk/donate/
#BSRA #AgeingResearch #SciencePodcast
As @statto.bsky.social says “The single most important thing… is to campaign for more funding for ageing research!”
Here's how 👉 bsra.org.uk/donate/
#BSRA #AgeingResearch #SciencePodcast
DONATE - BSRA
About ageing Why donate? Understanding the ageing process will have wide reaching social, health and economic benefits as a better world for older people is a better world for all. The BSRA funds vita...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🎙️ Ep1 of @briancoxtalks.bsky.social A Question of Science is out & it's on ageing research!
As @statto.bsky.social says “The single most important thing… is to campaign for more funding for ageing research!”
Here's how 👉 bsra.org.uk/donate/
#BSRA #AgeingResearch #SciencePodcast
As @statto.bsky.social says “The single most important thing… is to campaign for more funding for ageing research!”
Here's how 👉 bsra.org.uk/donate/
#BSRA #AgeingResearch #SciencePodcast