Looking forward to hearing Guanghui Liu's of Chinese Academy of Sciences present their exciting work at #BSRA2026 Who are you looking forward to seeing at BSRA this year? 🗓️9-11th Sept 📍Keble College Oxford 🔗https://bsra.org.uk/events/75th-annual-scientific-meeting-for-the-bsra-2026/

Care home residents make up less than 1% of the population but account for around 8% of hospital admissions. In a new blog, Dr Matthew Butler writes on behalf of the EnRICH (Enhanced Reviews in Care Homes) team, whose service evaluation is published in Age and Ageing. buff.ly/Q01wDIl

Bringing the geriatrician to the care home: what we learned from EnRICH | British Geriatrics Society

Dr Matthew Butler is a Consultant Geriatrician at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He writes on behalf of the EnRICH team, whose service evaluation is published in Age and Ageing.

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Did you know that both DuSRA and @americanaging.bsky.social members are eligible to membership rates for BSRA’s Annual Scientific Meeting? The BSRA's 75th annual meeting looking like a great one! See you there DuSRA & AGE members! 9-11 Sept Oxford bsra.org.uk/events/75th-... #BSRA2026

75th Annual Scientific Meeting of the BSRA (2026): The Biology of Ageing - BSRA

BRITAIN’S LEADING AGEING RESEARCH CONFERENCE In 2026, the BSRA is pleased to host its 75th Annual Scientific Meeting on the Biology of Ageing at the University of Oxford between 9th and 11th September...

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Coming to #BSRA2026? The premier ageing biology meeting, and this year is our 75th annual event! We're looking forward to seeing Ana Maria Cuervo of @einsteinmededu.bsky.social present 🗓️9-11th Sept 📍Keble College Oxford 🔗https://bsra.org.uk/events/75th-annual-scientific-meeting-for-the-bsra-2026/

A great talk from Gordon Lithgow at the @buckinstitute.org

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🎥 Missed one of our seminars? Our YouTube channel is packed with public & academic seminars, research highlights, and more. Example? Gordon Lithgow @buckinstitute.org on one of the biggest challenges in ageing biology. ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/ke5P_... #Ageing #Aging #UnderstandingAgeing

A great public science talk, networking with BSRA Annual Scientific Meeting attendees and others interested in the science of ageing, drinks and nibbles, all for only £18? Why wouldn't you! Places are limited www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec... 🗓️9th September ⏲️5-8pm 📍@kebleoxford.bsky.social

ORLA WEINKOVE. Sixteen year old guitarist and singer-songwriter Orla Weinkove performs a set of equally energetic and intricate originals. Inspired by alternative rock legends such as Radiohead, Orla’s songwriting provides an unfiltered look into the teenage experience. 6.30, Wed, Holy GrAle

Durham Free Fringe's programme is now fully online. Come this way for both the web version and the download of the paper version. durhamfreefringe.org.uk/wp/whats-on/

We are very excited to present our latest work on bioarxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Where we reveals the hidden depth of scRNA-seq.

All right Bluesky followers, sorry to have been slow with this account. We'll be catching up on here shortly with all the acts already posted on insta. In the meantime, you can see the programme here: durhamfreefringe.org.uk/wp/whats-on/

Did you miss @atjcagan.bsky.social talk at this months BSRA Academic Seminar? Check it out below! Investigating somatic evolution across the tree of life to gain insights into healthy ageing 🔗https://youtu.be/9v95S2Oc91A

🚨Weekend Watch🚨 Did you miss this week's public event, want to show someone, or just watch it back? We have Gordon Lithgow of @buckinstitute.org, Daphna Stern from Beyond Longevity Podcast, and BSRA chair @dweinkove.bsky.social in discussion on drugs to slow ageing. Enjoy! youtu.be/-wNCuxF9Q4c

Discussing Drugs to Slow Ageing

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❓Do you want to join our Board of Trustees? Are you dedicated to improving how we all age? Due to a retirement, we’re recruiting a Trustee. More information and how to apply here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/about-us/vac... Closing date: 17 May 2026, 5pm #BoardOpportunity #CharityGovernance

Great opportunity for early career researchers

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For our 75th annual meeting we are pleased to announce an additional grant call for Travel Grants to attend our 75th ASM in Oxford from 9-11 September. CALL NOW OPEN. Closing date 1st May 2026 bsra.org.uk/2026_travel_...

🚨 #BSRA2026 is LIVE! Registration now open for our 75th Annual Meeting 📍 Oxford (Keble College) Great science, great people, and some special 75th year surprises 👀 Tag someone who should be there! 🔗 meetinghand.com/e/75th-asm-o...

Updates on our 2026 strategy and budget can be found here: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/o...

Updates on our 2026 strategy and budget

Reshaping UKRI's strategy UKRI is developing a new strategy, to be launched in spring 2026.

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Recently we held our first regional engagement event about our new strategy. Our CEO, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, shares key themes that emerged from this conversation at Daresbury Laboratory with stakeholders from across the North West in this video: youtu.be/irQ0nxP9qnw

Key themes from North West regional engagement event on UKRI strategy l Professor Sir Ian Chapman

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Excited to share our new study using engineered immune proteins to quench inflammation in aged brains!! Congratulations to Paloma Navarro and the entire team! Fantastic collaboration with Chris Garcia's lab, Tony Wyss-Coray's lab, and Saul Villeda's lab! www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Targeting immune cells in the aged brain reveals that engineered cytokine IL-10 enhances neurogenesis and improves cognition

Immune cells populate the old brain, but whether they can be specifically targeted to improve brain function in older individuals remains unclear. Navarro Negredo et al. dissect how aging impacts brai...

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It's not too late to register for tomorrow's public lecture! Richard Siow @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will be talking about the role of nutrients in boosting resilience for the heart & brain at 4pm Wednesday 4th March. Tell friends, family and colleagues! bsra.org.uk/events/2026-...

2026 Online Public Lecture Series - BSRA

After the success of our 2025 season of Understanding Ageing: Meet the Scientists public lectures, we are pleased to announce our 2026 programme. Hear from experts in their field, invited to talk abou...

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Tomorrow (Wed 4th March 4pm UK) the 2026 @BSRAgeing public lecture series begins with Richard Siow who will be talking about how nutrition can prevent heart and brain diseases. Please encourage your family, friends or colleagues to sign up too! bsra.org.uk/events/2026-...

2026 Online Public Lecture Series - BSRA

After the success of our 2025 season of Understanding Ageing: Meet the Scientists public lectures, we are pleased to announce our 2026 programme. Hear from experts in their field, invited to talk abou...

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Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

The BSRA is delighted to announce that Quest Nutra\Pharma Group has offered to fund three of our Small Research Grants in our next round of funding as part of our #6for2026 funding campaign. Read more about kind donation here - bsra.org.uk/quest-nutra-...

Quest Nutra/Pharma funds THREE small research grants - BSRA

The BSRA is delighted to announce that Quest NutraPharma responded to our Six for 2026 fundraising campaign with a generous offer to fund three of our Small Research Grants. BSRA member, Dr Ahmed Hass...

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Our public lecture are back! We've got Richard Siow - @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Gordon Lithgow - @buckinstitute.org Dawn Skelton - @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social @prof-valterlongo.bsky.social - @usc.edu James Murry - @swanseauni.bsky.social Tell friends & family, these are great talks!😀

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?

He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

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🚨 Postdoc opportunity to study memory or nutrition in #Drosophila 🪰 I am looking for a candidate to support for a 3 year Addison Wheeler Fellowship application lnkd.in/e2rvNf5x Interested? Please send a CV & cover letter with brief research outline by 20th February to vincent.croset@durham.ac.uk

#Aging is largest risk factor for #Parkinsons, but research largely leaves it out of the mix. Dr. Julie Andersen & collaborators have developed roadmap @nature_NPJ & preclinical research models that can move field in that direction. Thanks @MichaelJFoxOrg www.buckinstitute.org/news/a-new-r...

A new roadmap spotlights aging as key to advancing research in Parkinson’s disease

Buck Institute scientists are part of an international collaboration funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation to advance preclinical studies of the incurable neuromotor disease

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Small grants have big impacts on early career researchers. Don't forget our grants round is open until 1st March. ✔️Seed grants £3000 ✔️ UG summer studentships £3000 ✔️Travel grants £500 Are you applying? Or know someone who should? bsra.org.uk/grants/

A clock that measures the aging of nerve cells finds molecules that protect against age-related neurodegeneration | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

A clock that measures the aging of nerve cells finds molecules that protect against age-related neurodegeneration

Using an aging clock, researchers from the University of Cologne have used the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism to demonstrate that nerve cells age differently. They identified both the causes of...

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A comprehensive and thought-provoking review on how perturbations of proteostasis impact immunity in C. elegans & comparisons/conserved principles w/ vertebrate immunity - Emily Troemel, @hawlelab.bsky.social, and Michalis Barkoulas journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Intersections between proteostasis and immunity: insights from Caenorhabditis elegans

Summary: Discoveries from the nematode C. elegans have provided insight into the many connections between immune responses and proteostasis, with examples of conservation across species.

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