Updates on our 2026 strategy and budget can be found here: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/o...
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Updates on our 2026 strategy and budget can be found here: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/o...
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
Why typos matter
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...
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-...
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-...
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...
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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-...
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-...
🚨 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...
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 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/...
We are delighted that Quest Nutra/Pharma will be sponsoring THREE of our 2026 Small Research Grants as part of our #6for2026 campaign!
qnutrapharma.com
Could you or your company help? Every little helps!
Could it be that treatment for cancer has a hormetic effect (eg unregulates a stress response) that protects against Alzheimer’s?
Some thoughts on the select committee appearance by the boss of UKRI, Ian Chapman yesterday. It’s a long watch but can be seen here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Post-doc job alert!
Only a week left to apply for this post doc role, joining our team at the Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social to explore ageing metabolism and epigenetics.
babrahaminstitute.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...
'You may be aware of recent pauses to some programmes. For our curiosity-driven research [CDR] (...) headroom in funding will increase (...) and you can expect to see new opportunities opening later this year (...) Levels of funding for [CDR] will remain stable (...) are reflective of recent years'
For Literature but yeah
We're kicking our our 2026 academic seminar series!
First up - Time to reset: the interplay between circadian rhythms and NRF2-signalling in skeletal muscle ageing
📅Thur 29 January 4pm (UK time)
🎙️ Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan @liverpooluni.bsky.social
See you there.
bsra.org.uk/events/2026-...
The BSRA 2026 Funding Call is Open!
We are now accepting applications for Summer Studentships, Small Research Grants and Travel Grants! Deadline 1st March 2026. Find out more and apply: bsra.org.uk/grants/
#ECRchat #AcademicTwitter #ageing #aging
Our latest work in collaboration with the group of Jeroen van Zon.
The transcription factor DAF-16/FOXO moves in and out of the nucleus in a strikingly synchronous manner across cells, regulating organismal growth.
www.linkedin.com/posts/amolf_...
“The secret that scientists don’t want you to know about!”
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The BSRA congratulates Prof Andrew J Scott on being awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List!
His work on the economics of longevity has shaped how we think about ageing & wellbeing across the life course. A well-deserved recognition👏 #AgeingResearch #Longevity #NewYearsHonours
As we wrap up 2025, a huge thank you to the BSRA community for an outstanding year!
From record-breaking meetings to new initiatives we’re excited for what 2026 will bring, including #6for2026 & continued support for the next generation of researchers.
See you in 2026!🎄
There’s always one worm in a lifespan experiment that looks like it will make it to Christmas. SMX is good stuff!
And, because you're always just one or two failed funding cycles from ruin, you're constantly asking for more money than you actually need, and then you get the grants and need to hire people, and then later you don't want to fire them, and on it goes. 2/2
Took over a new module this semester, returned it to in person exams (due to..). Gave a sample paper, used some of those questions in the actual exam (being "nice") . Got the near enough exact same wrong answer from a quarter to a third of the class. Guess what they had used to "study"?
