Poetry News · @haikubot
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Eishi Noguchi · @enog
360 followers · 1607 posts · Server masto.ai

Five-year old gerbil

Gerbils must be kept in pairs or in a group. Unfortunately, his partner passed away a few months ago after living together for more than four years and a half 😢

Gerbil’s lifespan is 3-4 years in captivity. Both gerbils were well-beyond their lifespan, so, we decided not to introduce another gerbil 🤔

Although he is slower and sleeps longer than before, he still got energy, destroying any paperboard to make his own bedding 😊

#gerbil #smallanimal #lifespan #aging

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Max Headroom :trekbadgetng: · @mikemathia
1251 followers · 8831 posts · Server ioc.exchange

#lifespan

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CPIPR · @PopResearchCtrs
560 followers · 837 posts · Server sciences.social

Children growing up in more socioeconomically disadvantaged families and neighborhoods and children from marginalized racial/ethnic groups exhibit DNA methylation profiles that are indicative of lower cognitive functioning and a faster pace of biological aging.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/364596

#NICHDimpact #dna #healthdisparities #lifespan #poverty #SES #aging

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damian entwistle · @ukdamo
61 followers · 458 posts · Server mastodon.org.uk
Lauren Hall-Lew · @dialect
719 followers · 922 posts · Server mastodon.scot

It is the BEST THING EVER to see someone investigate a research question you've always had, but do it better than you could've ever done.

Check out Melanie Weireich and Adrian Simpson's paper, "Changes in parents' phonetic parameters during the first year of a child's life: A comparative study of German and Swedish"

Fascinating correlations, and lack thereof, between femininity self-rating of fathers and mothers, and their f0 production over time.

#lifespan #sociophonetics #icphs2023

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Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
142 followers · 3385 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

These 8 -backed Could Significantly Increase Your

inverse.com/health/8-science-b
Taking for our own can seem daunting. But it doesn’t have to be.

#science #habits #lifespan #responsibility #health

Last updated 1 year ago

Mathew Samuel · @mathew1927
430 followers · 1468 posts · Server zeroes.ca

COVID evolving past RAT detection + more asymptomatic infections?

Here's a study that RATs miss 90%(!!) of asymptomatic infections: acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2

When China was still doing zero COVID, we saw that the vast majority of cases were asymptomatic (~98%!): reuters.com/world/china/why-ar

All things being equal, asymptomatic cases or cases that elude RATs (at least the initial round) will cause more transmission as we have resumed 'normal' now, except for the COVID-careful.

This would favor these variants over others that get detected by RATs or cause acute infection symptoms.

Unfortunately, acute symptoms are no predictor of degree of internal damage and future lifespan reducing issues with strokes, liver, brain, kidneys, etc

But they do allow minimizers/deniers to further ignore the catastrophe and blame
for the increased deaths and reduction

Dangerous times indeed!

It also means that the case/hospitalization numbers may be even more understated than ever (20x, 25x?)




h/t zeroes.ca/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@a

#AnythingButCovid #lifespan #ZeroCovid #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #weararespirator

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Bart Louwers · @bart
53 followers · 195 posts · Server floss.social

Treadmills to use with a standing desk. Intrigued by the concept. Any experiences? Is walking all day on them doable? My (online) research thus far: cheap “Walking Pads” to be found on Amazon are to be avoided. is a decent brand, but it made their products worse recently. The Unsit is excellent, but is not available in the EU. sells purely mechanical German hand made versions that weigh 85 kg+ and have lifetime warranty, but they cost as much as a small car.

#lifespan #inmovement #walkation

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ConscienHealth · @ConscienHealth
45 followers · 273 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

Evidence that has a relationship with from a Mendelian randomization study in Nature Human Behavior.
Insights to complement the work of Anne Case and Angus Deaton on deaths of despair.
conscienhealth.org/2023/07/doe

#education #causal #lifespan

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Queer Sci Fi · @queerscifi
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L. Scott Spencer · @lscottspencer
499 followers · 4981 posts · Server mstdn.social

There's a Parasite That Triples Ants' Lifespans... And It Actually Sounds Pretty Great

Very interesting.
sciencealert.com/theres-a-para
>Hosting a parasitic tapeworm isn't usually a desirable state.

#lifespan #parasites #Nature #Science #ants

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L. Scott Spencer · @lscottspencer
499 followers · 5020 posts · Server mstdn.social

There's a Parasite That Triples Ants' Lifespans... And It Actually Sounds Pretty Great

Very interesting.
sciencealert.com/theres-a-para
>Hosting a parasitic tapeworm isn't usually a desirable state.

#lifespan #parasites #Nature #Science #ants

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preLights · @preLights
526 followers · 139 posts · Server mstdn.science

Tik-Tok of the Methylation clock: does DNA impact on our ?⏰

New post prepared by Jennifer Ann Black which covers a from Samuel Crofts, Eric Latorre-Crespo &Tamir Chandra.

: prelights.biologists.com/highl

#methylation #lifespan #prelight #preprint #genetics #ageing #mammals

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neat_news · @neat_news
5 followers · 162 posts · Server federated.press

A new study finds that a molecule, called taurine, which is produced in our bodies and also found in algae, for instance, plays a role in health and lifespan. If given as a supplement to middle-aged mice their lifespans can be extended by up to 12 percent. More research is needed. See neat-news.com/2023/06/162.php.

#taurine #lifespan #supplement

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CellBioNews · @cellbionews
54 followers · 1317 posts · Server scientificnetwork.de

Computational model estimates of any species using only its sequence.

phys.org/news/2023-05-lifespan

#lifespan #fish #genome

Last updated 1 year ago