  It has been recently pointed out that in certain axion models it is possible
to suppress simultaneously both the axion couplings to nucleons and electrons,
realising the so-called astrophobic axion scenarios, wherein the tight bounds
from SN1987A and from stellar evolution of red giants and white dwarfs are
greatly relaxed. So far, however, the conditions for realising astrophobia have
only been set out in tree-level analyses. Here we study whether these
conditions can still be consistently implemented once renormalization group
effects are included in the running of axion couplings. We find that axion
astrophobia keeps holding, albeit within fairly different parameter space
regions, and we provide analytical insights into this result. Given that
astrophobic axion models generally feature flavour violating axion couplings,
we also assess the impact of renormalization group effects on axion-mediated
flavour violating observables.
