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Jakob Nikolas Kather

@jnkt.bsky.social
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Medical Doctor | Clinical Artificial Intelligence | Professor of Medicine and Computer Science at TU Dresden, Germany | X: jnkath | web: www.kather.ai

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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Very happy to share our lab‘s latest work, published in Nature last week 👇
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Frankfurt Cancer Institute @loewe-fci.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@leilaakkari.bsky.social, @rjdlab.bsky.social, @megeblad.bsky.social, @thegarrettlab.bsky.social, @jnkt.bsky.social, @romansarott.bsky.social, @maria-sibilia.bsky.social, @steidluli.bsky.social, @winklerlab.bsky.social
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Nature Reviews Cancer @natrevcancer.nature.com · 19/01/2026
#REVIEW 🚨 #AI agents perform complex tasks with minimal human oversight. This Review by @jnkt.bsky.social et al. discusses how AI could transform oncology & the challenges to address for efficient & safe use. 👇 📖
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Artificial intelligence agents in cancer research and oncology - Nature Reviews Cancer
Artificial intelligence agents are autonomous systems that use large language models to reason and as such can perform complex, multistep tasks with minimal human oversight. This Review by Truhn et al. discusses how these agents — which have already been implemented in several industries — could transform cancer research and oncology, and looks at the challenges that need to be addressed before they can be efficiently and safely used.
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our review on AI agents in cancer research and oncology is out in @natrevcancer.nature.com. Already partly outdated at publication, but hopefully still useful. With Daniel Truhn, Shekoofeh Azizi, James Zou, Leonor Cerda-Alberich, Faisal Mahmood -> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Client Challenge
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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas. #ProcGen #GameDev
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/12/2025
EU told to choose between ‘money today or blood tomorrow’ as leaders debate giving Russian assets to Ukraine – Europe live
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EU told to choose between ‘money today or blood tomorrow’ as leaders debate giving Russian assets to Ukraine – Europe live
European leaders meet in Brussels as Poland’s Donald Tusk issues warning to fellow EU states The European Council president António Costa is clear that the talks will go on for as long as it’s needed to get an agreement. He seeks to maintain a largely neutral position, but says: Continue reading...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
US and Russian officials participated in a coordinated attack on Europe which saw thousands of bots spread disinformation and terroristic rhetoric against the European Union.
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EU's fatal mistake: choosing censorship over debate, ideology over reality, mass migration over security and green dogma over industry.
Secretary Marco Rubio © @SecRubio • 5. Dez.
The European Commission's $140 million fine isn't just an attack on @X, it's an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
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My recent trip to Brussels for the @NATO Ministerial meeting left me with one overriding impression: the US has long failed to address the glaring inconsistency between its relations with NATO and the EU. These are almost all the same countries in both organizations. When these countries wear their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual security. But when these countries wear their EU hats, they pursue all sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to US interests and security-including censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation, support for Communist Cuba, etc etc. This inconsistency cannot continue. Either the great nations of Europe are our partners in protecting the Western civilization that we inherited from them or they are not. But we cannot pretend that we are partners while those nations allow the EU's unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative bureaucracy in Brussels to pursue policies of civilizational suicide.
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Fiona Kolbinger @fionakolbinger.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Now out in @natcomputsci.nature.com: "Adaptive validation strategies for real-world clinical artificial intelligence" It was a pleasure working on this piece with @jnkt.bsky.social, excited to finally see it published! #medicalAI #clinicalAI #digitalhealth #translationalresearch
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Vittorio Studiale @vstudiale.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Valuable insights on the implementation of #AI in oncology research by Prof. @jnkt.bsky.social at the #ESMOGI25 Young Oncologists session! #ESMOYOC @myesmo.bsky.social
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NEJM AI @ai.nejm.org · 30/06/2025
Case Study by J. Clusmann et al.: Incidental Prompt Injections on Vision–Language Models in Real-Life Histopathology nejm.ai/4mrSoEW @janclusmann.bsky.social #AI #MedSky #DigitalHealth
Figure 1. Experimental Outline to Estimate the Impact and the Clinical Representation of Labeled Pathology Slides.Figure 2. Incorrect Labels on Whole-Slide Images Reduce the Accuracy of Vision–Language Models Regardless of Task.Figure 3. Misleading Watermarks Lead to a Loss in Accuracy of Tissue-of-Origin Prediction.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. They’ll be planting a lot more.
Trees on Paris
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
very happy to share our new paper on LLM-based tumor board agents. Submitted August 2024, published in @natcancer.nature.com today ☺️ Led by Dyke Ferber www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Development and validation of an autonomous artificial intelligence agent for clinical decision-making in oncology - Nature Cancer
Ferber et al. present an autonomous artificial intelligence agent system for deployment of specialized medical oncology computational tools, validating their system across various clinical scenarios r...
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Sebastian Foersch @twittlabs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excited to share our new publication in @ai.nejm.org „Incidental Prompt Injections on Vision-Language Models in Real-Life Histopathology“. Important work together with our amazing colleagues @janclusmann.bsky.social @jnkt.bsky.social @markuseckstein3.bsky.social et al. ai.nejm.org/stoken/defau...
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Incidental Prompt Injections on Vision–Language Models in Real-Life Histopathology
Vision–language models (VLMs) can analyze multimodal medical data. However, a significant weakness of VLMs is their susceptibility to prompt injection attacks. Here, the model receives conflicting ...
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TSO Lab (NCT/UCC Dresden) @tsolab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congrats to Dominik Rivoir on successfully defending his PhD!🎓🎉 Best wishes ahead! A shout-out to the PI, @stefaniespeidel.bsky.social and a heartfelt thanks to the committee - Alejandro Granados, @jnkt.bsky.social, Stefan Gumhold, Bjoern Andres. #CeTI, @dkfz.bsky.social, @tudresden.bsky.social
Photo credits: Reuben Docea
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Thomas Sorz-Nechay @tsorznechay.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Proud to present our group's work on utilizing deeplearning🤖🧠 to predict portal hypertension from liver biopsies🔬 in patients with ACLD! www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S016... @reibergerthomas.bsky.social Thanks to Team @jnkt.bsky.social for the support! #AI #liver #hepatology
EASL2025 Poster: "WED-254 Deeplearning allows prediction of portal hypertension from liver biopsies"
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
ChatGPT when I ask questions about breast cancer treatment 🙄
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 24/04/2025
🦋📉 Insect populations down 75% in <30 years A new study maps 3,385 connections between stressors behind insect decline. Agricultural intensification tops the list – but many impacts remain overlooked. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios... #SciComm #Biodiversity #Insects 🧪
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Meta-synthesis reveals interconnections among apparent drivers of insect biodiversity loss
Abstract. Scientific and public interest in the global status of insects has surged recently; however, understanding the relative importance of different s
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A random photo which I posted on Google Maps years ago has 1.3M views now... approximately 1000x more than most of our scientific publications 😭
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Our submission for @aclmeeting.bsky.social seems to have been reviewed by ... Claude plus a lazy human 🙄🙄🙄 "RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double‑check responses." It is not just a breach of conference policy, but also it is a poor quality review... openreview.net/forum?id=KiY... #ACL2025NLP
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Zunamys Carrero @zcarrero-katherlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We are looking to hire a PostDoc to develop AI multimodal foundation models for uncovering cancer metastasis mechanisms and identifying targetable biomarkers for patient treatment. 🩻🔬🧬 

 If you’re interested, please apply here: bit.ly/42nY62u #KatherLab #EKFZ #TUDresden #ClinicalAI #AI #JobPost
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Zunamys Carrero @zcarrero-katherlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
✮ Kather Lab is hiring PostDocs & Software Engineers! ☞ Strong Python & PyTorch skills, GitHub experience, and interest in LLMs & computational pathology required. 

 Apply here╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*・゚: bit.ly/42nY62u
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
happy weekend from our research group at @tudresden.bsky.social, credit to @zcarrero-katherlab.bsky.social
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Happy to share our latest paper in @ai.nejm.org, led by Isabella Wiest: "Deidentifying Medical Documents with Local, Privacy-Preserving Large Language Models: The LLM-Anonymizer" ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... You can use our open source tool with local LLMs to robustly de-identify medical documents.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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TU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The DECIPHER-M research project uses #ArtificialIntelligence (AI) to further understand the spread of #cancer cells based on routine clinical data. 🔬 The aim is to improve treatment options using a multimodal foundation model. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
Photo of Prof. Jakob N. Kather sitting on a desk with a laptop on his lap. A computer can also be seen on the table.
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We have open Postdoc / PhD student positions in computational pathology and agentic AI, based in 🇩🇪🇪🇺 Ideally with a CS background, but we do 🧡 biologists with self-taught Python and ML skills
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 13/03/2025
Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
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Stephanie L. Graff, MD FACP FASCO @drsgraff.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Beyond ChatGPT and digital pathology algorithms, @jnkt.bsky.social reviews current and future states for deep learning artificial intelligence in breast oncology #SGBCC2025
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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What a tour de force!👨‍⚕️ @jnkt.bsky.social is really a trailblazer in the use of AI 🤖 in oncology practice and research. TLDR: As an oncology community, we really need to keep abreast with the rapidly evolving (improving!) developments in AI. Large language models LLM “agents” etc #ESMOTAT25
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/03/2025
I wish more prominent scientists would speak out about what is happening under Trump. Yes, there is a real threat to one's livelihood of doing so. Being a scientist has been my lifelong dream, but there's honest work I can do outside of science, and I'd rather do that than serve the current regime.
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It is happening. Pubmed (pubmed.gov) is gone. And so is cancer.gov. Scientists, what else is needed to wake up?
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Very happy to share our latest paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social, led by Kevin Boehm and Omar El Nahhas! Excellent collaboration between @mskcancercenter.bsky.social and @tudresden.bsky.social. We show in three large cohorts that multimodal AI improves breast cancer recurrence prediction.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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bastianengel.bsky.social @bastianengel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Happy to have contributed to this project led by @aleger87.bsky.social 🤖 ML-based detection of AIH and PBC from H&E stained slides 💥 solid performance with heterogenous staining/scanning 😳 no annotation needed More to come and looking forward to it! @jnkt.bsky.social #liversky
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EASL @easlnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In today's #readoftheweek📚 learn about the ALNE model and how it generates quantitative and accurate differential diagnosis between cases with AIH or PBC. Read here this JHEP Reports article: www.jhep-reports.eu/article/S258... @jhepatology.bsky.social #LiverSky
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eu/acc @euacc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We are pushing for an acceleration… and it might end up coming. It has been way too long until Europe started to slowly get moving. Still need to do a lot
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Really disappointed how slowly Europe (especially Germany) is moving these days Obviously, to compete with US/China on any relevant topic (AI / economy / defense), we need more European integration, joing funding, joint efforts - and much much faster more resources: eu-acc.com @euacc.bsky.social
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Seriously, we should be worried about Pubmed. Can we mirror it to some site in EU or Iceland or Switzerland? Ultimately, also arxiv / biorxiv and of course The Internet Archive ... www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
data.gov yesterday and today
Screenshot of data.gov, "The home of the U.S. government's open data," shows 305,578 datasets available to search.Same as previous screenshot, except the number of datasets available has just been removed outright.
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
when I use LLMs to edit documents, each of my prompts ends with "DO NOT USE BULLET POINTS, DO NOT SHORTEN". LLMs are lazy...
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Very happy to share our latest paper, led by Jan Clusmann: Prompt injection attacks on vision language models in oncology. We show how VLMs in healthcare can be easily hacked and prompted to create harmful output. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is essential work.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 31/01/2025
Want to hire someone to build a highway? Feed a military base? Conduct cancer research? Develop a new fighter jet? Forget about it! Why would they trust you to pay up if a president can just cancel your contract or refuse to pay up at any time for no other reason than they just don't like it? 🧵
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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Jakob Nikolas Kather @jnkt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Discussing science at University of Bern today ☺️🇨🇭🧀
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