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Krzysztof Kiryluk

@kirylukk.bsky.social
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Medicine, Genetics, Statistics, Kidney Disease, Columbia University. My posts represent my own views and not those of Columbia University.

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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New work from our lab enabling scalable detection and staging of acute kidney injury from electronic health records. Many potential applications to genetic and epi studies of kidney disease across EHR-linked biobanks! Please check it out... @ajkd.bsky.social
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
COMPLIMENTARY VIRTUAL PROGRAM: IgA Nephropathy 2026 Diagnosis & Treatment Updates - Friday, April 10, 2026 - 4.50 ACCME Credits Available www.eventleaf.com/e/IGAN2026
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Registration NOW Open for 'The 49th Annual Columbia Renal Biopsy Course’ - July 15-17, 2026 - an in-person & virtual program with ACCME credits & video access. Click for agenda, full details & registration: www.eventleaf.com/e/RenalBiops...
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The Columbia Renal Biopsy Course - 49th Annual
23.25 ACCME Credits, In-Person & Virtual Conference
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Kidney International @kidneyint.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Genetic screens of imaging-derived kidney volumes identify genes linked to kidney function doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.08.0 #OpenAccess #MedSky #NephSky #kidneydisease #GWAS @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social @columbiakidney.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @kirylukk.bsky.social
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Join us for ‘#LUPUS: Current & Future Breakthroughs’ – a virtual and in-person conference on Friday, September 12, 2025 with 7.50 ACCME Credits. Registration & info: www.eventleaf.com/e/Lupus2025 #lupus #arthritis #Nephritis #CARTcell #autoimmune #autoimmunedisease #rheumatology #MedEd
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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The American Society for Clinical Investigation @the-asci.org · 22/05/2025
Uncovering the pathogenesis in glomerulonephritis— ASCI member Ali G. Gharavi & team discover GALNT14 variants in patients with IgA nephropathy that link O-glycosylation defects with altered mucosal immunity and B cell homing: buff.ly/Q8zdWgy
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is a disaster on multiple levels. The litany of bad ideas continues to flow freely...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I am late to this but @lastweektonight.com is doing better journalism on the Trump-induced crisis in American public health than most other "real" mainstream media outlets. Watch it, all of it. #RFKMustGo. youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 25/04/2025
🆕 “Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches [...] bullies are only emboldened by acquiescence or indifference.” The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Editorial in full.
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Nature @nature.com · 25/04/2025
Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation: hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated today on top of the hundreds already terminated last week, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3YOHqiq
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Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
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Molly Przeworski @mollyprz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Posting on behalf of Shamil Sunyaev: Eimear(Vice Chair) and I (Chair) are organizing the 2025 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Human Genetics and Genomics, which will be held on July 6-11, 2025 in beautiful University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine.
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2025 Human Genetics and Genomics Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Human Genetics and Genomics will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/04/2025
The Trump Administration’s cuts at Health and Human Services hit every part of the scientific establishment: not only the federal government and universities but also states, counties, cities, and the private sector.
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“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”
Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 23/04/2025
The ASIs have arrived www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Aldosterone synthase inhibitors - first one to finish the phase 3 line #Lorundrostat #Hypertension
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Lorundrostat Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Uncontrolled Hypertension | NEJM
Aldosterone dysregulation contributes to hypertension. Lorundrostat is an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, but data on its efficacy and safety in patients with hypertension are limited. In this mult...
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Good for Harvard. Hope Columbia will do the same! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
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Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Threats to Cut Funding
Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Another twist to the story, and a shocking display of the administration's utter incompetence: Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/04/2025
Meanwhile, DOJ lawyers are threatening medical journals for not providing adequate "viewpoint diversity" and for misinforming their readership, which I suppose means not publishing enough of the stupid shit that RFK Jr., JB, etc. keep saying. This is an outrageous First Amendment violation.
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Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Despicable AND dishonest.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/04/2025
Universities, which are defined by academic independence yet depend on government support, are extremely vulnerable to government bullying. Harvard’s decision suggests that some, at least, have a limit to how far they’re willing to be pushed.
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Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump
Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great points and my favorite quote of the day "If you hire clowns, you should expect a circus." What Trump Just Cost America www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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Opinion | What Trump Just Cost America
Do you think these former close U.S. allies are ever going to trust getting into a trench with this administration again?
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In light of HHS freezing all research funds to Columbia today, I think this op-ed from Larry Summers last week is worth revisiting. Universities should: - Negotiate only over matters covered by statute - Leverage endowments - Implement their own reforms archive.is/KL3Dd
President Trump offered praise to a white-supremacist rally that included chants of “Jews will not replace us,” publicly dined with Holocaust deniers, made common cause with Germany’s Nazi-descendant AfD party and invoked tropes about wealthy Jews. The true motivation behind his attack on universities is suggested by Vice President JD Vance’s declaration that the “universities are the enemy.” Shakedown is the administration’s strategy as it has gone after law firms, federal judges, legislators who disagree with its edicts and traditionally independent arms of the government.

Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act appropriately allows that federal funding of universities can be made contingent on their avoiding discrimination. But as a recent statement by a group of leading law professors points out, it also protects against this power’s being used to punish critics or curtail academic freedom. Among the law’s requirements are notice periods, hearings, remedies that are narrowly tailored to specific infractions and a 30-day congressional notification before any funding is curtailed.

None of this appears to be part of the Trump administration’s approach to universities.Universities facing those threats should make clear they are willing to negotiate with government officials only over matters covered by statute and through the procedures laid out in the law.

They should make clear that their formidable financial endowments are not there to simply be envied or admired. Part of their function is to be drawn down in the face of emergencies, and covering federal funding lapses surely counts as one. As a former president of Harvard University, believe me when I say that ways can be found in an emergency to deploy even parts of the endowment that have been earmarked for specific use by their donors.

And to maintain the moral high ground, which universities have in large part lost, they need a much more aggressive reform agenda focused on antisemitism, celebrating excellence rather than venerating identity, pursuing truth rather than particular notions of social justice and promoting diversity of perspective as the most important dimension of diversity.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Nice to see this - hope all other major Universities take the same stance.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Picture of the day.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I am feeling much less anxious about the climate change already… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
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Trump Administration Cuts Princeton Funding to Study Climate Change
The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The damage to the medical school and health sciences will be irreversible. NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Finally, top scientists speak up against the Trump administration in a letter signed by 2,000 elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: "the nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated"; see related NYT coverage here: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Columbia's annual "IgA Nephropathy 2025 Diagnosis & Treatment Updates" CME course coming up on April 4th. Join us for a great day packed with the latest data: complement inhibition, B-cell therapies, SGLT2i, DEARA, and more... @cuimcmedicinedept.bsky.social @columbiakidney.bsky.social
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/03/2025
Universities around the world have reported seeing an uptick in applications from U.S.-based researchers, who face an increasingly uncertain climate under President Donald Trump’s administration. scim.ag/4ibvP4T
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Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’
But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Finally, a coherent call for a legal action: Legal Experts Question Trump’s Authority to Cancel Columbia’s Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/n...
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Legal Experts Question Trump’s Authority to Cancel Columbia’s Funding
The government has demanded drastic changes to the university before it will consider reinstating $400 million. Lee C. Bollinger, the school’s former president, calls it an “existential threat.”
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Nice to see this in print - combined analysis of #CureGN and #CRIC demonstrates the value of broad family history collection from patients with various forms of CKD. Interestingly, positive family history of diabetes was associated with a higher risk of CKD progression even in non-diabetics!
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Another highly insightful NYT opinion piece from David French: Don’t fool yourself into thinking it will stop with Columbia: "Columbia has become Patient Zero in an outbreak of censorship and repression". www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil
The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
'We’re in the Midst of an Authoritarian Takeover’ Lee Bollinger on Trump, Columbia, and why capitulation won’t work... nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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‘We’re in the Midst of an Authoritarian Takeover’
Lee Bollinger on Trump, Columbia, and why capitulation won’t work.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is like a bad dream.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
One of the best analyses of the current situation I read to date, highly recommended: Democracy Dies in Dumbness www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...
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Opinion | Democracy Dies in Dumbness
Until Donald Trump, no president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history, so incompetent in implementing his own ideas.
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It's great to see @ASNkidney on this platform, but can you please consider immediate termination of your X account? @asnkidney.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/03/2025
Each day of Donald Trump’s second term is “its own fresh hell,” David Remnick writes, “bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.”
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Trump’s Disgrace
David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The response of the science community to the last month is not about one statement or action. It's about all of us with our different frames. For Science's part, we are doing what we have always done and have no plans to change. My thoughts on what we can do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
There is not enough public outrage from our institutions and professional societies about Trump’s misguided attacks on science…. time to loudly and unapologetically take a stand against this nonsense. So far, I saw only AAAS speak out. www.chemistryworld.com/news/aaas-le...
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AAAS leadership speaks out against Trump administration’s attacks on science
President of world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society warns that next month could be most important in history of US science
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I really enjoyed reading this piece by David French in the NY Times today... last paragraph is spot on. Thank you for articulating this so clearly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has the Same Idea in Mind for Ukraine and the Department of Justice (Gift Article)
What do Ukraine and the Justice Department have in common?
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David Koch Jr. Glomerular Kidney Center @cuimcglomcenter.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Reminder: Registration is still open for the 14th Annual Glomerular Disease 2025 Conference on Friday, February 7th, 2025. Feel free to register for our virtual conference using the following link: www.eventleaf.com/At...
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
As my New Year’s resolution, I finally deactivated my X account (it was long overdue). Looking forward to making new friends here… #genetics #genomics #kidney #medicine Happy New Year!
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Krzysztof Kiryluk @kirylukk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
NEXT WEEK: Join us for ‘#ClinicalGenetics in #KidneyTransplantation’ - a virtual conference on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 7.25 ACCME Credits. www.eventleaf.com/e/ClinicalGe... #Genomics #Genetics #MedicalGenetics #Kidney #Nephrology #NephPearls #CKD
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Clinical Genetics in Kidney Transplantation
7.25 ACCME Credits, Virtual Conference
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