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Roman Sankowski

@rsankowski.bsky.social
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Neuropathologist | #clinicianScientist | #singleCell | Neuro-immunologist | Neuro-oncologist @ University Clinic of Freiburg Dad | Foodie | hobby barista | views my own

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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since my PhD work a decade ago I so want to believe that Retrotransposons drive the mechanism behind AD: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Now there is a clinical trial. Curious to learn the results brain-regeneration.com/trials/31774/
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Repurposing a Combination Antiretroviral Drug Therapy to Target Retrotransposons and Treat Early Alzheimer's Disease
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the safety, tolerability, drug levels and biological effects of two doses of emtricitabine (FTC) and…
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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RECHTSfreier Raum @rechtsfreierraum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"KEIN BUNDESKANZLER VOR MIR HAT SOWAS ERTRAGEN MÜSSEN!!" 😑 Wir auch nicht, Friedrich… Wir auch nicht.
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That’s because vaccines work
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Der Jahrhundertschritt und „Land nicht von Miesepetern der AfD kaputtmachen lassen“. Gespräch zu meinem neuen Buch "Faschismus ist keine Meinung" in "Lesart" auf Deutschlandfunk Kultur am 22. August 2026 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ilko-sascha-...
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Historiker Kowalczuk: "Land nicht von Miesepetern der AfD kaputtmachen lassen"
Historiker Kowalczuk attestiert der AfD eine "Lust an der Zerstörung". Er rät, auf die "politischen Miesepeter" mit guter Laune und Höflichkeit zu reagieren.
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ESMO - European Society for Medical Oncology @myesmo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
⏰ There is still time to register for #MAP2026. Join the Molecular Analysis for Precision Oncology Congress, 10-11 Sept in London, for focused discussions on the latest developments in #PrecisionOncology. Late registration closes on 19 Aug 🔗 ow.ly/KcfU50Zw5GY #esmomeetings
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Antigen presentation at the blood–brain barrier amplifies neuroinflammation | @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/immun...
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Antigen presentation at the blood–brain barrier amplifies neuroinflammation
Immune surveillance of the central nervous system (CNS) is regulated by the brain barriers. Antigen presentation at the blood–brain barrier (BBB) has been proposed to promote antigen-specific T-cell e...
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Fabian Pimminger @fabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Wisst ihr noch bei diesem Netflix Film "Don't Look Up". Wo der Wissenschaftler im Fernsehen einen kompletten Breakdown hatte? Wir sind jetzt genau an dieser Stelle in der Story. Don't look up.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please read..... #BookSky
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Echobit @echobit.de · 27/07/2026
Interessante Seite: Jeder Browser behauptet, Ihre Privatsphäre zu schützen. Jemand hat jetzt eine Website erstellt, die sagt: Dann beweist es. Getestet wird jeder Browser ausschließlich mit den Standardeinstellungen. Keine Erweiterungen.
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Which browsers are best for privacy?
An open-source privacy audit of popular web browsers.
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Validation of proposed cIMPACT-NOW update 12 molecular grading criteria for IDH-mutant astrocytoma | Acta Neuropathologica | Springer Nature portfolio link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Validation of proposed cIMPACT-NOW update 12 molecular grading criteria for IDH-mutant astrocytoma - Acta Neuropathologica
Acta Neuropathologica -
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Los Angeles Public Library unveils the world’s largest pop-up book www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/dani...
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miezikatze 2 @miezi-katze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Super News für alle Berliner/innen Danger Dan gibt zusammen mit Igor Levit heute Abend ab 21 Uhr ein "Ersatz"Konzert im Columbia Theater! keine Angst ... keine Angst ... keine Angst hat auf youtube fast 1.000.000 Aufrufe! taz.de/Ersatzkonzer...
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Ersatzkonzert nach ZDF-Absage: Danger Dan holt sich seine Bühne zurück
Nach der Absage seines ZDF-Auftritts organisiert Danger Dan ein Ersatzkonzert in Berlin. Der Erlös geht an den Verein Opferperspektive.
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Cancer Core Europe @cancercoreeurope.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
📖 Recommended reading: “Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents,” published in @natureportfolio.nature.com Read the full article ➡️ nature.com/articles/s41... @vhio.bsky.social @nct-heidelberg.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @ki.se @crukcamcentre.bsky.social @nkinl.bsky.social
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Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents - Nature
A large language model artificial intelligence agent operating in a sandboxed electronic health record system can autonomously take patient histories, order tests, interpret findings, diagnose co...
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Amazing #epigenetics #symposium at a great place #freiburg
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
4 rare or common hypomorphic IL23R variants that, when homozygous, impair IFN-γ production by innate-like T and NK cells, thereby conferring a predisposition to tuberculosis @jem.org rupress.org/jem/article/... @casanovalab.bsky.social
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.
No women aged 20-24 in England have died from cervical cancer for the first time, thanks to the HPV vaccine.
A landmark study funded by Cancer Research
UK shows the HPV vaccine is making cervical cancer increasingly preventable, with researchers highlighting a major milestone: between 2020 and 2024, no women aged 20-24 in England died from the disease.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Review: Human cytomegalovirus at the maternal–fetal interface portlandpress.com/clinsci/arti...
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Python Coding (CLCODING) @clcoding.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Python Bootcamp – July 2026: Complete Learning Roadmap whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Love this guy every day more @mayor.nyc.gov
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Suse Lichtenberger @suselicht.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Versteh beim besten Willen nicht, warum das nicht alle wollen.
Grafik, die zeigt, wie die Luftqualität in Paris sich verändert hat. Radwege und Parks statt Autos und Abgase. 6 Grafiken von 2007-2024, von ganz rot bis quasi ganz grün, gemessen wird die durchschnittliche Stickstoffdioxinkonzentration. 
Quelle Kontrast.at
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#leadership
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I love sports for #goknicks #NYC
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
@ingelfingerlab.bsky.social seeing your labs logo I think it’s infinitely the best
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Impressive new study by the Wu lab in @natcancer.nature.com investigating the tumor cell features associated with #immunotherapy response in #glioblastoma Tumor transcriptional state predicts survival in immune-checkpoint-blockade-treated glioblastoma | Nature Cancer www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Tumor transcriptional state predicts survival in immune-checkpoint-blockade-treated glioblastoma - Nature Cancer
In a large cohort of participants with immune-checkpoint-blockade-treated glioblastoma, Ghannam et al. show that baseline mesenchymal transcriptional state predicts therapy response and transition to ...
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Worth the Watch: #science did it again. Not because it’s easy but because it needs to be done #cureCancer
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Wow true Leadership that way 👇🏻
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Another major advance vs cancer! @ascocancer.bsky.social #ASCO26 Personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccine 5 year follow-up vs metastatic melanoma reduced recurrence and death by 49% (on top of Keytruda) ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Dearest shoalmates: Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation. 🔗 below ⬇️ 1/2
Image of racks of zebrafish tanks. Credit to NC3Rs. https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/events/guide-refinement-fish-species
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Like macrophages in general, Lipid-associated “foamy” 🚿macrophages come in different flavors. Here a new story on these big beauties in #multipleSclerosis Foamy microglia link oxylipins to disease progression in multiple sclerosis | @natneuro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Foamy microglia link oxylipins to disease progression in multiple sclerosis - Nature Neuroscience
Foamy microglia are associated with multiple sclerosis progression, linking phagocytosis, altered lipid metabolism (oxylipins) and lysosomal stress to nonclassical neuroinflammation and disease severi...
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hot off the press new insights on #microglia states in #alzheimers #disease by the Ajami lab: Spatial proteomic analysis in human Alzheimer’s disease brains enables identification of microenvironment-dependent microglial cell states | @natneuro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial proteomic analysis in human Alzheimer’s disease brains enables identification of microenvironment-dependent microglial cell states - Nature Neuroscience
Myeloid cells show marked heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s disease. This study introduces CODEX-CNS, a single-cell spatial proteomics pipeline, and identifies a human microglial subpopulation enriched in ...
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Matthia Karreman @matthiakarreman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What if brain metastatic cells do not act alone, but form #networks to help them grow? In our new #preprint, we show that #brainmetastases form malignant, gap-junction mediated #networks that drive cell cycle progression & neural features through Ca²⁺ signaling. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇
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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Giving at talk tomorrow at Women in Neuroscience. Stoked to share all the cool things BRAIN has been supporting. Also peep the very old, but still my favorite, headshot by @bwjones.bsky.social neurowomen.org
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Home | Women in Neuroscience
An inclusive scientific community produces better health outcomes.
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OmasGegenRechtsDuisburg @ul-rike.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Wer Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt am Ende auch Menschen" Heinrich Heine hat das 1823 schon gewusst #SeidMenschen #StopHate
Das Sharepic von den Omas gegen rechts bundesweit erinnert an die Bücherverbrennung am 10.Mai 1933
Auf dem Bild ist eine Bleistiftzeichnung einer Oma gegen rechts mit einem kleinen Mädchen mit geflochtenen Zöpfenan der Hand zu sehen, vier Bücher liegen gestapelt im Feuer, die Titel auf den Buchrücken sind 
Freiheit
Wissen
Vielfalt
Demokratie 
Darüber steht "Bücher zu verbieten heißt, Menschen das Denken zu verbieten."
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so far—Absolutely Stunning!
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Roman Sankowski @rsankowski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Amazing opportunities at @irbbarcelona.org
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Reading Is Sexy @readingissexy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps. Reporting by @masnick.com www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/p...
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Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
How to detect a single case of measles in a population of >1 million people? Wastewater sequencing picked it up from 0.000005% of ~1 billion sequencing reads! evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Macrophages undertake a non-destructive, direct sampling of living cells via trogocytosis-like stretching of the target cell & acquisition of submicrometre-sized cytoplasmic vesicles @nature.com @immunox.bsky.social @maxkrummel.bsky.social @amycfanphd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Spike Lee at the Knicks game at MSG. #spikelee #popeleo #knicks #madisonsquaregarden
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