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Michael S. Balzer
@ms-balzer.bsky.social
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MD FASN | Nephrologist = kidney doc | #PeritonealDialysis aficionado | #ClinicianScientist @ChariteBerlin | Ex-editorial fellow @JASN | #SingleCell | Determined to understand adaptation to kidney disease | #ERCStG
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👏Fantastic to see @cetinsz.bsky.social from our team presenting insights into #single-cell transcriptomic patterns distinguishing recovery from non-recovery after #AKI. Exciting 🧪 at #KidneyWk Houston, TX! #MedSky #NephSky
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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❓Do we finally have a nodular sclerosis mouse model for DKD? 🔥Tour-de-force #kidneywk talk by @linkermannlab.bsky.social suggests so. 🧪 #NephSky #MedSky
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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🔥 Huge congrats to @ksusztak.bsky.social & team on a landmark @natgenet.nature.com paper!
🚶‍♂️🐁🐀Cross-species 🫘kidney pathway dysregulation via #singlecell functional profiling of individual samples — opening new therapeutic avenues.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #NephSky #MedSky
August 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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👏Congrats to the KidneyCure 2025 Grant Recipients! 🫘🧪
@asnpublications.bsky.social #NephSky #MedSky
KidneyCure 2025 Grant Recipients
July 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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🎉🎈Congrats to all ASN 2025 🏆Lifetime & Midcareer awardees!

Well-deserved, @ksusztak.bsky.social @rkramann.bsky.social @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social, you are on 🔥!!!
#NephSky, #MedSky, #ERA25
ASN Lifetime & Midcareer Awardees 2025
June 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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📣Attention #NephSky #MedSky!
Inaugural #PeritonealDialysis 🧪research meeting incoming:

"1st International Meeting on Cellular & Molecular #PD Research"
📆July 4-5, 2025 @The Nucleus, 🛳️Kiel, Germany
🔗Program & registration: www.pdmeeting.skip-sh.de
👫@ispd.org @dgfn.bsky.social ERA/EDTA
Program & registration: http://www.pdmeeting.skip-sh.de
May 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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All quiet on the Western front?!
🧪Work in @jama.com network open shows that predicting #contrast-induced #nephropathy remains imprecise and models demonstrate considerable heterogeneity.
#NephSky #MedSky

🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
sROC curves separated by prediction models for contrast-induced nephropathy
March 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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🔥Inspiring keynote at the 1st Joint Mayo Charité Symposium by @asnkidney.bsky.social past president @susanquaggin.bsky.social on the golden era of #kidney health.
🫘🧪
#NephSky #MedSky @nephrointberlin.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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💵Funding opportunities for female postdoc🧪scientists in #STEM.
Calls for🇨🇭🇹🇷🇪🇬🇧🇷🇿🇦 and other countries still open.

#NephSky #MedSky #WomenInScience
@womeninmedicine.bsky.social
@women-in-stem.bsky.social

🔗https://www.forwomeninscience.com/challenge/show/120
QR code linking to application landing page for funding opportunities for Women in Science.
March 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Got fruit? A 🥝kiwi a day keeps the 🫘nephrologist away.
Stay healthy and have a nice weekend #NephSky #MedSky!

(Gloms reach a little too far down into the medulla, but hey, we don't even have a proper kidney emoji, so 🤷‍♂️)
A kidney-shaped kiwi.
March 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Hey #NephSky #MedSky, today is #WorldKidneyDay!

Next generation of🫘kidney🧪scientists hard at work to raise awareness for #KidneyDisease, which affects >850 million people worldwide!

🧦 #SockItToKidneyDisease #KidneyAwareness
@kidney.org @asnkidney.bsky.social @theisn.org @nu-nephrology.bsky.social
#SockItToKidneyDisease
March 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Attention European #NephSky #MedSky!

Call for abstracts: #JungeNiere 🫘renal 🧪research meeting for early career #ClinicianScientists. July 11-12, 2025 @uniregensburg.bsky.social (GER).
💰Travel grants for students, 🥾hiking &🍺Bavarian beer included!
junge-niere.jimdosite.com
M. Banas, S. Reichelt-Wurm
Call for abstracts, Junge Niere renal research meeting for early career clinician scientists. July 11-12, 2025 in Regensburg, Germany.
February 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Ever wondered about the genetic architecture of #kidney function?
🔥Fantastic🧪work & impressive resource by @ksusztak.bsky.social & team @science.org on convergent coding & regulatory GFR variants contributing to kidney disease via a genetic score card.
🔗 tinyurl.com/33yzf5wz
#NephSky #MedSky
Kidney disease genetic scorecard of genes with convergence of coding and regulatory variants
February 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Nice work by Leonie Wagner, @janklocke.bsky.social, @penghard.bsky.social & team showing urinary distal nephron tubular cell count correlates with #AKI stage 🔥
#NephSky #MedSky
🔗 www.kireports.org/article/S246...
February 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Fantastic @natrevneph.bsky.social disease primer on #kidney adaptation to injury, the devlopment of #CKD, its progression, and how to stop it.
@hjanders.bsky.social @romagnanilab.bsky.social
🔥 #NephSky #MedSky 🔥
🔗 rdcu.be/d71Rj
Schematic on kidney adaptation to injury.
February 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🔥Excellent reading material for those off-peak early-morning-can't-get-back-to-sleep-on-call hours: #NephJC Top 10 Nephrology Stories of 2024🔥 #NephSky #MedSky
www.nephjc.com/news/2024/1/...
@brianrifkin.bsky.social
#NephJC top 10 nephrology stories of 2024 @brianrifkin.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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🔥Check out the new @science.org paper from @junyuecao.bsky.social lab on mammalian aging! They leveraged a #SingleCell atlas to discover >200 aging-associated cell populations and demonstrate organ-, lineage-, and sex-specific shifts of cellular dynamics.

#NephSky #MedSky
🔥Check out the new Science paper from @junyuecao.bsky.social lab on mammalian aging! They leveraged a #SingleCell atlas to discover >200 aging-associated cell populations and demonstrate organ-, lineage-, and sex-specific shifts of cellular dynamics. #NephSky #MedSky
November 29, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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It's that time of the year again! Who else caught themselves reading SINGLE CELLS, SINGLE CELLS...? 🤦‍♂️ #NephSky #MedSky #SingleCell
It's that time of the year again! Who else caught themselves reading SINGLE CELLS, SINGLE CELLS... 🤦‍♂️ #NephSky #MedSky #SingleCells
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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Just finished a smooth migration of prior X tweets to @bsky.app. Shout-out to @marcomaroni.it for the excellent code!
🔥https://github.com/marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky
#NephSky #MedSky #NewHorizons
November 24, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Alright, #MedSky #NephSky, this is fun. Just roasted my PubMed word cloud, powered by
scholargoggler.com, thx @morinryan.bsky.social! Here we go: a 🧵
scholargoggler.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Amazing new spatial data in DKD (1.7M cells) from @BernhardDumoul1 @KSusztak lab #kidneyweek2024
November 24, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Instrumental work by Hiroaki Kikuchi from @MarkKnepper6 lab on what instigates renal compensatory growth #kidneyweek2024
November 24, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Fatty acid oxidation in AKI is 🔥🔥🔥No seats left @SunderSimsLucas
November 24, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Is fibrosis🐓or🥚? Fantastic talk in the spatial session by @Ina_M_Schiessl on intravital tracking of kidney tubules. #kidneyweek2024 #kidneyweek
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Outlier #CKD datasets had tubular epithelial cell fractions comparable to healthy datasets, underscoring the importance of cell fractions as prerequisites in the interpretation of #singlecell datasets. 4/🧵
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM