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bjornschumacher.bsky.social
I'm a scientist 👨‍⚕️, author 📕and chair for genome stability in aging and disease at the University of Cologne. https://igsad.de
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🧬In two recent articles, CRC1678 project leader @bjornschumacher.bsky.social highlights the power of lifestyle choices and social factors in shaping disease risk and the aging process. #HealthyAging #Science 🔗Read more: www.aerzteblatt.de/news/umwelt-... www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...

Join me at the #ARDD2025 in Copenhagen, August 25-29, 2025 to connect with top scientists, biotech pioneers, pharma leaders, and investors driving innovation in longevity science. Register now: agingpharma.org #ARDD2025 #AgingResearch #DrugDiscovery #Longevity

When you invite the PI to the lab party

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

It's a great honour to join the ranks of the Academy for Health & Lifespan Research and to meet so many dear friends and colleagues in wonderful Arizona to discuss advances and concepts towards healthy aging and longevity.

Rauchen und trotzdem uralt werden: Sind es die guten Gene, die das möglich machen? Darüber habe ich mit @bjornschumacher.bsky.social vom @cecad.bsky.social und Daniela Jopp von der #Swiss100 Studie gesprochen.

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Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

Register now for The Ageing Genome: from Mechanisms to Disease conference. Amazing line-up of speakers and great opportunities for presenting your work and discussing with leaders in the field #EESAgeing @embl.org @cecad.bsky.social www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Getting ready for your first conference talk when your supervisor came along

Call for an exit

Concluding the week with a lab wine and cheese tasting

CRISPR is amazing

Entering a new field of research

Does the evolution of flight lead to lifespan extension?

Five minutes after receiving the editorial decision

She just published in Nature

“Which paper should I review next?”

“The p-value is 0.055”

“Go back to the bench now”

When you only read the results section

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 20 Lion Feuchtwanger, Exil

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 19 Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 18 RICHARD DAWKINS, The Selfish Gene

Commodore plus/4 with endless uploading from a datasette

Revision experiment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 17 JAY McINERNEY Bright Lights, Big City

When it’s your lab meeting turn and you don’t have new data

Working in a niche field

Staying in the lab during the holidays

"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics", the latter causing the first through aging (doi.org/10.1038/s435...) and taxes should better be devoted to find out what we can do about it.

We’ve Been Getting Human Nature Wrong for 100 Years www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 16 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

The cover image of Süskind‘s Das Perfum showing an expert of Jupiter und Antiope painted by Antione Watteau 1714-1719 gets censored by @bsky.app Are we full speed going back to medieval moral concepts?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 15 Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt

Let’s make the medieval great again

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 14 Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 13 Ben Macintyre’s Agent Sonya

Forgot to do something before the end of the year? Register now for THE conference of 2025: The ageing genome: from mechanisms to disease www.embl.org/about/info/c... via @embl.org

Encountering your reviewer at a conference

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 12 Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 11 Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being