@uniluebeck.bsky.social CBBM research day! Looking forward to talks, posters, exchange, discussion and continued collaboration with friends and colleagues in our fatastic research building! #science #brain #research

Had a talk at the #dge section Neuroendocrinology meeting in Hamburg, very nice interaction and feedback on #thyroid and #thermoregulation! Thanks to all participants and @uniluebeck.bsky.social Henrik Oster for the invitation!

New issue of Deutsche Hebammen Zeitschrift (German #Midwife Journal) featuring #newborn screening and maternal #thyroid function, including my article. I hope it helps raising the awareness of thyroid in #pregnancy! @uniluebeck.bsky.social @eur-thyroid-j.bsky.social @esendocrinology.bsky.social

My new article on impaired #thyroid hormone action in #pregnancy for the German #Midwife Magazine is out. 👇 Check my awesome original figures below - however, the DHZ didn't like fancy AI artwork, so they went with old-school midwife drawings instead... staudeverlag.de/unterfunktio...

🥳 Paper accepted in #JMolEndo @socendocrinology.bsky.social - great work by Nuria Lopez Alcantara on the role of #deiodinase I in #MASH. Stay tuned for the full version in the next 24 hours! Spoiler alert: Dio1 is not the key to fixing MASH. At least not by itself...

Interested in an exciting Biothriller for the summer vacation? My good friend Tim Jagsten has published his new #book "The God Fragment", available for free now on Amazon for kindle download! #DNA #aliens #genetics #firstcontact #alieninvasion #geschichtenonkel #forfree #kindle amzn.eu/d/dhitnFl

I was interviewed for "Coffee with a Scientist" (in German) in the framework of our @dfg.de funded SFB1665 SexDiversity. Most proud about the fact hat I managed to get my #SuperMario magnet set in the shot! www.instagram.com/reel/DL5PRz-...

Congrats to our fantastic postdoc Nuria Lopez-Alcantara for being awarded the #ETA Basic Science grant! 🎉🍾 #thyroid

Today is the last day of #LocoTact, our @dfg.de funded TRR296 consortium. A sad day for German #thyroid research, as we produced a lot of good science in the past 5 years, contributed to many different symposia and conferences, and educated many excellent junior researchers. locotact.de

Delighted to see that our @bioscientifica.bsky.social #ETJ has increased its IF to 4.3! If you have thyroid research to publish, this is the place to go! etj.bioscientifica.com Also, Thyroid's IF is higher than Mol Met - because the #thyroid is just more important than #diabetes. Yes, I said it...

Interestingly, when you order mouse breeding pairs from @jacksonlab.bsky.social via #CharlesRiver Deutschland, they don't guarantee that you get fertile animals. But still charge full price. Thanks for nothing...

🥳 We hit 100 followers! I guess I am now officially an minfluencer? Baby scinfluencer? Anyway... happy to see that there is also a community for #endocrine research on @bsky.app - no regrets after the #eXit.

Still need a good read about nerdy scientists for the holidays? Check out the Selection Trilogy by my close friend Tim Jagsten. amzn.eu/d/6JNOR1v Teaser below 👇

Big fan of informing the public about iodine and thyroid, but why invite a random TV doc to "explain" the background instead of a real endocrinologist is beyond me... www.n-tv.de/mediathek/vi...

🥳 Score! According to the most recent #ScholarGPS rankings, we are the most productive #thyroid hormone researchers in the past 5 years! Also Top 10 for total ranking (out of 8429). I just wish random rankings in narrow fields of expertise would immediately result in more 💰💰 @uniluebeck.bsky.social

👉 Beautiful work by our @cimususc.bsky.social colleague and friend Miguel Lopez and coworkers on the role of Jnk1 in hypothalamic SF1 neurons for the hepatic response to #thyroid hormones: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

👉 New paper out in the ETJ! Here we show how impaired hypothalamic #thyroid hormone action affects the lower limit of #heart rate! @uniluebeck.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1530/ETJ-...

Upcoming #CiMUSseminar this Friday ⤵️ 🗣 Prof. Jens Mittag from @expendo.bsky.social "Thyroid hormone in heart and mind" 📅 May 9, 1 PM 📍 Theatre room, CiMUS #RedeCiGUS #FondosEuropeos @usc.gal

After years of hard work we finally managed to identify the ninja gene and started a colony of transgenic #ninjabunnies!

New press release on our @dfg.de funded project in continuation of TRR296 LocoTact. And yes, it appears I am headless... www.uni-luebeck.de/forschung/ak...

Happy World Hormone Day! #becausehormonesmatter #endocrinology #fundmorehormoneresearch #thyroid #thyroidbutterfly

🥳 Proud to be the first accepted article in a special collection on the #hypothalamus edited by @cimususc.bsky.social Miguel Lopez and Jeff Friedman. Go thyroid! link.springer.com/collections/...

Anyone need a last minute present for easter? Happy easter everyone! #AIActionfigure

Happy to be invited for a talk @cimususc.bsky.social on May 9th on #thyroid hormone action in #heart and #brain by my friend and longterm collaborateur Miguel Lopez from Santiago! cimus.usc.gal/events/thyro...

📣 Check out the new thyroid hormone game on our homepage! Use the arrow keys to move the #deiodinase to activate the thyroxine for better #thyroid hormone action! Little surprise in level 10! #claudeAi www.expendo.uni-luebeck.de/spiel/game

🥳 I do like letters that start like this! @dfg.de has granted our proposal on thyroid hormone action in the regulation of heart rate, so we can continue our journey that started with the TRR296 LocoTact for another 3 years at the @uniluebeck.bsky.social!

While writing an article for the "Deutsche Hebammenzeitschrift" I was in need for a picture of a pregnant woman with a visible fetus.... let's just say AI still has a few things left to learn on human anatomy... #numberofhands #pregnantbaby #leonardoAI

We are happy to welcome Prof Helge Braun @helgebraun.bsky.social as new president at our fine University of Lübeck @uniluebeck.bsky.social! www.uni-luebeck.de/praesident-h...

Summertime - comments by our coworker Prof Oster now in quarks.de - I bet most psychological issues would disappear if we adjusted the clock at 2pm on Monday instead, cutting an hour of work instead of sleep. Sure, trains would be 1 hour late, but that is not uncommon. www.quarks.de/gesundheit/z...

Aaaand of course train trouble... unknown technical defect, but not to worry, they got a replacment train set up! Only the seat reservations are unfortunately no longer valid... #deutschebahn

Feels cool to return to the #MHH, place of countless student parties (yes, and also courses), now 15 years later as invited speaker for the #DGPT annual meeting. Lots of weird flashbacks... programme.conventus.de/gpts-2025/pr...

🥳 Congratulations to Julia Maier for defending her #PhD thesis today on the role of the Zona Incerta for central #thyroid hormone action! doi.org/10.1089/thy....

🥳 Happy #ladder-day, everyone! I am so glad I work in a country that requires an institute to have an official #ladder officer (yours truly) that puts all ladders up for annual #inspection and punishes people for using swivel chairs. Employees just cannot be trusted with these #dangerous items!

Ever received an email that reminds you to use a #form to provide 7 (!) versions for the name of your institute, and you think "nah, someone must be messing with me", but it is dead serious? I think I will also voluntarily provide names in French, Chinese, Japanes and Swahili to be on the safe side.

The voyage home - happy to return to my alma mater in #Hannover, invited for a symposium at the #GPTS 2025 on #heart-brain axis. Hope to see some familiar faces - just FYI... I have neither aged nor matured a single day since 2006 🥳 programme.conventus.de/gpts-2025/pr...

I asked how Claude AI would interpret our latest results, Donald Trump style... here it is. It would be so funny, if the current reality of science in the US wouldn't be so incredibly depressing... 😢

Congratulations to Francesca for successfully defending her PhD thesis on the role (or its absence) of #dopamine on #brown fat thermogenesis in vivo! Main findings: Don't trust cell lines, don't trust antibodies... all from hell... #GRK1957 Adipocyte Brain Crosstalk @dfg.de

Looking foward to interesting new data and opinions at our SFB1665 #SexDiversity retreat in Plön - let's hope the location "knight's hall" means plenty of food and beer and jousting! #hormones @dfg.de

Well done @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports! Submitted our work on #thyroid hormone and central control of #heart rate 7 (!!) months ago and still not out for review... "we will keep an eye on it" - thanks, but no thanks! Back to society based journals... any volunteers/suggestions?

📢 New publication of our lab together with University of Leipzig/Helmholtz on the importance of #maternal #thyroid #hormone for the #methylation of a #leptin enhancer in female offspring - how many studies are needed until mandatory thyroid function tests in pregnancy in DE? doi.org/10.1186/s131...

Congratulations to our @uniluebeck.bsky.social MLS Bachelor Student Lena for successfully defending her thesis today on #maternal thyroid hormone and fetal programming of liver metabolism, once again underscoring the importance of proper #thyroid hormone levels in #pregnant women!

Score! Free candy at the Dutch Endocrine Meeting 2025! #DEM

Thanks Deutsche Bahn for a quick high intensity workout on the way to the Dutch Endocrine Society meeting...

📣 Our paper on epigenetic control of hepatic TH action with @agepicgenetics.bsky.social published in the European Thyroid Journal was the highlight paper for the Editor in 2024! Check it at etj.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...

Today at 1pm: "In vivo cardiometabolic phenotyping of mouse models" as part of the SFB1665 Sex Diversity Method Lecture series. Come in and find out! www.sfb1665.uni-luebeck.de/grk/veransta...

Amazing meeting ahead next week of the Dutch #Endocrine Society in #Veldhoven on 6/7th of February - I am honored to be invited to present our recent findings in the #thyroid session at 10:45am together with our friends and colleagues Duncan and Anita! www.nve.nl/conference/d...

Provocative thought💭 Cancer cell lines are a 1990s technology. They should only be used as a sandbox for mol bio tech- a technical test of new assays, constructs. We should not be drawing conclusions about bio mechanisms & training genomics AI models on cell line genomics data.

Due to recent publications, I would like to stress again: there are no reliable commercially available antibodies against #thyroid hormone receptors. If in doubt, check with tissue from the respective knockout model and prepare to be disappointed: figshare.com/articles/fig...

If this were the US, my proposals currently under evaluation at @dfg.de would now be on hold and our #SFB1665 SexDiversity would run out in May. So by July I would be almost alone with a bunch of fancy machines, of which I could confidently use about a third, and that includes the coffee maker.

Have you ever hidden little things in a #publication? Check out the tiny unicorns in Fig 2 of our Lopez-Alcantara et al. 2024 iScience which indicate #liver ballooning in #MASH 🦄 - went unnoticed by the 6(!) reviewers and the editor. It's the little things that make you happy... 😁 #unicornsinscience