Stephen Decker, PhD

My life as a bald person and a dad to a 4-year-old girl in one post: I nicked myself shaving my head this morning and was bleeding. My daughter used up all of the normal Band-Aids, so I had to use one of her mermaid Band-Aids.

a man with sweat running down his face ALT: a man with sweat running down his face

When you really need a Colab script to finish but your A100 GPU is running at 79.3/80 GB

Time to play Figure Roulette with Word for another grant proposal...

We don't know yet. Mainly because measuring proteinuria in mice is largely unreliable and difficult. There aren't any good established methods that I know of.

Hematuria was present by 3-6 months.

Thank you! We need to find some time to meet up one of these days. I need to pick your brain about XLAS in females

Also my favorite poster companion 💜

@asnpublications.bsky.social
@alportuk.bsky.social

#ASN #KidneyWeek #AlportSyndrome

"Your claim is denied because congenital disorders aren't covered after age 26"

Oh, because my cleft lip and palate magically took care of themselves once I turned 26. How stupid of me.

Heading out to #KidneyWeek with my faithful travel companion!

I'm so honored to have been awarded a People's Choice Award for the @asnpublications.bsky.social Basic Science Forum! This will be such an exciting trip!

Somebody was upset that the mermaids couldn't go to daycare, so I told her that they would come to work with me and be my helpers today

4 came too fast 😭

Definitely not economics. Urine samples are taken from kids all the time, especially for things like UTIs. My former stepdaughter was misdiagnosed for years despite known microhematuria because her ped didn't listen to the patient mother with a known family history

Yes, yes we should

Today in the lab:

My coworkers are mind-blown that I have aphantasia.

A Platform for Mitochondrial Profiling in Enriched Kidney Segments Under Thermodynamic Control in Mice and Humans Mitochondrial function varies widely across kidney nephron segments, yet conventional approaches lack the resolution and control needed to assess cell-type-specific bioenergetics in situ. We present a...

So exciting to share this! What started off as a "let's see what happens" project has finally come full circle. I can't wait to see this project reviewed and in press!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hy heart is broken. Thank you, thank you for everything for me, and countless others. You gave us all a chance to be normal.

Metabolism as the next biomedical frontier From harnessing early-life microbes to protect against diabetes, to targeting cardiac metabolism in heart failure, a new hub is proving that metabolism is a common thread across diseases, and the next frontier in biomedical discovery.

The Center for Metabolic Health brings together researchers to tackle major diseases like diabetes and heart failure by focusing on a central factor: metabolism.

Discover more about this interdisciplinary hub at University of Utah Health: https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-025-00227-2

Back to 0. I wish my Chrome tabs could say the same thing...

I'm one of those people that can't have unread emails in my inbox. Right now I have 34 unread emails and counting, and it's peaking my anxiety.

I'm such a nerd running deep learning scripts on Colab and walking between buildings as close and as fast as possible with my laptop open so that I maintain my wifi connection

I'm so grateful for societies such as @amsocmatbio.bsky.social , and for organizations such as the Alport Syndrome Foundation and @alportuk.bsky.social for all of their continued support and advocacy on this condition.

This award is meaningful as it not only highlights my research efforts but also carries a personal significance for me. With my daughter, Kyra, living with XLAS, my dedication to research and advocacy is driven by a desire to impact her life positively and benefit others affected by this condition.

I am thrilled to share that my abstract focusing on novel humanized mouse models of X-linked Alport Syndrome has been selected as a finalist for the Iozzo Trainee Award, as well as a recipient of a Travel Award to the American Society for Matrix Biology biannual meeting.

It happened. I got into an argument with AI this morning...

If it walks like a dog and rolls in the dirt like a dog...

Then it's a stray dog and I can take it home as my new ESA, right?

a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men . ALT: a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men .

I always make it known that I'm a reviewer for a paper, but part of me is always afraid that I will get confronted and somebody will try to beat me up and take my lunch money at conferences.

Final product

Birthday brisket.

At least I feel like I have a solid plan B if the NIH completely dies...

I think the algorithm knows I'm not a fan of the political echo chamber on here (same with Twitter, though), so it's started to flood my feed entirely with BioRxiv preprints...

18 hours later and my AI training status is at 3% done...

At least it's running?

In this sense, aging and death are not just biological processes nor are they spontaneous or stochastic; they are unavoidable expressions of the second law of thermodynamics.

To quote Kierkegaard: "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."