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Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.

Danielle Smith's willingness to cater to Alberta separatists was always a dangerous game. Now, in the wake of America's attack on Venezuela and its covetous advances on Greenland, she's effectively risking Canada's future in order to save her own. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/o...

Overflowing ERs with 3 deaths in one ER waiting room No room to offload ambulance patients Admitted patients in the hallways Edmonton (and everywhere else with a rip roaring flu season) apple.news/AOw1VHQFjSxy...

Bottom line: RAAS inhibition not just lowers pressure. It reshapes a pathological conversation btw/ distal nephron & inflammatory macs. And single-cell biology is no longer about making prettier atlases. It is about correcting assumptions we have been carrying for decades. 🧪Paper: t.ly/oNjkJ

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Spiro is an amazing drug with amongst the widest ranging effects. I'd be very skeptical that it isn't beneficial is different ways than just elevating potassium (which is presumably one of its beneficial effects).

NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

True, I would love to see a factorial trial comparing the effect of MRA vs pure potassium supplementation to see if there actually is something to this signal. Won't happen I think.

I do wonder how much of the effect may be due to initiation of MRA vs higher potassium in itself. #cardiosky #emimcc

Harm reduction is not a "divisive approach" and I need actual journalists to stop saying this. Harm reduction is an evidence based approach which gets more people into safety, into treatment, and reduces overdoses and deaths. That is not a divisive approach, but a humanist approach.

I used for 2 days documenting the visit note is not my time suck now if I could just do orders like I used to on paper (honestly, this is a question. Why do I have click through menus and boxes instead of just typing in: cbc, bmp, hctz 25mg po qd. Surely that can be parsed?)

I agree. My license elapsed for it due to my low use of it. I find it distasteful to instead spend time fixing the AIs note after the fact

I get the impression that @bmj.com, like many journals, assign far greater weight to possible risks of retraction than they do to the risks of NOT retracting a flawed paper, and leaving it to influence others. Not a good balance when patient care is involved.

Trump Administration pivots from killing people internationally to killing people domestically.

Cuffless BP review with @farahwehbe92.bsky.social - incoming HT fellow in Ottawa, with tables, and details of technology, devices and ongoing trials pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41460057/ thanks to @profdg.bsky.social for the invite!

AI scribes are underwhelming jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... from @jama.com IMO - after the initial surprise they do so much - it is clear they are pretty useless (I cringe at my AI-scribe notes from a few months ago when I tried it)

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Dr Maillika Mendu from @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social and @harvardmed.bsky.social on CKD care at population level #NephGR tomorrow

/7 Here, the Trump Administration’s lies about the murder victim did not impact her property rights because the Trump Administration had already murdered her. In short, our federal government can usually kill, kidnap, abuse, and lie about us with impunity.

I am going to kindly share, as a Black person used to dodging these types of things, if you have your settings set to autoplay video, today is a great day to turn them off. You can be very informed without having to witness murder.

Can’t get too excited about the new US diet guidelines www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w... (NYT gift link) Previous guidelines have been imperfect - and these are likely imperfect in other ways Not sure guidelines change people’s behaviour anyways (unlike G-force molecules!)

1. New #measles numbers out from #CDC. Confirmed cases for 2025 stand at 2,144, the highest single year count since 1991. A decision was taken in 1989 to make measles vaccination a 2-dose regimen; after it was implemented, it & high vaccination rates brought measles to very low levels. Not now.

When Risk is going on too long so you turn to Monopoly to entertain the kids

/2 Trumpian America is like that. If other countries — or domestic organizations do business with the U.S., it should not be under a delusion that America will abide by a treaty or agreement or international law or even It’s own law. Trump America is “fuck you, we do what we want.”

New: 6,700. That's how many sexually suggestive or nudifying images Grok is producing every hour, according to an analysis. X is now a top deepfake site. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As this ramps up and we are asked to cheerlead for it, I remain genuinely shocked that Canada, once again, under the banner of a **nation-building**, has created a funding program that excludes Canadian students and researchers based on presence in Canada. /1 universityaffairs.ca/news/feds-la...

What a fucking joke. Vaccines: bad and dangerous! AI and deregulation: amazing and will transform your health! This is the state of our current (broken) FDA. Makary is a bad faith actor who should have been a tech bro instead of a surgeon 🤦🏻‍♂️

🆕 In a new piece in @bmj.com, @jonshaffer.bsky.social & I argue that the powerful physicians who lead federal agencies—e.g., the NIH & FDA—should be RESISTING Trump & RFK Jr’s damaging health policies Instead, they’re collaborating with them, aiding & abetting the harm www.bmj.com/content/392/...

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

I do understand this if you are a political journalist keeping an eye on lunatics But please do not passively use X for other things like keeping up with science or whatever, instead ACTIVELY tell the people/groups you are relying on for news to stop posting there – negating your reason to be there

Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

This paper is completely inscrutable and I can't understand how it's been cited over 80 times unless people just cite things based on their conclusions hey wait a minute...🤔 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Commentary: The Interplay between Time in Target Range for Blood Pressure and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: A Tricky Exercise academic.oup.com/ajh/article/... Related article: academic.oup.com/ajh/article/...

When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.

South Carolina reports 26 more measles cases, 214 total South Carolina now has the same case count as Arizona, which confirmed nine new infections today. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has revealed that he’s helping Francesca Gino, the honesty researcher who was fired from Harvard for research misconduct. “We will provide whatever resources she needs to clear her name,” he wrote. New from me: www.chronicle.com/article/an-i...

Commentary: New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation and Hypertension in East Asian Population: Emerging Insights and Clinical Implications academic.oup.com/ajh/article-... Related article: academic.oup.com/ajh/article/...

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GLP-1 trials show around a 15% reduction in stroke risk for chronic use. There might be some extra benefit around acute episodes, but I'd be quite surprised if it was a 44% reduction.

I wonder if these work similar to ASA. I just perused this paper, but looks fascinating. ASA's effect in the short-term is absolutely massive, while long-term its a 15% reduction. 😳 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This effect size seems bonkers 44% reduction at 90 days? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... in @jamainternalmed.com I don’t buy it, despite this being a GLP-RA @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social @rnflex.bsky.social @christosargyrop.bsky.social #MedSky

kids dying preventable deaths is bad imo

Commentary: New Insights on the Ideal Blood Pressure Levels for Renal Protection academic.oup.com/ajh/article-... On: Original Research Low Achieved Systolic Blood Pressure Related to Kidney Protection in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic High-Risk Hypertensive Patients academic.oup.com/ajh/article/...

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

#renalpath Dense deposit disease with mesangial proliferation, double contours of glomerular basement membrane (GBM), and cellular interposition, without evident eosinophilic immune complex–type deposits. bit.ly/49zgtoR (FREE)

New year, new publication. Great working on this article on sepsis-associated AKI with @shinamenon.bsky.social, Pavan Bhatraju, and Javier Neyra. Currently, free to access. #nephsky #emimcc @uwnephrology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1mNWkzzky3...