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...

#WeekendReads Profs Schiffrin and Muntner on the 2025 AHA/ACC Hypertension guidelines academic.oup.com/ajh/advance-...

It's 2026!🎉 We will be counting down the Top Ten Nephrology Stories of 2025 on 1/6/26 at 9 pm EST. Join us on TWITTER (it will always be Twitter to us). Come on by #NephJC faithful for a lively discussion! You picked & we're count'em down. www.nephjc.com/news/2025/1/3/top-stories-in-nephrology-2025

Did we (meaning "you" of course, because you voted) get them right? Is there something missing or is the order wrong? #NephJC #TopTenStories2025 Come discuss with an international cadre of nephrologists & other interested parties on 1/6/26 at 9 pm EST on #Twitter

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

#WeekendReads from the advance article section Global burden of heart failure attributable to hypertensive heart disease: a 30-year population-based analysis using Global Burden of Disease 2021 data academic.oup.com/ajh/advance-...

A 40-year-old Brazilian male presented to the ED after experiencing syncope. Over the past 4 months, he was fatigued and diagnosed with folate- and iron-deficiency anemia, for which he received treatment. How should this patient be managed? bit.ly/3LidFDa (FREE)

By 2050, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is projected to become the fifth leading underlying cause of death worldwide. A new Seminar provides a simple approach to CKD diagnosis, staging, and management that can be applied in most clinical settings: spkl.io/63323AlsFF

Check out a recent interesting case of C-H-BG syndrome from @nephrointberlin.bsky.social. A great example of how rare symptoms in a common disease can present with complex phenotypes. #NephSky #MedSky 🧪 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wow - excellent discussion of the totally underwhelming BICAR-ICU2 trial podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f... @nephcrit.bsky.social fighting a line fight against the unimpressed nephrons with guest @weddellite.bsky.social #NephSky #EMIMCC

The new @kdigo.org anemia guidelines are out in @kidneyint.bsky.social www.kidney-international.org/article/S008... (Somewhat anemic in their support of iron IMO) include sections on HIF-PHIs Worth a future #nephJC?

This was a solid tubular secretion rec from @lastwalsh.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... Book 1 of 9!

It's that time again! Nephrology/Hypertension – Top Studies 2025, Part 1! youtu.be/n3aBxK013bY?... @gunnarheine.bsky.social @mariamabutair.bsky.social @kronbichlerlab.bsky.social @marcussaemann.bsky.social @sarahelektra.bsky.social

Safety and Effectiveness of Long-term #Isoniazid Treatment for the #Prevention of #Tuberculosis in High-risk #Dialysis Patients #VisualAbstract by Cristina Popa https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(25)00733-8/fulltext

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

The Italian Society of Nephrology expresses its deep sorrow for the passing of Prof. Claudio Ponticelli, a pioneer in nephrology and an outstanding scientist and mentor. Our heartfelt condolences to his family and colleagues. #RIP #Nephrology

In the first 25 years when vaccines were routinely provided, more than 91 million cases of chickenpox, 238 000 hospitalizations, and almost 2000 deaths were prevented in the US. It was also cost-saving: with a net societal savings of at least 23.4 billion US dollars so far.

Impact of Cost-Sharing on Self-Measured Blood Pressure: Cost and Prescription Abandonment for Home BP Monitors in a Large FQHC academic.oup.com/ajh/article-...

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

This year on Bluesky I wrote 862 posts and 1,726 replies - and quelle surprise I love saying "nephjc" and 😏! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

AI in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Review 🔗 academic.oup.com/ajh/article-... 🔒

A Humbling Honor and Ready to Serve: Editorial from incoming EiC Paul Muntner 🔗 academic.oup.com/ajh/advance-... #Hypertension

Goodbye, Out With the Old and in With the New academic.oup.com/ajh/article/... Editorial from EiC Prof. Ernesto Schiffrin as he steps down

As the year draws to a close, we invite you to look back at 25 KDIGO resources from 2025, organized alphabetically by topic. KDIGO wishes you a happy and healthy 2026! KDIGO 25 from 2025: kdigo.co/25-from-2025

At the intersection of the 1) AI bubble 2) Oligopoly 3) Gaming culture 4) Poorly optimized software 5) Organ trafficking 6) Nephrology

The MARKUS@HOMe editorial team wishes all colleagues a happy New Year's Eve 2025 and a happy, healthy, peaceful, and safe 2026. We thank all our guests for their academic contributions and look forward to seeing you again in 2026! youtu.be/hcRC-UQokhs?...

1/ This kidney biopsy is from an elderly adult patient with acute renal failure and a history of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication (NSAID) use. #TeachingPoints #kidneypath #renal #pathology

Curious how fibrillary changes and diabetes influence each other in the same patient? And what that means for kidney function? Dr. Charles & Dr. Boyd break it down in the latest #Collidescope episode. https://youtu.be/O4ylMrIHOh4 #nephsky #pathsky #diabetes #kidneypath

Longitudinal Associations between Changes in Inter-Ankle SBP Difference and Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in the ARIC Study 🔗 academic.oup.com/ajh/article-... 🔒