🔬 Funding alert for early career kidney researchers! #KPMP is offering travel grants up to $1,500 to attend their Sept 17-18 meeting in Bethesda, MD. Open to ALL early career investigators, no KPMP affiliation needed. Apply by June 23! app.smartsheet.com/b/form/cf681... #TravelGrant #EarlyCareer

2 year pediatric specialty fellowships are here, baby! www.abp.org/news/press-r...

362nd place in line?! I need this book yesterday.

Sparsentan approved for FSGS for age 8+! www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?...

How is cumulative medical imaging in childhood associated with cancer risk? NEJM Editorial Fellow Katerina Lin, MD, summarizes a recent retrospective cohort study involving 3 million children. Read the full study: nej.md/41YXEHD #Hematology #Pediatrics

For the love of god! How do I get Vumedi to stop sending me emails? No, I don’t want to watch your video. Clicking unsubscribe only seems to make them stronger.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

STAT: Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs by Megan Molteni @statnews.com @mmolteni.bsky.social bit.ly/4tVncB5

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

My thoughts on career and life academic.oup.com/atsscholar/a...

A KDIGO commentary on B Cell and Complement guided therapy in IgAN www.kidney-international.org/article/S008... in Kidney Int Perfectly timed for #NephMadness (and this will be the champion)

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

A new paper suggests that grant terminations from the NIH over the past year may have further punctured the so-called "leaky pipeline" because women were more impacted by grant terminations than men www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...

Vacations are amazing. Highly recommended. Go to Morocco, or somewhere equally out of your comfort zone.

Help shape the ASN Council Election slate. 🔹 Nominate a leader 🔹 Recognize vision, experience, and expertise 🔹 Put forward candidates to guide ASN’s future Submit by Friday, April 10: ➡️At-Large Councilor: https://bit.ly/At-LargeCouncilor ➡️Executive Councilor: https://bit.ly/ExecutiveCouncilor

The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum gave Minnesotans and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell the “profile in courage” award, which has recognized presidents, first responders and heads of state. Video: Kyeland Jackson/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

When Harper Moyski’s parents testified about their 10-year-old daughter’s shooting death, they were met with lawmakers who had already made up their minds—reducing unimaginable loss to political talking points. We honor Harper by refusing to accept indifference. Lawmakers must listen—and act.

Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/o...

There is a question institutions rarely ask out loud. How long is too long to hold a leadership seat? Let’s discuss how leadership stagnation is reshaping the future of academic medicine and why the next generation is quietly walking away. #medsky #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/faithdan...

Being 53 is awesome when...yeah no, it sucks. You're invisible to everyone except AARP.

SGLT2 inhibitors in adult patients with Alport Syndrome #nephsky #nephrology www.kireports.org/article/S246...

In adults with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease with albuminuria, the decrease in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio was significantly greater with finerenone than with placebo. Full phase 3 FINE-ONE trial results: nej.md/4rTPAmu #MedSky #EndoSky #Nephrology

This story is nuts The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱 retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

One of four Army Reserve soldiers who were killed amid U.S. attacks on Iran has been identified as a 39-year-old woman from White Bear Lake.

Clinicians identified lack of standardized pathways, limited training, EMR inefficiencies, equipment issues, and poor specialist coordination as key barriers to #PediatricHypertension detection; explicit recommendations addressed each barrier. ja.ma/3N6e50n

Survival is improving for Neonates with kidney failure. With that it is becoming important to focus on things beyond #dialysis. Sharing 2 papers from Stanford PedNeph fellows: 1. Sam Krieger shows that infants on RRT do not show catch up growth on current nutritional recommendations rdcu.be/e6dtw

All the pediatric nephrologists at the annual meeting of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Dept Chairs!

It’s March 1st 🌸🌷… So, it’s #NephMadness time Here are the 8 topics competing tuis year 👇👇 Any favourites? ajkdblog.org/2026/03/01/w...

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

Nope. My father sold auto parts. I’m lucky I know how to put gas in my car.

Glomerular basement membrane (GBM) structural integrity dictates trans-tissu... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Really proud of this Cell Reports paper showing that the potentially pathogenic laminin alpha2 in the Alport GBM comes not from glomerular cells, but from the bloodstream.

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us. It sucks. We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this. I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

📣Got #nephrophobia? Nephron function from start to finish. 👉https://youtu.be/Pzl12KCBCR0 We walk through the #glomerulus → PCT → Loop of Henle → DCT → collecting duct to explain #nephron basics #Nephrology #FOAMed #MedEd #RenalPhysiology #USMLE #NephSky 👀www.abckidney.com#nephrophobia?#glomerulus#nephron#Nephrology#FOAMed#MedEd#RenalPhysiology#USMLE#NephSkyrsive learning

FDA asks Amgen (which bought Chemocentryx) for voluntary withdrawal of Avacopan From January, with fresh Medscape coverage Amgen www.amgen.com/tavneos-pres... Medscape www.medscape.com/s/viewarticl... - liver concerns - BVAS scoring discrepancy from ADVOCATE

Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".

No. I'm sorry, but the youths need to learn to code switch between Professional and Online just like the rest of us.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Alport syndrome is a frequent cause of hereditary glomerulonephritis, and some pathogenic variants affect splicing. Here, Hassan Saei @hassansaei.bsky.social & team establish a kidney organoid platform of AS & correct gene splicing using ASO therapy: doi.org/10.1172/jci....

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Want to learn more about pediatric obesity treatment? This virtual CME offering from the UMN Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine is for you! Registration: umncpd.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...

✨It's that time of the year again, to nominate the most deserving people in our community for #NephJCKidneys award 👇Here's a reminder of previous winners 📌You can nominate worthy individuals/ initiatives by using the hashtag or by using the form www.nephjc.com/news/...#NephJCKidneys #NephJC

Urine microalbumin getting Super Bowl star treatment with Sofia Vergara and Octavia Spencer.

This is every transplant physician’s nightmare right now.

moving on from IgAN to FSGS: BI 764198 a TRPC6 inhibitor reduces proteinuria in an N = 67 phase 2 RCT www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... in @thelancet.com #NephSky

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Department head is still middle management.

2025 AJKD Editors' Choice Award winning article: Genetic Characterization of Kidney Failure of Unknown Etiology in Spain: Findings From the GENSEN Study bit.ly/3WeEZ72 #VisualAbstract

This is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking things I have seen. These kids are hurting. Immigration enforcement has forever changed their childhood. We must protect children from policies that harm them, their families and the communities they live in. Children deserve safety and compassion.

#TopNephrology stories of 2025 the podcast is out: www.nephjc.com/freelyfilter... with @kidneyboy.bsky.social @captainchloride.bsky.social @medpeedskidneys.bsky.social @annagaddy.bsky.social @vipvargh.bsky.social @brianrifkin.bsky.social & @nephroseeker.medsky.social

To say it took a while is an understatement, because #NephJC has been around for 11 years (and still counting)... 🥁 We opened an Instagram account, so if you're around, can follow and interact 👣💞 #NephSky #Medsky