New from our team: RCT High-Diversity #PlantBasedDiet & impact on Gut Microbiome, Plasma Metabolome & Symptom Burden in #CKD 3-4 🍅🫛🥕🥦 Intervention: Usual care + 30 unique plant foods / week ✅Safe ✅⬇️acid load by ~50% ✅⬇️symptom burden ✅ More advanced CKD=most benefit journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstra...

University administrations are largely a scam and should be sized down.

Do you know someone who has had a kidney or kidney pancreas transplant and has competed at the Transplant Games ? We are keen to speak with them for our new study and hear the insights they may have about being active. Competitors in any sport and any level are welcome !

NEW OUT: Our new paper co-written with consumers: Novel insights & practical strategies for health professionals to improve the uptake of #plantbaseddiets in people with #CKD Informed by evidence from marketing, implementation science, and behavior change DOI: doi.org/10.23876/j.k...

"Globally, habitat loss is the biggest threat to most species and about 90% is caused by conversion of wild habitats to agricultural land." The sixth mass extinction is clearly attributable to the elephants in the room, overpopulation and overconsumption www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Each person with measles spreads it to up to 18 other people. For comparison, the R0 (measure of spread) for Covid is 1-2. One of 10 kids who gets measles has an ear infection that may result in permanent hearing loss. Up to 30 per 10,000 die of complications.

'To Know Dying' report - We've identified 5 research areas for social sciences & humanities from patient, carer, & professionals' questions about palliative & end of life care. This report supports researchers & funders as they shape the future of the field. healthopenresearch.org/documents/7-1

My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and *waves vaguely* this nonsense, and it *will* impact their productivity. It can't not.

How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity who.foundation/blogs-post/h...

Timeline cleanse needed in these gloomy times. Hello from Sunny and Lulu 😍

How hot are the oceans? The blue lines represent the actual sea surface temperatures for each of the years 1982-2022. The red line represents the lowest (minimum) sea surface temperature obtained for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Environmental exposure to melamine and its derivatives and kidney outcomes in children #nephsky @aspneph https://buff.ly/40OqSJ9

Thankyou @AJKDonline for the opportunity to share my story “In a Few Words” @AJKDblog and providing a platform to advocate for kidney community in generating solutions to alleviate care giver fatigue for patients with ESRD. @ajkd.bsky.social @nkf-professionals.bsky.social

📖 Don't miss our @kireports.bsky.social #ISNFridaySelection: Review of Exercise Interventions to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Non-dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease www.kireports.org/ar...#ISNFridaySelection:#NephSky

#placementpoverty among allied health and medical students: "Unpaid placements create a huge inequity where only people who are financially secure are able to complete these degrees" X Food insecurity: 70.2% (27.7% severe) Read more: publish.csiro.au/AH/AH24233

Amen to that 👏👏

Most academics make writing harder than it needs to be. Your 10,000-word paper could be 7,000. And it would hit harder. Want to know how?

“The Finnish Food Authority's national nutritional guidelines recommend consuming a maximum of about 350 grams of processed meat per person per week — but the agency hopes people would eat much less.” #PutChangeOnTheMenu yle.fi/a/74-20127714

It’s a question we ask all the time.

Love this cool wordcloud generator using my pubs from PubMed - really helps clarify what my research is about - figuratively and literally the patient is at the centre Thanks morinryan.bsky.social link here shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...

Oooh excitement!! Fab to find @researchdigest.bsky.social here in the #AcademicSky #PsychSky!!

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

Nephrology - is not for normal doctors but for exceptionally skilled physicians 😎 #nephsky from www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....

New here! It didn't take long for someone to request a talk on the #VisualAbstract . So here it is... What is a Visual Abstract? And how to create one youtu.be/bOXSNCjXAKg #FOAmed

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

It's not okay to offer funding where the recipient uses their own money first and is reimbursed later. This barrier puts serious pressure on those in less privileged positions. Many struggle (silently) or lose out completely. Reduce inequity by offering resources up front.

Them: Did you finish that project? Me: No, but can I introduce you to six others I've started?

"If I throw my manuscript into the forest, have I submitted it to Nature?" – Christine Le @ York University How often do you have one of these days, #AcademicSky? 🧪 @academic-chatter.bsky.social @academiclife.bsky.social #academicchatter #research #academia #science

Some days it's very very clear that the university is held together by very old crumbling sellotape (tm, other adhesive tapes are available) and the ingenuity and energy of academics and professional services staff. @academic-chatter.bsky.social @academiclife.bsky.social

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Paying PhD students would go some way to improving their mental health.

Still makes me laugh