What a great turnout for our Spring WIN-Women in #Nephrology gathering! Many thanks to Dr. Leah Haseley for hosting & Dr. Laura Mayeda for organizing the event. Shout-out to our amazing fellows and faculty women of UW Nephrology @uwnephrology.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social #nephsky #kidneydocs

#NephMadness 2026: The Effluent Eight bit.ly/NM26Eff8 @nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social @ssfarouk.bsky.social

🫀 SPIRIT-HF at #ACC26: Spironolactone, an aldosterone blocker, compared with placebo, did not show any significant improvement in terms of HF hospitalizations and cardiovascular death at 24 months in patients with #HFpEF or #HFmrEF. See the results ➡️ https://bit.ly/4cbiPeW #HeartFailure #CardioSky

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)

Head over to 👇 tourneytopia.com/AJKD/NephMad... and submit your #NephMadness Bracket

We had a great “Battle of the UW Neph Sections" for #NephMadness2026 ! The energy was fantastic as our faculty and fellows jumped into spirited discussions to create a UW #Nephrology bracket 🏆🫘🤩 #kidney #nephsky #meded @uwmedicine.bsky.social

Great shot of our "Team Evergreen" advocates from @uwmedicine.bsky.social!! They will be on #CapitolHill in DC tomorrow to advocate for 1) #Research funding for #kidneycare at NIDDK and 2) Lowering barriers to living #kidneydonation through the ESLDA (Expanding Support for Living Donors Act). 🙌🫘📣

Apixaban wins www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Here is today’s #eyeSCANdy! Scanning EM of a normal glomerulus showing a glomerular capillary loop with interdigitating podocyte foot processes.  Photo courtesy of Dr. Stephen Bonsib. #renal #pathology #kidneypath

Very cool Enteric coated budesonide also reduces albuminuria, and GFR remains stable in #IgAN Single arm prospective study from India in KI Reports www.kireports.org/article/S246...

Yay! The #NephMadness topics are out! ajkdblog.org/2026/03/01/w...

Hypophosphatemia while on RRT in a ventilated patient is bad, from STARRT AKI post hoc analysis www.ajkd.org/article/S027... No surprise, but Neyra et al don’t cite our simple solution: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23972063/ - also in AJKD 🤷🏽‍♂️

RT @NBCOlympics: ALYSA LIU YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE. 😍 #WinterOlympics

From @theathletic.com: The Seahawks won their second Super Bowl title and avenged their agonizing Super Bowl loss to the Patriots 11 years ago. Seattle won, 29-13, after holding New England scoreless through three quarters. nyti.ms/4rDVrM2

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

RT @SNFonNBC: When it comes to NFL expansion franchise names, Milan Cortina has SEVERAL options. 👀

Hey #Medsky and #Pulmsky, check on your ICU nurse friends. I am and will always be grateful for my time and training at a VAMC ICU. The nurses there were wonderful humans who helped a tired, sometimes struggling new doc through difficult shifts. Cheers to the #ICUNurses, we lost a great one today.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Wow Minneapolis today

🎉 Join in congratulating the 2026 ASN Loan Mitigation Program recipients. These future leaders of kidney health are shaping what comes next, and this program supports their path forward. Meet the recipients: https://bit.ly/asnLMP26

An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:

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...

Earlier: Gu's dream of an academic future in Houston ended in an airless limbo room where the lights never dimmed and the temperatures hovered at around 60 degrees. Instead of entering school, he's now banned from re-entering the U.S. For 5 years.

This very short article offers a perspective of AI in higher education: "Difficulty is good, an end in its own right." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Division holiday party with the best people! @uwnephrology.bsky.social #nephsky

Appreciate this excellent work showing GLP-1 agonists reduce mortality in patients on dialysis and improve their chances of receiving a transplant. Hopefully, it will help me get them approved for my patients through the VA. #nephsky journals.lww.com/cjasn/pages/...

Have an upcoming conference you want highlighted on a specialty feed? Want help setting up community handles for your organization? Want to make a feed on your account to showcase posts from your medical faculty? The sky is the limit & @medsky.social is here to help! Email [email protected]

IV iron improves outcomes even in people with bacterial infections (except meningitis). Observational study of 85K patients to be presented Sunday 12/7 at ASH. #nephsky www.hematology.org/newsroom/pre...

Thank you for this reporting @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

What do you want to see at #KidneyWk 2026? Now’s the time to shape it. Submit your session and faculty suggestions for next year’s program in Denver by Monday, December 15. Don’t wait—add your ideas before the call closes. 👉 http://asn.kdny.info/WjFe50XBix7

It was really interesting researching this topic. Hope it’s useful.

Are you a peds resident who didn't match into fellowship yesterday, or someone wishes to do peds nephrology, we have a wonderful program waiting for you med.stanford.edu/pednephrolog... Come work & learn w/us in ☀️ Bay Area! Reach out to any of us @xgaeta.bsky.social @4kidney.bsky.social #NephSky

If you are a resident who didn’t match today, a hospitalist looking for change, or anyone looking to join an amazing and innovative fellowship program in an unbeatable location we have a Nephrology spot open for you! Contact us if you are interested! ohsu.edu/school-of-medi…

What a Match! We are thrilled to welcome this exceptional group of doctors to our UW Nephrology Fellowship Program!! @uwnephrology.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social #Seattle #Match2026 #nephsky

All ELISAs that use biotin strepavidin at risk for this. Which are pretty much all ELISAs

Biotin was recommended for one of my kidney transplant patients for hair loss associated with tacrolimus. Oral doses may interfere with PTH assays.

We had a great turnout for #Cranksgiving, biking food from local grocers to area food banks. Several folks donated funds directly. Everyone had a wonderful time! Over 6,500 lbs of food donated!! Happy Thanksgiving!! 🦃😀🚴‍♂️ @uwnephrology.bsky.social @uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social

It was an honor for us to host Dr. Sandeep Mallipattu in #Seattle for Nephrology Grand Rounds! Take a look at his fantastic talk, "Treating FSGS: Something Old, Something New, Something Still in Motion." #kidney #nephrology #FSGS @uwmedicine.bsky.social #nephsky #meded youtu.be/Nu8VZHuVTdY

1/n Recently attended an international congress about Urinalysis in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱. I was expecting a small meeting. I was wrong. Pleasantly surprised with the size of the meeting and the energy and interest from the participants. Let me share the highlights of my experience:

Congrats to Dr. Karen de Wolski, selected for the 2026 @asnkidney.bsky.social FIND Pgrm! FIND - Fostering Innovative Leaders in #Nephrology & #Dialysis empowers future generations of neph pros to drive innovation, advance clinical care, and champion positive policy change. 👏👏👏@uwmedicine.bsky.social

Increasing the Potassium Level in Patients at High Risk for Ventricular Arrhythmias | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I often hear "I wish we didn't have to waste these expensive meds every time a patient stops & has extra left over." Here's what the state of Michigan did to combat this: - Statewide cancer drug repository, 105 sites - $26 million value/>100K pills donated to >1K pts ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

Fun in the Houston airport! @uwnephrology.bsky.social #kidneywk

Ian McCoy describing higher rates of intradialytic hypotension with more frequent HD in AKI-D including the fresh off the press LIBERATE-D. #kidneywk

Dr. Babroudi quantifying the problem-it affects about 10,000 patients per year in the US. #kidneywk