🦵Had our Kick-off meeting today to welcome a new class of #NephJC interns (year 12 and counting). 👁️Keep an eye out for new blog and VA creators. See if you can Catch'em All🎣 #NephSky #MedSky @hswapnil.medsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social @nephroseeker.medsky.social @dramiliflores.bsky.social

Took us more than 10 years to get this to this stage AVF versus catheters - doing an RCT was difficult and we learnt a lot. Hope our community also does?

🔗https://www.docwirenews.com/post/era-congress-recap-part-1-find-ckd-and-majesty-trials 🎯Don't miss the two-part conversation between Neph Times board members @kidneyboy.bsky.social and @annagaddy.bsky.social on research highlights from this year's ERA Congress. #nephrology #ERA26

This is horrible. The IRB failed in the most basic RCT question, "Would you feel comfortable if your miserably nephrotic grandmother was randomized to the placebo group."

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"...this review found little to no benefits from use of calcium, vitamin D, or combined supplementation on the prevention of fractures and falls." www.bmj.com/content/393/... via @bmj.com

Dr. Fauci came to Stanford for Medicine grand rounds and shared a few reflections I thought were worth passing on: The first was about Operation Warp Speed and the current state of the NIH. As you’ll recall the first mRNA vax was developed at record speed. Fauci atttributes that success to 4 factors

If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.

Gift 🎁 link: what sort of person is complicit in killing democracy? "It turns out...the kinds of career pressures familiar to employees everywhere — the desire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion — can be enough to incentivize lower- and... 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Nice recap of the morning session of the Irish Nephrology Society

Bigger story? The Japanese company marketing Tavneos, Kissei - has told docs to stop using Avacopan WSJ story (Apple News link; apple.news/A8Woi0mr1QIm...)

Slipped into the #NephMadness Fellows debate a bit late. Looks like they are talking PLEX in AAV #NKFClinicals

Jeff Willian Shaul G Massry Speakership by Ann OHare #NKFClinicals

Catch more highlights of #NKFClinicals from @kidneyboy.bsky.social and @annagaddy.bsky.social on day 2! #nephrology #nephsky youtu.be/OGdxvTBQ2Ys?...

European Commission has updated its follow buttons. ✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in; ⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out. (Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.) commission.europa.eu/index_en

Welcome to Friday At #NKFClinicals

Back here for Renal Manifestations of Sickle Cell Disease #NKFClinicals

🔗 www.docwirenews.com/post/kidneyc... Did you miss KIDNEYcon? Catch up on the 2026 highlights courtesty of Joel Topf, MD. #nephrology #nephsky #kidneycon @kidneyboy.bsky.social

We had a stellar day at #NKFClinicals filming interviews with @kidneyboy.bsky.social. And you can't do much better than chatting with both NKF's president and past president at the org's signature event. Keep an eye on nephtimes.com for these interviews and more in the coming days. #nephrology

“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts. By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”. [futurism.com]

President Kirk Campbell for #NKFSpringClinical leads off with CKD. Love it

Have you heard the news? Dapagliflozin is now $8/month at @costplusdrugs.com Wrote my first script this AM From $1935 to $15 for 90 days at 10 mg per day Inflation is everywhere except #Flozins

I wrote about the NEJM Image in Clinical Medicine Retraction at PBFluids (still blogging) pbfluids.com/2026/05/the-...

KIDNEYcon after dark pbfluids.com/2026/05/one-...

It's Bandcamp Friday that means all of your money goes right to the artists! That makes this the perfect time to support my daughter's band, Sleep Tight Tiger! sleeptighttiger.bandcamp.com/album/plum-s...

Overheard at morning report "Being chief resident is 80% tech support" Chief resident is the medical equivalent of the AV club president

You ever read a title and feel it reach through your consciousness, tap you on the shoulder, and whisper, "It's all been worth it. Expertise matters."

Highlights from the upcoming first issue of KICR! www.theisn.org/blog/2026/04... @arvindcanchi.bsky.social @theisn.org

Minimal viable product (MVP) for a bioimplantable kidney

Next up: Pathways to tolerance by Mandy Ford Starts talking unmet needs #KIDNEYcon

And we are off for transplant this afternoon Roslyn Mannon Kicks it off with immunosupression #KIDNEYcon

Next up VUS WTF (my title is better)

Next up Eric Wallace, MD from University of Alabama on Fabry Disease #KIDNEYcon

Great interview with the Sleep Tight Tiger (That’s my daughter in position 3) uglyhug.com/2026/04/24/s...

Next you APOL1 APOL1 Risk Alleles and Associated Nephropathies by Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD from Duke #KIDNEYcon

What’s the P value? 2.81 x 10^ –43 Oh, that’s pretty small #KIDNEYcon

Next up Koyal Jain to talk about steroids in glomerular disease She is not a fan of steroids She is going to talk about three diseases #KIDNEYcon

ANCA positivity is common #KIDNEYcon

Next up JC Velez to talk about endocarditis associated GN #KIDNEYcon

Next up Corey Cavanaugh To talk about advanced IgAN #KIDNEYcon

And my last comment here is The people who benefit the most from the CRRT dose discussions are the makers of CRRT fluid (which is outrageously priced for a salt water cocktail) They also fund the AKI/CRRT meetings and many of the guideline writers It’s worse than the Kt/V mafia #NephSky

Zainab Obaidi To talk about PLA2 membranous nephropathy up first at #KIDNEYcon

Fatima Ayoub is back up for Anticoagulation in CRRT #KIDNEYcon

Next talk Leo on advances in CRRT UF strategies He says there is not much… #KIDNEYcon

Me seeing a trial I helped enroll patients in:

Fatima Ayoub to talk about CRRT dosing #KIDNEYcon

Cool study - an amp of sodium bicarbonate (50 ml 8.4%) raises sodium similar to a boils of 3% - as expected of course! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41937305/ @pulmcrit.bsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social #nephsky #emimcc

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

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.