Hey #MedSky #NephSky KDIGO has updated their guidance on anemia in kidney disease for the first time in a decade! Let's discuss 2/24/26 at 9pm EST Check out the VA by @shelliefravel.bsky.social www.nephjc.com/news/2026/2/23/kdigo-2026-anemia-in-ckd

It's not often in Pharma that you run a head to head trial against your major competition and legit just flat out lose. Cagrisema 23.6% weight loss vs Tirzepatide 25.5% weight loss over 84 weeks. This result is horrid for Novo Nordisk.

#ASDIN2026 #NephSky The future of Interventional Nephrology. Membership is flat (650-700) However, Fellow members are increasing! We need to increase our partner (surgery, IR) involvement @kidneylsu.bsky.social

And away we go

“At some point a critical mass will be reached — perhaps when new, damning information surfaces in testimonies. Everyone in the White House knows this. Trump knows it.”

Obinutuzumab works in membranous! Genentech is shooting fish in a barrel. Every disease that responds to Ritux is going to be in their sights. www.nasdaq.com/articles/gen...

what a fucking clown show

Some thoughts on the new social network for doctors, Roon

Tikkun Olam (Hebrew for “repairing the world”) is a Jewish tenet that teaches we have a moral obligation to make the world better. We heal the the world through ethical action, justice, kindness, and community-building. It’s all of our responsibility to leave things more whole than we found them.

Happy Presidents day and remember “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of a second (or third) gram of calcium gluconate.”

Ok, where are our nephrologists to comment on this? www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... Faster sodium correction is associated with lower risk for 90-day death or delayed neurologic events. @kidneyboy.bsky.social @christosargyrop.bsky.social @sophieclaudel.bsky.social @nephjc.bsky.social

Banting, Best, Collip, et al announced initial results on the use of insulin to treat diabetes #OTD in 1922. They later sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each, hoping this would keep the lifesaving medication cheap and accessible. 🧪

Daddy ABIM is very concerned about LKA cheating youtu.be/tZ_p9eWSTPg?...

FDODE is First Date Of Dialysis Ever 12/15/2008 Beat that!

From the @bmj.com this week - some commentary on the exodus of medical leaders from X that used to be Twitter. It’s sad, but I think it’s the right thing to move away from that platform. #MedSky Link here: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

It was unclear if Mr. Hirohito was aware that the planes he had sent towards Hawaii carried bombs.

Latest newsletter The K is all right www.mashupmd.com/expert-colle...

Get'em Mike!

#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

interesting Elsevier advice on Visual abstracts 3/4 VAs are from renal journals including one from @annagaddy.bsky.social (the KI VA is ....not a good example to use) the first article is from a seminars issue edited by @kidneyboy.bsky.social www.elsevier.com/en-gb/resear...

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

PBFluids▶️PISCES showed a striking cardiovascular benefit with fish oil in hemodialysis. Lovaza closely matches the trial’s ethyl-ester formulation, is FDA regulated, EHR friendly, and offers a practical option while we wait for the exact formulation pbfluids.com/2026/01/why-...

The POTcast would have been a great name for a weed focused stoner podcast. Instead it is a randomized trial of potassium supplementation to prevent arrhythmia. www.nephjc.com/news/potcast

Funny. True. www.tiktok.com/@dustoffyomi...

BRAVO! Great job Hosting! Thank you for a solid journal club! #NephJC

This surprised me and is one of the most important findings. This is just not RALES with a different coat on. #NephJC

I have no problem with the outcomes (primary and secondary). They seem meaningful and related to the question the authors were asking #NephJC

The summary is spot on. Really good job by Fravel and Weber. #NephJC

Happy to be here to talk potassium #NephJC cofounder COI: love the banana

5 reasons to publish with KICR www.theisn.org/blog/2026/01... @theisn.org @arvindcanchi.bsky.social #NephSky

@drsnit.bsky.social seeing @margaretatwood.bsky.social speak live tonight!

OMG philosophy academic publishing is cooked retractionwatch.com/2024/06/12/h...

Did 5 miles in the tundra

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Classic extinction burst behavior kottke.org/25/02/extinc...

Remember the TOPCAT story of what happened in Russia and Georgia? This is worse: www.science.org/content/blog... And in South Florida. From @dereklowe.bsky.social

I couldn’t find a simple app to help people measure blood pressure correctly, so I created one with Perplexity and Gemini: bloodpressure-app.netlify.app. Bookmark or share menu adds to Home Screen. For educational purposes only. Covers proper positioning, cuff placement, timing, and common mistakes.

“Restoring Venezuela’s oil industry is completely unrealistic in the short term and might not be in America’s economic and geopolitical interests at all,” Rogé Karma argues.

Gambling is the next opioid crisis.

Lions beat the Bears…again

Long time #MedTwitter peeps remember the drama of @DoctorMeowskis and Eugene Gu I have kept in contact with @DoctorMeowskis and I am happy to report she is now engaged! www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/181...

This year on Bluesky I wrote 523 posts and 1,027 replies. I received 9,703 likes, whereas 218 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "nephjc" and 🙏🏼! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Happy New Year everyone!

This years running goal was the same as last year's goal, 730 miles, or an average of 2 miles/day. My stretch goal was 754 miles, or 100 miles more than last year. Goal ✅ Stretch Goal ✅

Who got this email this morning and said "Oh shit!"?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

The more the textbook needs this; the less likely it is to include it.

In the Creative Cortex this month: Renal Rack, a black and white photograph taken in Copenhagen, Denmark. #ASNKidneyNews kidney.pub/KN1712-16#ASNKidneyNews @brianrifkin.bsky.social

50%!

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.