✨December Issue✨| Featuring Reviews on: • Cutaneous lupus erythematosus🦋 • ANCA-associated vasculitis 🩸 • Takayasu arteritis🩺 Our wintery cover by Steven Hall was inspired by a Review article on CLE ❄️ bit.ly/4i9fmPo #Rheumsky #Medsky

#MustRead "Decreased bedside clinical skills lead to diagnostic error, poor clinical outcomes, increased health care costs, and physician burnout"

Today is World AIDS Day. “An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988. #WAD2025

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My first of hopefully many ACR meetings! #ACR25 🦿🩻 🦴 🏙️ 💊 📑 🩵

Happy #treg day everyone - congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi and to all the immunologists who have contributed to this incredible field. See our collection: www.nature.com/collections/...

Canaries were used in coal mines MUCH more recently than you might think (1986!), but I have a really neat artifact to share with you & I hope it brightens your day. Canaries were used as indicators for clear & odorless carbon monoxide (CO) gas that was a hazard to human health in deep coal mines.

Continuous monitoring of proteins in the interstitial fluid - a new way to track inflammation. Our research will continue to push this technology - hoping one day continuous monitoring will have many applications beyond glucose sensing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SOTA25 has been fun! Learning the most up-to-date therapies for rheumatic disease.

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

Submitted my picks! CD-19 CAR T-Cells feel like the automatic bid, but do they have what it takes to come home with a W? 🏀🌟🎱

💫 Check out the new Rheum Madness x Rheum One Pagers bracket infographic! 🎉🏀📟 📖 Read most pivotal, innovative studies in #rheum in past 2 yrs 🎙️ Listen to the Rheum Madness podcasts 🏀 Submit Brackets before April 1 @rheummadness.bsky.social @davidleverenz.bsky.social @larneson.bsky.social

Learned about Cefazolin Inoculum Effect (CzIE) and Cryptococcal Antigen (CrAg) pro- and postzone effect this week on ID 🤓 #pgy1 #internalmedicine #infectiousdisease

Stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a timely reminder that there is so much beauty to be found in this universe, if we look for it.

Calling a stat consult to neurosurgery at 3:30 am on Christmas morning was not on my residency bingo card for intern year 🫣

After 10 years in academic medicine, I've learned a few things - often by messing up or making assumptions. Here's a quick 🧵on 5 things I've learned that may be helpful for the budding academic...

Clinical Year in Review at #ACR24 Presented by Dr. Michael Pillinger • Review some of the most impactful studies in Rheumatology from the past year! #MedSky #Rheumatology #RheumSky

what if your ideas are as in love with you as you are with them? what if your creativity spends its days dreaming about you too? what if art is a co-creation between you (the vessel) & the eternal source of all things? what if this act of making is the universe experiencing itself through you?

To blue skies & green pastures🪂