Come get plenty of vitamin D while treating CKD-MBD with us in California!

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

Director Bhattacharya has repeatedly spoken about his commitment to early career scientists. This commitment is not evidence in these data. 10/12

K mechanisms (Career development) Total investment: FY2025: $721 M FY2024: $727 M Number of awards: FY2025: 3854 FY2024: 4103 Number of new awards: FY2025: 862 FY2024: 1009 These are mostly K23 and K99 awards 7/12

The breakdown of new awards by mechanism. F30 (Predoc, MD/PhD) FY2025: 196 FY2024: 253 F31 (Predoc, PhD) FY2025: 670 FY2024: 1054 F32 (Postdoc) FY2025: 216 FY2024: 350 6/12

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

i bet the attending who always likes to stump trainees with “what could cause a NEGATIVE anion gap?” was feeling pretty fuckin’ good about themselves when they solved this case

anyways i routed my morning walk past CDC this morning, and there was a bullet hole in the window by my old cubicle. that was a weird feeling!

"First do not harm" is not a suggestion it is a core feature of the job. If you can't check your biases at the door when you provide healthcare, find another job. Calling ICE on a patient is some disgusting behavior. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Patient’s potassium result was too low Fired the lab manager

My patients live at the margins of society. They don’t have much. Just getting to dialysis three times a week is a big ask. Taking from them to fund tax breaks for the rich is just cruel. I want to be outraged but I just feel like crying.

This is nuts, a $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually *Quickly checks show of hands at the unit, anyone got $5K?, No one? Ok cool cool I’ll let them know*

Yo. Peep my protest drip.

We feed you. They hunt us.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

⭐️Fantastic commentary led by Dr. Katie Rizzolo and Dr. Lela Villegas on 'The National Landscape of Kidney Transplantation for Undocumented Immigrants: Advancing Kidney Transplantation Equity" in @kidneyint.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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CHOP & @pennmedicine.bsky.social have delivered the first-ever personalized gene editing therapy for a patient with CPS1 deficiency, marking a major milestone in the application of CRISPR-based treatments. Learn more about KJ & the future of personalized medicine: www.chop.edu/news/worlds-....

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary analysis found that “the health care portion of the [GOP] bill would cut spending by $715 billion and would ‘reduce the number of people with health insurance by at least 8.6 million in 2034.’” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

This is the best place in Paris to buy reagents to quench your crosslinking experiment

These people really want kids sick. Hepatitis B is not just a “sexually transmitted and IV drug user disease” like Means claims here. If she had ever completed medical training she might know that up to 40% of HepB infections are actually acquired in childhood & kill thousands of Americans per year.

ATP as a molecule has caused more destruction of the human mind and body than any other substance in human history.

Recent consult from nephrologist with assessment “Sea kitty 4” 🐱 🧜‍♀️ (CKD 4, darn dictation system). #NephSky

telling people to "do their own research" without offering any guidance on how to go about it is essentially saying "I am not willing to help you avoid being deceived by the numerous conflicting sources you will find because I don't care about informed consent"

Learning about machine learning-based clinical decision tools in AKI and dialysis with @shinamenon.bsky.social at #pas2025 !

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.

“Let me hook you up to all this plastic tubing to remove the plastic from your blood…”

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!

My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.

The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders

The Pediatric Scientist Development Program, an esteemed initiative to train early-career scientists focused on improving children's health, has had its NIH funding canceled. This is a travesty and an insult to all those who care for kids' health, and about childhood chronic disease.

club can't even handle me right now

You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

Physician educators in the US must start paying attention to what is happening to the PhD programs, because GME is going to be targeted for cuts. 50% of specialty training slots for physicians has been paid by Medicare since 1965 (~16B). What will happen when this amount is axed?

😬😵‍💫😬😵‍💫 U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos | Science www.science.org/content/arti...

There's an entire enormous industry of establishment voices who spent years, and enormous effort, convincing us that the left, in the form of undergrads & corporate HR departments, was a threat to American freedom equal to that posed by the fascist right.

People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis. Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.

@kidneywiki.bsky.social you get a sideways shout out in this clip from channel your enthusiasm www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laal...

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

Doctors take a muppet’s blood pressure with a sphygmomanahmanahmameter.

Truly distressing 🗑️ Inspired by @4kidney.bsky.social @rheaultm.bsky.social

Bluesky indeed has the juice, unfortunately it is not intravascular and thus not readily removable by acute dialysis. Thank you for this interesting consult.

Are you an #rstats user calculating eGFR 🧮 as part of your ⚕️workflow and using the nephro or transplantr packages? Are you calculating pediatric eGFR and mourning the lack of CKiD U25 eGFR? In the spirit of open source, I've modified these packages to include CKiD U25 functions: