Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

If you read only one obit of James Watson, read this one www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... (From the late Sharon Begley, for @statnews.com )

Shocking first high impact trial of the day. Fish oil reduces CV events in dialysis patients! #Pisces #kidneywk Simultaneous pub in NEJM www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Today’s trials at #KidneyWk In the morning a LBCT session at 10:30 featuring PISCES (fish oil in dialysis!) LIBERATE in AKI Another AKI alerts from @fperrywilson.bsky.social A Transplant trial GLP1 and a Flozin analyses And

New to the #KidneyWk Opening Plenary: two High-Impact Clinical Trials debut this morning, presenting pivotal data in CKD and IgAN. These groundbreaking studies take the main stage at Kidney Week for the first time—you don’t want to miss this.

Don’t forget to support #FOAMed and #NephJC with our annual fundraiser. Every donation helps keep us going (even as unpaid volunteers). 🫶🫶🫶 www.nephjc.com#FOAMed

If treatments are available that can help at early stages of most causes of CKD (RAASi, SGLT2i, etc), why WOULDN’T we screen? Economics? How much does saving 20 years of dialysis get you? What about human costs? www.kireports.org/article/S246...

In case folks missed this, ACGME Transplant Nephrology accreditation is now a thing! If folks are Program Directors, they may need to start the process of accreditation soon. Requirements here: www.acgme.org/globalassets...

In this house we drink liquids and support #nephjc (Maybe I should get a backpack next time) Donate at: www.nephjc.com/news/2025/9/...

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing. undark.org/2025/10/09/o... 1/2

Pre #nephjc bias: Team pro protein All these studies are deeply confounded and based in the pre-kidney-preserving therapy era. Let them eat steak! (Actually, let them eat vegetable sources of protein, but beans, lentils, and soy don’t rhyme with cake)

Loved watching @kidneyrebel.bsky.social grand rounds at @nu-nephrology.bsky.social!! Thank you for the PKD mega blocks shout out #nephjc (1), happy to be at the right overlap in my Venn diagram (2), and trying to build toward a medical specialty in a hill (3) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTC...

New episode of Channel Your Enthusiasm, part 2 of 3 on metabolic acidosis. Episode with chapter art, chapters, and fully referenced www.rosebook.club/episodes/202...

My op-ed just came out discussing how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers and, importantly, how we can push back and take our future into our own hands.

Thought-provoking, well-written @nejm.org blog article by Dr. Paul Farmer's wife on the (third) anniversary of his passing: www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... cc: @jwaitz.bsky.social #nephjc summer book club chat

Perhaps we can help! Great commentary by @nephroseeker.bsky.social www.nephjc.com/news/2025/30...

rdcu.be/eJHTr rdcu.be/eJHU8 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I guess this means it’s time for me to try to understand what Tregs do… (Thanks @enirenberg.bsky.social for the great explainer!)

PARASOL Project is expanding focus to include biomarkers & endpoints in APOL1 kidney disease and primary MN as well as FSGS. Learn more: eu1.hubs.ly/H0nr8Lv0 @tobias-b-huber.bsky.social @miktmc.bsky.social @jarcyzphd.bsky.social @ohiostatemed.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @nu-nephrology.bsky.social

Today is #C3GAwarenessDay! At ISGD, we stand with people living with this rare kidney disease. As a medical society for #GlomerularDisease experts, we're committed to raising awareness and moving the science forward to bring more hope and solutions to the C3G community. #C3G #ISGD

Excellent thread below I will also plug this talk by Paola Romagnani on podocytopathies youtu.be/bRMeqaGgA9I?... #GlomCon #NephGR

Yes! Slide care of Paul Whelton at this year’s #Hypertension25 #nephjc

Reposting a q I had re the lower treatment threshold/goal for #nephjc

AUTHOR IN THE HOUSE!! #nephjc

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person go.nature.com/42dgjzo

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

New 2025 AHA/ACC Hypertension Guideline dropped! www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... #hypertension #medsky #nephsky

Pretty great gen z pharmacy slang: www.instagram.com/reel/DGiiRHa...

A key message no matter what your specialty is - uncontrolled DM causing ESRD, smoking induced lung cancer or alcoholic cirrhosis. Every trainee in Medicine needs to be honed on to this as a first step to being empathetic ! #nephjc

“Fanta”-“stick” 🤦‍♂️ #nephjc

And even when Green opens the door to make it about rich countries, and discuss the possibility of MDR Tb getting out control and becoming an uncurable super drug, he backs away and makes it clear we should treat TB not because of some perverted self interest but because it is right. #NephJC

Biology had no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. #NephJC

How can TB still, year after year, be the most deadly infectious disease? Not being able to defeat cancer tells us about our science, but having the knowledge and tools to defeat TB yet still have it be number one tells us about ourselves. #NephJC

This #nephjc tweetorial masterclass from @hswapnil.medsky.social tells you everything you will need to know for the #nephjcbookclub #allhashtagsmatter

Chapter 6 starts off with ‘what is a good death’ especially when 1 in 2 children died (see graph below from ourworldindata.org/child-mortal... @ourworldindata.org, in 1950 it was still 1 in 4, and now ranges from 0.3 to 15%) Then pivots to the romanticization of disease esp TB. #NephJCBookClub

Here is a step by step of the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY that actually goes into the process of organ donation! (While this is a US centric info graphic , similar processes are used around the globe) #donationsaveslives #transplantation

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Correct. Electronic consent with educational materials and videos was mostly successful. The lack of dedicated coordinators- especially on-site coordinators- really left us vulnerable to events such as the pandemic and workforce turnover. #NephJC

The pivot to individual randomization was successful with regard to the reasons for the pivot: baseline phosphate narrowed substantially. Enrollment is a different story. #NephJC

There is some hesitation to sign up for something you've been told is harmful... also hesitation on the part of the dialysis facility staff to approach select patients for this reason. #NephJC

Hey watch it! The new nephrology is guided by awesome clinical trials that save kidney function. #flozinator #nephjc

As Dr Ron Wald calls it: ‘The great phosphate bypass’ #NephJC

Josh Waitzman, medical monitor at Vertex and nephrologist at BIDMC checking into #nephjc COI I work for Vertex, opinions my own I also do not like phos binders very much

I think I'm in love youtube.com/shorts/OJy1Q...