This is clearly worrisome. Equally concerning is the grant agreement language allowing the gvt to terminate grants whenever it deems the research doesn't align with admin priorities. As research takes years to start/implement, that uncertainty will keep many worthy projects from even starting.

Wow - excellent discussion of the totally underwhelming BICAR-ICU2 trial podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f... @nephcrit.bsky.social fighting a line fight against the unimpressed nephrons with guest @weddellite.bsky.social #NephSky #EMIMCC

Thanks to @jefftiedrich.bsky.social and @rubinallergy.bsky.social for keeping urine ingestion topical. This is NOT what the kidney community considers the cutting edge of nephrology, but that's where Oz, RFK Jr, Makary, Prasad, et al are leading us. @hswapnil.medsky.social

Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.

Today’s Wadi Suki Symposium at Houston Methodist was terrific! Excellent program was a great intro for #KidneyWk - started with stones & climate!

Hey look. Communism.

#KidneyWk 👀 www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

#kidneyweek 2016 and 2025

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Wow. Thank you so much @jessicawildfire.bsky.social for the kind words and review. 🙏 www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-grip-tig...

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Something I don't understand about AEs of aldosterone synthase inhibitor therapy pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...: why does it cause hyponatremia? Placebo: 0.4%; 1 mg 0.8%; 2 mg 2.3%. ChatGPT couldn't explain. Maybe @hswapnil.medsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social understand this?

RIP NHANES? As the piece below points out: NHANES may actually be aligned with some healthy eating and chronic disease prevention goals of MAHA. Just a reckless wrecking ball #MedSky

Megan Prochaska introduces the Fredric L Coe Symposium in war-ravaged Chicago

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?🧵 sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

What a delight meeting finally @weddellite.bsky.social in person in NYC during #UNGA! Such an amazing person! #UNGA80

Addressing diabetes and kidney health with International Society of Nephrology dvx.cm/UNGA80

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

By the way. He really should read We Want Them Infected. It helps explain how we got to this moment. In his review, @hiltzikm.bsky.social grasped the threat. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We can mourn Charlie Kirk. We can send prayers to his friends and family,” writes our columnist Jamelle Bouie. “We can — and should — do all of this and more without pretending he was something, as a public figure, that he was not.”

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Agreed, but... I wish this sort of coverage had been more timely. We need preventative care or early treatment, not documentation of an autopsy.

Climate & Kidney Health in the American Urological Association’ News - it’s that time of year! auanews.net/issues/artic...

Thank you @idsainfo.bsky.social , @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and the other professional societies that have stood up to confront the absurd and deadly anti-vaxx views of #RFKJr and his co-conspirators, #MartyMakary, #VinayPrasad and #JayBhattacharya.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

A grotesque privilege to see Kent Monkman’s THE KING’S BEAVERS in person at the Denver Art Museum. Certainly the greatest beaver-related painting ever made, and one of the best at depicting the horrors of colonialism, the fur trade generally, and the industrial-scale exploitation of wildlife.

Yes! No kidding! National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce ‘Harmful’ Policies www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Donald Trump wants to turn LA into Mogadishu ahead of his parade to show off his ability to use the military to create a dictatorship. Well, I’ve lived here for fifteen years and I don’t think he knows who he’s dealing with. www.mind-war.com/p/testing-te...

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Get Mad in Public, and 12 Other Ways to Save Health and Science www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o... The President Will Destroy You Now

@tombedsall.bsky.social in today's @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o... An excerpt highlighting ONE disaster (one particularly close and personal for many of us here:

Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

Beautiful essay from Rajeev Raghavan in the @nejm.org Driving Jackson (a dialysis patient to his clinic appointments) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #NephSky

@kidneycon.bsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social - time to unclamp!?

No surprise here, just the expected disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

“This is the billionaire class wanting to run the country, and their vision for the Rocky Mountain West is privatization.”

This outrage was about a single YouTube video. Source: www.flgov.com/eog/news/pre...

Exclusive: Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman who received a kidney from a gene-edited pig on 25 November 2024, had it removed last week after the organ suddenly stopped functioning, Science has learned. scim.ag/3EiaJmM

We showed a dramatic difference (dramatic for a small sample size!) in the effect of CTD vs HCTZ on urine calcium. That's my preference for stone prevention. RCT with stone outcome needed. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40194294/

A letter from 91 Harvard Law Professors to our students drive.google.com/file/d/1aKzG...

I was told I was overreacting. Now they’re about to fire 83,000 people from the VA. A third of whom are veterans themselves.

Discussed here sciencebasedmedicine.org/settledscien...

“Because of public skepticism, it is not settled science”. Excuse me allow me to interject, Dr. Livingston. We have people who think that the earth was created 6000 years ago in six 24-hour periods. Are we going to use taxpayer dollars to prove this isn’t true also?