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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

That banner is up simply because of the NIDDK domain. Do not be alarmed (for now!).

Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

and public health. I “do” home dialysis, first and foremost, and at this point, I am 100% certain that DaVita is where I ought to be, whether the world loves it or not. There are parts of industry that can be grating, but there are other parts that are wonderful. I wish all the best!!

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I happened to notice your update on LinkedIn a week ago or so. I will tell you this, in the hope that it provides you some comfort: I have wrestled with a lot of feelings as I’ve wandered among academia, device, and dialysis provider(s). The only that matters is using your talent to help science…

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

One line is not like the others, right? That line summarizes counties in which none of DaVita, Fresenius, US Renal, American Renal, or DCI operate, yet you find a freestanding dialysis unit not owned by a hospital. What might you hypothesize about the cost of living in such places?

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Nobody sees the flaw in this analysis, huh?

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Meine Großeltern left Österreich (Apetlon, southeast of Neusiedler See) in the late 1940s. The stories of their youth are part of my life, which makes all of what occurred easier for an American child to understand.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Looks like the Pop Tart’s evil cousin.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Much better in MN today, but yesterday was as bad as I've experienced in the past few years of wildfire smoke

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JAMA Internal Medicine @jamainternalmed.com · 03/06/2025

In patients with myocardial infarction and anemia, a liberal red blood cell transfusion strategy showed no significant difference in quality of life outcomes compared to a restrictive strategy 30 days post-randomization. #ISBTMilan ja.ma/4kxUv8P

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ISNkidneycare @theisn.org · 31/05/2025

1. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide, claiming over 7 million lives each year. #WorldNoTobaccoDay #TobaccoExposed

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If it ain’t red, leave it in the shed.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Idiotic public policy. That’s how I really feel. We somehow conflated decriminalization (of possession/use) with safety of use.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If we set aside editorials and perspective articles... It would be interesting to see what % of RCTs in NEJM and JAMA are industry-sponsored vs NIH-sponsored. I suspect that in those two journals, the former is dominant. JAMA specialty journals are a different topic, for sure.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

As an Ole alum, I feel compelled to tune in and cheer for BC.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 25/05/2025

In their own words, protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that shook the city and spread across the globe after George Floyd was murdered. www.startribune.com/george-floyd...

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In their own words: The six days after George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis

Protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that changed Minneapolis and spread across the world.

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ISNkidneycare @theisn.org · 23/05/2025

🌍 History made! For the first time, kidney care is on the global health agenda. #WHA78 adopted a landmark resolution recognizing kidney health in the fight against #NCDs. 👏 Thanks to Guatemala and the global kidney community for making this possible! #KidneyHealthMatters

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American Journal of Kidney Diseases @ajkd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Call for Applications: The ‪@kidney.org‬ is seeking applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of AJKD. Submit a 2-page Letter of Intent and a CV by July 15, 2025. Details: bit.ly/AJKDEIC @nkf-professionals.bsky.social‬

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Call for a New Editor-in-Chief for AJKD

The American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) has been under the leadership of Dr Harold I. Feldman for two terms, and it is time to begin the search for the next Editor-in-Chief. As Dr Feldman…

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

TC Bear is taking a bath in the rain

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Aside from turnovers, that was a good quarter.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It is still a relatively slow-paced and inactive platform. I don’t feel overwhelmed by political takes (largely one-sided though they are), but engagement is not broad-based.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I use FedEx Office more than any other outfit. I just pick up the poster at the store, so I need not worry about the hotel misplacing it. The price is fine, and more often than not, the location is in the convention center hotel or within a few blocks.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Sad. Payer mix seems to have doomed the operation. www.ksn.com/news/state-r...

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Maybe my knowledge of market dynamics is out of date! My PhD advisor in EpiCH was paid nowhere near $200,000 (and she was hardly inexperienced).

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It is amazing that Hardeman’s salary was $206,000. That is substantially higher than many salaries among tenured PhDs in the School of Public Health.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Are two instances of elevated troponin indicative of a really bad MI? 😵‍💫

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/05/2025

In talks and in our online course thebullshitmachines.com, I worry about how the extremely high cost of training LLMs concentrates power in the hands of the very few to shape our information environment. Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’

In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is one of your best articles. Thank you for putting your experience (really, your life) into words. In reading, I was reminded of my discomfort with the discordance between the claimed "wonders" of home dialysis and the lived experience of patients. Honesty about likely outcomes is important.

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Kevin J. Fowler @gratefull080504.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I would like to thank Maarten Naesens, MD for the opportunity to write my position statement on where the field of transplantation needs to shift to. Now is the time to improve quality and participation of life after transplant. bit.ly/4jQToAP #openaccess

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Frontiers Publishing Partnerships | Life After Kidney Transplantation: The Time for a New Narrative

The first successful kidney transplant in December 1954 between the Herrick brothers ushered in a new field of medicine. Over the almost seventy years, tho...

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

That's an interesting point. I've read articles (not in journals) about limited HD capacity in a number of countries. The US is not one of those countries. It'll be interesting to see whether articles in journals provide that context.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Sitting in the Dirksen hearing room ahead of RFK Jr.'s testimony to the Senate HELP Committee about the HHS budget. Follow along

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New documentary produced by ANNA. Extremely nicely done. In addition, PD is prominently featured! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mFO...

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I Want To Live

YouTube video by ANNA American Nephrology Nurses Association

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Good, I can keep abstaining from Python.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The moment the tide turned against pet raccoons in Minnesota:

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

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First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar

YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I made the same point in a KI Reports paper a few years ago: erythropoietin resistance index (ERI) looks like a novel metric, but really, it provides no better risk discrimination than ESA dose itself. Big ESA dose = higher risk of MACE. journals.lww.com/kidney360/ab...

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Association of Different Definitions of... : Kidney360

thods: ASCEND-D (NCT02879305), a large event-driven cardiovascular outcomes trial, randomized 2,964 patients receiving maintenance dialysis to either daprodustat or conventional ESAs. All patients r...

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ASNKidney @asnkidney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

You don’t want to miss this. Apply for a Home Dialysis University Scholarship: 📍 Chicago: Sept 14–16 💻 Virtual series through June 2026 🧠 Expert-led, case-based learning 🤝 Connect with peers + mentors ✅ For 2nd or 3rd year nephrology fellows 🔗 bit.ly/ASNhdu

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Clinics have backup supply on hand, and one can always order more. But I’ve long thought it’d be nice if people had a permissible way to inform others in the area of supply that could be shared, whatever the circumstances may be. It’s an idealistic thought, for sure.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I was joking. It’s not an actual market, because regulations prohibit redistribution of supply. The fluid is a prescribed drug, per se, so the dialysis clinics may not reclaim supply. Many people have leftover supply, and other people do sporadically run short of specific colors.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Has lots of uses, great for gardening 🤣

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Big market for PD fluid, I know that

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

There is a very interesting book to be written about the thesis that the slow evolution of policy and regulation during the past 40 years has created real harm. There are many potential chapters.

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Eric Weinhandl @ericweinhandl.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You should write history books as a side hustle.

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