Reposted by Josh WaitzmanHarry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard 144117834045
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 09/11/2025If 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 )statnews.comJames Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peersJames Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers. 2207
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanNayan Arora @captainchloride.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Shocking 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.... 45616
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 07/11/2025Today’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 1114
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanASNKidney @asnkidney.bsky.social · 06/11/2025New 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. 042
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Don’t forget to support #FOAMed and #NephJC with our annual fundraiser. Every donation helps keep us going (even as unpaid volunteers). 🫶🫶🫶 www.nephjc.com 153
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanMichelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · 25/10/2025If 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...kireports.orgUrine screening to early diagnose young individuals with CKD: a call for actionAlport syndrome is an inherited disorder of basement membranes leading to progressive chronic kidney disease, hearing loss, and ocular abnormalities in many affected patients. When the authors started... 2156
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025In 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...acgme.org 002
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025In this house we drink liquids and support #nephjc (Maybe I should get a backpack next time) Donate at: www.nephjc.com/news/2025/9/... 1115
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025This 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... 1/2undark.orgNIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific InnovationThe termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk. 3242124
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Pre #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)media.tenor.coma cartoon character from the simpsons is holding a bottle of proteinALT: a cartoon character from the simpsons is holding a bottle of protein 2114
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Loved 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... 154
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanJoel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2025New 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... 1136
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025media.tenor.coma woman is smiling with the words " what are you smoking " above herALT: a woman is smiling with the words " what are you smoking " above her 100
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025media.tenor.coma group of men are sitting around a table with a phone .ALT: a group of men are sitting around a table with a phone . 020
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanIan L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025My 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.the-scientist.comNIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career ResearchersHalted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers. 49738
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanSarah Melville @sarahkmels.medsky.network · 09/10/2025Thought-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 chatnejm.orgIn Paul Farmer’s Beautiful Garden of Global Health Equity: Reflections on the Third Remembrance of His Passing | NEJMOn the third anniversary of Paul Farmer’s death, Didi Bertrand Farmer reflects on his “beautiful garden” — a vision of social justice in health care, with deep roots in the fertile soil of equity. 041
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanBrian Rifkin @brianrifkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Perhaps we can help! Great commentary by @nephroseeker.bsky.social www.nephjc.com/news/2025/30...nephjc.comImmune tolerance in kidney transplantation: from first principles to clinical engineering — NephJCA commentary putting the chimerism and immune tolerance in perspective 001
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025rdcu.be/eJHTr rdcu.be/eJHU8 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...rdcu.beThe regulation and differentiation of regulatory T cells and their dysfunction in autoimmune diseasesNature Reviews Immunology - In this Review, the authors discuss the origins of regulatory T (Treg) cells in the periphery and the mechanisms by which Treg cells are induced, as well as the... 001
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I guess this means it’s time for me to try to understand what Tregs do… (Thanks @enirenberg.bsky.social for the great explainer!) 340
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanInternational Society of Glomerular Disease @isgd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025PARASOL 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.socialeu1.hubs.lyPARASOL Project Expands Focus to APOL1, Membranous NephropathyPARASOL Project expands to focus on APOL1 kidney disease and primary membranous nephropathy, aiming to improve clinical trial endpoints for these conditions. 054
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanInternational Society of Glomerular Disease @isgd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Today 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 033
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 24/09/2025Excellent thread below I will also plug this talk by Paola Romagnani on podocytopathies youtu.be/bRMeqaGgA9I?... #GlomCon #NephGRyoutu.bePersonalized Therapy for Podocytopathies with Prof. Paola RomagnaniYouTube video by Ottawa Nephrology 0115
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanJordy Cohen @jordybc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025#nephjcmedia.tenor.coma woman is holding a red megaphone in front of her mouthAlt: a woman is holding a red megaphone in front of her mouth 031
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanJordy Cohen @jordybc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Yes! Slide care of Paul Whelton at this year’s #Hypertension25 #nephjc 065
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Reposting a q I had re the lower treatment threshold/goal for #nephjc 040
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Here 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 12345144
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanNature @nature.com · 08/09/2025This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person go.nature.com/42dgjzogo.nature.com‘Amazing feat’: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplantThe first six months after an organ transplant are the riskiest for recipients. 1568
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/): 1739601332
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanJordy Cohen @jordybc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025New 2025 AHA/ACC Hypertension Guideline dropped! www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... #hypertension #medsky #nephskyjacc.org2025 AHA/ACC/AANP/AAPA/ABC/ACCP/ACPM/AGS/AMA/ASPC/NMA/PCNA/SGIM Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College o... 52513
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Pretty great gen z pharmacy slang: www.instagram.com/reel/DGiiRHa...instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 020
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanSankar Niranjan @justkidneying.bsky.social · 20/08/2025A 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 032
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025#nephjcmedia.tenor.coma man and a woman are sitting in a courtroom .ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a courtroom . 020
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 20/08/2025And 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 152
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanTiff Caza @glombandit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Biology had no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. #NephJC 152
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanNephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 20/08/2025How 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 231
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This #nephjc tweetorial masterclass from @hswapnil.medsky.social tells you everything you will need to know for the #nephjcbookclub #allhashtagsmatter 150
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 30/06/2025Chapter 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 142
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanChristos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Here 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 096
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025"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 133103561999
Reposted by Josh Waitzmandanieledmonston.bsky.social @danieledmonston.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Correct. 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 165
Reposted by Josh Waitzmandanieledmonston.bsky.social @danieledmonston.bsky.social · 06/08/2025The pivot to individual randomization was successful with regard to the reasons for the pivot: baseline phosphate narrowed substantially. Enrollment is a different story. #NephJC 041
Reposted by Josh Waitzmandanieledmonston.bsky.social @danieledmonston.bsky.social · 06/08/2025There 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 273
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Hey watch it! The new nephrology is guided by awesome clinical trials that save kidney function. #flozinator #nephjc 051
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 06/08/2025As Dr Ron Wald calls it: ‘The great phosphate bypass’ #NephJC 183
Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Josh 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 020
Reposted by Josh WaitzmanJoel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I think I'm in love youtube.com/shorts/OJy1Q...youtube.comFanconi SyndromeYouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken 55915