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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃

@kidneynerd.bsky.social
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CIP #Nephrology Fellow- @schulichmeddent.bsky.social #Onconephrology Fellow - @UHN.ca Wannabe sommelier - My condo Currently reading 📚: Shuggie Bain by Stuart

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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love when LOTR and Nephrology intersect
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Habs on pace for 84 wins this season
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why does it feel like we’re so behind on flu and COVID shots this year in Ontario?
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best friend got me tickets to see my favourite band this Saturday and I am so excited it’s crazy #BrokenSocialScene
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A good tip is to fractionate the IgG if able to see if it’s monotypic or monoclonal
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 23/09/2026
Angine de Poitrine pulled off an otherworldly feat at the Polaris Music Prize last night, becoming the first act to win both album of the year (and a cool $30,000 cash prize) along with the $10,000 song award. 🎶
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Western gets a shoutout at Boston Onconephrology Symposium (Clark Trial from 2005 showing PLEX does not improve renal outcomes in light chain nephropathy)
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#ASON2026 Boston Onconephrology Symposium is genuinely the most useful conference I have ever been to @danafarber.bsky.social
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
To the people behind me at customs: Sorry about the delay, the border agent and I were in a deep discussion how cisplatin dosing works #onconephrology #ASON2026 #nephsky
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🍎 🍏 Chag Sameach! 🍎 🍏
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nephrologists everywhere rejoice
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They should do Yang Mills next, let’s see how good these AI agents really are
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I had to read it aloud when I got there to make sure I remembered the moment
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not sure if anyone will understand, but for those who do: I finished Ulysses.
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I feel seen
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I am once again asking Cystatin-C based eGFR to be reported in these trials
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Me doing the 1001 albums to listen to before you die (today is Live at Mr Kelly’s by Sarah Vaughan)
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
(Oh that’s me!) For the overwhelming majority of people, drink when you’re thirsty.
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Honestly this is actually an improvement
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Have their record on vinyl, they’re a national treasure
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: cup is half full Pessimist: cup is half empty Nephrologist: the cause of hyponatremia is excess intravascular free water
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just taking in the pictures with the crew
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CJKHD @cjkhd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Managing #myelofibrosis in a #kidneytransplant recipient, complicated by #BKvirus and allograft rejection. Questions regarding monitoring and immunosuppression strategies are necessary as #JAKinhibitors become more widely used. @csnscn.bsky.social #Nephrology #CaseReport doi.org/10.1177/2054...
Figure 1. Longitudinal course of graft function, immunosuppressive therapy, BKPyV viral load, and hematologic parameters post kidney transplant
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No hay David Lynch? 
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This and also mandatory CPR training in order to graduate high school country wide
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Took this weird liminal photo last night. I’m calling it “I Still Haven’t Finished Ulysses”.
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
August Osage County
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ghastly is an understatement, this is reminiscent of a black mirror episode #medsky www.npr.org/2026/08/07/n...
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Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'
Researchers warn betting on clinical trials could incentivize insider trading and interfere with drug development. But Kalshi and Polymarket say they provide valuable information to patients.
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Small comments however: why are we bothering with ORs for the primary outcome in a double blind randomized RCT, and this also should be repeated in a more diverse population (98% of participants in this trial are white).
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ARR 0.24/NNT of 4.1, quite the outcome if it can be reproduced SGLT2 Inhibitors for Prevention of AKI jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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SGLT2 Inhibitors for Prevention of AKI
This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether initiating dapagliflozin, compared with placebo, 1 day prior to elective cardiac surgery reduces the incidence of acute kidney injury at 7 days after s...
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Agreed Signed, Someone who looked like this for two years
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I need to start watching normal movies
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Half as much GFR decline per year (6 vs 3) with Iptacopan compared to placebo at 2 years, pretty good
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NSAIDs should be prescription only
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’m so happy I’m tearing up
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
How this clinic convinced 21 new doctors to move to London, Ontario — and yes, they're accepting patients. Thompson Medical Centre has focused on recruiting from the U.K., offering doctors more freedom and better pay, by Alessio Donnini www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca
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How a local clinic convinced 21 new doctors to move to London — and yes, they're accepting patients | CBC News
London-based Thompson Medical Centre, which operates two clinics in London and one in St. Thomas, has managed to attract 21 new doctors to the region since 2025. The director of the clinic says that a...
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
2001: A Space Odyssey
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 09/07/2026
Growing acceptance of voluntary euthanasia, which opens the door to death by organ donation, warrants a recontextualization of the dead donor rule and assessment of the ethical principles involved. Learn more: nej.md/4wy8bX5
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Does prop have seed oils in the lipid layer
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hahaha
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Also the correct answer is Silly Love Songs
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I wish I had the confidence to come here in public and say that
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I want to have a debate. What’s the best Beatles song?
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We’re just getting started on dedicated teaching sessions for the core IM residents to rule out hydro in AKI, can’t wait to have this used regularly right at admission
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 04/03/2026
In adults with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease with albuminuria, the decrease in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio was significantly greater with finerenone than with placebo. Full phase 3 FINE-ONE trial results: nej.md/4rTPAmu #MedSky #EndoSky #Nephrology
Original Article | MAR 11, 2026
Finerenone in Type 1 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease (FINE-ONE)
Figure 1. Change in the Urinary Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 03/03/2026
For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Nature spoke to scientists from around the world about how their work has been shaped by playing Pokémon games, watching animated TV series and films and trading cards in school playgrounds. 🧪
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Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science
The Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Taking odds ratio as the test statistic of choice may not be the best idea when you have over 2000 cases of the outcome
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🎃 Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Yes I just a subscription to Criterion, how could you tell?
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/
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