Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026ukkidneyhistory.org/challenges/n...ukkidneyhistory.orgNephrology Renal or Kidney? – UK Kidney History 221
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026We had a patient who became severely classically Cushingoid during the RCTs 101
Reposted by Neil Turnereileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore. -Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War. #everynightapoem 14542176
Reposted by Neil TurnerKidney Research UK @kidneyresearchuk.org · 09/03/2026Alport Research Hub Symposium 2026 on Friday 3 July at the Institute of Child Health, London. An interactive event dedicated to sharing the latest scientific advances and clinical trials in Alport syndrome and the achievements of the Alport Research Hub. Register now: bit.ly/46NOBeWkidneyresearchuk.orgAlport Research Hub Symposium - Kidney Research UKRegister for free to join us for a day of inspiring renal research at our Alport Research Hub Symposium 2026. 001
Reposted by Neil TurnerSwapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 26/09/2025Just on Tom Addis Stanford and the AMA behaved badly - as most large organizations usually do. From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... with lessons for today. #MedSky #HistoryofMedicine 131
Reposted by Neil TurnerNational Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025🎉 It’s our official birthday on Thursday 7 August! On the day, visit us at George IV Bridge, Edinburgh or Kelvin Hall, Glasgow to get your own copy of a special edition centenary comic created by Beano, especially for this occasion! #Beano #NLS100 #LoveLibraries #LibrariesAloud 23416
Reposted by Neil TurnerDan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 05/07/2025An exciting day ahead at the @alportuk.bsky.social Alport Syndrome patient day in Nottingham. Here to learn from people how this kidney/ear/eye syndrome affects them & their families. 🧪🫘👂🏼👁️🧬 163
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The Alport Workshop in Beijing in September is looking tremendous! Agenda to be added soon, but register now at tinyurl.com/5674vckz @alportuk.bsky.social @dannygale.bsky.social @rheaultm.bsky.social @rachellennon.bsky.social 053
Reposted by Neil TurnerJamie Doggett @jamiedoggett.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Now in 2025, it seems the #NephJC changeover period is over. Almost all the top online voices in nephrology are using #Bluesky as their platform of choice to discuss the latest #science. 1105
Reposted by Neil TurnerDiarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 17/04/202513 Blackfriars St, Edinburgh—currently eight flats (after modernisation); probably more in the 1870s, when it was built as working-class housing to replace the "rotten, ruinous old buildings" and the "congeries of dark and wretched lanes" of the area. Former residents include: 45123
Reposted by Neil TurnerAlport UK @alportuk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025📢 Save the Date! The 2025 International Workshop on Alport Syndrome is in Beijing, China! 📅 Sept 4 – Patient Workshop 📅 Sept 5-7 – Scientific Workshop Connect, learn, and advance treatments! More details soon. 🔗 www.alportsyndromealliance.org #AlportSyndrome #GlobalWorkshop #SaveTheDate 001
Reposted by Neil TurnerJoel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025ADPKD Risk calculator. This looks well done: halbritter-lab.github.io/adpkd-risk/halbritter-lab.github.ioLoading...ADPKD Risk Calculator is a web-based tool designed to assess Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) progression risk using the Mayo Imaging Classification and PROPKD Score. 0226
Reposted by Neil TurnerAmerican Journal of Kidney Diseases @ajkd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Quiz: Young man with 1 week of fever, headaches, nonproductive cough, 1 day of dyspnea. Within 36 hours, he had 1 episode of hemoptysis and worsening hypoxia requiring mechanical ventilation. bit.ly/4ka9Ts3 (FREE) 062
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025On the long flats north of the river An elder in a leather jacket Is hitchhiking to his daughter’s funeral (Les Murray) www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org/human/a-coun... 010
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Two wonderful 50 year flashbacks to the early days of dialysis and transplantation (19974) vimeo.com/ukkidneyhist... 010
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025History of Renal Pathology Timeline historyofnephrology.blogspot.com/2017/01/time...historyofnephrology.blogspot.comTimeline of renal pathologyThe renal biopsy is a key part of assessment of many kidney diseases. Though light microscopy evolved over a long period, two key techniques... 052
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Good to see Daniel Clowes tucked in there near the bottom. 000
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Congratulations to the Parker solar probe for setting a new record for 'worst job avoiding the sun' xkcd.com/3029/xkcd.comSun Avoidance 000
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Great case, but we now know you that some have the mutation with renal manifestations but minimal or no systemic features. 000
Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Great time to revisit the outstanding Alport workshop in Cyprus in March youtu.be/HnwKsDMms8Ayoutu.beThe 2024 International workshop on Alport Syndrome in Nicosia, Cyprus - 14-16 March 2024YouTube video by Alport Workshops 012
Reposted by Neil TurnerSwetha Kanduri @swethakanduri.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Thankyou @AJKDonline for the opportunity to share my story “In a Few Words” @AJKDblog and providing a platform to advocate for kidney community in generating solutions to alleviate care giver fatigue for patients with ESRD. @ajkd.bsky.social @nkf-professionals.bsky.social 1137
Reposted by Neil TurnerSarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I think it's still early enough to do the greatest hits, so here's an updated version for 2024. Sorry if I satirized your life's work. Original by @xkcd.com. #Nephsky 36918
Reposted by Neil TurnerBrian Rifkin @brianrifkin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The Grinch who stole Chr…eatinine Clearance 🎄 #NephSky 04811
Reposted by Neil TurnerJan Klocke @janklocke.bsky.social · 13/11/2024To celebrate the growing #medsky / #nephsky community, I will post one silly med/kidney cartoon every day for one month! d3: acanthocyte in the making 03410
![His Stanford colleague Frank W. Weymouth wrote about him:
Injustice or oppression in the next street ... or any spot inhabited by men was a personal affront to Thomas Addis and his name, from its early alphabetical place, was conspicuous on lists of sponsors of scores of organizations fighting for democracy and against fascism. He worked on more committees than could reasonably have been expected of so busy a man. ... Tom Addis was happy to have a hand in bringing to the organization of society some of the logic of science and to further that understanding and to promote that democracy which are the only enduring foundations of human dignity.[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:33h4q6nw674jdcwfxaq2m2nl/bafkreidjwcfxnwi7xc4iksu3t5rsasfpy3bv445m545lqsknpfhhgjhvl4)
