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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hope you are all planning to attend the International Symposium on Urolithiasis meeting in Chicago 10/1-2. 2026isuchicago.net Two full days of kidney stones: urology and nephrology. Send in your abstracts now! Deadline is 9/1. See you in Chicago!
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International Symposium on Urolithiasis | The premier international kidney stone meeting since its inception in 1968.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wow. Who could have possibly predicted that the GBD boys would start attacking all vaccines. I am unshocked.
Read distraction-free on Substack
Kulldorff exposes HPV vaccine's illusion of safety
One of the world's leading biostatisticians says the science used to reassure regulators about Gardasil was fundamentally flawed.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The URINE Study! New consequential J Urol paper. All credit to Ryan Hsi for getting this funded and done. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42378339/ The paper in part based on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... My 20 year goal: perform a study called URINE @nyunephro.bsky.social @vanderbilt.edu
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NYU Nephrology @nyunephro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ready to kick off the new academic year by welcoming our new class of fellows! We are so excited to have you join us: Dr. Carolina Andrade Santivanez, Dr. Tasneem Ashrafi, Dr. Leyla Heris, and Dr. Reid Schlesinger @weddellite.bsky.social 🎉🎉🫘
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/06/2026
Extreme heat is a worker safety issue. The workers who build our skyline, staff our airports, stock our warehouses, and deliver our packages, keep this city running.  This executive order will ensure they come home safe at the end of every shift.
Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/06/2026
Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.
Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Appreciate this great summary of my plenary session lecture at #aua www.urotoday.com/conference-h...
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AUA 2026: State-of-the-Art Lecture: Climate Change and Stone Disease
AUA 2026, stone disease, nephrolithiasis, PNAS study, acute kidney injury (AKI), kidney stones.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Rise of the Vichy Scientists
Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“Why would scientific institutions be cozying up to the very people who want to pull them all down? Why do they insist on whitewashing what is happening, helping the perpetrators burnish their credentials?” HooooooooBoy, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social has nailed it in his new piece.
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The Rise of the Vichy Scientists
Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today is a good day to take note of all those telling you how swimmingly this is going to work out so you can stop paying attention to them forever We have illegally and under false pretenses launched a war that in no way benefits us and isn't going to ever truly end A MISTAKE WE HAVE MADE BEFORE
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We advance the understanding and importance of Ca/PO4/FGF23 in Dent disease journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstra...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Oh definitely a real thing - easy to believe my friends Ivan et al at @mayoclinic Jacksonville - previously more reported in dogs but people know how to replicate canine findings!
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I told them I had enough community 😃- got a wife, grandkid, fellows, occ NephJC, ASN Communities, bike club, book club, tennis partners 🏆
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I guess these jerks want more kidney disease (to say THE LEAST about effects of climate change. Missed our post urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We have the most corrupt and least competent FBI at the same time that we have the most corrupt and least competent DOJ, with the only saving grace in either instance being that both agencies are also woefully understaffed
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No doubt; in comparing the roles of the intestinal to the urinary microbiomes @lamanazzal.bsky.social and I would argue the former is clearly more important, with the potential of changing urinary chemistry. The role of the latter remains unclear but under active investigation.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Thanks Swap, a potentially very important paper from my collaborator Kymora Scotland at UCLA. New methods in microscopy applied to demonstrate findings c/w bacterial biofilms while DNA sequences suggest E. coli, Proteus, enterococcus. KS says she has 2 more important papers on this work!
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Intercalated bacterial biofilms are intrinsic internal components of calcium-based kidney stones
Bacteria are traditionally believed to contribute only to struvite kidney stone formation. In contrast, most types of kidney stones are believed to be abiotic and considered to be “noninfectious.” Here we show that calcium oxalate stones, the most ...
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our editorial about climate change...yes, it's coming and it's not stopping...and its effect on kidney stones, AKI, CKD...(while USG remains in denial: promoting COAL!) in @kireports.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @theisn.org @nyunephro.bsky.social @thecookingdoctor.bsky.social
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Effect of Climate Change on Kidney Stones and Kidney Disease
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
www.startribune.com/mournful-cer...
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Mournful, ceremonial: Minneapolis VA memorial gathering overflows to remember Alex Pretti
Nearly 1,000 of Pretti’s colleagues found one way or another to watch the service in the hospital’s chapel.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Dr Nicole Miller, president, opens 2026 ROCK Society (Research on Calculus Kinetics) - welcomes us to Music City
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026
Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.
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David Scales @tnfalpha.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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.
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 03/01/2026
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
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FF 88 BICARICU-2, Bicarbonate in the ICU. Helpful or just a number fixer?
Podcast Episode · Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast · 2025-12-27 · 1h 25m
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
You’re in a restrained mood - but I thought of you
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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/...
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Jade what talk was that?
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
aMAZing - congrats!!!
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Picture in the corner of Vasishta Tatapudi! Part of the NYU xenotransplant program
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Amazing talks by Tony, Tobias Huber and Bob Montgomery
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Here with the honoree Dr Wadi Suki (president of #ASN in 1997) with my good friend Tony Bleyer and with Dr Suki’s wife Dr Adaani Frost, former director of the Lung Center here
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Today’s Wadi Suki Symposium at Houston Methodist was terrific! Excellent program was a great intro for #KidneyWk - started with stones & climate!
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hey look. Communism.
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Michelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#KidneyWk 👀 www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
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Houston Airport TSA Wait Times Top 3 Hours As Unpaid Screeners Told To Get Loans During Shutdown
TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely bac...
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#kidneyweek 2016 and 2025
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Wow. Thank you so much @jessicawildfire.bsky.social for the kind words and review. 🙏 www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-grip-tig...
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The Grip Tightens
On media misinformation
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Kidneys making an error by excreting that stuff?!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2025
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"
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
True, but that was a low dose, only 25 mg qd. This appears to be more thorough aldo inhibition.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Yes, it certainly impairs Na reabsorption in distal tubule, and may cause some volume contraction. And the increase in plasma renin activity implies that's true. And that could lead to activation of ADH and a dilution defect. It's in package insert for finerenone, not spironolactone.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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?
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Baxdrostat Efficacy and Safety in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension
Aldosterone dysregulation plays an important pathogenic role in hard-to-control hypertension. We tested the efficacy and safety of baxdrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, in patients with uncon...
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 14/10/2025
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
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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