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Xavier Gaeta

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Peds Neph and bench scientist 😎🫘

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aspneph.bsky.social @aspneph.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Review: Genetic insights into congenital and infantile nephrotic syndrome: predicting severity and informing care #openaccess #nephsky
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Genetic insights into congenital and infantile nephrotic syndrome: predicting severity and informing care - Pediatric Nephrology
Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is the most common chronic glomerular disorder in pediatric populations, yet its manifestation during the neonatal or infantile period often portends a severe,…
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
NPR reports that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing a proposed rule that would have blocked all Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
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Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.
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Xavier Gaeta @xgaeta.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Come get plenty of vitamin D while treating CKD-MBD with us in California!
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Shina Menon @shinamenon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Are you a peds resident who didn't match into fellowship yesterday, or someone wishes to do peds nephrology, we have a wonderful program waiting for you med.stanford.edu/pednephrolog... Come work & learn w/us in ☀️ Bay Area! Reach out to any of us @xgaeta.bsky.social @4kidney.bsky.social #NephSky
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Fellowship
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Director Bhattacharya has repeatedly spoken about his commitment to early career scientists. This commitment is not evidence in these data. 10/12
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
K mechanisms (Career development) Total investment: FY2025: $721 M FY2024: $727 M Number of awards: FY2025: 3854 FY2024: 4103 Number of new awards: FY2025: 862 FY2024: 1009 These are mostly K23 and K99 awards 7/12
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The breakdown of new awards by mechanism. F30 (Predoc, MD/PhD) FY2025: 196 FY2024: 253 F31 (Predoc, PhD) FY2025: 670 FY2024: 1054 F32 (Postdoc) FY2025: 216 FY2024: 350 6/12
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
i bet the attending who always likes to stump trainees with “what could cause a NEGATIVE anion gap?” was feeling pretty fuckin’ good about themselves when they solved this case
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
anyways i routed my morning walk past CDC this morning, and there was a bullet hole in the window by my old cubicle. that was a weird feeling!
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"First do not harm" is not a suggestion it is a core feature of the job. If you can't check your biases at the door when you provide healthcare, find another job. Calling ICE on a patient is some disgusting behavior. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Patient seeking care at NIH hospital detained by ICE
NIH officials called immigration authorities after scrutinizing the patient’s identification presented to security at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 02/08/2025
Patient’s potassium result was too low Fired the lab manager
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Joel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My patients live at the margins of society. They don’t have much. Just getting to dialysis three times a week is a big ask. Taking from them to fund tax breaks for the rich is just cruel. I want to be outraged but I just feel like crying.
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grahamabra.bsky.social @grahamabra.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This is nuts, a $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually *Quickly checks show of hands at the unit, anyone got $5K?, No one? Ok cool cool I’ll let them know*
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 14/06/2025
Yo. Peep my protest drip.
Handsome Asian male with white baseball cap and glasses. He is at a protest event holding a white sign that says:

WE HAVE VACCINES FOR
MEASLES
TETANUS
HEPATITIS

BUT WE NEED ONE TO PROTECT US FROM RFK Jr. 

There is a photo of him at the bottom and various syringes and vials attached to the board.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 06/06/2025
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...
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SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
⭐️Fantastic commentary led by Dr. Katie Rizzolo and Dr. Lela Villegas on 'The National Landscape of Kidney Transplantation for Undocumented Immigrants: Advancing Kidney Transplantation Equity" in @kidneyint.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Joel Encarnación-Rosado @joele-r.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🙃
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia @childrensphila.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
CHOP & @pennmedicine.bsky.social have delivered the first-ever personalized gene editing therapy for a patient with CPS1 deficiency, marking a major milestone in the application of CRISPR-based treatments. Learn more about KJ & the future of personalized medicine: www.chop.edu/news/worlds-....
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary analysis found that “the health care portion of the [GOP] bill would cut spending by $715 billion and would ‘reduce the number of people with health insurance by at least 8.6 million in 2034.’” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Fight over Medicaid cuts heats up as House Republicans release bill
The legislation includes work requirements, stricter eligibility checks, citizenship verification and new limits on federal funding for Medicaid to states. It met swift Democratic opposition.
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is the best place in Paris to buy reagents to quench your crosslinking experiment
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
These people really want kids sick. Hepatitis B is not just a “sexually transmitted and IV drug user disease” like Means claims here. If she had ever completed medical training she might know that up to 40% of HepB infections are actually acquired in childhood & kill thousands of Americans per year.
(Tweet with Clip of Casey Means on the Tucker Carlson Show)
Meet your new Surgeon General... Casey Means
Why are Newborns Given Erythromycin and
Hepatitis B Shots?
• Within hours or when a child is born, a child is subjected to pharmaceutical intervention
— a new newborns eyes are smeared with Erythromycin Ointment
- a newborn Show more
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Xavier Gaeta @xgaeta.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
ATP as a molecule has caused more destruction of the human mind and body than any other substance in human history.
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Brian Rifkin @brianrifkin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Recent consult from nephrologist with assessment “Sea kitty 4” 🐱 🧜‍♀️ (CKD 4, darn dictation system). #NephSky
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a cat dressed as a mermaid is in an aquarium
ALT: a cat dressed as a mermaid is in an aquarium
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
telling people to "do their own research" without offering any guidance on how to go about it is essentially saying "I am not willing to help you avoid being deceived by the numerous conflicting sources you will find because I don't care about informed consent"
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Xavier Gaeta @xgaeta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Learning about machine learning-based clinical decision tools in AKI and dialysis with @shinamenon.bsky.social at #pas2025 !
Dr. Shina Menon speaking at a podium, showing a slide with the Minority Report poster heavily edited to say "They see the future, she stops the AKI"
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.
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ASCB Responds to the NIH’s Termination of the MOSAIC Program - ASCB
As one of the five scientific societies funded to provide professional development support through the NIH Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program, th...
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Let me hook you up to all this plastic tubing to remove the plastic from your blood…”

WIRED magazine 

This Startup Says It Can Clean Your Blood of Microplastics

The elective medical industry is cashing in on plastic pollution fears, but the evidence of harm from microplastics is still deeply uncertain.

PHOTOGRAPH: image of a dialysis filter but it’s filled with tiny bits of plastic
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
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Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders
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Xavier Gaeta @xgaeta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Pediatric Scientist Development Program, an esteemed initiative to train early-career scientists focused on improving children's health, has had its NIH funding canceled. This is a travesty and an insult to all those who care for kids' health, and about childhood chronic disease.
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 26/03/2025
club can't even handle me right now
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including
A news article headline reads, "White House Plans to Pause $175 Million for Penn Over Transgender Policy." The subheadline states that the decision is part of a broader effort to push universities to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline. Below the text is a photograph of a historic building on the University of Pennsylvania's campus, with a statue in the foreground and leafless trees framing the image. The article is authored by Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender, published on March 19, 2025.A news article continues discussing the Trump administration's decision to suspend $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania due to its policies regarding transgender athletes. The article references a White House social media account announcing the move, citing Penn's support of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as a justification. A response from Penn states that they have not received official notification and assert they are in compliance with all relevant regulations.
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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Physician educators in the US must start paying attention to what is happening to the PhD programs, because GME is going to be targeted for cuts. 50% of specialty training slots for physicians has been paid by Medicare since 1965 (~16B). What will happen when this amount is axed?
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Xavier Gaeta @xgaeta.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
😬😵‍💫😬😵‍💫 U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos | Science www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/02/2025
There's an entire enormous industry of establishment voices who spent years, and enormous effort, convincing us that the left, in the form of undergrads & corporate HR departments, was a threat to American freedom equal to that posed by the fascist right.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12/02/2025
People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis. Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
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Joel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@kidneywiki.bsky.social you get a sideways shout out in this clip from channel your enthusiasm www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laal...
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Thoughts on the ASN Innovations in Education Award ceremony from 2022
YouTube video by Joel Topf
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
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In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Doctors take a muppet’s blood pressure with a sphygmomanahmanahmameter.
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Xavier Gaeta @xgaeta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Truly distressing 🗑️ Inspired by @4kidney.bsky.social @rheaultm.bsky.social
It's RFK Jr's MAHA Instagram post, but with text overlaid to say: "If you drink raw milk, you might get MAHA: Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia"
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Xavier Gaeta @xgaeta.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Bluesky indeed has the juice, unfortunately it is not intravascular and thus not readily removable by acute dialysis. Thank you for this interesting consult.
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