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26 Feb 2026
One kidney. One decision. Multiple lives changed.
German Lopez's very personal opinion piece in @nytimes.com on why he donated to a stranger — and why more of us should consider it. 🫘🧪

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

#NephSky #MedSky #Science #OrganDonation
Opinion | Want to Make a Difference? Donate Your Kidney.
Opinion | Want to Make a Difference? Donate Your Kidney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/opinion/donate-your-kidney.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OlA.nz9R.F1KVyxn-FrZx&smid=url-share
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03 Feb 2026
Classic Fred Luft #Nephrology 101 editorial on a study testing the effect of potassium supplement on natriuresis: Eliminating sodium with potassium 🔗 academic.oup.com/ndt/article/... #NephSky #MedSky 🧪
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08 Jan 2026
Excited to share our recent JASN paper on enalapril effects in #DKD using #single-cell approaches.🧪
Thanks to the whole team @nephrointberlin.bsky.social @PennKidney, and @Bayer.

Special 🙏 to my mentor @ksusztak.bsky.social. Her insightful X thread is copied below.

🔗 t.ly/oNjkJ #NephSky #MedSky
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03 Jan 2026
Check out a recent interesting case of C-H-BG syndrome from @nephrointberlin.bsky.social. A great example of how rare symptoms in a common disease can present with complex phenotypes.
#NephSky #MedSky 🧪
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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23 Dec 2025
Merry Xmas! 🎄
Be kind to your kidneys this holiday season.
#NephSky #MedSky 🫘🧪
A christmas tree ornament reading "He's making a lith and checking it twice", picturing a kidney with Santa's hat.
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17 Dec 2025
We really don’t think BigPAK makes sense

From our journal club at @uottawa.ca into a #NephJC shorts

www.nephjc.com/news/2025/12...
BigPAK or a bundle of balderdash? — NephJC
BigPAK or a bundle of balderdash? — NephJC
We break down the latest salvo from Zarbock et al on a supposedly wonderful ‘bundle’
https://www.nephjc.com/news/2025/12/16/bigpak
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08 Nov 2025
Keep Calm & Carry On
Inhibiting RAS 👑

#Kidneywk #Nephjc

👉 www.nephjc.com/news/stopacei
👉 www.nephjc.com/news/aceing-...
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07 Nov 2025
👏Huge congratulations to my fantastic mentor @ksusztak.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 ASN Homer Smith award.
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06 Nov 2025
👏Fantastic to see @cetinsz.bsky.social from our team presenting insights into #single-cell transcriptomic patterns distinguishing recovery from non-recovery after #AKI. Exciting 🧪 at #KidneyWk Houston, TX! #MedSky #NephSky
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06 Nov 2025
❓Do we finally have a nodular sclerosis mouse model for DKD? 🔥Tour-de-force #kidneywk talk by @linkermannlab.bsky.social suggests so. 🧪 #NephSky #MedSky
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27 Oct 2025
Cell Decoder: decoding cell identity with multi-scale explainable deep learning. #SingleCellOmics #CellCharacterization #GenomeBiology 🧪🧬 🖥️
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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07 Oct 2025
🚀 Curious about #SpatialOmics? Want to master spatial omics data analysis using #Rstats and @bioconductor.bsky.social ?

🔥 Registrations are now OPEN for the 3rd edition of our hands-on course with @stemang.bsky.social !

📅 Save the dates: 18–20 May 2026
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
spatial Omics in R/Bioconductor
spatial Omics in R/Bioconductor
18-20 May 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/spatial-omics-1/
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04 Sep 2025
🚀Excited to announce that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu StG to advance research how kidneys heal themselves — a paradigm shift for understanding & treating #kidneydisease 🫘🩺🧬🧪
👉ERC press release: t.ly/CBxwB
👉Charité press release: t.ly/SR_Wn
#ERCStG #HorizonEU #KidneyResearch #NephSky #MedSky
The ERC awards €761m to the next generation of scientists in Europe
The ERC awards €761m to the next generation of scientists in Europe
The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 478 early-career researchers across Europe to receive this year’s Starting Grants. With a total funding of €761 million, these grants support excellent...
https://t.ly/CBxwB
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15 Aug 2025
📑 Need something to read this weekend? If so, you're in luck!

"Integration of spatial protein imaging and transcriptomics in the human kidney tracks the regenerative potential of proximal tubules" fueled by #KPMP investigators is hot off the press today @science.org

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Integration of spatial protein imaging and transcriptomics in the human kidney tracks the regenerative potential of proximal tubules
Integration of spatial protein imaging and transcriptomics in the human kidney tracks the regenerative potential of proximal tubules
The interplay in expression of the stem cell markers THY1 and PROM1 in kidney proximal tubules marks the timeline of disease.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv8918
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08 Aug 2025
🔥 Huge congrats to @ksusztak.bsky.social & team on a landmark @natgenet.nature.com paper!
🚶‍♂️🐁🐀Cross-species 🫘kidney pathway dysregulation via #singlecell functional profiling of individual samples — opening new therapeutic avenues.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #NephSky #MedSky
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20 Jul 2025
🔥Paper alert @nature.com. Fantastic 🧪resource for the renal 🫘 community! #NephSky #MedSky

Congrats @puellesv.bsky.social lab and team!
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18 Jul 2025
Pregnancy-associated acute kidney injury — consensus report of the 32nd Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroup
Pregnancy-associated acute kidney injury — consensus report of the 32nd Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroup
Nature Reviews Nephrology, Published online: 18 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41581-025-00979-6Pregnancy-associated acute kidney injury is a risk factor for maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality and a driver of health inequity worldwide. This Consensus Statement from the Acute Disease Quality Initiative provides recommendations on the causes, diagnosis, management and follow-up of pregnancy-associated acute kidney injury.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41581-025-00979-6?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nrneph
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07 Jul 2025
Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2a Study Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Felzartamab for IgA Nephropathy

doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.05.028

#OpenAccess #IgAN #felzartamab #IgANephropathy
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05 Jul 2025
Simon Davies kicking off day 2 of the 1st International Meeting on
Cellular and Molecular Peritonial Dialysis Research in Kiel.
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01 Jul 2025
👏Congrats to the KidneyCure 2025 Grant Recipients! 🫘🧪
@asnpublications.bsky.social #NephSky #MedSky
KidneyCure 2025 Grant Recipients
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21 Jun 2025
In the latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social, the BALANCE trial comparing 7 days of antibiotic treatment with 14 days of treatment in patients with bloodstream infection is explained. Access the article for free: nej.md/DrG19
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22 Jun 2025
The Fellowship Program is one of the ISPD’s key instruments to strengthen global PD expertise through hands-on learning and knowledge exchange.

Learn more about the results of our first call for applications in 2025 and the new application modality for teams Doctor-Nurse.

buff.ly/7XjuPCM
ISPD Fellowship results - 1st call 2025 - International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
ISPD Fellowship results - 1st call 2025 - International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
The Fellowship Program is one of the ISPD’s key programs to strengthen global PD expertise through hands-on learning and knowledge exchange. For the first round of 2025, we received 17…
https://buff.ly/7XjuPCM
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05 Jun 2025
In the CONFIDENCE trial in persons with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, combination therapy with finerenone and empagliflozin led to a greater reduction in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio than either drug alone. Full trial results: nej.md/4jEVbbk

#ERA25 #MedSky #Nephrology
A graph of the least-squares mean ratio of the change from baseline in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio in the full analysis population.
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04 Jun 2025
🎉🎈Congrats to all ASN 2025 🏆Lifetime & Midcareer awardees!

Well-deserved, @ksusztak.bsky.social @rkramann.bsky.social @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social, you are on 🔥!!!
#NephSky, #MedSky, #ERA25
ASN Lifetime & Midcareer Awardees 2025
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31 May 2025
In the May 2025 #ASNKidneyNews Policy Update, explore recent new and existing policy actions from ASN Advocacy that benefit physicians, patients, and researchers. bit.ly/KN1705-16
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27 May 2025
The effect of disappearing data from US public health

#OpenAccess viewpoint in @thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#MedSky #EpiSky
Figure Full season (32-week-ahead) forecasts of influenza hospitalisations in the USA
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18 May 2025
📣Attention #NephSky #MedSky!
Inaugural #PeritonealDialysis 🧪research meeting incoming:

"1st International Meeting on Cellular & Molecular #PD Research"
📆July 4-5, 2025 @The Nucleus, 🛳️Kiel, Germany
🔗Program & registration: www.pdmeeting.skip-sh.de
👫@ispd.org @dgfn.bsky.social ERA/EDTA
Program & registration: http://www.pdmeeting.skip-sh.de
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07 May 2025
⏳ Two Weeks Left! Submit your research abstract or case report for #KidneyWk 2025 by Wednesday, May 21, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

Take the stage at the world’s premier nephrology meeting and share your work with 12,000+ kidney professionals.

Submit now: asn.kdny.info/SwgN50VMhU6
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05 May 2025
Fluoroscopic repositioning of Tenckhoff catheter

doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.09.027

#KINephrologyImage #NephSky #MedSky #peritonealdialysis
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03 Apr 2025
A new spatial transcriptomics approach eliminates the need for time-intensive imaging with specialized equipment, making the technique accessible to more researchers around the world. @naturebiotech.bsky.social
Scientists have developed a way to scale up spatial genomics and lower costs
Scientists have developed a way to scale up spatial genomics and lower costs
A new computational approach eliminates time-intensive imaging, enabling high-resolution spatial mapping of gene expression in tissue.
http://broad.io/ChenNews0403
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31 Mar 2025
Some light reading on how relevant the kidney is: Michelangelo: 🎨Art, 🧪anatomy, and the 🫘kidney
#NephSky #MedSky
@kidneyint.bsky.social
🔗 www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...
Michelangelo: Art, anatomy, and the kidney
Michelangelo: Art, anatomy, and the kidney
Michelangelo: Art, anatomy, and the kidney. Michelangelo (1475–1564) had a life-long interest in anatomy that began with his participation in public dissections in his early teens, when he joined the ...
https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538%2815%2946851-6/fulltext
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26 Mar 2025
Our @nature.com paper today on multimodal generative #AI for interpretation of medical images and generating reports across many specialties nature.com/articles/s41... @rajpurkar.bsky.social
free access rdcu.be/efcIG
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23 Mar 2025
All quiet on the Western front?!
🧪Work in @jama.com network open shows that predicting #contrast-induced #nephropathy remains imprecise and models demonstrate considerable heterogeneity.
#NephSky #MedSky

🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
sROC curves separated by prediction models for contrast-induced nephropathy
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20 Mar 2025
🔥Inspiring keynote at the 1st Joint Mayo Charité Symposium by @asnkidney.bsky.social past president @susanquaggin.bsky.social on the golden era of #kidney health.
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#NephSky #MedSky @nephrointberlin.bsky.social
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17 Mar 2025
💵Funding opportunities for female postdoc🧪scientists in #STEM.
Calls for🇨🇭🇹🇷🇪🇬🇧🇷🇿🇦 and other countries still open.

#NephSky #MedSky #WomenInScience
@womeninmedicine.bsky.social
@women-in-stem.bsky.social

🔗https://www.forwomeninscience.com/challenge/show/120
QR code linking to application landing page for funding opportunities for Women in Science.
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15 Mar 2025
Got fruit? A 🥝kiwi a day keeps the 🫘nephrologist away.
Stay healthy and have a nice weekend #NephSky #MedSky!

(Gloms reach a little too far down into the medulla, but hey, we don't even have a proper kidney emoji, so 🤷‍♂️)
A kidney-shaped kiwi.
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13 Mar 2025
Hey #NephSky #MedSky, today is #WorldKidneyDay!

Next generation of🫘kidney🧪scientists hard at work to raise awareness for #KidneyDisease, which affects >850 million people worldwide!

🧦 #SockItToKidneyDisease #KidneyAwareness
@kidney.org @asnkidney.bsky.social @theisn.org @nu-nephrology.bsky.social
#SockItToKidneyDisease
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10 Mar 2025
Did you know that March 13 is #WorldKidneyDay? More people than ever are at risk for kidney disease, and your generosity today can change lives. Make your first monthly gift now and see it matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $50,000. Make your impact: buff.ly/41iCpPV
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04 Mar 2025
📢 New Issue Alert March 2025
@pdi-journal.bsky.social , @ispd.org
🔗 buff.ly/Ode3kIM
Editor In Chief: @pd-perls.bsky.social
Visual Abstract: @edgarvlermamd.bsky.social , @jmteakell.bsky.social
Social Media Ed: @drnikhilshah.bsky.social
#PeritonealDialysis @SageJournals
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01 Mar 2025
Hey #NephSky #MedSky 🧪, is it just me or do y’all see two dancing 💃 🕺 kidneys as well?
It’s #NationalKidneyMonth!!! 🫘
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26 Feb 2025
Attention European #NephSky #MedSky!

Call for abstracts: #JungeNiere 🫘renal 🧪research meeting for early career #ClinicianScientists. July 11-12, 2025 @uniregensburg.bsky.social (GER).
💰Travel grants for students, 🥾hiking &🍺Bavarian beer included!
junge-niere.jimdosite.com
M. Banas, S. Reichelt-Wurm
Call for abstracts, Junge Niere renal research meeting for early career clinician scientists. July 11-12, 2025 in Regensburg, Germany.
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07 Feb 2025
Ever wondered about the genetic architecture of #kidney function?
🔥Fantastic🧪work & impressive resource by @ksusztak.bsky.social & team @science.org on convergent coding & regulatory GFR variants contributing to kidney disease via a genetic score card.
🔗 tinyurl.com/33yzf5wz
#NephSky #MedSky
Kidney disease genetic scorecard of genes with convergence of coding and regulatory variants
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05 Feb 2025
The February issue of JASN is now available online! Topics covered this month include:

- Technique to Screen for MUC1 Variants
- Anti-C3bBb Autoantibodies in C3 Glomerulopathy

Find the issue here: journals.lww.com/jasn/pages/c...
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04 Feb 2025
Nice work by Leonie Wagner, @janklocke.bsky.social, @penghard.bsky.social & team showing urinary distal nephron tubular cell count correlates with #AKI stage 🔥
#NephSky #MedSky
🔗 www.kireports.org/article/S246...
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03 Feb 2025
Fantastic @natrevneph.bsky.social disease primer on #kidney adaptation to injury, the devlopment of #CKD, its progression, and how to stop it.
@hjanders.bsky.social @romagnanilab.bsky.social
🔥 #NephSky #MedSky 🔥
🔗 rdcu.be/d71Rj
Schematic on kidney adaptation to injury.
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31 Jan 2025
Will Xylocore® be the magic ELIXIR for peritoneal dialysis?

@ispd.org @pdi-journal.bsky.social @drnikhilshah.bsky.social @pd-perls.bsky.social @mlambie.bsky.social

Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ENYAN...

Original article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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28 Jan 2025
Nice one! Squaring the circle and tissue microarray approach save time and 💵 when doing @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium for #singlecell #spatial transcriptomics👇
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24 Jan 2025
Confession: I LOVE hyponatremia 🤓

(I know, I know. What can I say, I'm a true internist!)

HypoNa is often feared, maligned, and misunderstood - but I promise it doesn't have to be scary!

Here are my top 10 hyponatremia tips and tricks - a 🧵

#emimcc
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08 Jan 2025
🔥Excellent reading material for those off-peak early-morning-can't-get-back-to-sleep-on-call hours: #NephJC Top 10 Nephrology Stories of 2024🔥 #NephSky #MedSky
www.nephjc.com/news/2024/1/...
@brianrifkin.bsky.social
#NephJC top 10 nephrology stories of 2024 @brianrifkin.bsky.social
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03 Jan 2025
Our first 2025 webinar reviews the first year of work of the International Home Dialysis Consortium (IHDC) to increase the uptake and the quality of dialysis provided at home (both PD and Home HD).

🗓️ Thursday, Jan 9th
🕛 12h00 GMT
REGISTER NOW: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ISPD-ISN Joint Webinar: International Home Dialysis Consortium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ISPD-ISN Joint Webinar: International Home Dialysis Consortium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This webinar will present the outcomes of the first year of work of this joint initiative between the ISN and the ISPD, to drive forward home dialysis worldwide. We will review the outcomes of the fir...
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9117347040238/WN_d_YUnhVOTxWxO40YbfIOOg
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