Had more than one person tell me they wanted to hear "a Catholic commentary track for WAKE UP DEAD MAN," and it was a fun excuse to rewatch the movie with my Jesuit friend JRod as we talked about how this thing feels from the perspective of young clerics currently immersed in theology studies.
22.12.2025 15:05 — 👍 91 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 3
When it comes to kidney health, taking care of your mind is just as important as taking care of your body. Tune in to explore how mental health support can improve your overall well-being and breaking the stigma around therapy and medications. bit.ly/3MiMdFH
06.12.2025 01:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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
Graphic demonstrating the percentage of positions filled by fellowship specialty in the 2025 NRMP Medicine and Pediatric Specialties Match. Cardiology, Hematology-Oncology, Gastroenterology, and Rheumatology filled 99% or more of their available positions, while Geriatric Medicine, Child Abuse Pediatrics, and Pediatric Nephrology filled 41% or less.
Graphic demonstrating the applicant match rate for specialty fellowships in the 2025 NRMP Medicine and Pediatric Specialties Match. Match rates for Gastroenterology, Cardiology, and Hematology-Oncology were all <70%, while Pediatric Endocrinology, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Pediatric Rheumatology, and Child Abuse Pediatrics were all >98%.
It’s Fellowship Match Day!
03.12.2025 21:44 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 5
Not for Ped Neph. We had a 27 applicants, <40% fill rate 😭
Based on a recent workforce survey there are > 90 faculty jobs nationally that need pediatric nephrologists!
Our workforce future seems grim #nephSky
🤣 #PedNeph is now the worst!!
Of ALL adult AND pediatric specialties
38% filled.
Thirty. Eight.
And this is a continued, sustained, worsening pattern
No surprise because we are not making (forcing?) the systemic changes we need to make (and many of us want to make)
Group photo of SMADIE members, students, and healthcare professionals together at SMADIE Positive Exposure Photo Gallery Premiere. Flyer text reads: GIVING TUESDAY December 2, 2025 Giving Tuesday is a global movement that celebrates generosity, community, and shared responsibility. It began as one day, but today, it represents something bigger: A reminder that giving isn't just about money. And it isn't just about one day. It’s about choosing to support change every day, in many ways. SMADIE works to make healthcare accessible, inclusive, and equitable for people with disabilities, not just in policy, but in training, design, and everyday care. Your support helps us: Elevate disabled voices in medical education, Grow mentorship and advocacy opportunities, Create training on accessibility and inclusive care, Build a community that designs for every body and mind. Giving Tuesday helps us fuel this work, not just for one day, but all year long.
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Join us as we highlight SMADIE’s work in accessibility, mentorship, and disability inclusion. Your support helps us keep these conversations going all year long.
22.11.2025 01:19 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of Dr. Harman at the front of a conference room. She wears a red dress and a red blazer. The slide behind her says, “Having a conversation when it's someone you love... In thinking about the future, what's most important to you? What is keeping you up at night? What gives you strength in tough times? What else would you want me to know?”
An insightful & moving talk from @stephharmanmd.bsky.social at the Big Ideas conference, culminating in her important point that palliative care physicians don’t have a monopoly on helping people decide what matters most to them. Here are some questions to consider for anyone facing serious illness.
05.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Hey it’s me!
05.09.2025 22:52 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Members of the Stanford kidney transplant team pose with their heads sticking out around large block letters spelling “WTC 2025”
Stanford pediatric nephrology faculty members dressed up in warm clothes posing on the beach in front of large rocks
Come join our awesome team!
Stanford Division of Pediatric Nephrology is hiring! Find out more about our job:
facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job...
#Careers #Hiring #PediatricNephrology #Dialysis #KidneyTransplant
This EO criminalizing homelessness & mental illness ignores decades of research & lived experience. This EO has many devastating aspects, especially its targeting of Housing First policies.
Housing First reduces homelessness, emergency room visits, and contact with the criminal punishment system.
More bad news (sorry).
Many folks may have never heard of the USPSTF before, but it's an important group of experts that reviews research and gives guidance to healthcare providers. Playing politics with this panel will have implications for healthcare delivery in the U.S.
The answer is: Hell yes, trans kids should be able to participate in sports according to how they identify.
The emotional damage done by rejecting a kid’s identity is the real concern here. Not the bigotry of a busybody parent trying to bully that one kid.
I’m not sitting back while this administrations destroys my career and the careers of my colleagues and mentees. #LGBTQI+
22.05.2025 22:25 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It's not just Northwestern and Harvard, I have gotten credible (confidential) reports from several other schools (including state schools) that the NIH is defaulting on federal commitments there too.
Seems like there may be a big story here for an investigative reporter willing to take it on
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Ken stands in front of an RV with Stanford Medicine logo and AIDS lifecycle Stanford team logo.
Members of the Stanford team pose together
Team members hold up a Rainbow Stanford medicine flag
A collection of stickers: “I bike California” with trans pride flag colors, “Stanford medicine, Ken Sutha” with a rainbow across the top, and “aids/lifecycle the final 545”
Just over a week until I’ll be biking 545+ miles from SF to LA! Got to check out our team’s support vehicle for AIDS/Lifecycle and meet some more of our team members I hadn’t met yet! I guess I’m the de facto team physician? There’s still time to donate: bit.ly/ALC-Ken
22.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Outstanding mentoring session by former ASN president Dr. @drdeidracrews.bsky.social at the ASN AKI B2B conference.
@4kidney.bsky.social
🧒🌍 Ending AIDS for Africa's children?
PEPFAR has already saved 26 million lives – and could end childhood AIDS by 2030.
But without continued support, 1M children may be infected by HIV in the next 5 years.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #HIV 🧪 #PEPFAR
NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.
This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
In what's being described as a “bloodbath,” DHHS has dramatically reduced personnel at CDC, NIH, FDA & other health agencies. The cuts are expected to affect 10,000 people; some learned of them only when their badges no longer allowed access to their offices.
www.ebar.com/story/153865/
"US Senator Cassidy calls on Kennedy to appear before Senate panel over health agency cuts"
But you are literally the reason he was confirmed...what changed?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
The latest NIH grant chaos:
NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country.
These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers.
MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
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!
Graphic of clock old fashioned alarm clock with text: Still waiting for your pediatric nephrology appointment? There is a shortage of pediatric nephrologists in the US. Your donation to the ASPN Foundation helps to support the recruitment and training of pediatric nephrologists.
Your gift to the ASPN Foundation helps to support travel grants for trainees to help recruit and retain pediatric nephrologists! Your gift will be matched by ASPN Foundation Board Member Sharon Lagas up to a total of $2500 during National Kidney Month. aspneph.app.neoncrm.com/forms/alport...
12.03.2025 16:03 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Also defunded: a longstanding grant supporting the training and development of pediatric researchers. As if research and careers focusing on childhood disease weren’t underfunded and disincentivized enough already. . .
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American Association of Kidney Patients post on X, the everything app: WATCH! HHS Sec. RFK Jr announces a long-overdue restructure of HHS operations to consolidate agency internal functions & to better align HHS capacities to the needs of both patients & taxpayers in the fight against chronic diseases, including CKD and ESRD: https://bit.ly/4j5YyYK
This ain't it
29.03.2025 16:59 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
29.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 1400 🔁 721 💬 182 📌 131I’ve long supported the great advocacy and education work by AAKP, but RJK Jr. and his leadership of HHS will absolutely have serious negative consequences for kidney and transplant patients.
29.03.2025 06:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0