Alport 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: https://bit.ly/46NOBeW
![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)
Just 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
🎉 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
An 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.
🧪🫘👂🏼👁️🧬
The 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
Now 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.
13 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:
📢 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
ADPKD Risk calculator.
This looks well done: halbritter-lab.github.io/adpkd-risk/
From the Scottish Empire
Quiz: 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.
https://bit.ly/4ka9Ts3 (FREE)
On 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...
Two wonderful 50 year flashbacks to the early days of dialysis and transplantation (19974) vimeo.com/ukkidneyhist...
History of Renal Pathology Timeline historyofnephrology.blogspot.com/2017/01/time...
Mine similar, so I’ve relabeled it an editing day.
I did not know that, and I should.
Good to see Daniel Clowes tucked in there near the bottom.
Congratulations to the Parker solar probe for setting a new record for 'worst job avoiding the sun' xkcd.com/3029/
Great case, but we now know you that some have the mutation with renal manifestations but minimal or no systemic features.
Hoping this is 1/12 great works of art??
Great time to revisit the outstanding Alport workshop in Cyprus in March youtu.be/HnwKsDMms8A
Thankyou @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
I 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.
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The Grinch who stole Chr…eatinine Clearance 🎄 #NephSky
To celebrate the growing #medsky / #nephsky community, I will post one silly med/kidney cartoon every day for one month! d3: acanthocyte in the making
