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Mark Lindsay @markelindsay.bsky.social · 20h

Are you interested in the genetics of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)?

Please watch our SCAD Alliance webinar where Esther Kim and I discuss clinical genetic testing, research genetics, and the gVASC study
youtu.be/UyoiYE0nysQ...

Ask the Experts: Exploring the Genetics of SCAD and the gVasc Study

YouTube video by SCAD Alliance

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 21h

🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design.

We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.

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American College of Cardiology @accintouch.bsky.social · 21h

Dapagliflozin showed 🚫 no significant improvement in health status post-#TAVI in the DapaTAVI substudy. While it may reduce death or worsening #HeartFailure in pts with #vhdAS, further research of patients w/ residual symptoms is needed.

📰 Read the journal scan: https://bit.ly/47f7cB8

#CardioSky

DapaTAVI Substudy: Does Dapagliflozin Improve Health Status Post TAVI? - American College of Cardiology

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

Statisticians in my field have been trying to improve statistical literacy in earnest since the early 20th century. The @royalstatsoc.bsky.social has an entire section on teaching statistics. We have the tools. The knowledge simply isn't valued enough.

statsepi.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...

A brief history of medical statistics and its impact on reproducibility.

You have to admit that medical research is a strange bird.

statsepi.substack.com

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 1d

And one of the biggest problems in epi is the large number of researchers who won't use causal methods (and won't even do sensitivity analysis to unmeasured confounders!) but who use causal conclusions in their papers.

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 1d

Gaslighting, by definition.

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 1d

whoa!, was not expecting that plot-twist ending, 😲
Had a catheter-directed thrombolysis, & later was told that it was a high risk procedure.
Thanks for the added context, 🤓🙏

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 3d

The 2025 #NephJC at #KidneyWk details

www.nephjc.com/news/2025/10...

Thanks to @jadav.bsky.social!

The 2025 NephJC Night, in Houston — NephJC

SAVE THE DATE! On FRIDAY night, NOVEMBER 7th, NephJC will be hosting another of its legendary NephJC Nights during ASN Kidney Week

www.nephjc.com

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 2d

#askrenal #NephSky

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 3d

a man is smiling in a dark room with a makeagif.com website in the corner .

Alt: Seinfeld making a surprised; disgusted facial expression

media.tenor.com

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 3d

lol, Dr. @glaucomflecken.bsky.social pathology clips, 🤓🔬
cc: @glombandit.bsky.social 😃

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Pathology Being The Nicest Person In The Hospital

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 3d

Thought-provoking, well-written @nejm.org blog article by Dr. Paul Farmer's wife on the (third) anniversary of his passing: www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

cc: @jwaitz.bsky.social
#nephjc summer book club chat

In Paul Farmer’s Beautiful Garden of Global Health Equity: Reflections on the Third Remembrance of His Passing | NEJM

On the third anniversary of Paul Farmer’s death, Didi Bertrand Farmer reflects on his “beautiful garden” — a vision of social justice in health care, with deep roots in the fertile soil of equity.

www.nejm.org

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 3d

ooh, that’s coool!, & love the signed, framed photo there too.
The classic nephrologist, Dr. Chertow who coined the term “renalism” via JASN @asnpublications.bsky.social in 2004, 🤓😃🙏

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 3d

happening tomorrow!

@dialysisbloke.bsky.social will be musing on vascular access for #NephGR at @uottawa.ca and @ottawahospital.on.ca

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grahamabra.bsky.social @grahamabra.bsky.social · Sep 5

A famous nephrologist getting ready to go see the most famous guy who plays a nephrologist @glaucomflecken.bsky.social @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social Grand Rounds!

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 3d

Prior distributions for regression coefficients
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/08/p...

Prior distributions for regression coefficients | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 25d

Hypertension Secrets has been translated into multiple languages, including Lithuanian!

Get your copy here: shop.elsevier.com/books/hypert...

@edgarvlermamd.bsky.social @drjmluther.bsky.social

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · Jan 23

NIH funded research benefits your community even if it doesn’t (yet!) directly benefit you. Each $ invested in NIH yields significantly higher return on investment (average 254%) than the same $ invested in “defense”.

Call your reps: (202) 224-3121

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Non-defense spending such as NIH yields SIGNIFICANTLY higher return on investment than defense spending.

In Michigan alone, $991M of NIH funding creates $2420M of economic activity, a 244% return on investment.

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 4d

lol, people measuring BP incorrectly since, (at least), 1881, 👀😳🤦🏼‍♀️😅😂 #hypertension

cc: Dr. @drjmluther.bsky.social - for your photos 🤓😃😂

#NephSky

Black & white photo of a man measuring the blood pressure of another man

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Sarah Melville @sarahkmels.bsky.social · 4d

The series would have been very different for TO if it was the BoSox; TO got lucky, 😃😂😂

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 5d

This is a nice paper. It faces down a common problem: in order to explain to why a common approach cannot work even in theory, we first need to teach a framework in which regression is not magic that tells us which variables on right cause the variable on left. It's exhausting.

Anyway great paper!