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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦
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Nephrologist = kidney doctor
MD, MPH
Professor, University of Ottawa/Ottawa Hospital 🇨🇦
He/Him/His
#NephJC co-creator; @FreelyFiltered.bsky.social pod panelist; KICR EiC
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Sep 9
Update

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So if you liked/pinned the old feed, please do it again!

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hswapnil.medsky.social Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Sep 5
If you are a nephrology or kidney disease or renal professional or interested in the field - make sure you have liked/followed/pinned the nephrology feed

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Thanks again to @richardferro.xyz for creating & updating this! It’s a one-stop shop for nephrology needs

#NephSky
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jzrenalpath.bsky.social
Tumor nephrectomy with incidental ALECT2. Interestingly this was from a pt from India. Reminder that a subset of ALECT2 cases have been reported in Punjabi patients (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35986199/) . #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky
February 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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kidneyvet.bsky.social
CKD isn’t a very common disorder seen in pandas. More are hypertensive without CKD but I don’t know if the cause is well known or fully investigated.
February 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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asnpublications.bsky.social
The American Board of Internal Medicine has started a pilot program allowing international medical graduates who completed their residency abroad to become board eligible after fellowship training in the US. Read more in #ASNKidneyNews: kidney.pub/KN1801-14 KatieOverV
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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calvobianco.com
1Password not mincing words here:

"If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop."

"If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately."

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From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password
The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on ...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
moving on from IgAN to FSGS: BI 764198 a TRPC6 inhibitor reduces proteinuria in an N = 67 phase 2 RCT

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
in @thelancet.com

#NephSky
TRPC6 inhibition for the treatment of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial of BI 764198
BI 764198 lowered proteinuria and was well tolerated by participants in this trial. This is the first evidence of efficacy with a podocyte-targeted therapy in FSGS. Larger randomised controlled trials...
www.thelancet.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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amjhypertension.bsky.social
Childhood Obesity Raises GDM Risk Through Adult Obesity: Evidence From Lifecourse Mendelian Randomization Study

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Childhood Obesity Raises GDM Risk Through Adult Obesity: Evidence From Lifecourse Mendelian Randomization Study
AbstractBACKGROUND. The relationship between childhood and adulthood obesity and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) remains unclear. To clarif
academic.oup.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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damienbarraudmd.bsky.social
Does anyone have experience with angiotensin 2 during septic shock?
@pulmcrit.bsky.social @zentensivist.bsky.social @drfreeze.bsky.social @load-dependent.bsky.social @hswapnil.medsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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abckidney.bsky.social
📣 Kidney Physiology made simple 🔥

Check out 👉 www.abckidney.com 👈 for a immersive & interactive educational experience!!

#NephTwitter #MedEd #FOAMed #Physiology
January 30, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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dimitridrekonja.bsky.social
Yeah. Not from his snake-oil grifter BS, but from GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide. Science is amazing. Quacks suck.

(If I had my way, we’d all have time/means/education/opportunity to have healthy foods and exercise and not need meds, but that is aspirational; GLP-1’s are here now 🤷🏻‍♂️)
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Dr Oz: "We project that America will lose about 100 million pounds this year, which will make folks a lot healthier."
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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ceaubin.com
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
She's 16. It's not like she's four. And we have now really shifted on how we think about that, I think, in a good way. Right. Right. I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But I think that you're not going to find the evidence of a pedophile ring where he is actively trafficking these girls because until Me Too... It's not like a pedophile, right? There are 16-year-old girls around who are vulnerable and can be exploited, but not in this, like, there is a mastermind who is going on the dark web and selling these girls to you. They're just around, and they're close enough to the age of consent that a lot of people probably felt like it was okay to hit on them.
February 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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amjhypertension.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday

Longitudinal Blood Pressure Changes and Kidney Function Decline in Persons Without Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings From the MESA Study

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#Free #OpenAccess
Longitudinal Blood Pressure Changes and Kidney Function Decline in Persons Without Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings From the MESA Study
AbstractBACKGROUND. While changes in blood pressure (BP) are independently associated with cardiovascular events, less is known about the association betwe
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February 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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amjhypertension.bsky.social
Joint Contribution of Mid-Trimester Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure to Co-occurring Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Cohort Study

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Joint Contribution of Mid-Trimester Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure to Co-occurring Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Cohort Study
AbstractBACKGROUND. To examine how mid-trimester systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) levels, considered both independently and
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February 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
#NephGR tomorrow

Dr Jegatheswaran on the needs of medicine residents for nephrology in the era of CBME @royalcollege.bsky.social

#MedEd #NephSky
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February 5, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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simonwillison.net
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Wow.

Watch this.
azrww.bsky.social Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 2d
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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npr.org
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security. n.pr/4qAlWBj
Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.
n.pr
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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connectsbsm.bsky.social
🩺 Join us for the 2026 Program on Hypertension/Disease a Year!
📍 Chicago & Virtual | 🗓️ March 11, 2026 | ⏰ 12:00–4:30 PM CST
Co-sponsored by the American Journal of Hypertension, this half-day pre-conference program offers cutting-edge insights on hypertension science, clinical practice, and policy.
January 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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amjhypertension.bsky.social
Check out the program for the @connectsbsm.bsky.social and AJH preconference meeting

thesbsm.org/news-release...

Meeting is in Chicago, March 11th - but there's also a virtual option for attendees.

#Hypertension
SBSM 2026 Program on Hypertension / Disease a Year Pre-Conference Meeting - Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
We are excited to share details about the 2026 Program on Hypertension/Disease a Year, a half-day educational program being held in conjunction with the SBSM Annual Meeting in Chicago. The Program is ...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:21 PM
hswapnil.medsky.social
Giant pandas🐼can develop kidney failure?

Do we need more research on prevalence of HT and CKD in pandas! if so, Sign me up

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@kidneyvet.bsky.social - is this well known?

#NephSky
Histopathological changes in the heart. A: The myocardium showed focal coalescing necrosis (black arrow) and hemorrhage (yellow arrow). The necrotic cardiomyocytes were shrunken or fragmented (black arrow). H.E staining, 200× magnification. B: There was thrombi in the lumen of large vessels (star). Basophilic calcium deposition was noted in the myocardium (arrow). H.E staining, 200× magnification. C: A PTAH staining demonstrated marked myocardial necrosis. The necrotic myocardial fibers were stained yellowish brown, and the texture in the sarcoplasm was blurred or disappeared (arrow). PTAH staining, 200× magnification. D: High magnification of myocardial fiber necrosis. The cross striations in the sarcoplasm disappeared (red arrow) or exhibited blue mass (black arrow). PTAH staining, 200× magnification. E: A von Kossa staining demonstrated calcium deposition in the myocardium (arrow). von Kossa staining, 100× magnification. F: High magnification of calcium deposition in the myocardium (arrow). von Kossa staining, 400× magnification
February 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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jesawyer.bsky.social
Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
February 4, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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theguardian.com
Death of Nigerian singer after snakebite highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ fatalities
Death of Nigerian singer after snakebite highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ fatalities
Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions about the availability of effective antivenoms
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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amjhypertension.bsky.social
Risk of Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease Following Aldosterone Dysregulation

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#OpenAccess #Free
Risk of Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease Following Aldosterone Dysregulation
AbstractBackground. Excess aldosterone of >15 ng/dL, in the presence of low renin, is linked to hypertension (HTN) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Thi
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February 4, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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cato.org
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
Cato has now put out a statement in my name responding to
Donald Trump's latest "The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over.’ We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” Online at:

www.cato.org/news-release...
Screenshot reading: "Following this statement, Cato Institute senior fellow Walter Olson shared the following statement: “Even coming from an ordinary politician, this federal takeover would be a terrible idea. The Constitution entrusts the administration of federal elections to the states and localities, subject to Congress’s passage of laws regulating the manner of election. Congress has rightly respected the states’ and localities’ lead role, and it should go on doing so. “We also start out with a big red flag if such laws do not apply regularly across states, but single out some states for an overlay of federal control. The U.S. Supreme Court in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision said that such two-tier schemes breach a “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty” among the states and can be justified, if at all, only by rigorously documented current (not just historical) evidence of serious voting denial by the states or localities in question. Here, such evidence is grossly absent. “All of this would be bad enough even if floated by an ordinary lawmaker as a bill in Congress. But this trial balloon for a federal takeover is not coming from any ordinary official. It is coming from a man who already once tried to overturn a free and fair election because it went against him, employing a firehose of lies and meritless legal theories, and who repeatedly pressed his underlings, many of whom in those days were willing to say “no”, about schemes such as sending in federal troops to seize voting machines. “Any federal takeover bill is exceedingly unlikely to pass Congress this term. But as courts have now repeatedly found, Trump has been willing to use the purported power of executive orders to command election changes that Congress has never mandated and that the Constitution gives him no power to command. We should properly be vigilant against any repeated such attempt before, during or after the approaching midterms.” To speak with Olson further on Pres…
February 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM