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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 13d

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

At the end of his career, Stanford University took away Addis's laboratory, perhaps on account of his leftist political views. He supported the loyalists in the Spanish Revolution, and was chairman of the San Francisco chapter of the Spanish Refugee Appeal, an organization that aided refugees from Franco's Spain. Addis toured the Soviet Union in 1935 and came away impressed by the communist country's medical accomplishments. He was friends with Harry Bridges and other leftwingers. Addis was chairman of the San Francisco chapter of Physician's Forum, an organization that supported national health insurance. Shortly before his death, he was expelled from the American Medical Association for refusing to pay his annual membership fee, which he did to protest the AMA's lack of support for President Truman's national health insurance plan.

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]

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎉 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

The front cover of the special centenary edition comic by Beano. Showing the Bash Street Kids bursting out of the front of the National Library of Scotland.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · Jul 5

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.

🧪🫘👂🏼👁️🧬

Around 100 people seated in a circle, 3 rows deep, introducing themselves & outlining what they're hoping to learn today.

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · May 30

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

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Jamie Doggett @jamiedoggett.bsky.social · May 2

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.

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Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · Apr 17

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:

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Alport UK @alportuk.bsky.social · Jan 28

📢 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

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Joel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · Apr 13

ADPKD Risk calculator.
This looks well done: halbritter-lab.github.io/adpkd-risk/

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ADPKD Risk Calculator is a web-based tool designed to assess Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) progression risk using the Mayo Imaging Classification and PROPKD Score.

halbritter-lab.github.io

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Mar 31

From the Scottish Empire

Packet of biscuits labelled Tesco Scottish Empire Biscuits, baked int eh Kingdom of Fife

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American Journal of Kidney Diseases @ajkd.bsky.social · Feb 22

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)

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Feb 15

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...

A long straight dusty dirt road in the Australian outback

Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Feb 14

Two wonderful 50 year flashbacks to the early days of dialysis and transplantation (19974) vimeo.com/ukkidneyhist...

Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Feb 5

History of Renal Pathology Timeline historyofnephrology.blogspot.com/2017/01/time...

Timeline of renal pathology

The renal biopsy is a key part of assessment of many kidney diseases. Though light microscopy evolved over a long period, two key techniques...

historyofnephrology.blogspot.com

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Jan 17

Mine similar, so I’ve relabeled it an editing day.

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Jan 7

I did not know that, and I should.

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Dec 31

Good to see Daniel Clowes tucked in there near the bottom.

Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Dec 30

Congratulations to the Parker solar probe for setting a new record for 'worst job avoiding the sun' xkcd.com/3029/

Sun Avoidance

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Dec 28

Great case, but we now know you that some have the mutation with renal manifestations but minimal or no systemic features.

American Journal of Kidney Diseases @ajkd.bsky.social · Dec 28

#Quiz from the archives:

A 13-year-old boy with generalized body swelling, reduced urine output, and nephrotic-range proteinuria was evaluated. He had finger and toenail hypoplasia and “swan neck” deformity of the fingers. What is the diagnosis?

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Dec 25

Hoping this is 1/12 great works of art??

Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Dec 23

Great time to revisit the outstanding Alport workshop in Cyprus in March youtu.be/HnwKsDMms8A

The 2024 International workshop on Alport Syndrome in Nicosia, Cyprus - 14-16 March 2024

YouTube video by Alport Workshops

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Neil Turner @neilturn.bsky.social · Dec 10

So true xkcd.com/3022

Making Tea

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Swetha Kanduri @swethakanduri.bsky.social · Dec 7

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

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · Nov 13

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.
#Nephsky

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Brian Rifkin @brianrifkin.bsky.social · Nov 15

The Grinch who stole Chr…eatinine Clearance 🎄 #NephSky

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