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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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?”

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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD @4kidney.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hey it’s me!

Nature Reviews Nephrology @natrevneph.nature.com · Sep 5

Lived experience and empathy: lessons learned as a nephrologist with kidney disease

Nature Reviews Nephrology, Published online: 05 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41581-025-01003-7Diagnoses and decisions that we encounter nearly every day as nephrologists are often life-changing for patients. Sometimes, when more than one potential course of action exists, we must give our patients grace and time, allowing them agency in coming to a medically safe shared decision.

www.nature.com

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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD @4kidney.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

NAMI Statement on Executive Order Targeting Homelessness and Criminalizing Mental Illness

NAMI urges investment in proven mental health solutions over involuntary treatment in response to a new federal Executive Order.

www.nami.org

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San Francisco AIDS Foundation @sfaidsfound.bsky.social · Jul 28

More bad news (sorry). ⁠
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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.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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Carl Streed Jr. MD MPH FACP FAHA (he/him) @cjstreed.bsky.social · May 22

I’m not sitting back while this administrations destroys my career and the careers of my colleagues and mentees. #LGBTQI+

Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · May 20

🔬 NEW LAWSUIT: Today, Lambda Legal, GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, and 16 researchers filed a lawsuit against the NIH over the termination of 100s of research grants that funded critical LGBTQI+ health research.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/rzuxje9x

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Purple background with a quote from plaintiff Dr. Carl Streed. The quote can be read in full in our press release.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · May 21

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

Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · May 18

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 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

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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD @4kidney.bsky.social · May 22

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

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”

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pedsnephrodoc.bsky.social @pedsnephrodoc.bsky.social · May 7

Outstanding mentoring session by former ASN president Dr. @drdeidracrews.bsky.social at the ASN AKI B2B conference.
@4kidney.bsky.social

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Apr 13

🧒🌍 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

Protecting Africa's children from extreme risk: a runway of sustainability for PEPFAR programmes

PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health policy, is recognised for saving 26 million lives from HIV. PEPFAR investments have also had life-saving impacts for c...

www.thelancet.com

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 3

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.

Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition

After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.

www.nature.com

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · Apr 1

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/

Federal health department slashes CDC, NIH staff

In what is being described as a “bloodbath,” the Department of Health and Human Services has dramatically reduced personnel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health a...

www.ebar.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Apr 1

"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...

US Senator Cassidy calls on Kennedy to appear before Senate panel over health agency cuts

The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will on April 10 hold a hearing on the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, its chairman Senator Bill Cassidy said in a statement.

www.reuters.com

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 31

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.

Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 28

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!

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 28

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!

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Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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Michelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · Mar 12

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...

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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD @4kidney.bsky.social · Mar 31

Also 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. . .

Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · Mar 25

The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders

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Ryan Town @kidneywiki.bsky.social · Mar 29

This ain't it

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

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Mar 29

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-...

RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say

Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.

www.cbsnews.com

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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD @4kidney.bsky.social · Mar 29

I’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.

Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · Mar 28

As a longtime fan of AAKP, I can't help but feel disappointed that they’re putting a positive spin on what is an unmitigated disaster for transplant recipients.

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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · Mar 28

As a longtime fan of AAKP, I can't help but feel disappointed that they’re putting a positive spin on what is an unmitigated disaster for transplant recipients.

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RajuBrainLab @rajubrainlab.bsky.social · Mar 26

This is a really disappointing decision by the NIH to cancel the longstanding Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP-K12) grant that has funded the early career development of numerous pediatric physician-scientists who have become the pediatric leaders in the US and the world.

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Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · Mar 25

The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders

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