US children's health has worsened from 2007 to 2023 across various indicators, including mortality, chronic conditions, and mental health. ja.ma/4owq0T8

NIH is accepting comments about limiting research publication costs. 1. Disallow pub costs, 2. $2K limit, 3. $3K if reviewers are compensated, 4. 0.8% of award (so $250K grant can pay $2K/year on pubs), 5. $6K limit on pub + limit on % of grant spent on pub costs. 🧪

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A new publication from our team showing that PTEN modulates bladder antimicrobial defenses against UTI @globaluti.bsky.social

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
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"As a pediatrician, it's important to highlight the established risk factors for UTI in kids. As a scientist it's important to highlight recent clinical and translational UTI research"

Sound interesting? You can catch Dr. @kidneytweets.bsky.social' #UTIhour talk on UTIGA.org/upcoming

Diabetes mellitus affects urinary tissue tropism of group B streptococci in a sex-dependent manner https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651940v1

For all my little beans out there, don’t forget to read the latest recommendations on IgAN and IgAVN by @mdabdulqader83.bsky.social on @kireports.bsky.social

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Are you a trainee Interested in neonatal nephrology but don’t know where to start? Sign up for this structured internship!

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I've also now made a Starter Pack for the #AntimicrobialPeptide field here:

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Please let me know who I am missing! This is a very incomplete list so far. I also expect many will join Bluesky later. I will happily keep populating this list! 📣🧬🦠

That’s good! I was uploading reviews and it crashed. Hopefully it goes back up later today.

Yes - it was working for me 15 min ago as I was typing up a review. No longer able to access…

Same here

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Bonus effect. When a drug for diabetes significantly reduces kidney stones, results of a randomized trial of empagliflozin (Jardiance), a SGLT-2 inhibitor, in people without diabetes
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Hello #nephsky and #urosky! If you know of undergraduates or medical students looking for summer research and clinical experiences in nephrology or urology, please guide them to check out our #nih funded programs - now accepting applications! www.nationwidechildrens.org/research/are...