Just got a great e-mail from a lurker

Just after we finished the Mesoamerican Nephropathy twitter chat I received the following e-mail:

What a great comment. We usually measure success by the number of people that engage in the conversation but there is another group of people who listen without talking. Great to hear from one of them to remind us that there are multiple ways to get value from NephJC.

Big props to Nature Reviews Nephrology for opening up their #NephJC article

The editors of Nature Reviews Nephrology were some of NephJC's earliest supporters. One of the ways they supported us was by suggesting an article for discussion. We decided to use that article and they even made that article open access. This is a limited time offer so make sure you run over to their site and download the study. We are so appreciative of all the support the crew at Nature Reviews Nephrology has offered NephJC. Thank-you guys.

We will be discussing this interesting Perspective on Twitter at 9PM Eastern on Tuesday July 8. Use hashtag #NephJC.

Google Hangout in 90 minutes!

NephJC will be doing a live Google Hangout tonight, Tuesday at 9pm EDT. We will have Somjot Brar, the lead author of POSEIDON and Peter McCullough cardiologist and expert on contrast nephropathy joining Joel Topf.

We will try to take questions from people watching, so tweet your questions with the hashtag #NephJC and we will forward them on to our panel of experts.

At the end of the discussion we will announce the next NephJC article.



We have a winner to the coffee challenge!

Last week in the e-mail announcement for the TweetChat we had a trivia contest. We asked what has more sugar, a lightly sweetened cup of coffee or all of the plasma in all of the body of an euglycemic adult?

Almost immediatly we got the following tweet:

Which is correct! Eoin will be enjoying his lightly sweetened coffee from a new NephJC coffee mug just as soon as the boat delivers it across the pond. Congratulations Eoin!

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Next #NephJC is POSEIDAN from the Lancet

This study dropped a couple of weeks ago and we pushed up the list to go next week on NephJC.

Look for a full introduction on the NephJC home page in the next couple of days.

Programming Note: due to the fact that I want to remain married, we will be changing the date of the next #NephJC from Tuesday to Wednesday June 25th due to my 14th wedding anniversary.

Hangout #3 is in the can

We had a great discussion tonight with Joel and Swapnil being joined by the Dean of Sodium, Dr. Richard Sterns of the University of Rochester and Dr. Hatim Hassam of the University of Chicago. Check it out.

This is a follow up discussion from our Tweet Chat on June 10. Selected panelists will continue the conversation on the clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia. This might be the first non-traditional subject for a journal club but it will not be the last.