New to Twitter? Wondering who to follow?

Twitter is a strange a service, because if you don't follow anyone it is about as useful as the first telephone. Value only emerges as your follow list evolves. One of the missions of NephJC is to bring nephrologists together for twitter events so people can find other interesting people develop there own network. If you don't pick up 1 or 2 new people to follow at every #NephJC discussion either we are doing a bad job or you're doing it wrong.

The value of Twitter is related directly to the quality of the people you follow. In the  spirit of helping people get started on Twitter we are going to recommend accounts to follow on Twitter. This first edition is about official accounts.

CRIC: Chrinic Renal Insufficiency Cohort. The most important observational study in CKD ever conducted.

KDIGO: Global nephrology clinical practice guidelines

ERA-EDTA: European nephrology professional association

ASNKidney: The big kahuna.

RenalMed: Free online nephrology resources

NatureRevNephrology: Editors of Nature Reviews Nephrology

Andrew Narva: Director of of the NKDEP using twitter to fight the good fight

Richard Lehman: Simply the best commentator on internal medicine research in the world.

Kidney News: News magazine for the ASN

NEJM: The Journal of Record

JAMA: Wants to be The Journal of Record

CJASN: New to the show, show them some follow love. Only 22 followers. Really?

eAJKD: the blog of the AJKD with 1200 followers. Hey, CJASN, this is how it's done!

The International Society of Nephrology. ASN but for the world.

Canadian Society of Nephrology. ASN but for the Great White North

Dare I say that last night was the best #NephJC yet?

Wow! What a great discussion!

We had 22 participants, including a number of new faces. This is the highest participation since we teamed with the cardiologists for POSEIDON in NephJC #5. The people also participated with 308 tweets, also the second most, next to POSEIDON, ever. Great #NephJC. Thank you everyone.

Here are the numbers and links to the analytics and transcript.


What is #NephJC Live?

So this is the obvious question. The idea is still not fully formed but the pitch to ASN was that we would find some scientists who are presenting at an ASN poster session that would like a venue to discuss their data in front of an intelligent, engaged and honestly, quite handsome audience. The NephJC Live session is on Saturday, so everybody's embargo will be expired and authors will be free discuss their research.

That said we are looking for scientists eager to present at NephJC. If you are interested or know someone with great data that did not get an opportunity to discuss it with an oral presentation have them contact nephrologyjc@gmail.com.

CJASN eJC goes to Twitter

This month eJC is talking about Nephrology Fellowship. The article they are using is here and was written by Jeffrey Barns, Stuart Linas and Mitchell Rosner.

As part of the discussion eJC did their first TweetChat on September 10th. It was great, with an excellent turn-out and spirited discussion. Nephrology fellow Amar Bansal lead the discussion. NephJC produced a curated transcript with Storify. Here it is:


Tweet of the (last) Week

Every so often a single tweet neatly encompasses the entire discussion. This happened at last week's aPLA2R TweetChat. This is the tweet that won:

But to properly set it up you need to additional tweets:

I love the idea of aPLA2R as a viral load, a leading indicator of idiopathic membranous nephropathy. Nice work Christos. For your effort we will be sending you a #NephJC coffee mug.

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