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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc
@christosargyrop.bsky.social
Division Chief, Nephrology UNMHSC
(im)personal views & account #zerokale

Firm believer : caveat emptor & stupidity is immoral

Random thoughts about #nephrology #stats #bioinformatics #perl #HPC #nanopore #RNAseq #covid19 #amateurcoding
#ButlerianJihad
Based and I would not mind the nuclear Renaissance that hopefully will be funded before AI croaks
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I have no idea which of the 8 disks RHEL decided to install itself at.
#FAFO
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Food should provide pleasure. This lunch is an abomination.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Grab popcorn as the premiums of the individual healthcare plans for 2026 are announced. Looking at the number of layoffs and the age distribution of those being laid off, many more people will have to transition from an employer to a pricey individual plan during the midterms.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Paneer and queso Blanco are edible and don't have the texture of goat poop.
Disagree and why single out cottage cheese? Are you saying that paneer, queso blanco, etc. are also "kale of milk"? Unless you are anti acid and only pro-rennet. What about ricotta, is it OK because of whey and heat?
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Cottage cheese = kale of milk derivatives

Now you know
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is where it gets interesting : at a word size of 1 bit, multiplication is just logical and. So is all multiplication just logical conjunction? First principle derivation of probability as degrees of certainty rely precisely on this connection
@stephensenn.bsky.social @cubiclogic.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Incretins are the G-force : Guardians of (Inner) Space(*).
No more glipination @hswapnil.medsky.social @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social @rnflex.bsky.social,only G force

(*)a reference to the 1980s US adaptation of the 1972 Japanese anime Gatchaman but feel free to substitute the 2009 guinea pig movie
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Packing Costco lunch because inflation, weight loss and intermittent fasting (which is just caloric restriction)
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As one of the original flozinators it so maddening to see nephrologists flozinate *instead* of using immunosuppresants, dz modifying therapies in nonDM CKD. Consider a thought experiment in transplant: proteinuria is often how we pick up ABMR & an SGLT2i is the wrong answer. Now do IgAN, SLE,C3G etc
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Typhoon Kalmaegi exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port ⛏️⚓️🇻🇳 www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/typhoon...
Typhoon Kalmaegi exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port
HOI AN: Severe coastal erosion caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi exposed a centuries-old shipwreck in Vietnam, providing a narrow window to salvage what experts say could be a historically significant find.I...
www.channelnewsasia.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Fascinating paper suggesting the assumption that there is a sigmoid dose response relationship and threshold effect ( "all-or-nothing") for loop diuretics rests on repeated misinterpretation of original studies from the 70s and 80s. #nephsky #cardiosky #emimcc academic.oup.com/ehjcvp/artic...
What are the pharmacodynamics of loop diuretics?
A recent editorial was entitled ‘Loop diuretics in heart failure: few facts and lots of prejudice’.1 I would argue that we have forgotten or distorted some
academic.oup.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nailed it
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"

Nothing means anything! Yay!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Busting some delusions about #longcovid

open.substack.com/pub/christos...
(Also on X/Twitter and Mastodon)
Busting delusions about long covid
This will come out as a subtweet and yes dear reader it is.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I loved this enough to have a 🔥: daily eval for need for dialysis for #AKI leads to shorter need for dialysis as opposed to forgetting people on dialysis until the reality of recovery smacks you hard.

The LIBERation from AcuTE Dialysis (LIBERATE-D) Randomized Clinical Trial
#KidneyWk
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November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I am always fashionably late when I time travel
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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China lifted its import ban on Illumina’s DNA sequencers after trade talks, reopening a key market even as it remains on the ‘unreliable entities’ list.
China lifts import ban on Illumina's DNA sequencers as trade tensions ease
China lifts import ban on Illumina DNA sequencers after US trade talks, though company remains on
endpoints.news
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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wouldn't a beaver buffet be wood? seems counterintuitive haha
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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A Colorado woman grabbed food from a Dumpster when the food bank was empty.

Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Lord, have mercy
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Until next year leaves (but at this stage, every leaf is a flower as a philosopher one said)
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM