What's up with the NephJC signal cityscape

In the last few months we have been scheduling our chats out further and further, however this breaks down when a high impact trial is published. This led to the concept of the emergency NephJC chat. We did it first for AKIKI and ELAIN:

And then most recently for this week's chat on EMPA-REG

#NephJC emergency meeting on empagliflozin for diabetic kidney disease. Next week June 28 and 29. pic.twitter.com/uSc4k5oxne

— Nephrology Jrnl Club (@NephJC) June 24, 2016

Some people have asked about the buildings in the cityscape. They are:

Sears Tower in Chicago for Edgar

Leaning Tower of Pisa for Francesco

The Gherkin in London for Tom and Matt

The Statue of Liberty in New York for Kenar and Scherly

The CN Tower of Toronto for Swapnil (closest I could get to Ottawa)

The Renaissance Center in Detroit for Joel

The AT&T building in Nashville for Anna

The Trans America Pyramid in San Francisco for Graham

That's not the whole team but it is a start.

The NephJC Facebook page

One of the reasons we built a Facebook page was to provide a place to have a discussion around the article that was not as fast paced and conversational as Twitter. I will be posting the topics and some of the interesting points of the discussion to the Facebook page. Let's see if that provides people who cannot make the twitter chat a second place to catch up and comment on the article.

Fact: The co-founders of NephJC never met in person until #KidneyWk14

Joel Topf and Swapnil Hiremath never met in person until Swapnil stopped by Joel's poster on Saturday morning a couple of hours before NephJC Live. Edgar Lerma was there to document the moment.

NephJC is truly a 21st century project supported entirely by e-mail, DM, SMS and the occasional phone call.