We are indebted to Matt Sparks for both hosting the chat and compiling the Storify.
Last call for #NephJC Live
We are closing registration for NephJC Live this Sunday so register today if you want to be a part of the first NephJC Live event. We have two young investigators who will be sharing their data. We will be awarding the Social Media Awards for the best contributors to the conversation around Kidney Week and we will have lunch!
All the details are available here.
Register before it is too late!
#NephJC goes again tomorrow November 4 with Steigerwalt and @Nephro_Sparks
We have covered a lot of subjects in our first half year but tomorrows study is unique. For the first time NephJC is going to tackle a basic science paper. In order to make this work we are bringing in a couple of ringers.
- First, we got Dr Susan Steigerwalt, a renowned hypertension specialist who has had a ringside seat for every significant hypertension study of the past two decades. While we were reading about these studies in our pajamas, Dr Steigerwalt was in the trenches calibrating mercury sphygnomamoters. She wrote an in-depth summary of the article that is available at NephJC.com. Don't miss it.
- The other ringer is Matt Sparks. You may know him from his high profile roles at the Renal Fellow Network, where he played a critical role in saving this institution after the tragic death of Nathan Hellman and or his role as a founder of AJKDblog. But what you probably don't know is that in addition to being a blogger he is a basic science researcher and has sophisticated knowledge about this very paper. We are delighted that he has agreed to step up to the table to spin those wheels of steel and host the @NephJC twitter account tomorrow as we do a deep dive on Harrison's land mark article on T cells and the genesis of hypertension.
The article is a doozy, so make sure you do your homework. Help us make this very special basic-science episode of NephJC a success.
More PubMed Commons comments posted
Swapnil hits the mainstream media!
Swapnil Hiremath, is the co-founder of NephJC and his research was recently highlighted in Time Magazine, as in Time Man of the Year, Time Magazine. Awesome work, I can't wait to see his data at ASN Kidney Week. Way to go Swapnil!
If you are interested in the issue that Swapnil investigated, this article may provide some additional useful data.
UPDATE: Swapnil also made the ASN In the Loop e-mail blast on October 30. Wow.
NephJC.com: how people get here
Last week I tweeted:
I received varied response, Pascale Lane and Michael Katz agreed, while Dr. Canapari disagreed:
And Matt Sparks called me directly to tell me that I was crazy; the analytics he has access to show search by a mile.
Here is the data for the last month at NephJC, Direct links (bookmarks, e-mail links, hand typed URLs, others?, etc) and Twitter (t.co) represent 75% of traffic with Google mopping up a distant third.
Analytics and transcript from NephJC #13: Troponins in CKD
Good turnout with 25 people and 264 tweets.
Storify from last week's NephJC on Troponin
We had a great NephJC last week going over the meta analysis on troponin in CKD> Meta analysis are hard to do in journal club, but it was a great session. Lots of new faces.
How to embed a Storify into a blog post
Some very clever people have asked me how to embed a Storify into a blog post. Here are some step by step instructions.
- go to the Storify page with the content you want to embed
- Click on </> Embed (upper right corner)
- Click on show templates
- NephJC tries to always use the slide show format
- We also use full header and a border
- Elect and copy the embed code HTML in the box
- In the SquareSpace blog post add a code block </>
- Paste the embed HTML over <p>Hello, World!</p>
- Save
Curated transcripts of last ngiht's U/S v CT scan #NephJC
The eAJKD crew and Tejas Desai both storified last night's twitter NephJC. Dig in:
NephJC 12 analytics
It was a fine evening for discussion. Despite (or perhaps because of) the recent #UroJC which was just concluding, we had a good turnout and some great discussion.
#UroJC pulled a Nelson Cruz on CT v US yesterday
The UroJC started their Twitter JC is stunning fashion yesterday. Here is my storify complete with sarcastic comments.
#NephJC , the most tweeted nephrology hashtag. For now.
The #CJASNeJC hashtag is now registered with Symplur
This just came through today:
This means we now have analytics from their excellent September 10 Tweetchat. It is very cool that Symplur was able to provide analytics going that far back. Bravo. Great work.
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
Pubmed Comment up on #NephJC 11
The fantastic tweet chat from #Neph JC has been promptly summarised in a comment up at PubMed Commons.
We will get around to summarising the previous #NephJC tweet chats shortly!
Our cup poureth over. Another Storify by Tejas Desai
Tejas is a nephrology blogger and Fellowship Program Director. He runs Nephrology on Demand has made it his mission to storify every NephJC and he delivered this one right by the time the discussion was over.
Excellent (and succinct) summary of last night's #NephJC
Kristina Fiore of MedPage today did a really nice job summarizing last night's NephJC.
Just noticed that we never posted the analytics for the NEJM Na extravaganza
#NephJC number 10, by the numbers:
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.
