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Mike Johansen
@mikejohansenmd.medsky.social
Primary Care doc, likes research, teaches residents, #HSR, #MEPS, #FamilyMedicine
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Don't be a point-estimatologist.
Don't think you will beat the algorithms.
Don't do #quantifauxication.
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Surging ahead ... oh wait

Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Karasmatics x50 (i.e. wife's band)
Rock and Roll HoF original concert
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Poison
Dave Matthews Band
Pearl Jam
The Avett Brothers
Amy Grant
Introduce yourself with five concerns you’ve seen:

Chuck Brown
John Mulaney
Tony Toni Toné
Jill Scott
Wale
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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OMG! A nationally televised commercial for urine albumin to creatinine ratio!
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Perfect. #Ohio
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This has long been obvious to anyone who looks at data or talks to anyone. When the polls say people are furious about inflation; it's really this.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Fascinating
the Ipsos Pride survey is genuinely an awesome product, but jesus the difference in the UK/US on trans issues is nuts
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I did not know it was this bad

Look at the mortality in younger females (versus males) in CKD 5

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... in @jamainternalmed.com from Alberta

#NephSky #GenderDisparities
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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New @pnas.org
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.

Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.

kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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#NephJCshort on BICAR-ICU2 #Medsky #Nephsky

✍️ By @nephroseeker.medsky.social

🎭 Bicarbonate makes the picture look cleaner: better pH, more time. But beneath the smoother numbers, the patient hasn't changed. It's the same story, just told in softer colors

www.nephjc.com/news/2025/10...
Dialysis deferred, logic recycled: BICAR ICU2 — NephJC
NephJC short on BICAR-ICU2
www.nephjc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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That’s basically what we do at VAI. They are so much smarter than us dinosaurs, why should they waste 40-70% of their time writing science fiction (grants)?
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
As someone who works in an academic adjacent world, I spend little time in the halls of academic medicine. Every year, I go to our conference andvcatch-up with people I enjoy. Here are a few thoughts that I shouldn't say out loud, but I'm a small account on BS. What could go wrong?

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November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This ecosystem is really the way forward for much of CME and residency education. It has the right structure of not being too reliant on anyone individual, while offering reasonable diverse perspectives.
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I don't really have any other way of saying it: umbrella systematic reviews are dumb.
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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the European ICE (petrol + diesel) auto market is in a death spiral while EV sales boom...except TSLA. September saw some quarter-end window dressing but October was a return to the regularly scheduled declines of more than 40% YoY. Elon + diesel are dead letters in the EU auto market at this point.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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There's a really fantastic piece to be written on the way that social media makes some people believe they are in a customer service relationship with the people they are talking to online.
I want to make something very clear to everyone: I do not work for you. You don't sign my paychecks and the expectation that I do is frankly insane. Go away.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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this is one of my favourite observations about sample size calculations. (afaik first articulated by Miettinen in 1985)
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You love the mandolorian until you absolutely hate it.
The Mandalorian movie hits next and oh god it’s going to be so bad, save that energy up
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Love that fact that I renewed some of my accounting knowledge with googling enron fraud last week.
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”

@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Man, whatever's in those files, it must be pretty horrible
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM