Todd McCarty

3 hours and 2 platforms later. I'm smarter than AI.

I returned from #IDWeek2025 prepared to try to utilize AI in some administrative tasks. So far, it's failing to understand my instructions in scheduling building and I hate it.

This year’s #IDBugBowl was a HIT! 🐛🏆 Congratulations to our winners from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and all of our participants from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine!

ID Fellows Cup is coming soon! Just in time to help you prepare for @idweek.bsky.social and #BugBowl! Give them a follow and sign up!

Let's go UAB ID!

Final 24 hours! The more the merrier for both coaches and mentees!

🚨Deadline approaching! The IDSA MedEd Community of Practice's ID Abstract Guidance Program is returning to #IDWeek2025!

Accepted presenters (oral or poster) will be paired with a mentor for 1:1 feedback, either in-person or virtual.

Sign up to be a mentor by Aug. 1: bit.ly/44nHHMK

Calling all aspiring ID Clinician Educators - get connected with senior leaders in ID MedEd from across the country to help develop your academic career!

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, includin...

The 17 recently dismissed members of ACIP have written a letter do JAMA expressing their concerns about the abrupt dismissal and replacement 2 days later of 8 individuals.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Time honored tradition of #IDWeek abstracts getting worked on until the last moment. Happy abstract submission day to all who celebrate.

Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.

Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.

Opinion | Cheer up Democrats. The last time Republican tariffs created a worldwide recession, it ushered in 35 years of Democratic dominance, which led to Social Security, civil rights, and victory in World War II

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Probable Zoonotic Leprosy in the Southern United States | NEJM In the southern region of the United States, such as in Louisiana and Texas, there are autochthonous cases of leprosy among native-born Americans with no history of foreign exposure. In the same re...

A case of leprosy presrnting with a chronic erythrmatous rash at UAB Inf Dis Case Conference. Remember leprosy is not uncommon, especially in the Southern US. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Metronidazole-induced neurotoxicity Metronidazole, usually prescribed for anaerobic and protozoal infections, can uncommonly cause adverse effects involving the central nervous system. The exact mechanism is unclear. In 1 case–control s...

Fascinating case of flagyl-induced neurotoxicity presented this morning at UAB Inf Dis Case Conference www.cmaj.ca/content/193/...

Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

a woman is crying and saying i am no man . ALT: a woman is crying and saying i am no man .

Vibes :)

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What The NIH Cut To Indirect Cost Payments Could Cost Red States The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants will cost ten red states more than $1 billion.

Many people associated leading research universities with blue states, but red states also have some excellent medical research institutions, including UAB, UNC-Chapel Hill & the University of Texas system.

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
pepfarimpact.vercel.app

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
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"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." - RFK Sr.

I knew it was fake when I got they notification they were following me.

a person is riding on the back of a white dragon ALT: a person is riding on the back of a white dragon

Is that the bird version of Falkor?

Bluesky appears to be the official social media platform for science:

In Jan 2025, a Nature survey of 6,000 scientists found:

▶️ 70% are now on Bluesky

▶️ 53% say they left X

▶️ 13.6% say they use X more than Bluesky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Probably, honestly. I can knock out the questions at home in an hour or so. I'd rather not block off a whole day to sit in a computer lab.

Quarterly tradition, 30 LKA questions here I come. #IDSky