Nicole Lieberman, PhD

ISS Webinar Series — International Syphilis Symposium A quarterly webinar series bringing together clinicians, academics, and public health organisations focused on global syphilis control.

Now with a (hopefully!) functioning website: The International Syphilis Symposium Webinar Series.

Thanks to Kelly Hawley @uconn.bsky.social @nicolelieberman.bsky.social & Lisa Frigati @suhealthsci.bsky.social for helping pull this together.

First webinar 26th March - sign up via website.

Once again, a reminder that you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & approximately 26 million of us are being reminded on a regular basis by the far right authoritarian party that we have the lesser kind.

International Syphilis Symposium Webinar Series

Announcing launch of the International Syphilis Symposium Webinar Series.

The series brings together clinicians, academics, public health agencies & community organisations to highlight research & public health interventions focused on syphilis.

First meeting 26th March this year: Register below.

The Seattle skyline at night

Seattle lit up in blue and green

Human cell lines can support Treponema pallidum! Huge development.

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

Amazing work, congrats to Erin!

Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠

Proud of this piece. Got to write a review with my fellow on Mpox stigma and how it facilitated disease spread. Check it out here:

journals.lww.com/co-hivandaid...

#Mpox #STISky #IDSky

He was pissed that these gay women were mocking him and unafraid. He executed her for trying to leave. The tone of that "fucking bitch" is familiar to any woman whose tried walking away from an asshole at a bar.

The image shows two box and whisker plots. The left hand plot shows the duration of peoples ulcers stratified by sub-lineage and demonstrates that one of these sub-lineages has a longer duration of ulcers than the others. The right hand plot shows the titre of treponemal antibodies stratified by sub-lineage and demonstrates that the same sub-lineage is also associated with much lower antibody titres than the others.

Out @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social & led @amberbarton.bsky.social We used WGS to look at Treponema population dynamics during community MDA for yaws tinyurl.com/bd6zu6xm

Intriguingly found sublineage associated w longer ulcer duration & lower antibody titres. Whether occurs in syphilis needs exploring

Our #vaccine recommendations remain in place and are based on decades of research and are aligned with the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social. We encourage all families to keep your kids up to date on vaccinations and talk with your health care provider if you have any questions. doh.wa.gov/immunization

Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen.

Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Meeting a honu and seeing several shooting stars alongside the fireworks on my last beach walk of 2025… I’ll take these as good omens for a much better 2026. Happy new years, friends.

Mississippi experiences explosive growth in maternal syphilis

I have found that people generally do not wish to discuss syphilis.

But it’s fortunate that the always-excellent @lizszabo.bsky.social is not one of them.

It’s important to know that syphilis incidence is increasing in the US.

Happy New Year!

Still time to apply and come and do modelling PhD on STI transmission and partner notification with me!

UK fees & stipend covered.
Get in touch to discuss before the application deadline of 14th January.

@tah-sci.com @rozeggo.bsky.social @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @drlouisedyson.bsky.social

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

I love this method of remembering the good stuff!

in the pit

This entire weekend

Don't use LLMs for ANYTHING. Not your grants, not your papers. NOTHING.

You were hired because of your mind. Use it for god's sake

Thanksgiving tart with child finger marks throughout the filling.

In retrospect, rolling over at 5 am without investigation when I heard the 4yo quietly wandering around turns out to have been a mistake 🤦‍♀️🫠

the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.

I so miss Baltimore and the characters that live there. Buzz is a hero.

This is so, so cool. Vibrio cholerae reaching out and grabbing environmental DNA.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

Sarepta: Enough, For God's Sake

Someday I will not have to write about Sarepta Therapeutics and their ineffective drugs that never should have been approved by the FDA in the first place.

This is not that day.

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Bright sunrise in Seattle

Good morning from Seattle, apparently we are already in winter sunrise season.

Ohtani killing it and the Dodgers losing is basically a perfect game