Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏

... Vaporwave & experimental electronic music (what?), South African Young Professionals🤔, New Zealand Progressive Left🌏🔄, etc

Bluesky users map http://bluesky-map.theo.io/ Zoom in a zone where @tkes is part of infectious diseases physicians cluster, neighbouring other clusters such as Clinical Pharmacists, Belgian Politics and Media, but also K-Pop and Anime Fans, Vaporwave & experimental electronic music, South African Young Professionals, New Zealand Progressive Left, etc

Not sure that the location of cluster makes sense with other clusters. I'm part of ID physicians cluster (😅), neighbouring Clinical Pharmacists (👍), Belgian Politics (makes sense only to me and @infectiobxl.bsky.social ), but also K-Pop and Anime Fans (should be near Indo K-Pop, no?), [1/2]

💥 OUCRU is hiring!

JD & apply at: www.oucru.org/career/

This year marks 35 years of OUCRU in Vietnam (1991–2026) and 35 years partnering with HTD, Ho Chi Minh City. Together we embed rigorous research in care, generating evidence to improve patient outcomes and strengthen outbreak readiness.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir Nicholas John White.

Nick was there at the beginning of OUCRU in Vietnam in 1991, helping build one of the country’s first malaria research labs. That early work laid the foundations for what OUCRU has become today.

Artificial intelligence researchers hit by flood of ‘slop’ Conferences restrict use of LLMs after surge of low-quality AI-generated papers and reviews

www.ft.com/content/54e2... Artificial intelligence researchers hit by flood of ‘slop’

From doing science to saving science Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change, political leaders are increasingly sacrificing democracy as well as science on the altar of populism and authoritar...

From doing science to saving science

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Un an de gouvernement pour Bart De Wever : 'Je reste un nationaliste flamand, mais j’assume à 100% le rôle de Premier ministre' - RTBF Actus Dans cet exercice, Bart De Wever montre qu'il s’efforce depuis un an d’incarner un Premier ministre 'pour tous les...

🇧🇪La Belgique a l'Extrême-Droite la plus à gauche du monde [ou la moins à droite, ça dépend si le🍺 est à moitié plein/vide] -le plus grand motif de fierté nationale après la trappiste🍻

www.rtbf.be/article/un-a...

Landslide win for centre-left candidate António José Seguro in Portugal’s presidential runoff Moderate socialist defeats far-right populist André Ventura, with exit polls putting him comfortably above two-thirds of vote

Just in case you didn't have enough joy looking at the Super Bowl half time show, please just be informed that Portugal's far-right got their ass kicked 😊✊☮️

aka "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" in ballot boxes 🇵🇹

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

excepted that kids' deaths weight more heavily on life expectancy than older people's... Well, I don't want to jinx US's health... we will see...

Ca⤵️, et le show à la mi-temps du Super Bowl et l'allégresse des progressistes US (+ schadenfreude de voir l'alt-right US se décomposer😈), ça me fait une belle journée qui commence!

but bad suprises can happen😰

sure... 2-3 years lag, at least

🤔 wait for MAHA to make an impact... I would not be surprised if the current drop in vaccination and the increase in health inequities resulted in a notch in the life expectancy curve.

"I feel insecure when you put up a billboard saying that love is more powerful than hate"

#IDSky I always email residents rotating with me survival tips for their time of the ID consult service. I like to keep this short and high yield but I am constantly editing and improving the tip sheet. What would you add or remove. It cannot be longer that one page 😊.

they somehow forgot to use this Newspeak word... maybe we should remind them🤭

Correct. I should have referred to it as "the mentally sane US-CDC pre-MAHA"

Certainly. And the blame will be on the Dark Side of @pubpeer.com ! 👹

Probably the gloomy eyelet! 😂

Pike Place street art 🥰

an aerial view of a city with a pyramid in the sky ALT: an aerial view of a city with a pyramid in the sky

The new food pyramid ⤵️

Not so easy to know. There are some tools that can screen "tortured phrases" or bizarre occurrences, some of them use AI to screen for AI text (🙃), but LLM are improving quickly...

This paper has not been rejected 16 times for nothing. They pretend that causation between a shot 💉 and discovery of a cancer days later is possible.🤦‍♂️ There are literally guidelines for the minimum latency between exposure and cancer, and it's measured in *years*📆!!

pubpeer.com/publications...

Well, not so surprising. These colours share hues. The 'cutoffs' between colours on the wavelength axis are not universal. In Vietnamese, the same word (xanh) is being used for blue and green...

L'extrême droite au pouvoir, c'est ça.

Ils en connaissent un rayon... de soleil! 🤡

Une petite BD sympa pour expliquer le solaire photovoltaïque.

Réalisée notamment par des chercheurs du CNRS (qui en connaissent un rayon !).
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Des fois, l'ironie de la vie est vraiment ironique, pour citer @juliettepenelope.bsky.social