Jacob K McPherson

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'Learning together for our future'. FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY. OUP

🎉 Celebrate #WorldTeachersDay with @femsmicro.org Microbiology Letters' latest issue: Learning Together for Our Future. Discover global perspectives on science education, public engagement & inclusivity.

🔗 oxford.ly/3VGDpLg

we can just do things - underreacted

Why does Bluesky exist?

So that "you can just do things"

underreacted.leaflet.pub/3m23gqakbqs2j

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters.

Bursaries are also available!

See details below 👇

Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease Conference dates: 2-4 March 2026 Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK and online Bursary and abstract deadline: 24 November 2025 Registration deadline In person: 2 February Virtual: 14 February

Showcase your microbiome research at our 2026 conference! #Microbiome26

Demonstrate how #genomics tools and technologies are contributing to a deeper understanding of the microbiome.

🗓️ 2-4 March
Submit an abstract by 24 November ✍🏼

📎 bit.ly/4kttBOX
#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky

New research article

WHO global gonococcal antimicrobial surveillance programmes, 2019–22: a retrospective observational study

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

#IDSky #ClinMicro #Gonorrhoea #Gonorrhea #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

Which is better? Lactated Ringer’s solution or normal saline?

The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes the FLUID trial. 👉 nej.md/DrG26

#MedSky #MedEd #Surgery

Public Good Narrative Project - Global Cooperation Institute September 2025

New report brings together the thinking of experts across the world on what a powerful and effective narrative could look like on PUBLIC GOOD

@jonathanglennie.bsky.social & @benphillips76.bsky.social

globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...

This is figure 1, which shows temperature-related risk of death during 2015–2019.

More than 62,000 people in Europe may have died from heat-related causes in the summer of 2024, according to a study in Nature Medicine. The authors also suggest a new early-warning system that can reliably predict heat-health emergencies at least 1 week in advance. go.nature.com/48vdZrn 🧪

Researchers customize AI tools at global ‘hackathon’ More than 1200 scientists and developers explore how large language models can be applied to materials science and chemistry

At the Berlin node of a global hackathon, teams raced to develop artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the design of drugs and materials. https://scim.ag/3VuZyvR

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) ACIP develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control disease in the United States.

As of 8am CDC's ACIP website does not have the proposed vote language for today's COVID vaccine recommendation posted. How is the public able to engage and provide informed comments? I testified before Senator Cassidy and @sanders.senate.gov on Wednesday- this is not radical transparency.

Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

World's first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.

Scientists have created the first ever viruses designed by AI, and they’re capable of hunting down and killing strains of E. coli

go.nature.com/3Khz3aR

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Tracking County-Level Measles Cases in the US This case series explores an online data collection and sharing infrastructure that centralizes tracking of measles cases from counties across the US.

Nice local level measles data reporting infrastructure and database detailed here...

🛟😷 medsky health policy sociology idsky

Thank you Madhu! 🙏🙂💚

Julian Davies

Julian Davies was a renowned scientist who made crucial strides in the study of antibiotics & antibiotic resistance. Honor his legacy at the Julian Davies Memorial Symposium on Oct. 10, hosted by the University of British Columbia. Register by Sept. 15 to attend via Zoom or in person! asm.social/2Af

The Make Our Children Healthy Again report released today underscores the vital role of infectious diseases and public health experts in all efforts to improve children’s health. Our statement: https://bit.ly/41IlBmu

Cover of The Lancet Microbe's September issue with a "Light micrograph of a lung sample from an AIDS patient showing cysts of Pneumocystis [jirovecii]".

Our September issue is now online:

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

Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #SARS-CoV-2 #HIV #Pneumocystis #tuberculosis #TB #gonorrhoea #Citrobacter #AMR #Salmonella

#IDSky #ClinMicro #OA

Middle aged blonde in sleeveless blue dress standing at a podium with arm muscles made for punching anti-vaxxers

Honored to open the #19vaccinecongress with my fantastic co-EICs Florian Krammer & Ivan Hung, w/ local chair Ken Ishii.

Vaccines & vaccine research are under attack, but we can overcome these challenges by standing in solidarity as a community. #19vaccinecongress

Thx @docdelrio.bsky.social for pic

The injustice of tuberculosis

My review of @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social new book in @thelancet.com

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

There are two competing narratives on this: science changed, or Republicans changed. You can figure out for yourself which one is more likely.

HIV resistance to dolutegravir varies with co-administered agents We hypothesized that HIV-dolutegravir-resistance is more frequent when co-administered with nucleos(t)ides with shorter intracellular half-lives.

HIV resistance to dolutegravir varies with co-administered agents

✅ Just Accepted
⭐ Editor's Choice
#IDSky

Tomorrow at 11 AM PT join @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and me live on Ground Truths to discuss his new book, authored with @michaelmann.bsky.social #ScienceUnderSiege
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For #FluorescenceFriday, vote in our image competition with the 2025 @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology course by 3 September!

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Despite Supreme Court win, NIH may not quickly kill again some 900 grants on sensitive topics Government legal advice would preserve restored projects studying health disparities, transgender health but threats remain

Government lawyers have told NIH staff that the roughly 900 grants on topics such as transgender health, COVID-19, and health disparities should stay in place. https://scim.ag/4p4nvYE

Will the C.D.C. Survive?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the CDC, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health.
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...