Dr Neil Stone

New podcast from @RCPhysicians

@drneilstone.bsky.social on all things mycology!

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MSGERC is seeking fungal infection cases (common or unusual) for Case of the Month.

Do you have a case? Submit to be featured on DrFungus.org!

Accepted cases from Early Career investigators will receive $250 and complimentary 1-year membership

Questions may be directed to headquarters@msgerc.org

When at a conference and there's a great talk and I want to speak to the presenter afterwards but someone gets in first and talks to them for aaages then I have to give up cos I need to go to something else.

Happens to me every time!

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Yesterday at ISHAM 2025, Danila Seidel explored how environmental extremes can spark fungal outbreaks 🌪️🌱
A powerful reminder of climate’s role in emerging mycoses. #ISHAM2025 #FungalOutbreaks #ClimateAndHealth #MedicalMycology

Did you know..75% of wine has significant levels of azole antifungals in it? (German wine anyway)

Potential consequences for driving resistance...

#IDSky #ISHAM

Great to present feasibility study on AI to detect invasive pulmonary mould infections from CT scans at #BIASpring2025.

Proof-of-concept but need to develop surrounding infrastructure to develop this and other AI projects within NHS.

#IDSky @drneilstone.bsky.social

Did you know?

Bob Dylan had histoplasmosis...nearly killed him in 1997

#IDSky #ISHAM

21% of patients with advanced HIV here in Brazil 🇧🇷 have a positive histoplasma antigen...that's a huge number

#IDSky #ISHAM

Global burden of histoplasmosis is growing

But we don't know what to do with asymptomatic histoplasma antigen positivity

#IDSky #ISHAM

Terrific update on histoplasmosis by expert Antoine Adenis from Cayenne, French Guyana

We are seeing more and more cases diagnosed in the UK in travellers to endemic areas.

Easier to diagnose than ever before with new rapid tests.

#ISHAM #IDsky @msgerc.bsky.social

Great to be at the ISHAM 2025 @ISHAM_Mycology meeting at spectacular Iguazu, Brazil 🇧🇷!

#IDSky #infectiousdiseases

We are in Iguazu, Brazil 🇧🇷..home of the famous waterfalls..for ISHAM 2025!

One of the key mycology meetings in the calendar

Follow for updates!

#IDsky

Ibrexafungerp there is a manufacturing issue and it's not yet licensed in the UK. Fosmanogepix still in phase 2 and 3 trials and not licensed so need to apply for compassionate use off trial.

The answer is no.

Ibrexafungerp and fosmanogepix are oral and anti candida and look promising.

But readily available they are not.

Ibrexa not at all and fosmanogepix with great difficulty

Do you know what have NEVER undergone randomised placebo controlled trials?

All those supplements they try and sell you online

Love the graphic

Seems my post made the point

We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!

Before vaccines, 1 in 5 babies didn’t survive a year. -Dr. Neil Stone

@drneilstone.bsky.social

Peripheral blood film

Thank you very much to @drneilstone.bsky.social for your very inspiring talk this morning about the scientific presence on social medias at #escmidglobal2025. You have been heard, this is my first message on Bluesky. Let’s see how it goes 🙂

It was a blast..fun session. Lets do it again in Munich 2026!

📍Arrived later than I’d hoped and challenges with watching 📱live on the app, but 🤩 really enjoying this discussion with @angelahuttner.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social Dr. Hofer and Dr. Joseph @escmid.bsky.social #ESCMID #ESCMID2025 #ESCMIDglobal #ESCMIDglobal2025 #IDsky

And that’s a wrap on the road to publications session! @angelahuttner.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @oana-sandulescu.bsky.social

#ESCMIDGlobal

Hate posts that Dr Neil Stone receives on X.

Picture of a bot center. Like the Matrix.

@drneilstone.bsky.social shares some of the hate posts he receives on X. “I can handle the #trolls. Many are just bots.” (There are bot farms that do this!) #ESCMIDGlobal #IDSky #MedSky

The publishing model has to change

Big journals make BILLIONS on margins unheard of in any other business

@oana-sandulescu.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

#escmidglobal2025

I'm still there..what was on Altmetric?

Now we have @anniejoseph.bsky.social discussing the peer review process

Reminding us we are in the city of Semmelweiss who's ideas about infection control were ridiculed

He was right!

#escmidglobal2025

Dr Neil Stone talking about social media & medicine in Vienna at ESCMID Global.

Now it’s @drneilstone.bsky.social talking about social media and medicine. “Bluesky is the dominant platform now.”
He said it. We will get him over to Bluesky for good! 💪🏼😉😁
#ESCMIDGlobal
#IDSky #MedSky

Another great talk! @drneilstone.bsky.social discusses how social media can serve you & communicate your research! Some great slides breaking down an effective posting strategy! 🚀

#ESCMIDGlobal #IDSky #clinmicro

Great tip here

If you aren't sure if a journal is legit or not, look it up on the DOAJ website

#escmidglobal2025 @hoferu.bsky.social