Nicola Low

Painting of a close-up of a red poppy with black center

Georgia O'Keeffe,
Red Poppy, 1927

#UnlockingWomensArt

Stylised painting of sun rising over green hills and blue sea in the distance

Georgia O’Keeffe, Sun Water Maine, 1922. #UnlockingWomensArt

Addressing the Challenges of Online Misinformation and... : Obstetrics & Gynecology ices that are unsupported by the literature and guidelines or, in some cases, harmful. Health care professionals committed to evidence-based medicine should be aware of myths and misleading menopause-...

Addressing the challenges of misinformation about menopause. My article was just published in the Green Journal, who have made it free for all to read! journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

Mpox testing initiative launched in Africa as outbreaks continue

www.cidrap.umn.edu/mpox/mpox-te...

Tick encounters tend to go down in August. That’s a relief after making it through the 3 “tickiest” months of May, June and July. But there are still ticks out there. Here are the ticks to look out for in August. It's also larval tick season, and they're hard to see. More info: bit.ly/tickspecies.

Metascience Is More Important Now Than Ever Opinion | A growing research field known as ‘the science of science’ will be essential for navigating an uncertain future.

Friday night reading: a characteristically excellent essay on the science of science from @cbo.bsky.social in @undark.org.

There's a lot woven into this single short piece.

Happy birthday
@retractionwatch.com 🧪

Indispensable force for good for science #ResearchIntegrity
#PublicationEthics

Thank you for your inspired idea, Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.

And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Nonsense 🤦🏻‍♀️

Egal wer Verschwörungstheorien verbreitet:

"Die Studie zeigt eindrücklich: Klarer Widerspruch gegen die Verschwörungsinhalte und Richtigstellen von Fakten – sogenanntes Debunking – sowie bewusstes Nichterwähnen einer Theorie sind bei der breiten Bevölkerung die besten Gegenmittel."

Monochrome photograph featuring a woman, upper half, leaning over a dock to place her hand in the ripples of a river

Frida Kahlo, Xochimilco, Mexico, 1937 #WomensArt

Isn’t it about time FEMALE birds were given the limelight? A Blackbird isn’t just black, the female is a beautiful mottled brown!
Illustration for @btobirds.bsky.social News magazine
#birds 🪶

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Almost 90% of treated Ebola survivors have long-term health effects, data show Researchers found high rates of neurologic conditions among patients who received certain monoclonal antibodies, women, older survivors, and those with underlying illnesses.

"Long Ebola" is a very discouraging thought: www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/almost...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

„The vast gap between the calories Gaza needs, and the food that has entered since March makes clear that Israeli officials are doing different maths today.“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Raclette? 😂
Ein schönen 1. August 🇨🇭

A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Vinay Prasad The Steve Urkel of COVID Twitter turned out to be incompetent at both drug regulation and being an authoritarian apparatchik

"This is the first in a series of Never Forget posts intended to enshrine their deeds in the public memory and ensure that nobody ever forgets what they contributed to and participated in."

Thank you @angierasmussen.bsky.social for providing this valuable service 🫡

#stihiv2025 🧪
Closing plenary @drjeannem.bsky.social

Great promise of long-acting HIV PrEP, if available, accessible, in a functioning health system

All it takes is a disaster…

Like withdrawal of PEPFAR - a humanitarian crisis

👇 @avac.org counter of preventable deaths

#stihiv2025 🧪
Closing plenary @drjeannem.bsky.social on #DoxyPEP

Clearly reduces #syphilis #chlamydia

But #gonorrhoea…
Staph. aureus resistance and group A Strep increases

Potential to drive ceftriaxone resistance in N. gonorrhoeae - which will be a *real problem

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3
Closing plenary @drjeannem.bsky.social

Gonorrhoea incidence in young people who received vaccine with a N. meningitidis B containing vaccine or not (ACWY)

Less gonorrhoea, but not chlamydia

Persuasive individual level participant update to Petoussis-Harris et al

Slide in Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo‘s talk @stihiv2025.com „Keep calm, it’s not as bad as gonorrhoea“

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3
Closing plenary by
@drjeannem.bsky.social
😂

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3
STI 💉 Sanjay Ram
Important but challenging

Why don’t bacterial STI pathogens produce lasting natural immunity?

I’m trying to follow - it’s complicated 🫣

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3
Helen Rees on STI vaccines 💉

Vaccine hesitancy a growing problem to address if we want STI vaccines 💉 to be successful

Confidence
Complacency
Convenience
Context

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3
Helen Rees on #STI vaccines

Look at the massive drop off in vaccine candidates from preclinical to phase 3 trials

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

There is no gain in defunding early career scientists, making cancer research harder, cancelling vaccine science etc.. We all lose. The dismantling of the American scientific enterprise will go down in history as the most short sighted thing and destructive decision.
www.science.org/content/arti...

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3
2 New oral antibiotics for #gonorrhoea
Gepotidacin
Zoliflodacin

Introduction needs to be evidence-based - we are doing modelling now

Magnus Unemo, Örebro University

@who.int
@gardp.bsky.social
@stihiv2025.org

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3
Controversial guidelines from @who.int about screening for asymptomatic chlamydia and gonorrhoea

Discrepancy between evidence and recommendation

Any reasons given? I cannot read it
#paywall

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 2
Publish and thrive

Enthusiasm for writing to publish you science is vital
Great to be here with editors of
📣 Sexually Transmitted Infections
📣 Sexually Transmitted Diseases
📣 Journal of the IAS
📣 Sexual Health

Me
@joetucker.bsky.social
Jason Ong
Kees Rietmeijer
Kenneth Mayer

Top panel
@alisonfootman.bsky.social @avac.org
Lori Newman, Gates Foundation
Bobbie Vanderpol, UAB
Remco Peters, @who.int

And chairs
Rashida Ferrand, @lshtm.bsky.social
@yhgrad.bsky.social