Anita Williams

AI could revolutionize antibiotics — but the market is standing in the way Economic reality and the persistent absence of funding stand in the way of using AI for antibiotic breakthroughs.

"Antibiotics are a public good, and their value extends far beyond the individual patient. Yet it is nearly impossible to earn a profit from them."

Sounds like the real solution is public funding. 🧐

www.statnews.com/2026/03/05/a...

Guess y'all not singing any john Farnham then

A man working a plow in a field - carried by a small elephant. This detail is from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae uniuersalis, vol. 6, 1550.

In 1550, one Elephant Power (EP) was the equivalent of 10 Horse Power (HP).

Azerbaijan is the 12th country Iran has targeted in five days.

What does the “international rules-based order” the Australian government is so keen on say about leaving people to drown?

There would be savings in the need to review also!

Maybe we need to do a letter to the editor proposing this lottery

Global trends and thematic evolution in antimicrobial stewardship research: A comprehensive bibliometric and network analysis (1977–2025)
🦠https://ow.ly/RVOw50YgYWu

#IDsky #AntimicrobialResistance #antimicrobialstewardship #AMR 🛟💊🧪

The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024–29 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human and animal health, in addition to environmental resilience. Countries set the agenda on thei…

Delighted by this @target-amr.bsky.social publication in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social. Led by @drtessjohnson.bsky.social and @lewiscemason.bsky.social

'The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting AMR 2024–29'

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The Australian Government research funding system is broken. We would be better off having a lottery than wasting our time and money spending weeks on writing a grant that attracts positive feedback but fails to succeed.
Sorry to all who received shit news today
#NHMRC #AusAcademia #AcademicChatter

I live roughly 9km (5.6 mi) from work.
I left my desk at 4.45pm.
I will arrive at my front door at 6.15pm.
The dang bus took forever.

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia should just send our crack squad of emus around the world and be done with it. #Auspol.

These Drones Are Not Built to Kill Ukrainian deminers are deploying drones to clear the remnants of Russia's full-scale invasion—protecting communities and reclaiming land.

It’s estimated that it would take roughly 700 years to demine Ukraine, with each year of war adding another decade to clean up the aftermath.

But residents of the breadbasket of Europe are not waiting for foreign aid to save them. They are taking matters into their own hands:

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert

Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today, some of WCK’s trucks made it through the Gaza border. Our founder José Andrés has more: “Some of our trucks made it through the Gaza border today, which is good news. Every day we need more trucks and more food so we can keep feeding hungry families." #ChefsForGaza (1/2)

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Right.

How can they just delete the files? That's bonkers

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Former Labor, now Independent, Senator Fatima Payman should get bonus hazard pay for having to sit this close to racist stupidity in the Senate chamber. #auspol

The Hospitalization Cost of Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia AbstractBackground. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is the most common cause of childhood sepsis contributing to pediatric intensive care unit admis

Overall this is a great foundational paper for future cost-effectiveness analyses and additional #healtheconomics analysis of #AMR in paediatrics and Australia.

doi.org/10.1093/jpid...

Authors note that by limiting cohort to community-onset only the values may be underestimates of true SAB economic burden.
Lack of difference b/w MRSA and MSSA impart importance of #IPC for all bacteraemia rather than focusing efforts just on #AMS.

#healthecon #AMR #IDEpi

Extrapolating these costs across the 343 Australian patients in the ISAIAH study = estimated annual total cost of hospitalization across SAB pediatric patients in Australia was A$9 092 846
Overall costs are comparable to other key #sepsis pathogens in Aus/NZ = mean cost A$60 112 for iGAS

#AMR

Ten patients had MRSA. Median LoS was 11 days, with mean costs of A$56 984.
Whilst 46 patients had MSSA. Median LoS was 8 days, with mean costs of A$52 180.
No statistical significance in difference of costs between MRSA and MSSA
#healthecon #AMR #IDEpi

Primary outcome was mean and total cost per SAB hospitalisation, secondary outcomes were national SAB cost burden. All $ amounts are in AUD.
Distribution was +ve skewed: 60% of cohort total cost was ≤A$40 000. Mean $ per hospitalisation per patient was A$53 037. Median LoS: 9 days
#healthecon #AMR

Costs included in the analysis include direct costs of diagnosis & management + indirect costs of hospital operation such as utilities, teaching, maintenance, and depreciation. Costs followed the National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) specifications for cost centres & line items #healthecon

The team analysed a sub-cohort of 56 patients with community-onset SAB admitted to Perth Children's Hospital in 2017-18. Overall, 82% of episodes were with a methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) i.e. 18% MRSA.
27% of patients principal clinical manifestation was skin and soft tissue infections

This retrospective economic analysis by Keerthi Anpalagan from @wcvid.bsky.social uses data collected from the ISAIAH cohort - a prospective multi-centre cross-sectional study of paediatric S. aureus bacteraemia (SAB) across Australia and New Zealand in 2017-18, with 552 individual patient episodes

The Hospitalization Cost of Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia AbstractBackground. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is the most common cause of childhood sepsis contributing to pediatric intensive care unit admis

Where did February go?! I feel like it was only two weeks not the full four... Thus apologies for posting my February #AMR article thread in March.
Here is a thread on the paper "The Hospitalization Costs of Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia" from @jpidsociety.bsky.social

#journalclub

Policy Options for Antimicrobial Resistance: Exploring Lessons From Environmental Governance Policy Points Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health crisis driven by complex collective action challenges, requiring locally tailored and context-sensitive solutions. Drawing...

Political science/international law for public health #AMR from my brilliant GSL colleague Isaac Weldon

Policy Options for Antimicrobial Resistance: Exploring Lessons From Environmental Governance
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