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📣📣Are you looking for a postdoc? 📣📣 Does a EU or Horizon Europe assoc country (eg UK, S Korea) seem like a good destination? These fellowships a great funding option for anyone in the 🌎 👀 Check them out - next call opens 8 May 🧪 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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On #InternationalWomensDay, celebrating this inspiring, passionate, courageous team, working to make the future brighter. We live through turbulent times, but will keep speaking out for #representation & fighting for #equity. 🧪💪🙌 #IWD #HBV #Hepatitis #MedSky #HepSky #WomenInStem @crick.ac.uk

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Very glad to see this out, moving beyond simple resistance catalogues: using multivariable penalised regression for Mtb from Sanjana Kulkarni, Maha Farhat (not on bluesky?), and colleagues. Rigorous, avoids expert judgement, improves on WHO method www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We just published our national point prevalence survey on healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), antimicrobial use (AMU) and antimicrobial stewardship in England, 2023 Overall HCAIs were present in 7.6% of patients, a 1% increase since 2016, with AMU static at 37.3% www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Striking stuff: "An estimated 2.1% of antibiotics were attributable to RSV, equating to an average of 640 000 prescriptions annually." #IDSky #AMR #ClinMicro #virology academic.oup.com/jac...

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Commercial spam messages targeting academics that contrive the word "decision" in the subject title but actually are about sales pitches know exactly what they are doing and deserve deletion, junk categorization, banishment and non-purchase and boycotting of all merchandise forever.

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New: patterns of antibiotic use by age/sex + implications for stewardship and AMR! I’m particularly fond of the plots! See next post for the headlines or the paper for the stories the antibiotics tell... Co-authors: Tom Ashfield + @gmknght.bsky.social, part of Gwen's fellowhip on age/sex on AMR!

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First interim analysis leads to discontinuation of phase 3 global trial on safety & effectiveness of E. coli vaccine. This is a major setback for effective prevention of a very frequent and severe infection, especially in elderly. www.sanofi.com/en/media-roo...

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"This observation contradicted our hypothesis that infection with strains with high capsular polysaccharide expression would be associated with reduced antibody responses to O-specific polysaccharide."

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Shocking news: “About a fifth of the answers introduced factual errors on numbers, dates or statements; 13% of quotes sourced to the BBC were either altered or did not exist in the articles cited.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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❤️Three year fully-funded post-CCT fellowship in Cardiac imaging / AI at @mrc-lms.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. The Chain Florey Transition to Independence scheme offers a unique opportunity for early career clinicians. Closes 2nd March! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Haven't posted about SNAP for a while: But we've just hit 4000 participants. Almost at 3 years since opening. And submitting two late breaker oral abstracts to ESCMID Global. @escmid.bsky.social Amazing progress and more to come. @gurujosh.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social

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Core-funded postdoc position at The Pirbright Institute, Surrey, UK (just outside London), in the group of Professor Ian Brown. Working on H5N1 avian influenza virus evolution and development of cross-reactive vaccines. www.pirbright.ac.uk/careers-and-...

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Closing dates for applying for these jobs are Mon, Wed and Fri next week! All are at noon on the day. RA/PDRA (Grade 6/7) noon 10 Feb bit.ly/4jANpAc Senior Bioinformatician (G8) 12 Feb bit.ly/4hcMB3b Senior Medical Statistican (G8) 14 Feb bit.ly/4hcMEfn

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Curious about doing a PhD? 🤔 Join Oxford's research community and work with academic staff on projects in a range of subject areas. UNIQ+ research internships are now open for applications from UK undergraduates from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds. More info ⬇️

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🚨 New preprint! We know that plasmids are associated with very variable fitness costs in their different bacterial hosts. But, what is the contribution of each of the plasmid-genes in these host-specific effects? Study led by @jorgesastred.bsky.social, @sanmillan.bsky.social and myself! 1/14

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Before reading this excellent perspective, I had no idea that the data supporting the use of antibiotic prophylaxis for SBP were so weak. Really time to re-think this "standard-of-care" practice! Highly recommended. #IDSky doi.org/10.1093/cid/...

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"Three vaccination rings were defined today. The first ring involves about 40 contacts and contacts of contacts of the first reported and confirmed case, a health worker who has died." www.who.int/news/item/03...

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Exciting opportunity for a talented scientific software developer to join our Global Disease Modelling team(bit.ly/4gtvnNN) to build & maintain #malaria & disease #models! If you share a passion for achieving impact in #GlobalHealth, please apply here: bit.ly/40ZSdrF Closing date: 12th Feb

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The advert is now live here: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/EPH-EPED-202... Until August 2027 we would be working on data analysis and modelling to try and untangle the dynamics of #AMR by age and sex exploring electronic health records 🧫📑👩‍💻. Get in touch if any questions!

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Halting malaria vaccine development is appalling—it joins the very long list of acts of sabotage that are setting back global health

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Progress we may reverse without funding for PEPFAR HIV treatments & the people who deliver them: After ART became available to treat HIV in rural South Africa (dashed line in 2003), life expectancy increased from 49.2 to 60.5 years pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Bor et al. in @science.org

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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🧵 🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV 1/4

submitted 38 days ago • 18 comments

Mathematical models are and have been incredibly useful in our fight to defeat #malaria— let’s collectively ensure they remain so! Check out our new article from @jalinegerardin.bsky.social and I on "How can modelling responsibly inform decision-making in malaria?" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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