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submitted 16 hours ago • 107 comments

As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Full steam ahead Business as usual (as much as possible) Now, we need to make sure that 🌎manufacturing capactiy can occur to meet the needs, presuming will have to do so with 1 player down www.who.int/news/item/28...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

#immunosky #IDsky #medsky 🧪 I know everyone missed thinking about IgG4, but we have a new study that finds some very interesting properties of anti-spike IgG4 elicited by mRNA vaccines tl;dr- IgG4 seems to buffer inflammation but enhances the function of other antibodies when titers are lower 🧵

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has refused to comment on the Trump attack on Zelenskyy, the FT reports. The only major European leader to do so.

submitted 22 hours ago • 220 comments

Just a smidgen of yellow-fever vaccine is enough www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The recommendations from @who.int on the trivalent #vaccines for use in the 2025/26 northern hemisphere #influenza season is out The recommendation for the B/Yamagata lineage component of quadrivalent influenza vaccines remains unchanged #EpiSky #MedSky #IDSky 🦠🧪💉 #PublicHealth

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is a great nuanced critique of that Iwasaki preprint on post-vaccine syndrome - and the sensationalist coverage which followed

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Dying is just one of the potential complications of measles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErfH...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Important post by @sheencr.bsky.social explaining the latest research on a very rare side effect of vaccinations open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

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Every anti-vaxxer should have to watch when I take someone off the ventilator, turn off all their drips, and give them morphine while they take their last breaths.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

✈️ Jumping on a plane is one of the most carbon-intensive activities a person can do. This article breaks down the immense challenges of decarbonizing aviation. While we should explore technological solutions, the most effective solution is the simplest: flying less. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Having been on both sides of the interview table on a number of occasions, I can honestly say that if you ever see a job description that has something along the lines of "fast-paced/demanding" and especially if appended with "not for everyone" or similar.... run a mile.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

yikes. these manufacturing pipelines were already going to be complicated by HPAI’s impacts on egg production - conventional flu vaccine manufacturing uses eggs for virus production.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

In September in Geneva we applauded a major milestone in the effort to eradicate measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth. Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed. This is not greatness.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Bold prediction - The preprint that's generating these types of headlines will eventually be exploited by politicians to push covid mRNA vaccines off market. While a post vaxx syndrome may exist it's likely very rare & the study is too small to be conclusive. www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

A cautionary tale from @helenbranswell.bsky.social "They intended for their work to be the subject of academic discussion...Instead, it has exploded online & become a parable for the ways in which the internet is being used to weaponize basic vaccine research." www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

@virusesimmunity.bsky.social Sadly, this is how your recent paper is being interpreted and amplified. Unfortunately, it is left very open to this interpretation.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Clusers of unexplained illness in DRC 🇨🇩 #TravelMedicine #GlobalHealth⚕️ www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to Ed for this detailed breakdown. Among other things, this illustrates the problem of differentiating any post-vaccine syndrome from an exacerbation of #PASC when almost everyone has been exposed to #SARSCoV2 itself deplatformdisease.substack.com/p/that-post-...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Merz: "It is necessary to reach a moratorium on dismantling" In a live national press conference minutes ago, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a nuclear dismantling moratorium. This is the first step to saving German nuclear plants and restarting them.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

We seem to be in both a pandemic (COVID-19) and a pre-pandemic (H5N1): www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

"The organisations are owed millions of dollars from #USAid for work they completed in 2024 and now face uncertainty over whether they will be reimbursed" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with blood flukes (trematode worms). There is some uncertainty on the best approach to individual diagnosis and clinical management for the disease. Find out more in a new Seminar: tinyurl.com/3jhd9dsn

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Long COVID studies stymied by pharma’s lack of cooperation: Academic researchers want to repurpose drugs for the condition. Manufacturers aren’t supplying them. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky #biosky 🧪 #longcovid

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

May we never have to hear from Lindner or Wagenknecht 👏🏻

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

CDU wins as expected but distribution of seats &possible coalitions unclear because uncertain whether FDP makes it over 5% threshold &into Parliament at all. So. Here is something you could do (but won‘t). Switch off, wait for tomorrow morning. Most hot takes right now are premature.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪 European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

How I'm trying to adapt to my new, smaller life with #LongCovid. I lost my job. I lost my role as a local councillor. I'm housebound. I can't do much with my kids & partner. And I can't do many of the things I love due to the constant fatigue. But I have to try and carry on🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

An interesting hypothetical if you’re wondering if Elon Musk is a genius or not is to compare his behaviour in any situation to what a complete moron would do in the same situation

submitted 6 days ago • 142 comments

A fitting tribute to a great teacher and raconteur #TWIP #TWIV youtu.be/2PRYLYwgCmo?...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

As Germans head for the polls today, the stakes could not be higher for Germany‘s future and Europe. My in-depth analysis on Merz‘ huge mistakes, but also some hope that the centre will get its act together in light of what happened since Munich.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 7 days ago • 1874 comments

Infectious Disease Society of America issues a statement on the political interference with the CDC vaccine information and the advisory committee on immunisation www.idsociety.org/news--public...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Here is a brief thread on this preprint from @virusesimmunity.bsky.social's group studying a volunteer cohort of people with self-reported "post-vaccination syndrome", recently covered in the NYT. I think there are a few reasons to be skeptical of the headline takeaways of this preprint.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Update on the Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u... There likely hundreds of cases, so many not being diagnosed. And many more to come. All preventable.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Need a break? Need a smile? Need to dance? Watch Nile Rodgers @nilerodgers.bsky.social & CHIC A fantastic, joyous Tiny Desk Concert for @npr.org. ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRER...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

It’s called Gleichschaltung. And German history shows us where it can end. Again: we have the knowledge; we have the right words. That the US could still get to this point is such a terrible failure.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

No shade, but if you didn’t know this attack on science, medicine, and public health was coming, you haven’t been paying attention.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Did you see what we did there? 👀

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments