New post, on why we should stop telling people the normal distribution is in places that it isn't: kucharski.substack.com/p/no-the-nor...

Two really useful reports on the Bundibugyo #Ebola outbreak from the @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social team at LSHTM: - The multitude of benefits that safe and dignified burial can bring - The risk of exported cases cmmid.github.io/topics/ebola... #IDSky

Estimating the current size of the 2026 DRC Bundibugyo virus outbreak: a joint Bayesian re-analysis of the McCabe et al. report w/ @kathsherratt.bsky.social Sam Brand and @sbfnk.bsky.social

I'm pretty convinced by the recent Bayesian meta-analysis of selective decontamination of the digestive tract for ventilated patients. evidence.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... I have to admit that I instinctively *really* don't like this as an idea (but hey - I guess that's what RCT evidence is for) #IDSky

So far SNAP RCTs have confirmed my practices: 1) ✅ cefazolin 2) ❌ clindamycin #IDSky

Great speakers at this symposium - 22 April 2026 at LSHTM. Join online or in person (email if in person) to hear great talks at the cutting edge of Inequalities in infectious disease dynamics. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Lenacapavir is a great HIV prevention drug and I really hope Gilead agree to MSF's request to sell it to them so they can provide it to those who patently need it most. Some thoughts here: jackwgoodall.github.io/infection_up... #IDsky #globalhealth

This is indescribably sad development in an already appalling man-made humanitarian crisis

PLEASE SHARE. PhD Opportunity with me, Ben Raymond and Jan Engelstaedter and Andrew Letten at University of Queensland. Experimentally testing mechanisms of how temperature may change selection and spread of AMR in E. coli. Coupled with some advanced modelling and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky

1/ Announcing the IDD Connect Series! #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪 ❓Interested in hearing from infectious disease dynamics organizations from different regions? 📣 IDD Connect is a monthly initiative to bring together the infectious disease dynamics global community 📧 Join GSIDD mailing list for event links👇

I've made a website for clinically relevant infection research: jackwgoodall.github.io/infection_up... It's in its early days but it has summaries of recent infection papers that caught my eye, an OpenAlex feed of recent infection papers from high impact journal and a resources section #IDSky

So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context. There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.

ID gurus - what are your thoughts on the optimal tx for S. pneumo meningitis that is pansensitive? ESCMID guidelines: PCN or amp/amox IDSA guidelines: PCN NICE guidelines: Ceftriaxone PCN: lower risk of CDiff, antimicrobial stewardship rizz Ceftriaxone: fewer infusions, pt already on this #IDsky

Our @shorten2trial.bsky.social aims to confirm that 7-day treatments are superior to 14-day courses for uncomplicated P. aeruginosa BSI. Check out our full protocol 👉🏻 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #AMSsky #IDSky

💉 How do we optimise the neutralising antibody responses of HSCT/CAR-T recipients following COVID vaccination? We found ChAdOx1-S recipients were EIGHT times more likely to have neutralising antibodies than those receiving mRNA vaccines in our new paper! Read more --> doi.org/10.1111/bjh....

BIA now on blue sky 👏 - and please consider applying for our ECR and small project grants!

This is a really useful insight that hopefully will guide how we prevent future spill overs

R markdown is an amazing way to share pre-publication findings with colleagues and collaborators. If you use R but haven't taken advantage of markdown then I have a tutorial just for you: jackwgoodall.github.io/floreytemplate It's new so I would love your feedback. #IDsky #AcademicSky #episky

New to this place 🦋, moving on from the other place Here to provide you #EpiSky #IDsky updates from Europe's weekly, peer-reviewed scientific journal on infectious disease epidemiology, prevention & control #PublicHealth Submit your papers now for our annual theme 2025 😷💉 bit.ly/annualtheme25

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

This is an amazing idea - using microbiome assessments to account for the inaccuracies that are invariably present in self reported diet recall www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear IDTwitter refugees I made an #IDSky starter pack which makes it easy to find accounts of ID clinicians, medical microbiologists, ID researchers, ID epidemiologists, ID focused reporters, and of course journals ahead of the curve. Let me know if I missed you! go.bsky.app/LnAQjdq

Did it. Got approval to stop posting at X. Please #IDSky #MedSky people, feel free to follow @cmicomms.bsky.social, ESCMID's #OpenAccess journal on all things #infectiousdiseases, #clinicalmicrobiology, #AMR, and host of the #Communicable podcast, so I can show that we were right! :-)

"Exposure to healthcare has a large role in the transmission of infectious diseases and acquisition and transmission of antimicrobial resistance" #IDSky #MicroSky #MedSky www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Towards shorter, safer, flexible, and more effective treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis #TB #IDSky 🩺🧪 #AMR www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

academic.oup.com/ofid/article... We have recently changed CSF viral panel and now get HHV6 results for all patients. Positive results in immunocompetent patients have caused a fair amount of debate (not least because of chromosomal integration). I found this review very helpful. #IDSky

The march of the mRNA vaccines goes on. Clostridiodes difficile (C diff) next... #IDSky #MicroSky #MedSky 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... We really need to get out of the mindset that outbreaks like this are only problematic when Western countries are at risk. This is devastating lives and healthcare systems in Rwanda.

Delighted to share my first paper on Bluesky! Managing UTIs is difficult and needs a multi-disciplinary approach. We discuss approaches on how to achive this... Great collaborative effort led by @angelahuttner.bsky.social in @cmicomms.bsky.social #IDSky 🩺 #MedSky www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...

This could be a real game changer for neutralisation assays. Think of those lab hours saved!!

Our paper describing a new sequencing-based neutralization assay for influenza virus is now published in Journal of Virology: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... This new approach makes it possible to measure 100s (or even ~1000) neutralization titers in a single 96-well plate.

Out now: genomics analysis of Pseudomonas in bronchiectasis — expanding geography & increasing 10-fold publicly-available genomes. High diversity between patients, key genes undergoing parallel evolution or diversification, differences & similarities to CF. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...