#Hiking Arenal Volcano, La Fortuna Costa Rica

We ran the clinical experiment of only vaccinating children for hepatitis whose mothers tested positive when the vaccine was introduced and the resulting evidence VERY CLEARLY demonstrated that it was MUCH more effective, with minimal additional risk, to vaccinate all children. Thus the guideline.

Nerstrand Big Woods State Park near Nerstrand Minnesota

Castle Mound Nature trail in Black River St Forest Wisconsin

2nd Hike of the week. Banning State Park near Sandstone MN

Hike #1 this week. Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park, MN.

High Line in Manhattan

And an extra hike this week. Whitewater State Park Minnesota

Enough said. Join me if you can.

This weeks bonus hike: Jay Cooke State Park on the way back home from Duluth

This weeks hike. Mille Lacs Kathio State Park

This weeks hike: Willow Creek Trail near Red Lodge Montana.

Today’s hike. Interstate State Park on the Wisconsin side of the river

My first women’s hockey game at Minnesota.

This weeks hike: the Jura mountain foothills outside of Geneva.

These are my kind of scientists. One thinks the call is spam and goes back to sleep; another has his phone on airplane mode because he’s on a backpacking trip. I bet both of them quietly go back to their work. More Nobels to people like this!

I’m in Geneva for the 25th anniversary celebration for MMV. It has been really wonderful to see so many friends (and make a few new ones) from a long mutual journey. Rarely do we have so much impact directly from our science!

As promised, this weeks bonus hike the Torrey Pines hill between La Jolla and Del Mar

Wow, this is so cool.

Headed back to La Jolla today to give a talk at UCSD tomorrow about or antimalarial that is entering Phase 2b. Looking forward to starting tomorrow with my old commute: a walk up the hill in Torrey Pines.

Today’s Minnesota hike was Afton state park on the bank of the St Croix River southeast of Minneapolis

Bonus hike today:Barn Bluffs at Red Wing Minnesota

Today’s exploration of Minnesota. The bluffs of the Mississippi near Red Cloud at Fontenac State Park

Short Minnesota hike today. Loop around Minnehaha falls on a beautiful fall day (83 degrees Fahrenheit!)

Sundays hike was Bear Head lake near Ely Minnesota

This weekend I started exploring my new home state of Minnesota. Saturday I hiked the Pigeon River, the border with Canada, at Grand Portage state park.

Enjoying my annual pilgrimage to my intellectual safe space: the Medicinal Chemistry Gordon Research Conference. Find your people and invest in spending time with them

Proud and happy to announce that I’ll be moving to the University of Minnesota as the new Dean of Pharmacy at the end of July.

Every word of this.

Happy Match Week to all the PharmD students who successfully matched! Support, hugs, and certainty in success for those of you who haven’t yet matched. And a shout out to everyone pursuing other equally important career paths that don’t require a residency.

Study sections still being cancelled. Councils not meeting. So much for getting back to “normal.”

I think a lot about professional identity in my role as a Dean. This is a nice framing about shifting between jobs. It’s also a used perspective when working with colleagues who come from a different professional background: clinical vs basic research, for example.

Too many years doing global ID research. I’m watching H5N1 flu in North America and clade I monkeypox in Africa. Both of these are poised to hit us in North America. We need a lot of luck this year

Women’s pain is under treated relative to men even when the report it on an objective scale www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Some very promising work on an mRNA vaccine against Clostridioides difficile ("C diff"), a gut bacterium that causes some major public health problems. Earlier efforts had failed, but this is a real step up:

NIH funding is why the U.S. has a biomedical industry. The research at universities is crucial for new drug development. Doing this research as students is how we train researchers who go on to work in the private sector. Also funding medical schools is pretty important for training new doctors.

This highlights a key challenge in academia. How do level the playing field to enable equal success for everyone?

“When people are dying, you can’t waste time.“ Read this fascinating interview of Dr Monique Wasunna, keynote speaker at the latest ASTMH conference, leishmaniasis expert, and DNDi Africa Ambassador. By @globalhealthnow.bsky.social globalhealthnow.org/2024-11/negl...

@jeremymberg.bsky.social living the profile pic. Good to see you here

On this day in 1991 Freddie Mercury died from complications of AIDS. If he were diagnosed today he would almost certainly have lived a much longer and healthier life than the four years he got. That is the power of focused evidence based medicine - like vaccines. We will not go back.

It is amazing to me that this was published when the 95% confidence limit of the test case does not separate from 1.

Great review on the current understanding of long COVID. We need to be incorporating these learnings into our routine practice instead of ignoring them. bsky.app/profile/tris...

From the election 3 million more workers in the U.S. gained the legal right to paid sick time. It should be standard and expected. #MedSky msmagazine.com/2024/11/19/p...

Dipping a toe in the Bluesky pool after a 4 year social media hiatus