How did a five-day antibiotic course become a cultural phenomenon? A brief (ha ha, ID docs can't be brief) but riveting history of how the Z-Pak took over outpatient antibiotic prescribing. Part 2 (the problems) coming soon. #IDSky #Medsky blogs.nejm.org/hiv-id-obser...

🎖️📄Top infectious disease journal articles from 2025 is out! May be good for a quick review to see if you missed anything or if you need to pick a journal club article. #pharmacist #infectiousdiseases #pharmacyschool #FYP #IDstewardship @absteward.bsky.social www.idstewardship.com/year-in-revi...

New post! There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost. Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...

Got some holiday free time? 🎄 Checkout Frontline's various free ID-themed small games. 🧩 Includes "Contagion Crossword," "Infectious Connections (matching game)," "Microbial Pursuit (trivia)," & "Microbe ID (emoji puzzle)." #IDSky #MedSky firstline.org/games/

I made Choose Your 2026 Vibe cookies for my running group: hearts, brains and bacteria (they think I'm a nerd) (not wrong) (these are the leftovers)

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge. #25 - Goat Remember rabid sheep? Time for rabid goat! (and a whole lot more stuff!) www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Assets/zoono... #IDSky #VetSky

The hepatitis B vaccine is amazing. It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer. That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years. Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge. #23- Ermine Couldn’t find reports on direct ermine to human transmission. Found this review which was done with the purpose of listing potential agents for biologic control in New Zealand 😬 www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #IDSky

It's beginning to look a lot like... Microbial Christmas! 🦠🧫🔬🎄🎅🏻🛷🦌☃️ 👉🏻 www.superbugs.online/superblog/microbial-christmas

Committed to empiricism.

Oue friend Critical Care game is on sale for $55 (nl 70) Critical Care: The Game — Critical Care: The Game share.google/VhiBUtAMfbEe...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Shopping for a microbiologist? I have a gift guide for you! Check it out for fun ideas for microbiology themed gifts including @contamclub.bsky.social @teamfoldscope.bsky.social @artologica.net @breadtopia.bsky.social and more. #MicroSky #Holiday #Christmas microbialmenagerie.com/holiday-gift...

Do you have an idea for an educational neurology game that needs some work? Or wish you knew where to start? Apply for GANGLIA, a game-development program providing instruction, mentorship, community and funds - with @zachlondon.bsky.social & me! Deadline April 2026 neurdgames.com/ganglia

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge. #22- Duck Again promoting this excellent resource by Iowa State School of Veterinary Medicine (confession: I learned ducks are considered poultry 🤪; pero English is my second language so 🤷🏻‍♀️) #IDSky #VetSky www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Assets/zoono...

CDC group DF-2 (dysgonic fermenter type 2)! And its friends.

New episode out today: Listen in to this team from LA as they walk through several mini-cases and chat IV vs PO antibiotics! Feat: Fourth year medical student Hannah Chute, Dr. Paloma Reta-Impey, and @bradspellberg.bsky.social Also check out: www.bradspellberg.com/oral-antibio... #IDsky #MedSky

Small Business Saturday! An educational card game for healthcare workers and other pharmacology enthusiasts. Check out Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs on our Etsy store! labbeaglegames.etsy.com/listing/1452...

But cities used to be affordable, and with lighter building regulations, they built fast and densified very quickly. Why did that end? What brought about 'the Great Downzoning'? Samuel Hughes evaluates the theories in a great new piece for Works in Progress. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-gr...

I had a lot of fun making this choropleth map of property sales prices in Germany. Predictably, big cities have the highest property prices. This pattern is typical now.

Novels' sentences are much shorter than they used to be. Part of this is about punctuation: we use periods as people used to use semi-colons. And shorter sentences aren't necessarily simpler to read, since jargon can condense complicated ideas.

Fascinating reading about unheralded women game designers in the C19th. daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...

Let’s start with your first clue: survivors rarely get smallpox again. But you don’t know why. The only technology available is variolation – infect your child with a controlled dose of smallpox, but risk a 1-in-50 chance they die from the procedure.

Imagine you lived in the 18th century. Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine? In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!

Why does skunk spray smell so bad, and what are some science-backed methods for removing the stench? The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social takes a look: cen.acs.org/biological-c... #ChemSky 🧪

Did you know that most* of the neurologists in your life** want to receive fun neurology-themed games this holiday? 😲 Order now to make sure these games will arrive in time to ensure happy neurologists! ☺️ neurdgames.com *or at least some **probably

When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs is now available on AMAZON. If you backed the Kickstarter or purchased it on Etsy please consider dropping a review. It helps prime the Amazon search pump so. #IDSky #MedSky www.amazon.com/Lab-Beagle-G...

@cidjournal.bsky.social State-of-the-Art Review: Antibiotic Allergy—A Multidisciplinary Approach to Delabeling academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

More ID crosswords!

I read the caption first and thought the illusion might be because the y-axis was on a log scale, but it's not! My brain was bamboozled regardless.

Our newest episode features Drs. Raghad Al-Abdwani, Badriya Al Adawi, and Zaid Al Hinai discussing "A Critical Query"! #Idsky

It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️ Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity! C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊 #IDSky quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge. #21 - Donkey Iowa State’s Center for Food Security and Public Health is my go to resource for information about zoonoses in farm animals ❤️👩🏻‍🌾 www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Assets/zoono...

Quick, easy, fun (if you like ID) game from the Firstline folks!

Prehistoric Art Prints: All 9 Prints featuring scenes from the Cambrian Period all the way to the Cretaceous! Grab all 9 art prints in my shop here: www.etsy.com/listing/4405... #prehistoric #iceage #fossiladdict #evolution #fossil #sciart

Want support in your journey to become a neurology game designer? Check out this wild program with @oligoclonalband.medsky.social and @zachlondon.bsky.social. includes 1K funding for your game dev. www.neurdgames.com/ganglia

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge. #20- Elephant Truly had no idea TB was an issue for elephants 🤯… this was another animal/human interaction that made me think of the many ways in which exploitation is at the root of disease. #IDSky #VetSky

THE MANY SHAPES OF BACTERIA #science #infographic #art #sciart #bacteria #microbiology #bacterium #scientificart #biology

Excited to announce that Immature Brains: A Child Neurology Podcast, has over 500 downloads! Not bad for 2 nerds who like to talk to other nerds. Like, subscribe and please leave us a review! rss.com/podcasts/imm...

We are launching 3 new interactive #MedEd games in celebration of #WAAW2025! First up: Microbe-ID 🧫🔍. Can you decipher the emojis to identify the pathogen? microbe-id.firstline.org Educational content created by @idstewardship.bsky.social @tbrar7.bsky.social and Shaqil Peermohamed, MD #IDSky

If you liked plagdle, you'll probably love this... Also here's another link to Plagdle: www.plagdle.com

Considering a new name for our Infectious Disease themed card game, Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives. Vote below. 🗳️ Open to suggestions too. 1️⃣ Bug Detectives: The Epipocalypse 2️⃣ EIS: Bug Detectives 3️⃣ Disease Detectives 4️⃣ Keep it the same #IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky

Agar plate magnets! Blood agar (alpha hemolysis), MacConkey agar (lactose fermenter), chocolate agar, and MacConkey agar (non-fermenter). Find them here: microbecharmer.etsy.com #IDsky #ClinMicro

Hey ID Fellows, what are your favorite ID consults? Asked that question during a recent visit to the ID division at Johns Hopkins, and here's what their fellows said. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

As everyone knows the Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives Kickstarter didn't work out. For those so interested, here're some additional details of the roll out, backer break down, and the like. boardgamegeek.com/thread/36066...

🆕🔥State-of-the-Art Review with 🌟s @trubianojason.bsky.social : Antibiotic Allergy—A Multidisciplinary Approach to Delabeling #idsky url: academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

IV fosfo finally FDA approved in US for cUTI d/t E. coli or Kleb pneumo. -How much will it cost? -Folks willing to use it for Kleb (or other Enterobacterales) in the absence of CLSI BPs? -Dose: 6G IV q8h…Tolerability in real-world? 🤔 Lots of questions to consider…. #IDSky #AMSsky