Preventable 😞 #vaccination #vaccine #MMR

Trip to Wembley today, but not for sporting reasons!

Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies. Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever. So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.

AI is terrific for quickly summarizing what guidelines say. Here are 3 places clinicians can get input from actual human beings instead, one old-fashioned, a couple newer: blogs.nejm.org/hiv-id-obser...

#UTiSky #IDSky

Mucormycosis Review in @nejm.org by Dimitrios Kontoyiannis and Tom Walsh www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... #IDSky #TxID #MedMycoSky @msgerc.bsky.social

Always surprised when I talk to non-scientists about TB and they assume it is no longer an issue.

1/📢 In our new publication, we estimate that in 2022, 134 million people worldwide had a recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and were at high risk of progressing to TB disease. Read the full paper in PLOS Medicine (tinyurl.com/mtbinfection). #TBSky

There’s a lot of cool kit, made using the latest tech, at the Olympics. And some of the world’s top brands are trying hard to make you want it. And then there’s curling. But its key piece of kit, the stone, has the best story of all….60 million years in the making. www.nytimes.com/athletic/696...

Well now I can combine my keen (healthy!) interest in coffee, with my university's 200 year anniversary! 🎉 ☕ @ucl.ac.uk studentsunionucl.org/articles/int...

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

It’s been brilliant having a visiting delegation all this week from the labs of @nicoledenisco.bsky.social & @chelsamicro.bsky.social, who’ve come all the way from 🇺🇸 to 🇬🇧 to learn how to grow our 3D-UHU bladder model. The lab is bursting at the seams but we’re having a lot of fun! #UTISky #UTI

"It is not inevitable that tuberculosis and undernutrition should continue to inflict so much misery around the world" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The only science I never question is the one that validates my love for coffee and justifies my daily consumption of the piping hot black brew😊. I will not be taking any questions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Actually looks like the cool update is already here?! 🤷‍♂️ 🤔 Draft Bluesky posts have finally arrived!

Bluesky not playing expectations management for its next Android app update! 😅

Congrats to @aschwalbc.bsky.social for bringing this work to the finish line!

Sometimes time zone differences really distort life. Woken up to all these no context posts about bad bunny, but I have literally no idea what everyone is talking about! #SuperBowl

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

All hail universal USB-C charging!!! (clearing out some old cables and bits...)

Pure inadvertent comedy gold #IDSky

Well this is cool. A phage engineered to target non pathogenic E coli to attenuate release of proinflammatory ligands. 👀 @jennyrohn.bsky.social

Have I ever mentioned how surreal it is to be an Editor-in-Chief of a journal called Vaccine right now? www.science.org/content/arti... It’s pretty wild, at least by typical academic journal editorial office standards.

ICYMI: Out now! Out Now! Initial sites of SIV rebound after antiretroviral treatment cessation in rhesus macaques

🔔Collabator Alert🔔 I’m putting together a project on UTIs and the urogenital microbiome and am looking for a collaborator with solid metagenomic sequencing/analysis experience. If you’d be interested in joining the work, I’d love to talk #MicroSky #UTISky

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir Nicholas White @moru-mip.bsky.social Nick was a visionary in #malaria treatment whose work transformed global health. He will be remembered with great respect and affection Read our tribute 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

Excellent use of a test slide as a humorous ice breaker. This may be mildly amended and recycled into one of my talks... 😉 🍕 🍍

As we recruit for our new Lecturer & Deputy Research Lead role, we wanted to share some insights into what it’s like to work as a researcher at the CBC: 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Can we use antibodies to treat sepsis? 🦠 Group A Streptococcus is one of our most common pathogens. While often manageable, it can turn deadly. In a new review, Sebastian Wrighton and I argue for a fresh look at antibody-based therapies targeting the M protein. www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Published today in The Lancet Global Health: A modelling study on current worldwide trends in humanitarian and developmental assistance finds that cuts up to 2030 are projected to cause up to 22.6m additional deaths, inc. 5.4m children u5. Available Open Access - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

TB transmission in healthcare is thankfully rare. Good to get some metrics of what are the highest risk exposures (that are worth following up). #IDSky #TBSky @cidjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Delightful life interlude read / holiday aspiration www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

Segmented filamentous bacteria reprogramming of alveolar macrophages limits postinfluenza bacterial pneumonia | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Only 2 more days to apply for this post as Research Fellow in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics at the University of Birmingham. Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...

In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25M to 42M users, we took actions to keep it welcoming, using proactive design to reduce toxic content by 79%.  Our 2025 Transparency Report shares how we're building a safer platform while keeping a transparent and human-centered approach: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Yes, that is the (literally) heavy chain of antibody to SARS-CoV-2 hanging from the ceiling! #ScienceArt

We wrote this piece i.e @gavinyamey.bsky.social and I, one year ago. Today the US is formally out of the WHO. Domestic public health is severely weakened as is global public health. A massive own goal that leaves us all less safe. www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Bromley are English football’s overachievers so far this season. Theirs is an extraordinary rise, a small community club going places like never before. On The Road with them... inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Shingles vaccine may slow biological aging in older adults The vaccine was associated with less inflammation, slower epigenetic changes, and increased immunity. www.cidrap.umn.edu/s...

📣 A peer reviewer used #AI to create a fake review with 6 self-citation prompts. But is s/he the only perpetrator in our system? In the year's first editorial, Angela Huttner explores the depths of the academic-industrial complex. #IDSky #clinmicro #peerreview https://ow.ly/juoW50Y05t6

In these times of great global turbulence, a light hearted story on animal intelligence ("AI"? 😉) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

there's always some humour to be found in dark moments.... 👏

Cheery and scary title popped into my inbox. Not even disinfectants working?! 😨 "Molecular mechanisms of disinfectant resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae" #ClinMicro #IDSky @jac-amr.bsky.social #MedSky #IPC academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...

Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis | Nature share.google/gKuxL49O8Fsj...

Bit sad about this. Used v v occasionally, but when needed, Zipcar was a really handy short term car and van rental service! 😔

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the Ring Nebula. The discovery was made by a team led by @ucl.ac.uk and and Cardiff University, and included @rug.nl, @iacastrofisica.bsky.social and @uni-graz.at #UCLEurope #RingNebula @uclmaps.bsky.social

Which #penA alleles are driving ceftriaxone resistance in #gonorrhea in the Asia-Pacific? Examining data from Cambodia, Vietnam, and China, we show the importance of penA-60 and identify penA-237 as an emerging allele of interest in the region #IDSky #STIsky #AMR 🔗: academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

This is a very appealing meeting in Paris later this year... "The complexity of mycobacterial infections: from research to real-world impact" #EMBOComplexInfections #TBSky for the tuberculosis research, but also #NTM #Leprosy #IDSky #ImmunoSky meetings.embo.org/event/26-myc...

Feed list on the right of the Bluesky main page feed looks a bit smaller, tidier and with feed icons. And new Trending box too. All looks nice and smarter. Good update 👍

Sipping milk in a night club is totally fine, but you've got to wipe that milky moustache! #schoolboyerror