📢 Tomorrow | ISAC / ESCMID webinar 📅22 Sept 2025 | Discover findings from a global survey of 86 societies on their role in tackling AMR Register: tinyurl.com/4eaycj2k #InfectiousDiseases #GlobalHealth @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

🌟 Keynote Highlight – #ICPIC2025 ISAC Past President Prof. Andreas Voss delivered a bold, thought-provoking keynote: “The End of IPC?” The session ended in a standing ovation 👏 A well-deserved tribute to Andreas’ global impact and dedication to IPC. #InfectionControl @souhakanj.bsky.social

Happy to be speaking on the role of professional societies across the globe to enhance healthcare.

Tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and unproven alternative treatments that experts say should be avoided, including lasers, herbal remedies and electromagnets. “It really is a buyer-beware situation." apnews.com/article/lyme...

🌍 Global Insights on ID Societies & #AMR Medical societies are key players in advocacy — but are they fully leveraged in the fight against #AMR? 🔍 Study by ISAC & ESCMID explores this question Read in @jgar-isac.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mp7ken7b @escmid.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

I will be in the Netherlands mid-October, and participating in this upcoming colloquium, 14 October, Radboud University (NL), organized by @willemhalffman.bsky.social, with @stanvanpelt.bsky.social, Maud Bernisson, and myself. linkedin.com/posts/willem... halffman.org/rrosa/proble... See you there?

#JustPublished! Drug-resistant fungus #CandidozymaAuris is spreading rapidly in European hospitals. #ECDC calls for urgent action. 📈 Cases are rising, outbreaks are larger, and several countries now report local transmission. Press release: bit.ly/46uR1iK #CandidaAuris #HAI #IDsky #EpiSky #AMR

Report of the 2024 #marburg outbreak in #rwanda. The response successfully treated two patients in the icu, simultaneously ran vaccine and treatment trials and effectively contained the outbreak. 15/66 cases died. They gave the world a lesson in outbreak response. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

How should the new Independent Panel on Evidence for Action on #AMR be set up? We gathered scientists and stakeholders - mainly from Africa - to think this through in Lagos, Nigeria. Pre-print now available: verixiv.org/articles/2-2...

David Baltimore passed away this weekend. A pioneer of molecular virology who won the Nobel prize in medicine & physiology for his discovery of viral reverse transcriptase. This essay he wrote in 2018 reflecting of his 60yr career in science is a great read. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I think about this a lot! Medical professionals and their societies are sounding the highest level of alarm about the dangers of rejecting science and favoring conspiracy theories and it is hardly breaking through. That's how far down the rabbit hole the US is. This fight is hard.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

🌐 APCCMI 2025 presents the ISAC Symposium on #AMR in diverse scenarios by ISAC leadership: 🔹 Souha Kanj – President 🔹 Heiman Wertheim – President-Elect 🔹 Geoffrey Coombs – Past President 📅 Early Bird Registration extended: 15 Sept 🔗 apccmi2025.com @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

📢 Webinar Invitation 🗓️ 22 Sept 2025 | 🕑 14:00 CET Hosted by ISAC and @escmid.bsky.social 🔍 Discover findings from a global survey of 86 societies on their role in tackling #AMR. 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/5eztujrx #InfectiousDiseases #Microbiology #GlobalHealth @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

🌍 Join us in Manila for the 34th ICC 📅 Dec 7–9, 2026 | 📍 SMX Convention Center 🔬 Cutting-edge science, global experts & vibrant culture await Be part of the future of infectious disease care. 👉 [https://icc2026.org/] #ICC2026 #ISAC #GlobalHealth @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

Maybe I am being grumpy, but can people please stop using poorly curated databases of antibiotic resistance genes (I am looking at you, DeepARG) on shotgun metagenomic data and then present these results without any reflection on their validity, or shortcomings of databases?

🧪 Just 2 Weeks Left! Apply for ISAC Project Grants 2025 by 1 Sept. Up to £15K for research in AMR & infectious diseases. 🌍 Must involve LMICs & ISAC members. 🔗 Details: www.ISAC.world 📧 Apply: [email protected] #AMR #GlobalHealth #ISAC @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social @souhakanj.bsky.social

'Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt', featuring the brilliant @arwynedwards.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🆕 New #AbxGuide Chapters! ISAC adds Bone & Joint + Eyes & Orbits infections to its free global antibiotic guide The Abx Guide is designed to support appropriate #antibiotic use worldwide 🔗 isac-abxguide.world #AMR #GlobalHealth #Antibiotics @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social @souhakanj.bsky.social

🌍 ICYMI: ISAC/ESCMID Webinar on AMR in vulnerable communities 🗓️ Next session in 2 days! 🎥 Catch up on expert insights: 🔹 Dr Guido Granata – AMR & conflict 🔹 Dr Rana Hajjeh – AMR and WAR 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/X4D2fzqh9-w #AMR #GlobalHealth @souhakanj.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

🚨 Less than 1 month left to apply for an ISAC Project Grant 2025! 💷 Up to £15,000 available for impactful antimicrobial research. 🌍 Projects must involve at least one LMIC & two countries. 🧪 Deadline: 1 Sept 2025 🔗 Apply now: www.ISAC.world @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social @souhakanj.bsky.social

📢 Meet the Speaker | ISAC/ESCMID Webinar 🗓 13 August 🎙️ Paul Ananth Tambyah Professor of Medicine, NUS Senior Consultant, NUHS Past President, ISID & APSCMI 🔬 Expert in device-associated & emerging #infectiousdiseases 👉 Register now tinyurl.com/3wzysnad @escmid.bsky.social @souhakanj.bsky.social

💥 On-Demand Webinar | AMR in Conflict Settings War zones are breeding grounds for drug resistant #infections Experts explore the link between conflict & #antimicrobialresistance in this Fleming Initiative webinar endorsed by ISAC youtu.be/7qCggVRjpJc #GlobalHealth @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

📢 The July 2025 ISAC Newsletter is now available ISAC is pleased to share its latest updates featuring grant opportunities, webinars and other free resources. Download⬇️ tinyurl.com/3uf2vesf #antimicrobialresistance

🌟ISAC Society Grants - applications invited🌟 Apply for up to €‎6,000 There are 2 types of grants: 1. To strengthen an Existing ISAC Member Society 2. To Establish a New Society in ID / clinical micro Full details⬇️ tinyurl.com/mr27x7nd #IDSky @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

This is indeed useless. Vaccination is the only way

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention @iansample.bsky.social writes @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

M⃣I⃣S⃣S⃣I⃣N⃣G⃣ L⃣I⃣N⃣K⃣S⃣ 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 paper by Sikora et al: metagenomic data from 1,313 ancient human remains over 37,000 years Identified >3,000 instances of known human pathogens Zoonotic pathogens begin to appear ~6,500 years ago coinciding with the rise of livestock domestication—major epidemiological shift

Nice read on the history of infectious diseases. Recommend!

The ISAC / APUA Newsletter 🌍💊 🔹 Standing up for science in public health 🔹 #Antibiotic shortages in Asia-Pacific 🔹 #AMR education in UK pharmacy 🔹 In memoriam: Prof. George K. Daikos 🔹 Latest AMR & ISAC updates 📖 Read now tinyurl.com/44jcyfey @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health. It is telling that learned societies uniformly oppose the vaccine policies of the HHS secretary. www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Het wegdek is gevreesd. Mavkees

Reclame is uptodate met de geopolitiek

As expected, but still shocking.

🌟APCCMI 2025 | You are invited🌟 ISAC is delighted to be a supporting society for the 20th Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APCCMI 2025) 📍Bangkok 📅2 – 4 November 2025 Discover more⬇ tinyurl.com/bdd3dp4d #APCCMI2025 @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

Rutte heeft het gewoonweg erg goed gedaan

🎥On demand | AI in Anti-infectives Our two eminent speakers provide real and timely intelligence on how much of this is possible now, what we may expect in the future, and how humans should use AI tools. youtu.be/Um5NbavmMiU #AI #AntiInfectives @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

🎶 Straight from the Lab to the Mic: when a Pasteur scientist turns her thesis into a rap 🎶 #FeteDeLaMusique

🌟Just published - ISAC statement on standing up for science🌟 ISAC is committed to sharing reliable information, robust science, and to the advancement of global well-being Read the statement🔽 tinyurl.com/4d84r3ch @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social #globalhealth #standupforscience

Good to have these statements

TODAY! Don't forget to register for this timely webinar on #Bacteriophage therapy. It starts soon so register now ⬇️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social

Volwassene met afweerstoornis overleden aan gevolgen van mazelen @nieuws.nos.nl

Curiosity driven research gave us PCR and CRISPR/Cas9, arguably the two greatest advances in biology in a generation. Curiosity is what made us a successful species. Let’s not turn away from that.

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📢ISAC webinar 📆13 June 2025 🕰 13.30 CET Join us for an insightful webinar exploring two critical frontiers in the advancement of #bacteriophage-based treatments Register ⬇️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #phage @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social @phagetechnology.bsky.social

I notice similarities between the language use of people with a “narrative” and answers from chatGPT

Can bacteria serve as the ‘microscopic miners’ of the metals we need?

📢ISAC webinar | Tomorrow AI in Anti-Infectives 📅23 May •Tracking #antibioticresistance with AI Prof. Adrian Egli •Optimising #antibiotic use with model-informed precision dosing Prof. Sebastian Wicha Register⬇️ tinyurl.com/muva7f62 #IDSky @souhakanj.bsky.social @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social