🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity!🚨 Interested in researching how to improve risk prediction for people with #tuberculosis #TB and #multimorbidity? Joint project between @uofgshw.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and @ki.se 🇸🇪, funded by UK MRC. Details here⬇️ www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

So much fun to learn about Outbreaks & Surveillance yesterday from these All-Stars @itmantwerp.bsky.social #TBSky #MPox #AMR #Arbovirus #airfilterforensics

#TBSky Great 🫁TB talks: @itmantwerp.bsky.social Access! Justice! Genomics! Transmission! Diagnostics! Y'All come: fs10.formsite.com/formulierenI...

Shrestha: 4%TB prev in ppl w/DM in Nepal #NCDSky #TBSky doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Air quality & Autism Risk - Preliminary signal url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We are seeking a PhD student💡. 4-yrs 💶 for 🇲🇿 in locally co-designed #airborne infection control, #AMR surveillance in 🇿🇦 🇳🇬 Based in Maputo (FundacaoAurum) #TBSky #EpiSky @fvlscience.bsky.social Lusophone health/ lab w/ roots in 🇲🇿 #PublicHealth #EDCTP3 @itmantwerp.bsky.social Q: [email protected]

*Oportunidade de doutoramento em Ciências da Saúde* #TB #PhD #AMR #IPC projecto Tuberculosis Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (TASP), área de controle de infecções que em Moçambique c/ @fvlscience.bsky.social auruminstitute.org/what-we-do/a... @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @utoronto.ca

www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... #tbsky #tuberculosis #USAID #TBFighters

TB deaths up 5% in 6 months since USAID funds pulled from Napula, Mozambique: #USAID #TBsky #TBFighters #tuberculosis observador.pt/2025/09/24/t...

TB deaths projected to rise due to aid cuts, State Dept cannot say current funding level. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Come join us! Researcher TB (MD/PhD) Dept of Clinical Sciences www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-... #TBfighters #tbsky #CAD #AMR #DRTB #tuberculosis #IDSky #EndTB

RFK Jr fails to protect us, endangers future generations, & peddles falsehoods. We require competent leadership in this context of emerging & returning pathogens. He must resign or be fired.

The @rwjf.org Rapid Response Research funding is available to applicants who have received federal funding for their health equity research, but have had it partially or fully rescinded due to federal administrative actions. Deadline is 10/1/25. Details in the link: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Advocacy tool: impact of TB funds cuts: How many TB deaths can we attribute to cuts by each donor govt? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Lawyers harass & threaten award-winning climate Social Scientist J. Timmons Roberts. He eats polluters and dirty policy makers for lunch. Also: has receipts & a nerd army at the ready. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Trump cuts result in waste of $10M in contraceptives paid for by U.S. working families. These commodities should be given to the ministries who ordered them, as mandated by Congress.

We need new biomarkers to improve TB diagnosis in children. In the COMBO study, we performed a comprehensive plasma proteomic analysis across 4 countries and found several protein signatures that met the WHO target accuracy for a TB screening test: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #tbsky #idsky

NIH (possibly, quietly) restores grants to South African scientists amid holiday wknd www.science.org/content/arti...

In our latest personal view in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social, we argue for the inclusion asymptomatic #tuberculosis in vaccine trial endpoints to potentially reduce the size, length, and cost of trials. doi.org/10.1016/S221... @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social

Elegant work by @UFBA @isglobal.org Evaluating the dose-response relationship b/w USAID intervestment & child and all-age survival in The Lancet - (spoiler: Trump cuts kill all ages, but esp. kids) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #tbsky #episky #

Kristof brings receipts - expiring medicines, ambulances out of gas: The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...

Pedaling is protective: Active Travel Mode and Incident Dementia and Brain Structure #episky #bikes url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835115?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=061825

Abstract DEADLINE tomorrow! #tbsky #sshiftb #IDsky #vaccinesky #IAQ www.colloq2025.be

Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal and Orders Funds Restored www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... #publichealth #tbsky

4 Pinocchio's for Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from US foreign-aid cuts

🩻🩺”Hart was a pioneer in using chest x-rays to detect #tuberculosis At that point, no one was really screening for TB… if you were coughing up blood, you would get x-rays, but no one was getting ahead of the disease…Because of Hart, doctors were able to treat patients before they had complications”

Today is #WorldNoTobaccoDay with the theme "Bright products, dark intentions." Smoking heightens the risk of #Tuberculosis. Reducing tobacco use is crucial for preventing TB and safeguarding health. #publichealth #tobacco #EndTB #TBSky

mPox, DRC, USAID, airborne ID, borders and global health security #tbsky #episky : www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...

Rebuild TB programs with less precarious financial & governance structures #tbsky www.itg.be/en/health-st...

Assessed contributions to global health would preclude 1 *volatile* (donor) state having the capacity to destabilize it all. #tuberculosis #tbsky #TBfighters #EpiSky#PublicHealth dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

We have to help shield our US academic counterparts (and the vibrant global student body studying there), not isolate or ostracize US academics.

The ~ 50% cut to US-support for TB programs will result in 25.2–38.5 million new Mtb infections, ~6.1-9.1% increase. We can anticipate ~ 3–6M incident symptomatic TB episodes,~ 2.1-4.1% rise. Preventable TB deaths of at least 1.1M www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Elisa Ardizzoni & Co show worrisome acquired Phenotypic and genotypic resistance to bedaquiline in patients with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis—experiences from Armenia | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

I reviewed the 281-page spreadsheet of 5,341 USAID awards cancelled. >90% seemed investments worthy of my tax $. I saw USAID as a colonial control arm in my youth. But USAID must have shifted, because most of these grants aimed to help local CBOs/NGOs to do useful health, ed, justice tasks.

TB ❤️ draconian cuts to food security, housing, SSI, USAID, PEPFAR, CDC. Austerity & mass incarceration are the secret sauce that fuel TB transmission here and abroad- 👩‍🎓US History is clear. #Episky #PublicHealth Reagan-Era Actions Hampered Fight on TB www.nytimes.com/1995/10/09/o...

On World TB Day, Isabel Cuella reminds us that as we move toward testing for early asymptomatic TB, we must still stay mindful of over-Dx and over-Tx of RR-TB. #TB #ITM #EpiSky #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1093/cid/...

I would like to emphasize that NL is specifically recruiting US scientists who can play ultimate in rain & (gale force) windy conditions - high release forehand can compensate for low H-Index. nltimes.nl/2025/03/19/n...

Almost a brave msg from ECMID, but no direct rebuke of ASM caving on DEI. “Global impact of US policy changes; the ESCMID perspective “ - Clinical Microbiology and Infection www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119...

On Ch.12: the scientific backstory is useful, but so juicy with dysfunctional aerobiologist relationship drama and rivalries. The aerosol v droplet egos go waaaaay back. The ride or die droplet crew were cut throat, even then. I❤️Air-Borne.

This 😭 via @economist.com

TB stays infectious in the air overtime by travelling in tiny crystals (like space capsules), keeping O2 out and humidity in. TB is the 'Captain of Death' because of its ship. #EpiSky #PublicHealth #TB www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nolan nails it. The wheels are coming off our TB programs worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

apnews.com/article/scie... Out of the lab and into the streets: researchers can draft short, clear sentences when req'd

Data are the oxygen of public health. We can help societies to keep breathing with decentralized F. A. I. R. data principles. We bought these data with our tax $ and we all own them.

1 brave bureaucrat’s memo (Nick Enrich’s) helps to win 2 billion $ due to global health orgs. We can each make a difference.

These are essential workers, especially with the public health polycrisis (measles+ H5N1+ economic downturn)that is looming.

"Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest TB-burden countries confirm that funding withdrawals are already dismantling essential services, threatening the global fight against TB." @who.int calling attention to impact of US funding cuts on #tuberculosis #IDsky 🧪 www.who.int/news/item/05...

US State Department halts monitoring of air pollution via embassies, it’s time for citizen science and low-cost frugal monitors to crowd source these data world-wide. Set it up. Do your part.