ID Fellows Cup is coming soon! Just in time to help you prepare for @idweek.bsky.social and #BugBowl! Give them a follow and sign up!

Let's go UAB ID!

Final 24 hours! The more the merrier for both coaches and mentees!

🚨Deadline approaching! The IDSA MedEd Community of Practice's ID Abstract Guidance Program is returning to #IDWeek2025! Accepted presenters (oral or poster) will be paired with a mentor for 1:1 feedback, either in-person or virtual. Sign up to be a mentor by Aug. 1: bit.ly/44nHHMK

Calling all aspiring ID Clinician Educators - get connected with senior leaders in ID MedEd from across the country to help develop your academic career!

The 17 recently dismissed members of ACIP have written a letter do JAMA expressing their concerns about the abrupt dismissal and replacement 2 days later of 8 individuals. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Time honored tradition of #IDWeek abstracts getting worked on until the last moment. Happy abstract submission day to all who celebrate.

Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down. Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.

Opinion | Cheer up Democrats. The last time Republican tariffs created a worldwide recession, it ushered in 35 years of Democratic dominance, which led to Social Security, civil rights, and victory in World War II

Hive install day!

A case of leprosy presrnting with a chronic erythrmatous rash at UAB Inf Dis Case Conference. Remember leprosy is not uncommon, especially in the Southern US. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Fascinating case of flagyl-induced neurotoxicity presented this morning at UAB Inf Dis Case Conference www.cmaj.ca/content/193/...

Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Many people associated leading research universities with blue states, but red states also have some excellent medical research institutions, including UAB, UNC-Chapel Hill & the University of Texas system. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." - RFK Sr.

Bluesky appears to be the official social media platform for science: In Jan 2025, a Nature survey of 6,000 scientists found: ▶️ 70% are now on Bluesky ▶️ 53% say they left X ▶️ 13.6% say they use X more than Bluesky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Quarterly tradition, 30 LKA questions here I come. #IDSky

What an experience to see the 2024 #NCAAWVB National Championship Game with my dad and youngest daughter. Great game!

Any potential ID fellow looking for a fellowship? We have one opening! Come join our excellent and busy team and hospital (solid organ transplant, BMT, HIV, etc) at North Shore University Hospital, on the outskirts of NYC. Please reach out if any questions! physicians.northwell.edu/education/gr...

We're accepting applications for the upcoming ID Digital Institute (IDDI) class of 2025!! Join the community and learn more about using digital education for teaching+learning about ID! febrilepodcast.com/iddigitalins... App open thru Jan 6th! forms.gle/KHnVv8P9GNTp... #IDSky #IDMedEd

🚨2 ID fellowship spots are open at Rush/Cook County!🚨 🏙️ Train at 2 amazing hospitals in the beautiful city of Chicago! 🦠Unparalleled clinical experience in HIV, transplant, global health ❤️Amazing faculty (I’m biased) 👩‍⚕️: Contact Mariam Aziz: [email protected] 🔁please repost and spread the word!

So excited to welcome our next group of UAB ID fellows! #IDSky

Are you interested in clinical infectious diseases with strong helping of transplant ID with an amazing crew in an amazing city? Come join us at Jefferson Einstein! DM's are open

At @usfidfellowship.bsky.social we have openings for fellowship if anyone is interested! Contact me or the division office for information! #IDSky #MedSky #microSky

Colleagues: We have one unfilled position for July 2025 in our ID fellowship program at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Interested candidates please DM me or email at [email protected]. #IDSky #MedSky Please amplify 🙏🙏 www.mcw.edu/departments/...

Me and 11 are traveling to Louisville later this month for the @ncaavolleyball.bsky.social excited to see the bracket that was just announced. Who will be the final four? #volleyball

“RFK Jr. has apparently been trying to claim that he is not an anti-vaccine activist. This is a contemptible lie. Until he began his ill-fated presidential campaign, he had spent years being exactly that.” This is how you write about RFK Jr. Speak truth to power. www.science.org/content/blog...

@msgerc.bsky.social symposium during #InFocus2024 Bogota @tmccarty2010.bsky.social @natebahrid.bsky.social Indira Berrio

Almost 2 years ago I began a journey to earn a Certificate in Narrative Medicine (sps.columbia.edu/academics/ma...) as a way to better teach connecting with patients. As of today, my final grade has been submitted. It has been an incredible journey of growth and discovery. #IDSky

RFK Jr is an extraordinarily dangerous man, with a body count in Samoa, and any reporter who just calls him “a vaccine skeptic” is doing the world a profound disservice.

“It’s like having somebody who believes the Earth is flat as head of NASA,” says @pauloffit.bsky.social. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...