This is part of a new section in Clinical Infectious Diseases which Hopkins ID doc and ethicist @katesolivia.bsky.social & I started this year. Since you two are well-established rabble-rousers, please let us know if you have ideas for articles!

Great article on dogma in ID (with parallels to critical care) We have HUGE problems re: guidelines making recommendations & *redefining* entire diseases based on minimal data. Gov't metrics exacerbate this further. @bradspellberg.bsky.social @absteward.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social #EMIMCC

We are eager to see your stories & ideas about ethical issues in the field of infectious diseases! Ethics Rounds in CID is a new opportunity to share & discover work at the intersection of ethics & ID. Reach out to me & @timlaheymd.bsky.social with any questions. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

“We hereby inaugurate the Ethics Rounds section of Clinical Infectious Diseases to give home and voice to the full scope of infectious diseases ethics, from grand to granular, from bedside to global.” So proud to work with @katesolivia.bsky.social on this new home for #bioethics dialog #medsky

Excited to share the updated CDC yellow book chapter on Immunocompromised Host and travel, here is the official updated website from the CDC. Let me know if you have questions or comments. www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/...

Comment On: Respiratory Isolation for Tuberculosis: A Historical Perspective ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

Do you have ideas for sessions about infections in immunocompromised hosts for @escmid.bsky.social Global 2026? ESGICH is looking for people to help with session planning and concepts. To participate in the planning: forms.gle/1gAUw3UuBdxk... To submit a concept: forms.gle/SyFjuxnbUuCD...

it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power

A resistance for ignorance cannot overcome capriciousness. A resistance for capriciousness cannot overcome malice.

One of todays heroes: James Harrison, R.I.P. “Saving one baby is good,” he said, after his final donation in 2018. “Saving two million is hard to get your head around, but if they claim that’s what it is, I’m glad to have done it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Crucial to recognize where we fall short in getting everyone to transplant so we can do better and enhance equity

Improved Survival in Vascular Pythiosis with Surgery and Azithromycin, Doxycycline, and Itraconazole Therapy: A Phase II Multicenter, Open-Label, Single-Arm Trial ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

The consequences are intended.

Compare an institution’s response to restricting use of language about (or not even about) diversity, equity, and inclusion in grants, to the same institution’s response to cutting indirect costs. What values are being bent “for the sake of the work?” What values are being staunchly defended?

The 1st year class of Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellows is being terminated today. We don't know the fate of 2nd years nor the future of the EIS program. CDC’s 2-yr EIS fellowship recruits talent from across the world and trains MDs, PhDs, nurses, vets, and others in field epidemiology.

Great example of the interpretation of “journalistic objectivity” that sees lobotomizing yourself as preferable to ever drawing any firm conclusions from any amount of evidence

While immunocompromised individuals had a heterogeneous antibody response to RSV vaccines, those who received the adjuvanted RSVPreF3-AS01 vaccine showed better neutralization. ja.ma/418nvNj #MedSky

“You’ve got scientists who should be thinking creatively about their next experiment ... and instead are thinking about their car payment or their house payment because a lot of early-career scientists live paycheck to paycheck" www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Does anyone else feel like the planet parade is laughing at us?

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

I’m a seasoned global health teacher I’m struggling these days to explain the state of the world to young people, give them hope or answer their inevitable question: “what can we do?” How are other teachers coping??

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

STI Treatment Guidelines are down, for now go to nnptc.org where our group has housed STI and HIV PrEP guidelines #HIVSky #STISky #IDSky

A good read, but I disagree. The touchstone must be ETHICS. Science & data are not trivial to ethics. Knowing facts and probabilities helps us predict how some of our actions will affect others and the world. But science & data are not tantamount to ethics.

🆕 AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Prevention and Treatment of Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation in At-Risk Individuals @amergastroassn.bsky.social #IDsky #Liversky www.gastrojournal.org/action/showP...

Hidradenitis Suppurativa is usually a derm run consult but occasionally ID gets involves to help w antibiotic therapy in the setting of a severe acute flare. This seminar in @thelancet.bsky.social is a fantastic update on the condition. I learned a lot. #IDSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Well, here's hoping we're just floundering, not foundering.

If guidelines are supposed to direct us toward the "right" thing to do, and determining, describing, and doing "right" things is the entire purview of ethics, then all guidelines must be ethics guidelines... right?

🙋I have a question! Happy New Year, #IDsky, #bioethicssky, and friends! Seeking your vast and varied wisdom to help me make the most of my 2025. ❓What makes you feel like you are growing in your profession?

Excited to share our article on RSV vaccine responses in immunocompromised patients published today in @jama.com. Many thanks to @williamwerbel.bsky.social and other co-authors for their hard work and support. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam.... #IDsky #TxID.

"Microaggressions" I have a tip for thinking about this word! "-aggression" here does NOT equal hostility. It refers to the demonstration or use of power, regardless of intent. We can commit microaggressions because we have power, even if we believe we harbor NO hostility.

Hello friends! After allowing my social media skills to atrophy at a former platform, I'm expecting a long rehabilitation period. But happy to be here among you.