Lizzie Dale, the STASHH BSIG Representative, has given an insightful run-down of BSIG's new competencies assessment tool for microscopy in a newly published blog. 🔬 Read Lizzie's full blog via our LinkedIn page: bit.ly/47wsf2t to find out more about the new tool and how to access it.

And now for something completely different: #EntSoc25 Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...

Surely every case of congenital syphilis could be prevented with tests and treatment but important message never the less....

Podcast with me and @turiking.bsky.social for the @milnerevolution.bsky.social series, on plasmid evolution over the last 100 years, talking about our ( @cazares-adr.bsky.social , Nick Thomson, @sarah1alexander.bsky.social & co) recent paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... youtu.be/Mzr3TD4ijs0?...

100% of Penile cancer is preventable!

Next up - interesctionality and inequalities. IUSTI2025

Very informative presentation by Kate Nambiar - common presentations in trans men accessing sexual health services #IUSTI

Fabulous presentation by Dr. Janet Wilson at IUSTI2025. We should treat BV as a neglected condition

Why does BV not resolve? Because of biofilms! #IUSTI

Partner treatment for BV works and is well tolerated #IUSTI25

With regards to BV there is correlation between male and female microbiomes. #IUSTI25

Serious adverse events associated with BV. However treatment has not changed or improved for 30 years. #IUSTI25

Good night, friends. Tonight was deeply painful. We at CDC do this work because we care. It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Great to be in Athens for the 38th Annual IUSTI Europe Congress (International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infection). I’m presenting our work on Awareness, Attitudes and early Use of DoxyPEP in Ireland!

Regulatory barriers prevent good quality tests getting to market! The system needs to be reformed #IUSTI2025

We need to reduce the incidence of GC why we have drugs that work: in MGEN we need to reduce testing, and preserve the drugs that we have. IUSTI25 - amazing presentation by David Lewis

Cephalosporin resistance in Ng globally is a worry and there are lots of areas which we do not know what is going on #IUSTI25

We need regulatory reform for tests! IUSTI25

Tests are getting smaller, better, faster

Our lab tests are too sensitive and detect exposure and not infection #IUSTI25

Not every bug causes an infection! We don’t need hyper sensitive tests

What do we need for diagnostics? Tools to detect for resistance! The STI bugs travel together #IUSTI25

Fabulous session organised by #BASHH meeting the #IUSTI25 scholars

Fabulous to be at the WHO workshop STI control in difficult times #IUSTI25

I made another attempt at providing some insight into the journals process (To prevent procrastination, I didn’t proofread it. So don’t judge it too harshly) open.substack.com/pub/onisillo...

Samples from 1917 have helped identify the genetic culprits responsible for the spread of treatment-resistant infections 🔎 By mapping plasmid evolution since the pre-antibiotic era, experts found that a minority of plasmids cause most of the multidrug resistance in the world 🧵

Talking to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social about plasmids and bacterial adaptability was a delight. A brilliant metaphor every other sentence, almost.

If you can't face reading War and Peace or my massive thread, I was interviewed on BBC Science in Action, you can hear me 12 mins into this episode (we are not the headline paper, which was on autism): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy #WorldContraceptionDay! BASHH believes in the importance of non-judgemental access to a wide range of contraception options, and improving access to effective education and services. Access Brook's advice on contraception: bit.ly/47dc20p #WCD2025

The quote of the day about griffins! Brilliant tread- about plasmid evolution- Game oF Thrones at a molecular biology level

Much improved over the preprint, and the preprint was awesome.

please read this thread - even if you don;t get time to read the paper!!!!! just the best - great work, really really great.

(Alluding to what happened for chlamydia in Sweden 🇸🇪 for those new to the area sti.bmj.com/content/96/5...)

History repeats itself: more disappearing STIs from molecular target mutation 😬 Great 🕵️ work by @sarah1alexander.bsky.social and colleagues!

How should #XDR #shigellosis cases be treated? Our new education piece at #BMJ #SexuallyTransmittedInfections explores specific empirical treatment. Our recommendations are subsequent to our microbial genomic, phenotypic #AMR, and clinical/pharmacological analyses. sti.bmj.com/content/earl... 🧫💻🛟🧪🧬🦠

This week's rapid communications describe ➡️A strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae producing false negative results on Xpert CT/NG assay in England 🔎An atypical sixfold rise in #influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 cases in Denmark during summer Full issue here 👉 bit.ly/eus2036 #EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #STISky 🛟🦠🧫⚕️

The @ukhsa.bsky.social STI Reference Lab has identified a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae which evades detection on the Cepheid Xpert CT/GC Assay. Read more in our eurosurveillance article www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

Our veterans put their bodies on the line for our freedoms. And in return, we demand even more control over their bodies? Abortion is a medical decision to be made by the patient and their medical providers. Limiting abortion access increases maternal mortality. We are seeing that in Texas already

Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination. #HealthForAll

#stihiv2025 🧪 Closing plenary @drjeannem.bsky.social on #DoxyPEP Clearly reduces #syphilis #chlamydia But #gonorrhoea… Staph. aureus resistance and group A Strep increases Potential to drive ceftriaxone resistance in N. gonorrhoeae - which will be a *real problem

#stihiv2025 🧪 Closing plenary @drjeannem.bsky.social Great promise of long-acting HIV PrEP, if available, accessible, in a functioning health system All it takes is a disaster… Like withdrawal of PEPFAR - a humanitarian crisis 👇 @avac.org counter of preventable deaths

“Silence equals death. We cannot go back there. We must resist erasure and rebuild trust with communities we’ve abandoned.” — Jeanne Marrazzo at the #STIHIV2025 closing, calling for renewed #STI & #HIV activism, diversified funding & unapologetic advocacy. @stihiv2025.org

Always an inspiration Dr. Marrazzo - provides loads of hope, keep passionately advocating! We need honest conversations, work with our community partners and don’t lose ground - fantastic #STIHIV2025

In Oxford? Got kids? There’s a great exhibition of stunning blown-up photos of insects (plus lots more) at the Museum of Natural History www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/micros...

Adolescent girls x6 more likely than boys in eastern and Southern Africa to acquire HIV

What about the women???? No good news for women.... again "Dr Marrazzo"

chlamydia manipulates neutrophils and host cells! master manipulator #STIHIV2025

Vaccines for STIs - good start

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 3 Helen Rees on STI vaccines 💉 Vaccine hesitancy a growing problem to address if we want STI vaccines 💉 to be successful Confidence Complacency Convenience Context