🧪🤣 #syphilis Brilliant #MustSee for all following #SISS2025 in Shanghai or online Maybe @glaucomflecken.bsky.social would also have fainted at the worldwide shortage of benzathine penicillin @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social @joetucker.bsky.social @chidodc.bsky.social HT @catherineberry.bsky.social

@ncuscr.bsky.social is delighted to announce the twenty fellows who make up the ninth cohort of our Public Intellectuals Program. Learn more about the newest #PIPFellows: www.ncuscr.org/twenty-leadi...

#stihiv2025 🧪 day 2 Publish and thrive Enthusiasm for writing to publish you science is vital Great to be here with editors of 📣 Sexually Transmitted Infections 📣 Sexually Transmitted Diseases 📣 Journal of the IAS 📣 Sexual Health Me @joetucker.bsky.social Jason Ong Kees Rietmeijer Kenneth Mayer

Interested in youth (15-24 years old) co-creation? TDR are organizing a practical guide and seeking peer reviewers. We are particularly interested in LMIC researchers and people excited about youth engagement. Deadline for interest 30 July. Details: forms.gle/7yJzUYZ1Y4gG...

Looking forward to talking #STI 🧪 @stihiv2025.org with @chidodc.bsky.social @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social @oriolmitja.bsky.social @joetucker.bsky.social @picardonhealth.bsky.social @yhgrad.bsky.social @mckline98.bsky.social @stirig-lshtm.bsky.social

Strong panel moderated by Korede Adedeji at the CHANGE Challenge this week on writing grant applications. Thank you Dr Funto, Dr Ucheoma, and Dr Temi! @sesh-global.bsky.social

Interested in health research mentorship? TDR is organizing a practical guide and seeking peer reviewers. We are particularly interested in LMIC researchers, inside and outside of TDR networks. Deadline 2 July. Details: forms.gle/ojWwu319596h...

Japan embraces partnerships and open borders to facilitate conferences like APACC: excellent opening remarks from Ambassador Ryo Nakamura @uncglobalhealth.bsky.social

Writing a letter of recommendation for a woman? Here are three tips to make your letter more effective:

Great mentor mentee relationships are not transactional and are special in many ways from Dr Stefan Jansen from the University of Rwanda

Cuts to LGBTQ science have been severe and are likely driven illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...

Congrats to Dr Alice Zhang at Penn State on her NIDA K23 NOA - you rock! @uncglobalhealth.bsky.social

Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).

Walking increases creativity : cool study from Dr Marily Oppezzo at Stanford: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

The King of STI research: rest in power Dr King Homes www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...

“Don’t write for the Nobel laureates in your field. Write for the students — and your parents, because they want to read your writing more badly than anyone.” Brilliant piece from @vigocarpathian on writing rdcu.be/edUCp @NatureBiotech

Are you passionate about participatory health research? We are evaluating TDR’s guides to enhance their impact! Share your insights in this survey and shape the future of community-engaged research. Deadline April 23 survey: unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @sesh-global.bsky.social @who.int

Africa can and must lead on the HIV response - wonderful piece from LGH www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Love the early spring!

“What is something good that happened to you today” crowdsourced snippets from UNC Chapel Hill go viral www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/power...

UNC global health symposium going on now: globalhealth.unc.edu/event/3rd-an... @sesh-global.bsky.social @uncpublichealth.bsky.social

Young person with Schistosomiasia haematobium

800 million people have this worm in them - Ascaris . Recovered from a patient

Tell patients that they need to get vaccines. Helpful practical tips from Prof David Weber @sesh-global.bsky.social @ighid.bsky.social

Measles, polio, and whooping cough vaccination rates decreasing among US children : sad trends from Prof David Weber at UNC

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

women who lost income loss during COVID-19 faced increased barriers to family planning: www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo... great work from sara cavagnis and senior mentorship from Dr. Chelsea Morroni @lshtm.bsky.social @stirig-lshtm.bsky.social

Our systematic review in EclinicalMed highlights how financial incentives can enhance adolescent HIV treatment in high-burden countries. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @niaidnews.bsky.social @unicef.org @joetucker.bsky.social #UHCDAY #HIV #HealthcareInnovation #AdolescentHealth

Do you have a manuscript on sexual health among older adults? The journal Sexual Health is organizing a special collection on this important topic. Deadline 1 April 2025 www.publish.csiro.au/SH/SH24137

Interested in defining co-creation for health research? Our team is writing a conceptual piece on co-creation practical steps and methods. If interested, more details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - deadline 8 December @sesh-global.bsky.social

Differentiated service delivery can enhance virological suppression among adolescents with HIV: find our more at our systematic review: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @niaidnews.bsky.social @unicef.org @joetucker.bsky.social #AIDSDAY #HIV #HealthcareInnovation #AdolescentHealth

Adolescents who volunteered to help others had improvements in cardiovascular health. Cool RCT from Dr. Hannah M. Schreier at Penn State jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network around you. The microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social . 1/

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” -Anne Frank