"AI can only know what already exists on the internet. It can't be something about you that you invent for yourself tomorrow because that's not on the internet yet. So, you can stay ahead of AI by continually innovating in ways AI does not have access to" - Neil deGrasse Tyson

It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️ Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity! C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊 #IDSky quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...

If universal healthcare means being able to access care without financial burden, what proportion of the population that delays seeking healthcare due to cost means we no longer have UHC? Because apparently 7.7% of Australians postponed/avoided seeing the GP because of cost #auspol #medsky

Netanyahu says the war is not over My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Still thinking about @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social’s opening speech at the @theunion.org conference on TB “Poverty is expensive. Food is medicine” John totally gets what many don’t - TB is not just a medical problem, it is the quintessential biososcial problem that needs bio social solutions

For all those men who, on International Women's Day decry "oh but when is it ever the men's day".... it's today mate. November 19. Happy International Men's Day.

💡Australia's CDC is coming in Jan - this Letter to the Editor argues that now is the time to map Australia's applied #epidemiology workforce, to improve our health security. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #PublicHealth @publichealthaus.bsky.social

"CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research" my column on the CSIRO research cuts #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

"Too often #AMR is framed as an immense although conceptually simple challenge: delay resistance to current drugs and produce new drugs. But we need to go beyond this, we need to pull every lever at our disposal to minimise infection even before we turn to drugs." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🎙️ Just published: Communicable E40: AMR in conflict and crisis zones Hosted by Nav Narayanan & Thomas Tängdén w/ invited guests Aula Abbara (UK), Guido Granata (Italy), Tuomas Aro (Finland) Listen on #Communicable: #IDSky #Clinmicro #WAAW2025 #AMR @taescmid.bsky.social

Rather frustrating when you read a recently published paper but the corresponding author is no longer contactable. Sigh.

Happy 1st day of the World AMR Awareness Week! To start the week off, the 2nd AGAR Kids Biennial report was published Small increases in the %R of Enterobacterales and Enterococcus spp. isolates highlight the importance of ongoing age-delimited surveillance #WAAW #IDsky #IDepi #MedSky #Microsky

Today @who.int released their 2025 #tuberculosis report, and figures remain unacceptable: 1.2 million children and young adolescents fell ill in 2024, and a staggering 43% were never diagnosed and thus missed lifesaving treatment. Act now to close the deadly gap! msfaccess.org/msf-responds...

The state of infectious diseases - they are not going away - Ebola in DRC - VHF in Ethiopia - Lassa in Nigeria - RVF in Senegal - Polio in Germany - Oropouche in S America - Cholera - Chikungunya - COVID19 - Measles - Influenza A bad time to demolish public health and funding for science

THE MANY SHAPES OF BACTERIA #science #infographic #art #sciart #bacteria #microbiology #bacterium #scientificart #biology

Interested in helping research looking at immune responses to vaccines against mosquito-borne diseases? If you’re 18 years or older with no serious immune problems, you may be eligible for our study in Melbourne. 🔗 For more info visit https://bit.ly/47JVRIl

A lot of people when talking about Gough's economic record seriously underplay how beyond comprehension the 1973 Oil Crisis was. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Thought this was a good tshirt choice for an event at the library titled "AusPol Explained". If you're not Aussie but you know what the references in this post are, where the bloody hell are ya? #auspol

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

Parliament just passed into law the independent Australian Centre for Disease Control 🎉 The interim CDC will now move from under the Department of Health, Ageing, and Disability to an independent entity as of 1 Jan 2026! #auspol #idepi #episky #medsky #idsky

Now this is something to watch out for!

How will population shifts affect the future burden of #AMR? 👶👩‍🦳 🧫 We use a new modelling framework to explore future projections of #AMR by age and by sex, as well as interventions for control, building on our earlier findings that AMR isn’t uniform across demographics. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This shows just how stupid, shortsighted, captured and corrupt Australia's political class are, they have torched our potential collective prosperity. Will they do the same with a rare and precious minerals boom? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

ANU bought shares in Israeli weapons maker after pledging to stop controversial arms investments

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.

Only two weeks until the best time of the year for the #AMR community... World AMR Awareness Week! Held every year from Nov 18-24, let me know what you've got planned for #WAAW2025

Antibiotic resistance selection and deselection in municipal wastewater from 47 countries. #antibioticresistance #wastewater #antibiotics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @sciencevs.bsky.social episode on Daylight Savings missed a crucial component of the argument - pets have no clue why the mcflock their dinner isn't in their bowl at the time their tummy says it's food time... #scicomm #getridofdaylightsavings #dontspringforward

a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37% theconversation.com/involving-wo...

Media reaction from across the world, in multiple languages, as new report reveals that inequality is driving pandemics, endangering us all - and how to fix it Watch the launch www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adat... Press release www.unaids.org/en/resources... Report www.unaids.org/en/resources...

The Strummingbird festival is on at Claremont Showgrounds tonight. I live 6.5km away, and the music is so loud that my whole apartment is shaking from the bass. Our town FB page is going bonkers. Can't imagine how loud it is at the venue. And on a school night too!

Relying on the beneficence of private actors leaves the world vulnerable to the shifting opinions (or, conversely, the intransigence) of a handful of people gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

The #IDEpi team at @thekidsau.bsky.social are looking for a part-time Aboriginal Research Officer. #jobalert #academicsky

Please take a moment to understand the gravity of what is unfolding in Darfur right now. www.globaldispatches.org/p/a-genocida...

Come along to my slightly silly and hopefully informative talk on how data go from some scribbles on a paper questionnaire to a nice, clean dataset Thanks to the ARDC for having me! #databs #rstats 📅 Nov 5 at 12pm AEDT 📍 Online webinar 🔗 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/where-do-d...

It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.

Considering the state of the world and the cuts to medical research elsewhere, not funding medical research in Australia is terribly short sighted. Now is the time for Australia to step up and fill the gaps left by others, not bail on our future. #releasethefullmrff #auspol

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties. Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan. Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

Would you rather have an ethical/sustainable phone with Google android OS, or a Google pixel phone with a secure de-googled android OS?

“ Even 1 attack can break health systems down for years,” says Haar, pointing to pivotal Kunduz Hospital attack in Afghanistan. “They never rebuilt that hospital. They rebuilt a clinic, a smaller clinic, there years later. But there’s no trauma hospital on that site now” share.google/VfpE3mgXjC3M...

Someone reached out to me about attending a conference because they read about my work in a news article... that I didn't even know had been written! Gotta love the clickbait title "Bombshell warning for Aussie kids' health" #scicomms #AMR #academicsky

One of the most prescribed drugs in Australia - a cholesterol pill - is 125 times more expensive in the US! For more info ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/our-pbs...

Here who has signed the Pentagon's press policy: OAN Epoch Times Federalist Real America’s Voice Lindell TV Gateway Pundit Post Millennial Human Events National Pulse RedState TPUSA Timcast Washington Reporter Daily Signal Just the News & some Turkish media and freelancers

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong states that "the UN is in crisis" that is often seen to be "falling short" on all three pillars of peace and security, development, and human rights... maybe because the countries that hold veto powers do not uphold these pillars in their own countries 🤔

📢 We are calling for countries around the world to accept Palestinian patients in need of lifesaving medical treatment. People living in Gaza with life-threatening conditions cannot wait for the health system to be rebuilt. They need medical evacuation.

Increase scope and funding for Australian Centre for Disease Control, Federal Government told www.croakey.org/increase-sco...