Sessions are going really well at Day 1 of the BIA 28th Annual Scientific Meeting with Spring Trainee Day 2026, with a packed room and great engagement throughout the morning. #InfectionTrainees #InfectiousDiseases #BIASpring2026

🎉 Milestone moment! MIC Podcast has officially hit 1,000 downloads 🎙️ Thanks to our listeners, speakers & contributors for supporting conversations that matter in infection. More great episodes to come 👉 www.britishinfection... #MICpodcast #InfectiousDiseases #BIApodcast

What's the most convoluted route you had to take to get to Munich? #escmidglobal2026 We've heard about plane>train train>train and even ferry>train Any others?

The BIA are at #escmidglobal2026 today. We'll be posting some interesting snippets from the day (Takeover by council member Michael Blank @mbblank.bsky.social)

Listen to next MIC episode on BIA website 🎧🖥️ Tune into Dr Amy Belfield & Dr Michael Blank for ‘Immune aging in people living with HIV (on and off treatment), and using heat treatment for Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria’. ➡️ www.britishinfection... #MICpodcast #InfectiousDiseases

Pure inadvertent comedy gold #IDSky

Published today in The Lancet Global Health: A modelling study on current worldwide trends in humanitarian and developmental assistance finds that cuts up to 2030 are projected to cause up to 22.6m additional deaths, inc. 5.4m children u5. Available Open Access - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🎙️ The next episode of MIC podcast is here! 🦠 Tune in to Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (including the rise in serogroup 026) & findings from the recent Infection Trainee Workforce Survey. 🎧 Listen now ➡️ www.britishinfection... #MICpodcast #Infection

🎙️ Episode 3 of the MIC podcast is here! 🦠 Tune in to Dr Amy Belfield & Dr Michael Blank for “How to get published in BIA journals with the editors, Professor Martin Wiselka and Professor Rob Read” ➡️ www.britishinfection... #MICpodcast #InfectiousDiseases #InfectionScience

📣 Microbiology Network teams across England BIA Clinical Services Committee wants to connect with the 29 NHSE/NHSI Microbiology Network Leads to share BIA work & align practices. 👉 Know your local lead? If they’re happy to be contacted, please email [email protected]

🎙️ MIC podcast Ep. 2 is out now! 🦠 Dr Amy Belfield & Dr Michael Blank return with insights on new vaccines for gonorrhoea & how climate change is already altering infection prevalence in the UK. 🎧 Listen here: www.britishinfection... #MICpodcast #InfectiousDiseases #BIApodcast

🎙️ Today we launch the first podcast in the series of MIC! 🦠 Join UK infection trainees Dr Amy Belfield and Dr Michael Blank in our first MIC Pilot Episode ➡️ www.buzzsprout.com/2... 📲 Available now on all major platforms – tune in to the conversation! #MICpodcast #BIApodcast #Infection

🎙️ Introducing MIC – new BIA podcast! 🦠 Launching 16 Oct, join Dr Amy Belfield & Dr Michael Blank as they chat with authors from Journal of Infection & Clinical Infection Practice. 🎧 Teaser’s live! share.descript.com/view/O8t3o3S... #MICpodcast #InfectiousDiseases #BIApodcast #InfectionScience

One of my favourite recent pastimes is looking through Keir Starmer's old Guardian op-eds. Here's a great one, from 2003. (h/t @tom-clark.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Pretty amazing graphic to go with the @financialtimes.com article about the cost of Trump's attack on US science NIH is HUGE! www.ft.com/content/67fd...

Stories In The Press: Exploring the philosophical connection between Bob Dylan and Emmanuel Levinas. Could Dylan be embracing Levinas's notions of alterity?

I think about my trans friends. I think about how scared they are. I think about the ways this government is targeting them, demonizing them, steadily eroding their rights and erasing them from sight. I think about what it would feel like if this were done to my people. I remember that it was.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - nice review and global prevalence number!

"The UK currently has the worst paternity leave offer in Europe [at] maximum of 2 weeks' paid leave" Among other things: mothers can't drive for 6 weeks after c-section and babies often in-and-out of hospital with follow-up care. Lack of paternity leave = stress, resentment + limited productivity.

🧪 UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in West Midlands region. #IDSky #EpiSky 🏥 Individual is currently well & was admitted to a High Consequence Infectious Disease unit 📰 Currently no evidence of onwards transmission from this case 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Very excited about this paper... minimal data on penicillin allergy outside of UK/US/Aus www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016... #allergy #ID

ADL: Never again* *conditions may apply

this article made me weepy in the best way possible

I get varying to responses to my last name when I'm on call. Even at 2am I've had both: 1-haha what a funny name 2-oh you must be related to X in Manchester, whose brother is Solly, do you know him? >Happy to be #baigeled

It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU

By some remarkable turn, Mishpacha magazine mentions Emmanuel Levinas and Chouchani this week #shabbatreads

New game idea for #chanukah: -With an opponent, each take turns to name a restaurant the other went to in the last five years -Then the opponent has to describe where the toilets are -Keep going until one of you gets stuck >The brain retains so much useless information

Looking for a nuanced reply to "what are you doing on #christmas" that doesn't involve being economical with the truth