You may have seen my substack posts on veterinary antimicrobial a while back... well VetMicro.com has been born! A dedicated website for antimicrobial stewardship and infectious disease education. It's early days but some exciting stuff is coming! #VetMicro #VetCMID #VetMed #VeterinaryMedicine

Hank Green's commentary on the scientific paper touches on a lot of what academics find frustrating about the 'scientific paper' (www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDfs...) @hankgreen.bsky.social maybe you should chat to @octopus-ac.bsky.social to see how they view scientific publishing of the future

An interesting, less obvious adverse effect of erratic weather and heatwaves. The article also highlights the increased use of fluids which could affect healthcare economics and sustainability 😐

New CDC podcast on CPE (carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales) in animals. Unfortunately, we're going to have to deal with these highly resistant bacteria more in animals and people in coming years. tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary... www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2026/05/arti...

Anyone in #IDsky know of good data on ototoxicity/nephrotoxicity of ODD gentamicin Vs amikacin? Clinical or translational! All I can find is ODD Vs MDD but often not comparing the two drugs...

The group rightly pointed out that common terminology and data sharing would facilitate One Health AMR Surveillance. Should be doing some work on this soon so keep an eye out!

If you ever want to feel like you're going insane, I highly recommend reading the methods for the UKs #AMR surveillance reports for the various monitoring programmes and trying to figure out what they're actually doing and if resistance in one even means the same thing in another 🤦

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week is nearly over, so I've been collecting resources to help vets with #AntimicrobialStewardship! #VetMed #AMR #WAAW open.substack.com/pub/resistan...

E. coli can spread as quickly as swine flu, new research reveals. 🦠 For the first time, scientists can predict the rate at which gut bacteria pass between people — a major step towards tackling antibiotic-resistant infections. Read here ⤵️ sanger.ac.uk/news_item/ad...

One for the surgeons today. Many vets perform surgery on a regular basis, so understanding infection prevention and antimicrobial prophylaxis is key in prevent surgical site infections and promoting responsible antimicrobial use! open.substack.com/pub/resistan...

Two investigations reveal how resistant bacteria may have spread from pets to people Molecular analysis and epidemiologic detective work helped uncover a hidden One Health link between human and pet clusters of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

"Closure of the Fleming Fund risks undermining UK leadership on AMR." BSAC is seeking urgent clarification from the Government regarding the UK’s future leadership on antimicrobial resistance (#AMR), following reports that the Fleming Fund – the UK’s flagship global AMR programme – is set to close.

‘MMR vaccination uptake rate for children by the age of five in Liverpool is just 73% ... The World Health Organisation says a threshold of 95% is needed to achieve herd immunity’ Please protect child by allowing them to be vaccinated. If you are worried, talk to your doctor. Misinformation kills.

A couple of years ago, I bought the book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reno Eddo-Lodge. I'm ashamed to say I haven't read it until now. If you haven't, I recommend you do. Today, I'm committing to monthly donations to the British Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society.

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

#OneHealthEvent One Health Investigations of Outbreaks and Spillover Events - on Coursera is a course of 10 content modules and didactic lectures. Find more: www.coursera.org/learn/one-he... #OneHealth #OneHealthResources

Excited to share the first beta release of AMRrules at #ABPHM! (Poster 42 tonight) interpretamr.github.io/AMRrules

The new version of R for AMR is ready! 🧫 Automated antibiograms 💻 Integration to WHONET 🧪 Updated CLSI and EUCAST breakpoints 💡 Free amr-for-r.org #biostatistics #episky #Statistics #AMR

Absolutely thrilled to present our latest review, where we discuss how host microenvironment and bacterial subversion strategies can undermine traditional antimicrobial sensitivity testing, and whether better models may one day get us "beyond the MIC" #IDSKy rdcu.be/emYoh

Just got back from my own Stag Do, on a beautiful bank holiday weekend, to find out that I am now officially a resident of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology!

🐶🐱 Companion animals need #AntimicrobialStewardship too! In our new SR/MA (led by Dr. Fiona Emdin), we examined short vs. long antibiotic durations for UTIs in dogs & cats.📉 Pooled RR for cure = 0.55 (95% CI: 0.23–1.27), very low certainty. 🔓 doi.org/10.1186/s129... More high-quality data needed!

Sharing our new @thelancet.bsky.social piece on spillover prevention & #OneHealth in the WHO #PandemicAgreement. We call on states to adopt the agreement next month. Huge thanks to @alexandrafinch.bsky.social for leading this. Let's get this done and make the world a safer place! bit.ly/3E7RKeu

Was thinking of a comparative article on beta-lactams use for pyelonephritis as NICE recommends PO cefalexin but upon reading the literature, I can't make it make sense 🤷 EUCAST only has a UTI breakpoint, PKPD suggests poor empirical choice, but clinical studies seem ok. Can #IDSky help me out here?

A month ago I started a fortnightly newsletter on veterinary infections disease, clinical microbiology and antimicrobial stewardship🦠This week covered some latest updates in small animal viral diseases, check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/resistan... #VetSky

Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, one of the most exhaustive global studies on the subject ever conducted finds. This is *us*, people: you + me. It's up to all of us to get into the fight for the natural world. 🌏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What I don’t get is why the official position continues to be… “…the risk to livestock and the general public is low.” This variant of influenza seems to infect everything…how is that a low risk? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Recently, I was asked for my opinion on a novel veterinary UTI diagnostic. While the technology is fascinating, it is a good example of why sensitivity and specificity aren't always the best measure. Read more in my latest post here: resistanceisfutile.substack.com/p/sensitivit... #vetsky #IDsky

Interested in One Health or ever wondered what primary care is like on the other side? Check out this event from Royal Society of Medicine discussing the challenges seen in human and veterinary primary care! #MedSky #VetSky #OneHealth lnkd.in/edfazfmQ

Emerging #Sporothrix brasiliensis is fueling a cat-transmitted sporotrichosis #outbreak in Northeast Brazil. Over 1,100 cases identified in Recife's metro region (2016-2021), with zoonotic transmission linked to Rio de Janeiro strains. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PublicHealth #Zoonoses

I think one of the biggest lies we were told in medical school is that the lungs and the urinary tract are sterile... I guess lung and urinary microbiomes were not a thing yet... #meded #medsky #foamed #idsky www.nature.com/articles/nru... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A previously unknown immunological function of the proteasome is its ability to release bactericidal compounds. This discovery presents a potential paradigm shift in antimicrobial therapy. It may contribute to addressing the global challenge of #AMR. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long-form articles take time. In an effort to be more active I'm introducing Stewardship Solutions, I fortnightly short articles with brief tips and info for veterinary infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship #VetSky #IDsky #MicroSky open.substack.com/pub/resistan...

Taking a break from antimicrobial stewardship to talk about diagnostic stewardship and decision making (it's really just antibiotic stewardship in disguise 🤫). Urine samples make a great model for this as the interpretation can vary massively by sampling method! open.substack.com/pub/resistan...

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

My letter to ASM leaders that I sent is too long to be posted here, so I'm going to post highlights in case anyone else needs information for their letter. 🧵

Interesting work. Nice to see some less invasive tests are non-inferior to current methods! Hope to see this validated with a prospective study for diagnosis or at least ruling in/out hypoadrenocorticism

Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America. A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT. Scary stuff. 📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

And I thought the food-borne outbreaks of mycobacteria in cats from raw diets was bad... Now we have to worry about HPAI too

Another super clever paper just out...really helpful study! www.nature.com/articles/s41...