Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
@tkes.bsky.social
Clinical microbiology in LMIC & ID Epidemiology. Concerned about inequities and scientific integrity, yet dyed-in-the-wool optimist. All views my own, but I share because sharing is caring. (he/him/his)
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
@tkes.bsky.social
· Nov 20
🦠💊During #WAAW, #OUCRU, partners, and local authorities met to improve antimicrobial resistance control and microbiology capacity 🧫🔬in underserved areas. 🌏
💡Solutions like MiniLab and Hub-and-Spoke were tested. It works!
👉Read more: t.co/towS7BF3uQ
#AMR #IDSky #MicroSky #GlobalHealth
💡Solutions like MiniLab and Hub-and-Spoke were tested. It works!
👉Read more: t.co/towS7BF3uQ
#AMR #IDSky #MicroSky #GlobalHealth
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@lshtm.bsky.social will be running a 3-day online short course on using multiple imputation to handle missing data on 23-25th June 2026. Teaching staff include James Carpenter, Ruth Keogh, Clémence Leyrat, and myself. Further details about the course at www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Using Multiple Imputation | LSHTM
www.lshtm.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM
@lshtm.bsky.social will be running a 3-day online short course on using multiple imputation to handle missing data on 23-25th June 2026. Teaching staff include James Carpenter, Ruth Keogh, Clémence Leyrat, and myself. Further details about the course at www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
A dear family friend & force of nature died recently.
The next-to-last sentence of his obituary show he knew how two timely, relevant things were connected:
“In lieu of flowers, Jamie would want you to vote out the fascists and get yourself and your children vaccinated.”
The next-to-last sentence of his obituary show he knew how two timely, relevant things were connected:
“In lieu of flowers, Jamie would want you to vote out the fascists and get yourself and your children vaccinated.”
James P. Dahlberg Obituary (2026) - Morehead, KY - Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals, Inc. - Morehead
View James P. Dahlberg's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
obits.mlive.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
A dear family friend & force of nature died recently.
The next-to-last sentence of his obituary show he knew how two timely, relevant things were connected:
“In lieu of flowers, Jamie would want you to vote out the fascists and get yourself and your children vaccinated.”
The next-to-last sentence of his obituary show he knew how two timely, relevant things were connected:
“In lieu of flowers, Jamie would want you to vote out the fascists and get yourself and your children vaccinated.”
01 Nov, Sleuths: 👋Hey, @bmj.com ! This RCT you just published is filled with 🐂💩 and data is obviously fabricated😱
14 Nov, BMJ: 🙏"Might we [...] harness the talents of internet sleuths who are expert at identifying flaws?"
[🐌🥱]
05 Jan, Sleuths: 😤Hey, still not retracted
05 Jan, BMJ: Let me cook!🥸
14 Nov, BMJ: 🙏"Might we [...] harness the talents of internet sleuths who are expert at identifying flaws?"
[🐌🥱]
05 Jan, Sleuths: 😤Hey, still not retracted
05 Jan, BMJ: Let me cook!🥸
How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o...
#retraction #stemcells #cardiology
@erictopol.bsky.social
#retraction #stemcells #cardiology
@erictopol.bsky.social
An Open Letter to the BMJ Editorial Board
to: Editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi , kabbasi@bmj.com Executive editor, Theodora Bloom , tbloom@bmj.com Head of research, Elizab...
deevybee.blogspot.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:59 AM
01 Nov, Sleuths: 👋Hey, @bmj.com ! This RCT you just published is filled with 🐂💩 and data is obviously fabricated😱
14 Nov, BMJ: 🙏"Might we [...] harness the talents of internet sleuths who are expert at identifying flaws?"
[🐌🥱]
05 Jan, Sleuths: 😤Hey, still not retracted
05 Jan, BMJ: Let me cook!🥸
14 Nov, BMJ: 🙏"Might we [...] harness the talents of internet sleuths who are expert at identifying flaws?"
[🐌🥱]
05 Jan, Sleuths: 😤Hey, still not retracted
05 Jan, BMJ: Let me cook!🥸
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Men are using Grok to undress women and children on Twitter. When asked to stop, their response has largely been to tell women it’s their own fault for posting photos (à la “what was she wearing?”). Elno is aware and refuses to stop it because, well, he likes it. We need regulation of AI yesterday.
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Men are using Grok to undress women and children on Twitter. When asked to stop, their response has largely been to tell women it’s their own fault for posting photos (à la “what was she wearing?”). Elno is aware and refuses to stop it because, well, he likes it. We need regulation of AI yesterday.
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
This project started with a question that genuinely bothered our team...
👉How did a last-line #AntibioticResistance gene show up in the community in New Zealand?
#PublicHealth #Genomics #OneHealth #DrugResistance #HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth #Epidemiology
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
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👉How did a last-line #AntibioticResistance gene show up in the community in New Zealand?
#PublicHealth #Genomics #OneHealth #DrugResistance #HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth #Epidemiology
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
🧪🧫🦠
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 AM
This project started with a question that genuinely bothered our team...
👉How did a last-line #AntibioticResistance gene show up in the community in New Zealand?
#PublicHealth #Genomics #OneHealth #DrugResistance #HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth #Epidemiology
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
🧪🧫🦠
👉How did a last-line #AntibioticResistance gene show up in the community in New Zealand?
#PublicHealth #Genomics #OneHealth #DrugResistance #HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth #Epidemiology
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
🧪🧫🦠
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
🧵BIG PROBLEMS can hide in small #Plasmids
📌Integration of blaOXA-48 into a Col156 plasmid drove a carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli ST131 outbreak in New Zealand: Global genomic evidence for the gene’s multilayered dissemination
doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
🧪🧫🦠
📌Integration of blaOXA-48 into a Col156 plasmid drove a carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli ST131 outbreak in New Zealand: Global genomic evidence for the gene’s multilayered dissemination
doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
🧪🧫🦠
Redirecting
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 AM
🧵BIG PROBLEMS can hide in small #Plasmids
📌Integration of blaOXA-48 into a Col156 plasmid drove a carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli ST131 outbreak in New Zealand: Global genomic evidence for the gene’s multilayered dissemination
doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
🧪🧫🦠
📌Integration of blaOXA-48 into a Col156 plasmid drove a carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli ST131 outbreak in New Zealand: Global genomic evidence for the gene’s multilayered dissemination
doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
#IDSky
🧪🧫🦠
📢Trump claims Venezuelan people voted for him during last elections
January 5, 2026 at 2:57 AM
📢Trump claims Venezuelan people voted for him during last elections
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Victoire de Kast au Chili : la « voie démocratique » vers le pinochetisme www.contretemps.eu/chili-kast-e...
Victoire de Kast au Chili : la « voie démocratique » vers le pinochetisme - CONTRETEMPS
www.contretemps.eu
December 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Victoire de Kast au Chili : la « voie démocratique » vers le pinochetisme www.contretemps.eu/chili-kast-e...
🔬35 years ago, @oucru.bsky.social was founded to run clinical trials on #malaria in #Vietnam. 📆 35 years later, malaria is on the verge to be eliminated from the country🇻🇳!
The latter is marginally the consequence of the former, but what a progress over 1 generation!😅👏
www.who.int/vietnam/news...
The latter is marginally the consequence of the former, but what a progress over 1 generation!😅👏
www.who.int/vietnam/news...
Viet Nam mobilizes forces to push towards malaria elimination
Over the past five years, the number of people being infected with malaria in Viet Nam has plummeted. Now, as the country marks World Malaria Day on 25 April, efforts are focused on the final phase of...
www.who.int
December 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🔬35 years ago, @oucru.bsky.social was founded to run clinical trials on #malaria in #Vietnam. 📆 35 years later, malaria is on the verge to be eliminated from the country🇻🇳!
The latter is marginally the consequence of the former, but what a progress over 1 generation!😅👏
www.who.int/vietnam/news...
The latter is marginally the consequence of the former, but what a progress over 1 generation!😅👏
www.who.int/vietnam/news...
This looks like genuine, indeed 🙄
#ResearchIntegrity #PredatoryPublisher #PredatoryPublishing #PaperMills
#ResearchIntegrity #PredatoryPublisher #PredatoryPublishing #PaperMills
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This looks like genuine, indeed 🙄
#ResearchIntegrity #PredatoryPublisher #PredatoryPublishing #PaperMills
#ResearchIntegrity #PredatoryPublisher #PredatoryPublishing #PaperMills
Retraction 2️⃣6️⃣ for VS Aigbodion 🎉
There is no better way to celebrate the new year 2️⃣6️⃣!🥂
There is no better way to celebrate the new year 2️⃣6️⃣!🥂
Another one for the major #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion!
@tkes.bsky.social strikes again!
@tkes.bsky.social strikes again!
December 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Retraction 2️⃣6️⃣ for VS Aigbodion 🎉
There is no better way to celebrate the new year 2️⃣6️⃣!🥂
There is no better way to celebrate the new year 2️⃣6️⃣!🥂
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Quelles sont les priorités à mettre en place lors d'épidémies de bactéries hautement résistantes émergentes (BHRe) ? Charlotte Cave a demandé à Cédric Dananché de faire la synthèse de son intervention à la #RICAI 2025 !
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Quelles sont les priorités à mettre en place lors d'épidémies de bactéries hautement résistantes émergentes (BHRe) ? Charlotte Cave a demandé à Cédric Dananché de faire la synthèse de son intervention à la #RICAI 2025 !
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
🦠🦟Quel risque pour la métropole de devenir une zone où circulent pour les arboviroses (virus transmis par moustiques / tiques) émergentes ?
Spoiler : c’est déjà le cas pour dengue, chikungunya et west nile 😔
Spoiler : c’est déjà le cas pour dengue, chikungunya et west nile 😔
Que savoir des arbovirus émergents ? Réponse en vidéo avec Laura Pezzi et Marion Dutkiewicz après la session sur les défis infectieux pour la prise en charge des voyageurs à la #RICAI 2025
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🦠🦟Quel risque pour la métropole de devenir une zone où circulent pour les arboviroses (virus transmis par moustiques / tiques) émergentes ?
Spoiler : c’est déjà le cas pour dengue, chikungunya et west nile 😔
Spoiler : c’est déjà le cas pour dengue, chikungunya et west nile 😔
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Pourquoi et comment la métagénomique est un atour dans la routine des laboratoires ? Et quel est son impact sur le rôle du microbiologiste ?
Réponse en vidéo avec Paul-Louis Woerther et Anaïs Grimal à la #RICAI 2025 !
Réponse en vidéo avec Paul-Louis Woerther et Anaïs Grimal à la #RICAI 2025 !
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Pourquoi et comment la métagénomique est un atour dans la routine des laboratoires ? Et quel est son impact sur le rôle du microbiologiste ?
Réponse en vidéo avec Paul-Louis Woerther et Anaïs Grimal à la #RICAI 2025 !
Réponse en vidéo avec Paul-Louis Woerther et Anaïs Grimal à la #RICAI 2025 !
Might have just banned BIPOC from entering US 🤷
BREAKING: The Trump administration expands travel ban to include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria.
Trump expands travel ban, adding 5 more countries and imposing new limits on others
The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.
bit.ly
December 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Might have just banned BIPOC from entering US 🤷
Zoliflodacin approved for gonorrhoea treatment 💊😄
Roll back #AMR ! 🧫
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Roll back #AMR ! 🧫
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
New antibiotics hailed as ‘turning point’ in treating drug-resistant gonorrhoea
First new treatments for sexually transmitted disease in decades approved by US Food and Drug Administration as number of cases worldwide surge to 82m
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Zoliflodacin approved for gonorrhoea treatment 💊😄
Roll back #AMR ! 🧫
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Roll back #AMR ! 🧫
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
🫣 shame on my university... 💔 There's no place where those fraudsters don't put their dirty hands.
I hope that @ox.ac.uk will take quick action on this case! 🤞
I hope that @ox.ac.uk will take quick action on this case! 🤞
FBS wrote about a case with 10+ papers published w/ scientist(s) from Exeter University, UK. The main character is now group leader at Oxford. Flagged by me & others.
2 retractions so far, a few more likely. Some pretty bad papermill-collaborations included:
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/05/s...
2 retractions so far, a few more likely. Some pretty bad papermill-collaborations included:
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/05/s...
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – I write poetry and fiction
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – a young genius in Oxford, a Greek tobacco shill, a Spanish papermiller, retractions for important men and women, including a retracted retraction, glyphosate pape…
forbetterscience.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🫣 shame on my university... 💔 There's no place where those fraudsters don't put their dirty hands.
I hope that @ox.ac.uk will take quick action on this case! 🤞
I hope that @ox.ac.uk will take quick action on this case! 🤞
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
I literally recoiled
Burgers with extra protein
December 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I literally recoiled
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Day 12: Graham Kendall 2025 Advent Calendar #GXKAdvent2025
The Real Wish List of Academic Staff (Not What You Think)
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The Real Wish List of Academic Staff (Not What You Think)
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December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Day 12: Graham Kendall 2025 Advent Calendar #GXKAdvent2025
The Real Wish List of Academic Staff (Not What You Think)
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The Real Wish List of Academic Staff (Not What You Think)
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Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Stephen Miller said that the children of immigrants fail society.
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Stephen Miller said that the children of immigrants fail society.
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
🤭 That guy's bad faith (aka post-truth) will never cease to amaze me!
December 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
🤭 That guy's bad faith (aka post-truth) will never cease to amaze me!
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
I wrote this short essay for @africasacountry.bsky.social about Trump's attack on the Somali community and how smart their response to him has been.
Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling. africasacountry.com/2025/12/minn...
Minnesota was promised to us
Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling.
africasacountry.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I wrote this short essay for @africasacountry.bsky.social about Trump's attack on the Somali community and how smart their response to him has been.
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Why Fabian is not invited to publisher conferences
Publishers always tell us that they have recognized the systematic issues w/ problematic papers and now have systems in place to catch them. Yet, in recent years the problem has only become worse. How can you smh publish more bad papers?? (this is data from only my own sleuthing, not representative)
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Why Fabian is not invited to publisher conferences
Rappel: la laïcité, c'est la liberté de choisir sa religion, sa tenue, sa coiffure, et la longueur de sa barbe.
Donc, IMPOSER de modifier sa TENUE de façon à exposer sa COIFFURE au nom de la RELIGION, c'est l'exact inverse de la laïcité 🙃(même si on ne précise rien sur les barbes)
Donc, IMPOSER de modifier sa TENUE de façon à exposer sa COIFFURE au nom de la RELIGION, c'est l'exact inverse de la laïcité 🙃(même si on ne précise rien sur les barbes)
Je ne sais pas si on réalise le niveau de dinguerie de ce truc.
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Rappel: la laïcité, c'est la liberté de choisir sa religion, sa tenue, sa coiffure, et la longueur de sa barbe.
Donc, IMPOSER de modifier sa TENUE de façon à exposer sa COIFFURE au nom de la RELIGION, c'est l'exact inverse de la laïcité 🙃(même si on ne précise rien sur les barbes)
Donc, IMPOSER de modifier sa TENUE de façon à exposer sa COIFFURE au nom de la RELIGION, c'est l'exact inverse de la laïcité 🙃(même si on ne précise rien sur les barbes)