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Nicola Low
@nicolamlow.bsky.social
Sexually transmitted infections epidemiologist, but Covid-19 changed everything. Now also emerging infections #mpox #pandemics @BEreadycohort.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-8986
With this poll appearing immediately after the article, irony is dead (I checked back, and it has been replaced now, but it was def. there)
November 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🧪 #SISS2025 coming up, 15:40 in Shanghai - panel on strategic priorities, advocacy, policy, guidelines

#mustread Our policy analysis about what it takes to push syphilis and other STI up the policy agenda

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38262...
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🧪 #SISS2025 syphilis in indigenous populations
“There will be no elimination of syphilis or congenital syphilis without addressing the inequities facing Indigenous Peoples everywhere. We can and must close those gaps - starting now”

Patty Garcia, Peru
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
🧪 #SISS2025
Syphilis in indigenous populations

“We will never eliminate syphilis in Latin America if we do not address inequalities”

Amazing Patty Garcia straight-talking

A neglected disease in neglected populations
October 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
🧪 Shanghai International Syphilis Symposium 2025 #SISS2025

Extraordinary group of experts

Great opener, Remco Peters WHO with a leitmotif

❗️all syphilis epidemics are not the same
❗️programmes for prevention management treatment need to be specific
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🧪 wow, this is getting complicated

#azithromycin did not ⬇️ #InfantMortality

Designed to test WHO “conditional guidelines… consideration of mass administration of azithromycin to infants 1 to 11 months of age in high-mortality settings”

Extremely well-reported

Beware #SubgroupAnalysis
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Sunset, yesterday, 10.10.2025 from Halenbrücke, Bern 🇨🇭
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’ve found the perfect vegan egg mayonnaise, thanks to Lupi, from Yellow Sunshine spinoff of New Roots yellowsunshine.ch/project/vega...

The texture of Lupi is the perfect substitute for hard-boiled eggs 🥚 - much better than tofu

Highly recommended
October 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thank you @bsky.app for the “bookmark“ feature - I am bookmarking posts enthusiastically.

But now I want to read them, I can’t find them in my profile.

Please help 🆘
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The strain on scientific publishing 🧪 is unsustainable

And some publishers are exploiting #OpenAccess better than others

MDPI now second only to Elsevier in articles published

Excellent talk by Matthias Egger at visit to Monash Malaysia @kentbuse.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Yay, Niki de St Phalle 🇨🇭
September 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Wow - if you just saw that - just wow
Bohemian Rhapsody, 50 years later. At the Last Night of the Proms

Brian May and Roger Taylor, “Freddy would have loved it”

Phenomenal

❤️ Queen

@bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“On its website Weleda explains anthroposophy and its commitment to it as “a worldwide research method that explores spirituality with science”.

Apparently not

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
September 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
#SSGH Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium, Bern 20-21 Oct, 2025 🧪 www.ssgh.ch
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#SSGH Advancing research in Gender Health, Zürich, 7Jan 2026 🧪 www.ssgh.ch
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🧪 Launch of the Swiss Society for Gender Health, today
@unibe.ch
#SSGH #GenderHealth #KickoffEvent

A much needed initiative for Switzerland 🇨🇭

Strengthening solidarity for #gender equity and justice

@theresluethi.bsky.social @ifff.bsky.social @bereadycohort.bsky.social

Upcoming events 🧵
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here are the participants at the meeting, Vaginal Microbiota and Genital Infection Dynamics, Collège de France, Paris, 3-4 Sept 2025 from France, Switzerland, US, Netherlands, UK
September 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Paris was the perfect place for a symposium on #VaginalMicrobiota and #SexuallyTransmittedInfection dynamics 😂

Thank you to Samuel Alizon, @college-de-france.fr @pasteuredu.bsky.social Jacques Ravel, Janneke van der Wijgert and all other participants for fantastic presentations and discussions
September 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This now 👇 ❤️ #USOpen2025
August 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🇨🇭 TV switching now 😂 🎾 #USOpen2025
August 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My introduction to #MonarchButterflies was Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver. She raised their plight through #ClimateChange #genius
August 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
@theguardian.com
Please can you make a subsection in menu for #Health? 🧪

@melodyschreiber.com wrote this amazing piece

Saw it on @bsky.app but hidden on website

Finally found in „News-science-news“

#PublicHealth is under attack - please amplify, not hide

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Dr. John Venn invented the #VennDiagram 🧪 Born otd 1834

But Venn Street in Clapham was named after his grandfather, Rev. John Venn, a progressive evangelical and abolitionist
August 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Love to see new generation of #stihiv2025 scientists who want to be the #FaceOfAnSTI 🧪

Caroline Cameron #syphilis and I #chlamydia launched this to reduce STI stigma at 2019 #STIandHIV World Congress Vancouver with help from @inaparkmd.bsky.social @joetucker.bsky.social @ehardingesch.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#stihiv2025 🧪
Closing plenary @drjeannem.bsky.social

Great promise of long-acting HIV PrEP, if available, accessible, in a functioning health system

All it takes is a disaster…

Like withdrawal of PEPFAR - a humanitarian crisis

👇 @avac.org counter of preventable deaths
July 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM