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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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👏to the Maldives - the first country to achieve elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and Hep B.
www.who.int/news/item/13...
www.who.int/news/item/13...
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B
In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTC...
www.who.int
October 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
👏to the Maldives - the first country to achieve elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and Hep B.
www.who.int/news/item/13...
www.who.int/news/item/13...
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Over 170 US citizens held by immigration agents — some for days without contact —Propublica
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
Over 170 US citizens held by immigration agents — some for days without contact
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.by Nicole Foy, photography by Sarahbeth ManeyProPublica is a Pulitzer...
www.rawstory.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Over 170 US citizens held by immigration agents — some for days without contact —Propublica
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Respect to those who got here first.
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Respect to those who got here first.
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Here are four public health heroes targeted by #Trump, #RussellVought & #RFKJr. May a special place in hell be reserved for this Administration. We are less safe now. We better pray to be spared from the next plague. Because that’s all that’s left now: empty hopes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...
They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here are four public health heroes targeted by #Trump, #RussellVought & #RFKJr. May a special place in hell be reserved for this Administration. We are less safe now. We better pray to be spared from the next plague. Because that’s all that’s left now: empty hopes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...
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Very moving. Please listen.
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Very moving. Please listen.
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The May 2025 supplemental issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases journal is now live: “Advances in Pathogen Genomics for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Control, and Prevention.”
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/articles...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/articles...
May 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The May 2025 supplemental issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases journal is now live: “Advances in Pathogen Genomics for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Control, and Prevention.”
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/articles...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/articles...
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Anyone who attended this year's #CROI2025 will tell you it was a very strange experience given the current political climate. Still, plenty of interesting studies -- here's a Really Rapid Review of selected highlights. #IDSky #HIVSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Really Rapid Review: CROI 2025 San Francisco
Wow, that was an interesting conference — in ways both good and bad. The good part was the content, as the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is our leading HIV research co...
blogs.jwatch.org
March 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Anyone who attended this year's #CROI2025 will tell you it was a very strange experience given the current political climate. Still, plenty of interesting studies -- here's a Really Rapid Review of selected highlights. #IDSky #HIVSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Great history in donor-derived infection case:
3 weeks before donation, “the donor removed several ticks crawling on his body and clothing, including 1 attached tick; he then experienced an illness attributed to food poisoning the week before transplant.”
#IDSky
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
3 weeks before donation, “the donor removed several ticks crawling on his body and clothing, including 1 attached tick; he then experienced an illness attributed to food poisoning the week before transplant.”
#IDSky
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Donor-Derived Ehrlichiosis Caused by <em>Ehrlichia chaffeensis</em> from Living Donor Kidney Transplant
Donor-Derived Ehrlichiosis
wwwnc.cdc.gov
March 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Great history in donor-derived infection case:
3 weeks before donation, “the donor removed several ticks crawling on his body and clothing, including 1 attached tick; he then experienced an illness attributed to food poisoning the week before transplant.”
#IDSky
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
3 weeks before donation, “the donor removed several ticks crawling on his body and clothing, including 1 attached tick; he then experienced an illness attributed to food poisoning the week before transplant.”
#IDSky
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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Amazing! No one had seen a Galápagos Rail on Floreana Island since Charles Darwin—until now. #ornithology
A bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos island
The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers…
news.mongabay.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Amazing! No one had seen a Galápagos Rail on Floreana Island since Charles Darwin—until now. #ornithology
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Single-cell RNA sequencing of immune cells for over 1,000 people age 18-97 years. A clock of our immune system aging. Tells us about an individual's response to infection, vaccination, Long Covid. Towards an immunome.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Single-cell RNA sequencing of immune cells for over 1,000 people age 18-97 years. A clock of our immune system aging. Tells us about an individual's response to infection, vaccination, Long Covid. Towards an immunome.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence and case detection among incarcerated individuals from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence and case detection among incarcerated individuals from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis
Our estimates suggest a high tuberculosis incidence rate among incarcerated individuals
globally with large gaps in tuberculosis case detection. Tuberculosis in incarcerated
populations must be addres...
www.thelancet.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence and case detection among incarcerated individuals from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Dimorphic Mycoses Using a US Commercial Insurance Database
@julioczuniga1.bsky.social @fungaldoc.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...
More data to show that the geographic range of dimorphic fungal infections is much wider than taught in med school
@julioczuniga1.bsky.social @fungaldoc.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...
More data to show that the geographic range of dimorphic fungal infections is much wider than taught in med school
December 28, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Dimorphic Mycoses Using a US Commercial Insurance Database
@julioczuniga1.bsky.social @fungaldoc.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...
More data to show that the geographic range of dimorphic fungal infections is much wider than taught in med school
@julioczuniga1.bsky.social @fungaldoc.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...
More data to show that the geographic range of dimorphic fungal infections is much wider than taught in med school
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ELBOWS UP, CANADA!
March 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
ELBOWS UP, CANADA!
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Woah. Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.
Mexicans warned not to travel to Texas over measles
Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.
www.borderreport.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Woah. Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.
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Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
February 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
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Epidemiological and Clinical Features of a Large Blastomycosis Outbreak at a Paper Mill in Michigan
⭐ Editor's Choice
#IDSky
⭐ Editor's Choice
#IDSky
Epidemiological and Clinical Features of a Large Blastomycosis Outbreak at a Paper Mill in Michigan
Blastomycosis is an environmentally acquired fungal infection that can result in severe pulmonary illness and high hospitalization rates. In 2023, a blastomycosis outbreak was detected among workers at a paper mill in Delta County, Michigan.
buff.ly
March 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Epidemiological and Clinical Features of a Large Blastomycosis Outbreak at a Paper Mill in Michigan
⭐ Editor's Choice
#IDSky
⭐ Editor's Choice
#IDSky
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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Folks in Ontario get out to vote. Remember that Doug Ford made a big hoopla about cancelling a $100 million deal with Elon Musk. It was back on the table within hours.
No wonder Elon is taunting us.
Get out and vote.
No wonder Elon is taunting us.
Get out and vote.
February 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Folks in Ontario get out to vote. Remember that Doug Ford made a big hoopla about cancelling a $100 million deal with Elon Musk. It was back on the table within hours.
No wonder Elon is taunting us.
Get out and vote.
No wonder Elon is taunting us.
Get out and vote.