Onisillos
@onisillos.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of a very good microbial journal.
(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
Pinned
Time to dive in!
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New #MicroSky study showing extensive transmission of #AMR E coli transmission in East Africa under One Health framework, led by Patrick Musicha www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/an...
Antimicrobial resistant bacteria and genes move freely between people, animals and the environment
By analysing Escherichia coli (E. coli) genomes, researchers have shown that antimicrobial resistant bacteria and the genes that confer resistance move between bacterial hosts and across ecological co...
www.sanger.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New #MicroSky study showing extensive transmission of #AMR E coli transmission in East Africa under One Health framework, led by Patrick Musicha www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/an...
I vote to keep the banter @danielgriffinmdphd.bsky.social @sarawinndong.febrilepodcast.com
The only thing that would improve this podcast is mentioning papers in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social 😁
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
The only thing that would improve this podcast is mentioning papers in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social 😁
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Infectious Disease Puscast
Podcast Episode · Infectious Disease Puscast · 25/11/2025 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I vote to keep the banter @danielgriffinmdphd.bsky.social @sarawinndong.febrilepodcast.com
The only thing that would improve this podcast is mentioning papers in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social 😁
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
The only thing that would improve this podcast is mentioning papers in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social 😁
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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“Isn’t it significant that Rachel Reeves used her big TV moment to attack the Greens? She knows huge numbers of people really find what we are offering attractive.”
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Isn’t it significant that Rachel Reeves used her big TV moment to attack the Greens? She knows huge numbers of people really find what we are offering attractive.”
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
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Financing postgraduate study shouldn’t be the barrier to a career in tropical medicine, infectious diseases or global health.
Read the full guide to LSTM scholarships and funding for 2026 and explore your options: lstm.ac/Scholarships...
Read the full guide to LSTM scholarships and funding for 2026 and explore your options: lstm.ac/Scholarships...
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Financing postgraduate study shouldn’t be the barrier to a career in tropical medicine, infectious diseases or global health.
Read the full guide to LSTM scholarships and funding for 2026 and explore your options: lstm.ac/Scholarships...
Read the full guide to LSTM scholarships and funding for 2026 and explore your options: lstm.ac/Scholarships...
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Every biologist knows the story of Fleming's chance discovery of penicillin. But is it true?
Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.
Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.
The Penicillin Myth
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.
press.asimov.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Every biologist knows the story of Fleming's chance discovery of penicillin. But is it true?
Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.
Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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New Episode!
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New Episode!
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
SciShow Is Lying to You about AI. Here are the receipts.
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"When are we going to see tough choices for multi-millionaires and billionaires?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social joins Good Morning Britain to discuss the Budget.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social joins Good Morning Britain to discuss the Budget.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"When are we going to see tough choices for multi-millionaires and billionaires?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social joins Good Morning Britain to discuss the Budget.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social joins Good Morning Britain to discuss the Budget.
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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New research article
Transmission of extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and antimicrobial resistance gene flow across #OneHealth compartments in eastern Africa
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA
Transmission of extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and antimicrobial resistance gene flow across #OneHealth compartments in eastern Africa
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New research article
Transmission of extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and antimicrobial resistance gene flow across #OneHealth compartments in eastern Africa
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA
Transmission of extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and antimicrobial resistance gene flow across #OneHealth compartments in eastern Africa
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA
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World AIDS Day is on Dec. 1.
Since 2004, global deaths have been in decline due to greater access to diagnostics, treatment & prevention.
This hard-won progress is now at risk due to major cuts to global public health.
We can't afford to go backward.
Since 2004, global deaths have been in decline due to greater access to diagnostics, treatment & prevention.
This hard-won progress is now at risk due to major cuts to global public health.
We can't afford to go backward.
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
World AIDS Day is on Dec. 1.
Since 2004, global deaths have been in decline due to greater access to diagnostics, treatment & prevention.
This hard-won progress is now at risk due to major cuts to global public health.
We can't afford to go backward.
Since 2004, global deaths have been in decline due to greater access to diagnostics, treatment & prevention.
This hard-won progress is now at risk due to major cuts to global public health.
We can't afford to go backward.
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CDC website has been scrubbed of all mentions of "mpox" with everything replaced by "monkeypox," even renaming linked articles in EID.
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
CDC website has been scrubbed of all mentions of "mpox" with everything replaced by "monkeypox," even renaming linked articles in EID.
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🌟We are recruiting! Research Assistant in Neonatal Clinical Care @lshtm.bsky.social.
Join the NeoShield team - working on neonatal infection diagnosis, outbreak detection and antibiotic stewardship in Zambia & Malawi.
PhD opportunities!
Apply by 8 Dec!
#neosky #medsky #idsky #phd #episky #amr
Join the NeoShield team - working on neonatal infection diagnosis, outbreak detection and antibiotic stewardship in Zambia & Malawi.
PhD opportunities!
Apply by 8 Dec!
#neosky #medsky #idsky #phd #episky #amr
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant in Neonatal Clinical Care
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in...
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Surely the City can come up with something more interesting to keep trying to attack me with?
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Surely the City can come up with something more interesting to keep trying to attack me with?
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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"Doolittle’s lack of success when trying to persuade the bomb not to explode is also not a monument to our chances of victory over AI."
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Doolittle’s lack of success when trying to persuade the bomb not to explode is also not a monument to our chances of victory over AI."
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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Join us for LSHTM’s Equity in AMR Action seminar, which explores how equity influences responses to AMR.
Speakers will share their work from the WHO, LSE, and the Global Strategy Lab.
📅 12 Dec
⏲️ 13:00 GMT
Check the event details 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Speakers will share their work from the WHO, LSE, and the Global Strategy Lab.
📅 12 Dec
⏲️ 13:00 GMT
Check the event details 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Equity in AMR Action | LSHTM
In 2025, the Network’s seminar series invites 2-3 speakers for each event to present their work on a particular theme around prioritisation. This fourth seminar of the series presents ‘Equity in AMR
www.lshtm.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Join us for LSHTM’s Equity in AMR Action seminar, which explores how equity influences responses to AMR.
Speakers will share their work from the WHO, LSE, and the Global Strategy Lab.
📅 12 Dec
⏲️ 13:00 GMT
Check the event details 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Speakers will share their work from the WHO, LSE, and the Global Strategy Lab.
📅 12 Dec
⏲️ 13:00 GMT
Check the event details 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Cocks-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus & R. rupicola) are just ridiculous. Very unserious birbs.
The males are bright red-orange & have these enormous feather crests on their beaks, which they use to attract females through an event that can only be described as...
The males are bright red-orange & have these enormous feather crests on their beaks, which they use to attract females through an event that can only be described as...
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Cocks-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus & R. rupicola) are just ridiculous. Very unserious birbs.
The males are bright red-orange & have these enormous feather crests on their beaks, which they use to attract females through an event that can only be described as...
The males are bright red-orange & have these enormous feather crests on their beaks, which they use to attract females through an event that can only be described as...
This essay reads as self-deception. When people talk about intelligence in this context, they're actually talking about the vague footprint of intelligence in texts that the systems ingest.
You're staring at your reflection. Nobody is trapped behind the glass.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
You're staring at your reflection. Nobody is trapped behind the glass.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution
The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This essay reads as self-deception. When people talk about intelligence in this context, they're actually talking about the vague footprint of intelligence in texts that the systems ingest.
You're staring at your reflection. Nobody is trapped behind the glass.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
You're staring at your reflection. Nobody is trapped behind the glass.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This has become an all too familiar pattern: "...health officials cherry-picked data from a small study in one community while ignoring larger randomized trials."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doctors respond to ‘data-free’ decision over menopause hormone therapy: ‘It’s not true’
Physicians say FDA panel conflated two issues and made baseless claims about unproven health benefits
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This has become an all too familiar pattern: "...health officials cherry-picked data from a small study in one community while ignoring larger randomized trials."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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it just didn't have the legs 😢
Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
it just didn't have the legs 😢
"Let me break it to you gently: it is entirely possible for people of colour and the descendants of immigrants to be disingenuous and use their identities as excuses for their terrible politics."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Let me break it to you gently: it is entirely possible for people of colour and the descendants of immigrants to be disingenuous and use their identities as excuses for their terrible politics."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"...without anyone looking for these deviations from normal—particularly given that signs of illness may take years to appear—cases could easily go unnoticed, and it will be too late to implement public health measures..."
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
While no one was watching: Tenuous status of CDC prion unit, risk of CWD to people worry scientists
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"...without anyone looking for these deviations from normal—particularly given that signs of illness may take years to appear—cases could easily go unnoticed, and it will be too late to implement public health measures..."
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...