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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

100% of Penile cancer is preventable!

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

Next up - interesctionality and inequalities. IUSTI2025

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

Very informative presentation by Kate Nambiar - common presentations in trans men accessing sexual health services #IUSTI

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous presentation by Dr. Janet Wilson at IUSTI2025. We should treat BV as a neglected condition

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

Why does BV not resolve? Because of biofilms! #IUSTI

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

Partner treatment for BV works and is well tolerated #IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

With regards to BV there is correlation between male and female microbiomes. #IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 1d

Serious adverse events associated with BV. However treatment has not changed or improved for 30 years. #IUSTI25

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.

We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Also applies to job applications- make sure you change the institution names

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Dr John Gilmore @gilmorejnurse.bsky.social · 2d

Great to be in Athens for the 38th Annual IUSTI Europe Congress (International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infection).

I’m presenting our work on Awareness, Attitudes and early Use of DoxyPEP in Ireland!

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Regulatory barriers prevent good quality tests getting to market! The system needs to be reformed #IUSTI2025

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

We need to reduce the incidence of GC why we have drugs that work: in MGEN we need to reduce testing, and preserve the drugs that we have. IUSTI25 - amazing presentation by David Lewis

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Cephalosporin resistance in Ng globally is a worry and there are lots of areas which we do not know what is going on #IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

We need regulatory reform for tests! IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Tests are getting smaller, better, faster

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Our lab tests are too sensitive and detect exposure and not infection #IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Not every bug causes an infection! We don’t need hyper sensitive tests

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

What do we need for diagnostics? Tools to detect for resistance! The STI bugs travel together #IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous session organised by #BASHH meeting the #IUSTI25 scholars

a cartoon character from futurama is saying i 'm meeting new people

ALT: a cartoon character from futurama is saying i 'm meeting new people

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous to be at the WHO workshop STI control in difficult times #IUSTI25

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 9d

I made another attempt at providing some insight into the journals process

(To prevent procrastination, I didn’t proofread it. So don’t judge it too harshly)

open.substack.com/pub/onisillo...

Rejection doesn't mean your paper was bad

It's disappointing, but try to not take it personally.

open.substack.com

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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 16d

Samples from 1917 have helped identify the genetic culprits responsible for the spread of treatment-resistant infections 🔎

By mapping plasmid evolution since the pre-antibiotic era, experts found that a minority of plasmids cause most of the multidrug resistance in the world 🧵

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 16d

Talking to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social about plasmids and bacterial adaptability was a delight. A brilliant metaphor every other sentence, almost.

Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 16d

If you can't face reading War and Peace or my massive thread, I was interviewed on BBC Science in Action, you can hear me 12 mins into this episode (we are not the headline paper, which was on autism):
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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