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
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21
The full impact of the pandemic has been much greater than what is indicated by reported
deaths due to COVID-19 alone. Strengthening death registration systems around the
world, long understood to be ...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
Thank god a 'proper economist' did the job! 😅
Behold what happens when you fix Roger Pielke Jr's serial errors:
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Thank god a 'proper economist' did the job! 😅
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
🗓️ The aid system is losing legitimacy. Join us for our Annual Event on 4 Dec as we explore how humanitarians can rebuild a narrative that admits flaws, shifts power to marginalised voices and defends core principles – while resonating with both donors & crisis-affected communities → buff.ly/9p4ZKZG
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🗓️ The aid system is losing legitimacy. Join us for our Annual Event on 4 Dec as we explore how humanitarians can rebuild a narrative that admits flaws, shifts power to marginalised voices and defends core principles – while resonating with both donors & crisis-affected communities → buff.ly/9p4ZKZG
🦠🐔Fatal human case of H5N5 in WA, USA
First death reported from rare bird flu strain thehill.com/homenews/sta...
thehill.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🦠🐔Fatal human case of H5N5 in WA, USA
The results of the RCT didn't support our hypothesis ➡️ The RCT "failed".🤦♂️
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
Review of the preprint that reports on the DTP-trial (NCT00244673)
Nonspecific Vaccine Effects Journal Club no. 23 The preprinted publication (1) which is the focus of this issue of the Nonspecific Vaccine Effects Journal Club (NSEvacc) JC is reporting the results fr...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The results of the RCT didn't support our hypothesis ➡️ The RCT "failed".🤦♂️
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
🦠 By 2050, AMR is estimated to contribute to 8.2 million deaths worldwide.
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🦠 By 2050, AMR is estimated to contribute to 8.2 million deaths worldwide.
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
Retraction #23 for Aigbodion🤦♂️ The ethics team at Springer definitely beat all other publishers on the investigation and action taken against this papermiller/fraudster: 20/23 of these retractions are from Springer journals, while accounting for roughly one third (67/188) of problematic papers! 🥇
It happened again, @tkes.bsky.social strikes again! The #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion is having a bad day at the office with all his retractions! A few more to enter the @retractionwatch.com leaderboard!
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Retraction #23 for Aigbodion🤦♂️ The ethics team at Springer definitely beat all other publishers on the investigation and action taken against this papermiller/fraudster: 20/23 of these retractions are from Springer journals, while accounting for roughly one third (67/188) of problematic papers! 🥇
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
J'apprends à l'instant que l'ordre des médecins « ouvre l'instruction d'une action disciplinaire » contre les deux médecins, suite à la publication hier de mon enquête sur Youtube. A voir ce que ça donne !
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
J'apprends à l'instant que l'ordre des médecins « ouvre l'instruction d'une action disciplinaire » contre les deux médecins, suite à la publication hier de mon enquête sur Youtube. A voir ce que ça donne !
🩺Au-delà de l'aspect judiciaire de ce type de charlatanisme, cela doit nous faire réaliser que, en tant que corps médical, on laisse complètement tomber ces patients, douloureux chroniques, long covid, etc et on les jette dans les bras des charlatans.☹️
🔥Nouvelle vidéo ! Probablement une de mes enquêtes les plus importantes, je trouve. Le sujet est assez grave : l'infiltration des délires new age et de la charlatanerie dans les hôpitaux... Merci d'avance pour vos RT chamaniques😘 youtu.be/ILTgwty4bWM
Quand le bullshit s'infiltre à l'hôpital 😤 (Enquête)
YouTube video by G Milgram
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🩺Au-delà de l'aspect judiciaire de ce type de charlatanisme, cela doit nous faire réaliser que, en tant que corps médical, on laisse complètement tomber ces patients, douloureux chroniques, long covid, etc et on les jette dans les bras des charlatans.☹️
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause telekinesis
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause telekinesis
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
CARB-X has released updated eligibility criteria for 2025 Funding Round (opens from 1–12 Dec): therapeutics for Gram‑negative infections and Diagnostics for Salmonella Typhi for low resource settings
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
CARB-X has released updated eligibility criteria for 2025 Funding Round (opens from 1–12 Dec): therapeutics for Gram‑negative infections and Diagnostics for Salmonella Typhi for low resource settings
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis. Full APT-Sepsis trial results: nej.md/4o6xhaF
#MedSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #OBGYN
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis. Full APT-Sepsis trial results: nej.md/4o6xhaF
#MedSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #OBGYN
US-CDC has officially embraced anti-science😰
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
US-CDC has officially embraced anti-science😰
Just found my Xmas gift
If you haven't read it yet, today is a very good day to give yourself the gift of picking up Bitch Planet by @kellysue.bsky.social
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
The Revolutionary Non-Compliance of Bitch Planet | Hazlitt
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro's comic series is set in a wholly unrecognizable dystopian universe in which women are punished for being themselves. (Wait a second...)
hazlitt.net
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Just found my Xmas gift
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
If you haven't read it yet, today is a very good day to give yourself the gift of picking up Bitch Planet by @kellysue.bsky.social
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
The Revolutionary Non-Compliance of Bitch Planet | Hazlitt
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro's comic series is set in a wholly unrecognizable dystopian universe in which women are punished for being themselves. (Wait a second...)
hazlitt.net
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If you haven't read it yet, today is a very good day to give yourself the gift of picking up Bitch Planet by @kellysue.bsky.social
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
🧫💊I'm Meropenem ("others wish you were a little more reserved"🫣) and you? #WAAW2025
It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
🧫💊I'm Meropenem ("others wish you were a little more reserved"🫣) and you? #WAAW2025
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🔊🧪Science nerds from #Vietnam : one #PhD position open at
@oucru.bsky.social to study and combat #antimicrobialresistance 🧫💊 🎓Come and work with us!
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions #AMR #WAAW2025
@oucru.bsky.social to study and combat #antimicrobialresistance 🧫💊 🎓Come and work with us!
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions #AMR #WAAW2025
‣ Whooping cough in child patients: assessing immunity levels and B. pertussis genetics to understand the disease transmission and manifestation
‣ Combatting antimicrobial resistance in the community: A comparative analysis and modelling study to identify the most cost-effective approaches
‣ Combatting antimicrobial resistance in the community: A comparative analysis and modelling study to identify the most cost-effective approaches
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
🔊🧪Science nerds from #Vietnam : one #PhD position open at
@oucru.bsky.social to study and combat #antimicrobialresistance 🧫💊 🎓Come and work with us!
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions #AMR #WAAW2025
@oucru.bsky.social to study and combat #antimicrobialresistance 🧫💊 🎓Come and work with us!
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions #AMR #WAAW2025
🔊🧪Science nerds from #Vietnam or #Indonesia: #PhD positions open at @oucru.bsky.social 🎓Come and work with us!
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions
𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 🎓 Applications are now open for OUCRU’s fully funded #PhD programme at @ox.ac.uk , offering world-class research training for scientists and clinicians from Vietnam & Indonesia.
👉 Explore more: linktr.ee/oucru
👉 Explore more: linktr.ee/oucru
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
🔊🧪Science nerds from #Vietnam or #Indonesia: #PhD positions open at @oucru.bsky.social 🎓Come and work with us!
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions
#PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
#WAAW is here.
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) 2025
European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) is a European health initiative coordinated by ECDC.
www.ecdc.europa.eu
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#WAAW is here.
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
#Review
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#Review
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is not going to end up very well for vaccine-preventable diseases in the US... 🦠
This is where the U.S. is for kindergarten vaccine exemptions.
If every state allowed only medical exemptions from childhood vaccine requirements for school entry, as it should be in my opinion, this problem would disappear.
And it’s not just the overall rate, it’s the clustering of exemptions.
If every state allowed only medical exemptions from childhood vaccine requirements for school entry, as it should be in my opinion, this problem would disappear.
And it’s not just the overall rate, it’s the clustering of exemptions.
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This is not going to end up very well for vaccine-preventable diseases in the US... 🦠
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
It's World AMR Awareness Week this week! To kick things off, we are highlighting some of the amazing outreach activities our Champions have been planning in their local areas, to help spread the word about AMR: microb.io/43wgDtR%F0%9...
#WAAW #WAAW2025
#WAAW #WAAW2025
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's World AMR Awareness Week this week! To kick things off, we are highlighting some of the amazing outreach activities our Champions have been planning in their local areas, to help spread the word about AMR: microb.io/43wgDtR%F0%9...
#WAAW #WAAW2025
#WAAW #WAAW2025
🧫 #Belgium is experiencing a rise in 3 #AMR indicators: BSI with 3GC-R Ecoli, MRSA, CR-KP ☹️
#IDSky #MicroSky #antimicrobialresistance
#IDSky #MicroSky #antimicrobialresistance
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek 💊 | La Belgique est-elle en bonne voie pour atteindre les objectifs du Conseil européen en matière de résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) ?
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🧫 #Belgium is experiencing a rise in 3 #AMR indicators: BSI with 3GC-R Ecoli, MRSA, CR-KP ☹️
#IDSky #MicroSky #antimicrobialresistance
#IDSky #MicroSky #antimicrobialresistance