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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 1h

🇦🇷🥚🦖”Si la hipótesis de los investigadores se confirma y el huevo contiene un embrión fosilizado, aportaría información inédita sobre la reproducción, el desarrollo y la diversidad de los dinosaurios carnívoros que poblaron la Patagonia en el Cretácico tardío.”

El Litoral @ellitoral.bsky.social · 1h

Científicos del CONICET hallaron un nido de huevos de un dinosaurio carnívoro en Río Negro

Los expertos que transmiten en directo cada detalle de la campaña, comentaron que este hallazgo está en un estado de preservación tan óptimo que podría contener un embrión fosilizado, lo que aportaría información inédita sobre la reproducción, el desarrollo y la diversidad de los dinosaurios carnívoros que poblaron la Patagonia en el Cretácico tardío.

dlvr.it

AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 9h

🤓😈 🎃👻🕰️🗓️
Eleanor Audley, the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella, initially turned the part of Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty (1959) down because she was in the midst of battling active #tuberculosis disease.
She recovered and gave us an iconic character. Ms.Audley died from respiratory failure in 1991.

Did you know this about SLEEPING BEAUTY

YouTube video by Movie Logic

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 9h

🧐”Detection of aerosolized Mycobacterium #tuberculosis DNA from adults being investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis using an electrostatic sampler in a South African primary care setting”

Open Forum Infectious Diseases @ofidjournal.bsky.social · 4d

Detection of aerosolized Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA from adults being investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis using an electrostatic sampler in a South African primary care setting

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
🔗 https://bit.ly/474fRq0

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 9h

👟📸🐶🐾🙆🏻‍♀️🪫🔌🔋🍂🦆💚

AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 1d

🚨‼️Much gain-of-function research is necessary to fight #tuberculosis
“Without clear definitions, scientific expertise & streamlined review processes, lifesaving research could be stopped. This would be an even bigger threat to public health than the broad, misinformed definition of “dangerous”

David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social · 2d

Important piece from Sarah Stanley at Berkeley on new NIH definitions that can be construed to arbitrarily halt research that is both safe and important to public health and future cures www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

www.statnews.com

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 3d

🐀🐁”APOPO’s scent detection animals, nicknamed ‘HeroRATs’ and ‘HeroDOGs’, help to rid the world of landmines and #tuberculosis – returning safe land back to communities for development, and freeing people from serious illness so they can get back on their feet”

APOPO @herorats.bsky.social · 3d

Every year, millions of #tuberculosis cases go undiagnosed.

APOPO’s #HeroRATs use their powerful sense of smell to detect TB faster, cheaper, and more effectively—while creating local jobs.

More cases found. More lives saved. 💙

#EndTB #TBDetection #GlobalHealth

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 3d

⏳📽️🎬”Renée Adorée was already seriously ill with #tuberculosis during filming and, after she had finished all her scenes, she was rushed to a sanatorium, where she spent many months, hoping to recover... she passed away on the 5th of October 1933 in Tujunga, California.”

La Collectionneuse: The Renée Adorée mystery

A blog about cinema, film stars and vintage postcards.

filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 3d

🧐””Se acercaron a mi (Elizabeth) en privado y me dijeron: algún día te casarás y tendrás una familia y no es importante que tu nombre esté en la patente”
Así pues, no se llevó ni el Premio Nobel ni ningún reconocimiento por la investigación y descubrimiento de la estreptomicina.”🙄
#Tuberculosis

Mujeres con ciencia @mujeresconciencia.com · 3d

Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, la microbióloga que tumbó la tuberculosis
Recordamos este artículo de @razqueen.bsky.social en el 105 aniversario del nacimiento de la científica

Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, la microbióloga que tumbó la tuberculosis - Mujeres con ciencia

Elizabeth Bugie Gregory. Tuberculosis. Microbiología. Estreptomicina. Tuberculosis. Antibiótico. Bioquímica. Selman A. Waksman. Patente. Ácido pirazinoico. Penicilina. Antibiótico.

mujeresconciencia.com

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #WorldAnimalDay 🌎🌍
🐶🐈‍⬛🐀🐿️🐐🐒🐢🦒🐆🦥
🦏🦫🦌🦓🦘🦍🐪🦨🦉🦧
🐖🐎🐘🐑🦆🐄🫏🦩🦦🦚
🦭🦢🐥🐺🫎🐬🐅🦬🐂🦙
🤎🤍🧡💛❤️💚🩷🖤💙💚
#ProtectAnimals
🧐✍🏻🔗⬇️
www.worldanimalprotection.org/our-campaign...

AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

🆘🌊”Coral reefs require long-term care to survive, thrive and keep providing food,coastal protection and tourism opportunities for millions of people. Successful restoration depends not only on the interventions but also on sustained monitoring & responsible stewardship of the broader environment”

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4d

Why coral reefs damaged by blast fishing struggle to recover — even after decades

Blast-fished reefs are unlikely to recover naturally without human intervention.

theconversation.com

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Caturday 😻
Simon’s 🐈‍⬛ working lunch or romantic dinner with his favorite one 🪞🐈‍⬛
🙋🏻‍♀️💜😼
#adopt #petsarefamily #catsky #catlady #rescuecats #lovecats

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

🆘📖”Whether it's the health of our people or the health of our planet, we know we are on an unsustainable path. But our efforts to effectively tackle these existential crises are now hampered by a common threat: politically & ideologically motivated opposition to science”
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

Book Talk: Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez — Science Under Siege

YouTube video by Politics and Prose

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

“Novel health screening tool to diagnose #Tuberculosis gets a shot.
Xiaoshan Zhu and team receive $5 million NSF award to develop a point-of-care sensor”

Novel health screening tool to diagnose TB gets a shot | University of Nevada, Reno

Xiaoshan Zhu and team receive $5 million NSF award to develop a point-of-care sensor

www.unr.edu

AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Friday!!!🙌🏼
👟📸🐶🐾🪫🔌🔋🌥️💛

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

And you could find more about their amazing job here in Bluesky 🦋
@herorats.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/hero...

APOPO @herorats.bsky.social · Sep 7

Since late 2024, HeroRAT Tamasha has screened 13,000+ samples with 89% accuracy, helping identify 143 new TB patients — 115 this year alone! Each case means a life saved and a family protected.

#HeroRATs #EndTB #GlobalHealth #APOPO #TuberculosisDetection

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 4d

✍🏼❗️”Tisis, mal del rey, peste blanca, plaga blanca… Son algunos de los nombres con los que se ha conocido a la #tuberculosis a través de la historia, la infección elegida por la médica irlandesa Margaret Dunlevy para, con su labor, salvar decenas de miles de vidas…”

Mujeres con ciencia @mujeresconciencia.com · 5d

La victoria de Margaret Dunlevy sobre la tuberculosis

La victoria de Margaret Dunlevy sobre la tuberculosis - Mujeres con ciencia

Margaret Dunlevy. Tuberculosis. Campañas de vacunación. Epidemiología. Prueba de la tuberculina. Radiografías.

mujeresconciencia.com

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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 6d

Great job @sarasuliman.bsky.social on discussing the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human populations over time

#TBSky #IDSky #MedSky 🧪 #genetics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as humans migrated out of Africa - Nature Reviews Genetics

Sara Suliman describes a seminal 2013 publication by Comas et al. that investigated the origins of the tuberculosis-causing bacteria and its coevolution with diverse human populations.

www.nature.com

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 5d

🧐”Single-gene transcripts for subclinical tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysis”

The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 5d

New research article

Single-gene transcripts for subclinical #tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysis

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#IDSky #ClinMicro #TB #OpenAccess #OA

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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · 7d

For up to 60% of people cured of TB, treatment isn't the end of the journey. That's why we're thrilled to have @PIH.org's Dr. Carole Mitnick join us for a TB Ed Talk about post-TB lung disease and the pilot intervention she's part of! Learn more and submit questions here: tbfighters.org/tb-ed...

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 6d

🦍🩶”Dr. Jane Goodall was a remarkable example of courage & conviction, working tirelessly throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious, sustainable relationship between people, animals and the natural world.”
janegoodall.org

Making a Difference with Dr. Jane Goodall.

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA

youtu.be

AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 8d

👟📸🙎🏻‍♀️🩵”Blue Heron brings us the message of self-reflection as it has to feed alone. Alone we have to face our fears, look at our gifts, and be in harmony with our world.” Cherokee tradition

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 8d

“Si les travaux doivent encore
être approfondis avant de déboucher sur un médicament, ils offrent une
perspective concrète : priver la bactérie de son carburant vital pour
la rendre vulnérable, ce qui pourrait permettre, à terme, de sauver
des millions de vie.”
#Tuberculose
#Tuberculosis

Des chercheurs toulousains découvrent une faille dans l'armure du bacille de la tuberculose

Des chercheurs toulousains découvrent une faille dans l'armure du bacille de la tuberculose Par Léna SAOUI - Publié le 25/09/2025 à 15h30 La tuberculose est une maladie infectieuse généralement pul...

talk.edrugplus.org

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 9d

🤦🏻‍♀️ US government shutdown to furlough 41% of health agency workers

US government shutdown to furlough 41% of health agency workers

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to furlough 41% of its workforce if Congress fails to prevent a looming government shutdown, suspending critical functions including public health messaging, contractor oversight, and medical research.

www.reuters.com

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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 24d

Interesting - small study but oral rinse looks more sensitive that facemasks to detect M tuberculosis in cases of symptomatic pulmonary TB

#TBSky #IDSky
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

Oral Rinse versus Facemask Capture for Non-Sputum Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Press

Click to see any corrections or updates and to confirm this is the authentic version of record

www.atsjournals.org

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 9d

“Do no harm - re-evaluating the risks of overtreatment in community-wide #tuberculosis screening”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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