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Angela Huttner

@angelahuttner.bsky.social

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Infectious diseases MD (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland), editor-in-chief at CMI Communications, ESCMID's open-access journal, co-host of Communicable, CMI Comms/ESCMID podcast. #IDSky #MedSky #AMR #UTI

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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · Nov 10

@eliowa.bsky.social, you came!☺️
Thought of your simple observation that early-career awards w/age limits leave people out, esp ♀️
It sparked great collaboration
But I never did the implementation work
So..
IDSky MedSky
www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(21)00056-2/fulltext/

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 10h

✨NEW open call for articles 📣
What's in a name? That's exactly what we want you to tell us in this new series we have just launched, "Person behind the name". Read the call and submit your piece here: www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

#IDSky #clinmicro

Banner announcing the journal's new series on "the person behind the name" and a call for articles

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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 2d

I think not ID-specific :-)
#MedSky #WomenInMedicine

Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Ossie! I fully agree. There are some steps in that direction. But baby steps. Like getting your reviews compiled at Web of Science so you can at least show you did them. But it’s still our academic institutions that have to give that ‘credit’—and change the paradigm. How to get them to move?

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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 2d

#IDSky #UTISky #clinmicro

Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 3d

This conversation on peer review w/ Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach actually went for 2h! It was too fascinating. Had a hard time cutting to 1h.

I hadn't known how recent the concept of #peerreview is.

Thanks to @anniejoseph.bsky.social for conceiving & designing this one.

CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 3d

🎙️ Just published: Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @anniejoseph.bsky.social

w/ invited guests: Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach

Listen on Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #peerreview #AI

Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

A strong statement from the Dartmouth President regarding the "Compact"

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 7d

Single centre, but evidence for use of metagenomics in clinical practice is building.

Discrpanacy between current gold standard diagnostics is intriguing. Which is the false +ve or -ve result?

Interesting to see if / how impacts clinical practice, including cost-benefit analysis

#IDSky #ClinMicro

The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 7d

New research article

Rapid pan-microbial metagenomics for pathogen detection and personalised therapy in the intensive care unit: a single-centre prospective observational study

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

#IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA

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ESCMID @escmid.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Become an ESCMID Local Champion!
We are recruiting local champions who act as ESCMID advocates within their countries and benefit from certain privileges. Learn more and apply today: ow.ly/2Www50X4MVG

#IDSky #clinmicro

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 7d

📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 6 Oct! @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @anniejoseph.bsky.social invite experts Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach to discuss the history of peer review, its relevance today & alternative models such as #LLMs.

#IDSky #clinmicro #medsky #peerreview #AI

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 9d

📣 In a cohort of 2,850 adults undergoing hip #arthroplasty in Belgium, post-op #infection was rare (1.2%) & early (74%), but #autoimmune inflammatory #arthritis & pre-op anemia emerged as major risk factors.

#IDSky #MedSky #PJI #orthosky #surgsky #OA

www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

Postoperative hip arthroplasty infections: A monocentric retrospective study in Liège University Hospital, Belgium, 2015-2023

Despite significant progress in prevention, periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains a major complication following hip arthroplasty. Our aim was to identify risk factors for hip PJI in order to i...

www.cmi-comms.org

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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 12d

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ESCMID @escmid.bsky.social · 13d

The ESCMID AMR Action Subcommittee has organised a series of online events leading up to #WAAW, 18 - 24 Nov 2025. These webinars cover topics under the theme of rethinking our response to #AMR in different ways. Learn more & register: ow.ly/46rb50X0L59

#IDSky #clinmicro

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 13d

Watch some of our fellows share their experiences and expectations for the future.

👇 👇 👇
YouTube: bit.ly/4mL6m4s

ECDC Fellowships: EPIET, EUPHEM & MediPIET - YouTube

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 13d

The Call for Applications for #ECDCFellowship Programme #Cohort2026 is now open!

Are you passionate about #FieldEpidemiology or #PublicHealth Microbiology, and driven to investigate emerging public health threats? Ready to take your expertise to the next level?

Call for application for ECDC Fellowship Programme EPIET and EUPHEM paths, EU-track, Cohort 2026

The goal of the ECDC fellowship programme is to develop an European network of public health epidemiologists that share concepts and methods.

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 13d

📣 In a cohort of 670,000 Finnish children, late preterm (34-36w) exposure to #corticosteroids leads to a small but significant increase in hospitalizations for #infection in early childhood
Difference holds in exposure-discordant siblings
#IDSky #PedSky #MedSky #OA

www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

Graphical abstract describing the study by Katri Raikkonen et al: In a cohort of 670,000 Finnish children, late preterm (34-36w) exposure to corticosteroids leads to a small but significant increase in hospitalizations for infection in early childhood.

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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 14d

So many things wrong with this on so many levels 😳

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 16d

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Simon Maechling & @simonmaechling
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RFK Jr is set to announce Tylenol causes autism.
And then he'll push the "cure": leucovorin (folinic acid).
Who sells folinic acid? Dr. Oz's supplement company, iHerb.
The same Dr. Oz who is now the
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Trump's administration.
Think about that: A government health official tied to the very supplement company that benefits from RFK Jr's bogus
"cure."
This isn't public health.
It's corruption dressed up as wellness.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18d

Robert Post is the former dean of #YaleLawSchool and one of our nation's preeminent scholars of free speech and the first amendment. This piece: Falling Far and Fast,
The Turn Against Free Speech in America, deserves to be widely read. verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

Falling Far and Fast

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PIDS @pidsociety.bsky.social · 19d

"In two days, this committee further undermined Americans’ confidence in life-saving vaccines and did so absent any new research or information necessitating their reexamination."

PIDS has released the linked statement regarding the September ACIP meeting.
pids.org/2025/09/19/p...

PIDS Statement on the September ACIP Meeting Recommendations – Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

pids.org

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19d

FOLKS! share this big story with your friends and family off bluesky too! can’t assume they’ll see it otherwise

Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 19d

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health.

www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

American College of Physicians Calls for Removal of Secretary Kennedy at HHS | ACP Online

Statement attributable to:Jason M. Goldman, MD, MACPPresident, American College of Physicians

www.acponline.org

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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 19d

Secretary Kennedy presents a clear and present danger to the American people and their families. This week, even more of our colleagues in the fields of medicine, public health and patient advocacy join us in calling for his resignation.

Our full statement: https://bit.ly/42zItEV

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 20d

🎙️ Just published: Commun...

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @erinmccreary.bsky.social

w/ invited guests: Nick Daneman & Rob Fowler (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)

Listen on @sidpharm.bsky.social: https://sidp.pinecast.co/

Listen on Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky

Communicable E36: Finding BALANCE in antibiotic durations—the BALANCE trial

In this second-ever collaboration between SIDP’s Breakpoints and...

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Clinical Microbiology and Infection @cmijournal.bsky.social · 23d

October 2025 Issue is now online: www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/issue/S1198-... #IDSky #MicroSky

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 23d

The 2nd #Communicable & #Breakpoints collaboration drops on 19 Sept! Hosts @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @erinmccreary.bsky.social invite BALANCE trial leads Nick Daneman & Robert Fowler to discuss everything from the trial's humble start to its meteoric impact in clinical practice.
#IDSky #clinmicro

Screenshot of Communicable & Breakpoints hosts Erin McCreary & Angela Huttner with guests Rob Fowler and Nick Daneman.

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 23d

Are you at #ICPIC2025 this week?
Don't forget to pay us a visit!

#ECDC booth is ready for you!

#ICPIC #IDsky #EpiSky

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