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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · May 5

Enthusiastic to receive the ESCMID CAREer Grant 2025. 🍾🥂✨
www.escmid.org/science-rese...
Many thanks to @escmid.bsky.social

Awardees Gallery

Explore the gallery of esteemed ESCMID members celebrated with grants and awards.

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · May 1

We are diversifying backgrounds and perspectives!
— Open call for researchers from low-and middle-income countries to join Clinical Microbiology and Infection’s Scientific Committee
www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119...
#IDsky #CMsky
@cmijournal.bsky.social
@escmid.bsky.social

Open call for researchers from low-and middle-income countries to join Clinical Microbiology and Infection’s Scientific Committee

Novel ideas are readily generated in diverse teams of scientists with a plurality of backgrounds, perspectives and research methods [1, 2]. The same holds true for editorial teams: When publishing exc...

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Apr 17

#IDsky
@escmid.bsky.social
@angelahuttner.bsky.social
@sarah-delliere.bsky.social
@laurajng.bsky.social

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Apr 17

There was childcare at (back then) ECCMID in 2023 and it was great pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37863354/
Disappointing that this seems to depend on the venue (?) or organizational capacities (?).

Parenting at ECCMID 2023 - PubMed

Parenting at ECCMID 2023

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Apr 17

Great to see at #ESCMIDglobal2025 4 out 9 keynote lectures being held by women and gender balanced achieved in terms of invited faculty.
Keep in mind that giving a talk at ESCMIDglobal creates more visibility/ is more prestigious than chairing a session.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38242142/

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Apr 17

I tried to collect my poster with my toddler on my arm — no chance. Couldn’t even trespass the hallway between Hall A and Hall D to get there.
You may have noticed this on the floor when entering #ESCMIDglobal2025.

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Apr 17

Yes, still a - no kids - policy at ESCMID Gobal, that hasn‘t changed since 2019, when we wrote this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31204154/

Being a parent at ECCMID 2019 - PubMed

Being a parent at ECCMID 2019

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Ursula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social · Mar 28

I gave a talk on writing comments today for which I included a list of comments an editor (I👋) is unlikely to accept:

-Overly dismissive (this is all wrong and I am right OR, even worse, everyone else is stupid, and I'm brilliant)
-Self promotion (but look at MY paper)

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thank you @angelahuttner.bsky.social and co-hosts for a considerate and thought-provoking podcast episode part 2 on „Women and men in medicine“ by
@cmicomms.bsky.social’s Podcast 🎙️ Communicable.
Highly recommended 🤓🩺
— Great to know that these podcasts are citable!

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Cihan Papan @cihanpapan.bsky.social · Dec 22

Thank you @hoferu.bsky.social for highlighting our study — honored to read that it’s among your favorite pieces 🙃
#IDSky

Ursula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social · Dec 20

Who is a speaker and who is a chair at big infectious disease conferences? Where are they coming come? Some data in this letter.

Progress, but still lots to do...

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

Gender and geographical representation at infectious diseases and clinical microbiology conferences

The under-representation of women in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology has been well documented.1,2 Besides publishing, active participation in scientific conferences is a crucial part of career development.3 Conferences are a focal point for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research; offer networking opportunities; and create visibility for speakers, especially in prestigious sessions.3,4 Data on gender and geographical representation at international infectious diseases and clinical microbiology conferences, stratified by speaking roles in prestigious sessions, are lacking.

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Ursula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social · Dec 20

Infectious diseases is not only about the latest trials and big cohort studies.

So, here is a list of my favourite pieces that you might missed from The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2024 that reflect on the field at large, in no specific order.

#IDSky

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Dec 10

Highly recommended and extremely useful: ESCMID
@escmid.bsky.social educational course on „Publishing Impactful Clinical Research“. Register now: www.escmid.org/event-detail...
Featuring @cmicomms.bsky.social EiC @angelahuttner.bsky.social 🤩💪🏻

Publishing Impactful Clinical Research

Welcome to the homepage for the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).

www.escmid.org

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Dec 6

@cmijournal.bsky.social

CMI will recognize excellent research by early-career scientists 🍾🥂🦠🩺🧫

#CMsky #IDsky

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kDEf_,2kS...

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Katharina @clinmicrobugs.bsky.social · Nov 26

New series launched in CMI @cmijournal.bsky.social 🤓
Excited to read about your „Heroes and heroic studies paving the way forward in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases“.
www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119...

DEFINE_ME

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