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Michael Madaio @mmadaio.bsky.social · 9d

This is a study I worked on over the last few years with @kinnathakarar.bsky.social and others that shows the power of education on changing mindsets regarding stigmatized conditions!

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease @tainfdis.bsky.social · 15d

Hospital clinician training transformed care for PWUD w/ severe infections. Post-training: 95% applied harm reduction (vs 55%), 69% discussed safer use (vs 38%).
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A descriptive survey evaluating the implementation and outcomes of a training session highlighting concepts in antimicrobial management and harm reduction for hospital-based clinicians treating person...

Background: People who use drugs (PWUD) are at increased risk for severe infections and face many barriers when completing conventional, typically parenteral an...

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Kinna Thakarar @kinnathakarar.bsky.social · 8d

Awesome work by @mmadaio.bsky.social & team including @drelleneaton.bsky.social @monsikka.bsky.social. ✨

Michael Madaio @mmadaio.bsky.social · 9d

This is a study I worked on over the last few years with @kinnathakarar.bsky.social and others that shows the power of education on changing mindsets regarding stigmatized conditions!

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease @tainfdis.bsky.social · 15d

Hospital clinician training transformed care for PWUD w/ severe infections. Post-training: 95% applied harm reduction (vs 55%), 69% discussed safer use (vs 38%).
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Kinna Thakarar @kinnathakarar.bsky.social · 15d

Calling implementation scientists! Job alert: www.careersatmainehealth.org/jobs/1676915...

Faculty Scientist II or III - MaineHealth Institute for Research in Westbrook, ME, ...

www.careersatmainehealth.org

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 15d

I'm having this surreal realization that standing up for evidence and data has become a politically polarizing position, and I don't know what to do about that.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17d

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.

www.afr.com/work-and-car...

The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.

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Alex Sundermann, DrPH @sundermannaj.bsky.social · 16d

STAT digging into HAIs, NHSN reporting, and avoidance

Great piece on the debacle of penalties driving undertesting and underreporting

Brings me back to my days as an IP, knowing that CDC NHSN manual like the back of my hand #IDSky

via @tarabannow.bsky.social ⤵️
www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/h...

Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test

A STAT Investigation: To avoid fines for reporting excessive hospital-acquired infections, some facilities are discouraging testing.

www.statnews.com

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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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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19d

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19d

"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans."
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...

A Hero We Didn’t Deserve

Remembering David Rose who ran towards danger.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19d

The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/

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Andrew Pavia @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social · 20d

Special thanks to the @CDC scientists for great presentations, excellent scientific reviews, and enormous patience in the face of an enormously challenging and upsetting day at what used to be the ACIP

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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 20d

Stated at ACIP: MMRV isn’t acceptable for kids <4 to prevent measles, mumps, rubella & varicella.

❌ False. MMRV/MMR vaccines are safe & highly effective. Studies show only a very small increase in febrile seizure risk after the 1st dose.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22d

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses

The defining experience of fascism.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) @sheaepi.bsky.social · 27d

Read ASHE's conversation with SHEA's Executive Director Kristy Weinshel about the behind-the-scenes work at SHEA and leading by “The Golden Rule.”

🔗: bit.ly/3KgIZRS

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Alex Sundermann, DrPH @sundermannaj.bsky.social · 27d

@mirandayaver.bsky.social and I have an op-ed out today in The Hill on why cutting AHRQ is a dangerous move.

From its work in patient safety and HAIs to funding research grants and to its support of the USPSTF - AHRQ has repeatedly shown its value
thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 9

Look: I can’t stand's RFK Jr. But if you come into my replies suggesting the problem is his former heroin use, please leave. Stigmatizing drug users is not OK with me. He’s a terrible person. Opioids have nothing to do with that.

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · Sep 7

New high of Americans saying immigration is good for the US

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · Sep 7

RFK Jr’s HHS endorsed personal belief vaccine exemptions. We’ve been here before:

2015, California.
School vaccine “requirements” let parents opt out for any personal belief. In some counties, kindergarten MMR rates dropped to 50%.

A measles outbreak starts at Disneyland.

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Andrew Pavia @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, until recently head of NIAID and Dr. Kathy Neuzil (incredible public servants and scientists!) document the extent of political interference with science at NIAID. Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Sep 4

The medical community understands that vaccines are safe, effective & have led to the elimination of polio, measles & small pox.

Secretary Kennedy does not.

President Trump must ask for his resignation.

Opinion | RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Designs for Public Health

If the president wants to make America healthy again, great. But he shouldn’t expect to do so with Mr. Kennedy at the helm, writes Sen. Bernie Sanders.

www.wsj.com

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Jay Bhattacharya is now one of the most powerful people in the scientific world and is still bitching about a court finding he wasn't censored.

What a deeply sad man.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Sep 4

3. Jay Bhattacharya: “Free speech is dead in America”. Why? Because he didn’t win his Murthy v Missouri court case; no evidence he was censored, so no standing. Sad!

(This means rule of law is alive in America.)

Jay asked the room who’d been censored by tech. THREE ✋ WENT UP. I LOL’d; got looks.

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Len Courland @infectiousjk.bsky.social · Sep 4

All clinical, public health, nursing, surgical and other health-related professional organizations and members should boycott the state of Florida for conferences and meetings due to their anti-science and rejection of evidence based practices.

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ASM @asm.org · Sep 3

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation

The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · Sep 3

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.

Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi

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Dan Diekema @dandiekema.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks SHEA, IDSA, et al!

www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Joint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation

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