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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · Sep 2

I need to hear more about this!

Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · Aug 28

I feel like medical professionals in the US are not doing enough to stand up to the madness led by RFK Jr that is destroying US health policy

I'm not even American.

I shouldn't be doing it.

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Mycoses Study Group Education & Research Consortium @msgerc.bsky.social · Aug 3

New podcast from @RCPhysicians

@drneilstone.bsky.social on all things mycology!

player.rcp.ac.uk/podcasts/medic…

https://player.rcp.ac.uk/podcasts/medic…

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Mycoses Study Group Education & Research Consortium @msgerc.bsky.social · Jun 27

MSGERC is seeking fungal infection cases (common or unusual) for Case of the Month.

Do you have a case? Submit to be featured on DrFungus.org!

Accepted cases from Early Career investigators will receive $250 and complimentary 1-year membership

Questions may be directed to [email protected]

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 24

When at a conference and there's a great talk and I want to speak to the presenter afterwards but someone gets in first and talks to them for aaages then I have to give up cos I need to go to something else.

Happens to me every time!

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 22

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Oliver Cornely @olivercornely.bsky.social · May 22

Yesterday at ISHAM 2025, Danila Seidel explored how environmental extremes can spark fungal outbreaks 🌪️🌱
A powerful reminder of climate’s role in emerging mycoses. #ISHAM2025 #FungalOutbreaks #ClimateAndHealth #MedicalMycology

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 22

Did you know..75% of wine has significant levels of azole antifungals in it? (German wine anyway)

Potential consequences for driving resistance...

#IDSky #ISHAM

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Hamish Houston @hamishhouston.bsky.social · May 21

Great to present feasibility study on AI to detect invasive pulmonary mould infections from CT scans at #BIASpring2025.

Proof-of-concept but need to develop surrounding infrastructure to develop this and other AI projects within NHS.

#IDSky @drneilstone.bsky.social

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 21

Did you know?

Bob Dylan had histoplasmosis...nearly killed him in 1997

#IDSky #ISHAM

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 21

21% of patients with advanced HIV here in Brazil 🇧🇷 have a positive histoplasma antigen...that's a huge number

#IDSky #ISHAM

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 21

Global burden of histoplasmosis is growing

But we don't know what to do with asymptomatic histoplasma antigen positivity

#IDSky #ISHAM

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 21

Terrific update on histoplasmosis by expert Antoine Adenis from Cayenne, French Guyana

We are seeing more and more cases diagnosed in the UK in travellers to endemic areas.

Easier to diagnose than ever before with new rapid tests.

#ISHAM #IDsky @msgerc.bsky.social

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 21

Great to be at the ISHAM 2025 @ISHAM_Mycology meeting at spectacular Iguazu, Brazil 🇧🇷!

#IDSky #infectiousdiseases

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Mycoses Study Group Education & Research Consortium @msgerc.bsky.social · May 21

We are in Iguazu, Brazil 🇧🇷..home of the famous waterfalls..for ISHAM 2025!

One of the key mycology meetings in the calendar

Follow for updates!

#IDsky

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 15

Ibrexafungerp there is a manufacturing issue and it's not yet licensed in the UK. Fosmanogepix still in phase 2 and 3 trials and not licensed so need to apply for compassionate use off trial.

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 15

The answer is no.

Ibrexafungerp and fosmanogepix are oral and anti candida and look promising.

But readily available they are not.

Ibrexa not at all and fosmanogepix with great difficulty

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 12

Do you know what have NEVER undergone randomised placebo controlled trials?

All those supplements they try and sell you online

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · May 12

Love the graphic

Seems my post made the point

We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · May 11

@drneilstone.bsky.social

Before vaccines, 1 in 5 babies didn’t survive a year.
-Dr. Neil Stone

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · May 11

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · Apr 26

Peripheral blood film

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François Gravey @fgravey.bsky.social · Apr 15

Thank you very much to @drneilstone.bsky.social for your very inspiring talk this morning about the scientific presence on social medias at #escmidglobal2025. You have been heard, this is my first message on Bluesky. Let’s see how it goes 🙂

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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · Apr 15

It was a blast..fun session. Lets do it again in Munich 2026!

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Apr 15

📍Arrived later than I’d hoped and challenges with watching 📱live on the app, but 🤩 really enjoying this discussion with @angelahuttner.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social Dr. Hofer and Dr. Joseph @escmid.bsky.social #ESCMID #ESCMID2025 #ESCMIDglobal #ESCMIDglobal2025 #IDsky

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · Apr 15

And that’s a wrap on the road to publications session! @angelahuttner.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @oana-sandulescu.bsky.social

#ESCMIDGlobal

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