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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 19h

🔔New publication!

The goal with this article was to show how ID/ASP pharmacists should be positioned to leverage their unique skills so that patients can get the best possible care

academic.oup.com/ofid/article... @ofidjournal.bsky.social @sidpharm.bsky.social @accpinfdprn.bsky.social

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 2d

A great and informative discussion of peer review. I have too many opinions to go into depth here.

My general solution is to better value, in all senses, both peer and editorial review. If peer review was formally counted as work by an academic that might encourage more engagement.

CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 2d

🎙️ 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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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 2d

🎙️ 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'

share.transistor.fm

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 8d

For a second thought you were trolling me and it wasn’t there hahahahaha! Found it ❤️

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🧛VÆmpiric @empiricgame.bsky.social · 8d

Our friends at Lab Beagle Games are launching a new game on Kickstarter tomorrow! Epipocalypse is an ID-epi game with intuitive mechanics and an encyclopedic amount of content. I had a chance to play an early prototype and it runs super smooth.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pha...

Coming soon: Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives, A Medical Card Game

Learn infectious diseases through a simple card game. Symptoms, transmission, reservoirs, and more!

www.kickstarter.com

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 8d

🐎🦓 👀

🚨New post!

www.idstewardship.com/horses-zebra...

❤️ This looks like a really cool kickstarter to join if you are into medicine and games. Learning is hard, gaming can make it fun!

From the creator of @pharmageddon.bsky.social 🙌

cc @empiricgame.bsky.social #IDsky

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 8d

New release, starting to announce.

Available on Amazon as a soft cover book and as a card game at antibioticexpert.com

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 14d

Submitted a peer review within 2 hours of accepting it, can I get a sticker please?

(Was pretty brief and topic I’m super familiar with)

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 14d

Seems like an appropriate time to share my favorite palindrome

LONELYTYLENOL

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 18d

Breaking: CDC advisers weaken COVID vaccine recommendations but stop short of requiring prescriptions

ACIP narrowly rejected its working group’s proposal to require a doctor’s prescription for the #COVID19 vaccine

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 26d

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Aug 30

TikTok vs IG

Here is an example of how hard it is to reach your followers on TikTok. So sad TikTok people missed out on the dad pun if “acute” vs “a cute”

Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Aug 28

💍 Congrats to the newly engaged famous people! ❤️May it be as legendary and long-term as pip and tazo!!! #Antibiotics #Pharmacist #pharmacyschool #medicalmemes

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Aug 27

#TestMeTuesday do you know the answer Pham?

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · Aug 25

🆕🔥Streptococcal endocarditis: a meta-analysis of species dependant risk by 🌟s @drtoddlee.bsky.social
🌟Updated figure 🌟Infective endocarditis prevalence of streptococcal species vs. proportion of streptococcal species bacteraemia #idsky #EMIMCC
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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ID:IOTS Podcast @idiots-pod.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ah yes, the famously medium-spectrum doxycycline.

It only covers
Staphylococci
Pneumococci
Beta haemolytic Streptococci
Actinomyces
Mycoplasma
Chlamydophila
Legionella
H.influenzae
Moraxella catarrhalis
ESBL E.coli UTI
Pseudomonas UTI(maybe!)
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Vibrio
H.pylori

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Aug 24

🧠💊 This is the best tip I can give you as an infectious diseases pharmacist… plus an amazing deal I’m crazy for offering.

www.LearnAntibiotics.com

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Joseph Marcus @josephmarcusid.medsky.social · Aug 22

Eight of 63 clients of a tattoo artist using a homemade (witch hazel-based) diluent developed an NTM skin and soft tissue infection.

Just say no to 🙅‍♂️homemade tattoo ink

#IDSky

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Skin Infections Associated With One Tattoo Studio—Oregon, January–April 2023

Abstract. Surgical, cosmetic, and tattooing procedures can lead to nontuberculous mycobacterium skin and soft tissue infections. Eight Oregonians developed

academic.oup.com

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Aug 22

Nice! We recently got a new fur baby too. Here is Bruno the puggle…

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Rossana Rosa @drrossanarosa.bsky.social · Aug 14

I saw a patient in clinic for recurrent C diff.
They really liked this sticker in my computer.

#IDSky

A cute sticker that says “Stop C diff, Wash Your Hands”

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Rossana Rosa @drrossanarosa.bsky.social · Nov 9

Infection Prevention People! I’m looking for you!

IPSky #IPSKy
IDSky #IDSky

go.bsky.app/MdRkmpi

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Aug 8

⭐️ 📄 ⭐️

Recently @pharmermeg.bsky.social updated this open-access post. Originally published in 2017, the new version has a complete overhaul & provides a downloadable document. This is an article that has been read by by tens thousands of people 🌎🌍🌏.

www.idstewardship.com/cross-reacti... #IDsky

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Aug 1

It probably also kills GPC-clusters

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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · Jul 31

Kills MRSA and Staph! 😂

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IDWeek @idweek.bsky.social · Jul 29

Coming soon to an IDWeek near you... 👀

Register today for #IDWeek2025 before rates increase this Saturday, Aug. 2: idweek.org/registration

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