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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏

@tkes.bsky.social

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Clinical microbiology in LMIC & ID Epidemiology. Concerned about inequities and scientific integrity, yet dyed-in-the-wool optimist. All views my own, but I share because sharing is caring. (he/him/his)

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · Nov 20

🦠💊During #WAAW, #OUCRU, partners, and local authorities met to improve antimicrobial resistance control and microbiology capacity 🧫🔬in underserved areas. 🌏
💡Solutions like MiniLab and Hub-and-Spoke were tested. It works!

👉Read more: t.co/towS7BF3uQ
#AMR #IDSky #MicroSky #GlobalHealth

Group picture of approx. 30 persons standing on the stairs of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, Vietnam. Picture taken during the UMAMiS project meeting. Text: "OUCRU, partners, with local government to improve antimicrobial resistance control & microbiology capabilities in underserved districts of Phu Tho, Vietnam. World AMR Awareness Week 2024"

Picture of a blister. Text: "the challenge: lack of diagnostic tools. In underserved areas without microbiology labs, doctors oftern rely on symptoms to prescribe antibiotics. This leads to overuse & the rise of antibiotic resistance. World AMR Awareness Week 2024"

Drawing of 1 big and 1 small hospital, connected by arrows.
Text: "The solutions: new microbiology labs.
- Mini-Lab empowers local health centres with on-site testing
- Hub and Spoke model connects rural clinics to advanced lab services
World AMR Awareness Week 2024"

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 8h

"Les soit-disant experts ont tellement pris de retard dans leur compréhension du monde actuel qu'il est raisonnable de ne plus les écouter"

Skeet de @lexpress.fr‬ - October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM

💬 "Les universités ont pris tellement de retard dans leur adaptation à l’intelligence artificielle qu’il est raisonnable de ne plus faire d’études", selon Laurent Alexandre, ancien chirurgien et auteur de “Ne faites plus d'études !”. 👇

[video de 1:46 de Laurent Alexandre. texte apparent: "Laurent Alexandre: "avec l'IA, les etudes ne servent plus a rien""

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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 11h

View our #VisceralLeishmaniasis surveyor, an online interactive map that summarises #VL and #PKDL clinical trials across the world. Currently displaying 196 trials from 1980-2022, representing 35,000+ patients.
#ZeroLeish
www.iddo.org/tool/vl-surv...

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WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) @wwarnnews.bsky.social · 11h

Are you researching #malaria? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/wwarn/workin...
#DataReuse #DataForGood

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 8h

🚨 The truth about seat belts everybody asked for during decades, at last! The FAKE NEWS BIG CAR PROPAGANDA will not like it!

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 8

"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Explains Why It’s No Longer Recommending the Use of Seat Belts

“In the seven months since he was sworn in, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 9h

no coincidence that efforts by governments, development banks and the plastics industry to 'derisk' investment in risky, unproven recycling technologies has targeted countries like Indonesia, which have the highest imports of toxic plastic waste

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 10h

Sharp rise in UK plastic exports shows how behind the country is

The EU has agreed to ban exports of waste to poorer nations. The ban comes into force in November 2026

The UK does not have a similar ban in place

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 12h

I’m honored to be named one of Tagesspiegel’s “100 Researchers of Berlin” for 2025, featured in today’s category “Swimming against the current.” Grateful to be recognized alongside inspiring researchers who challenge convention and push boundaries

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16h

Risks of Tramadol Likely Outweigh Benefit for Chronic Pain www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/pa...

Risks of Tramadol Likely Outweigh Benefit for Chronic Pain

Drug didn't meet efficacy threshold and doubled serious adverse event risk, analysis suggests

www.medpagetoday.com

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pezdessinateur.bsky.social @pezdessinateur.bsky.social · 2d

#Macron #Lecornu #demission #gouvernement #jouets #Bayrou #1erMinistre #Matignon #crise #nominations #DessinDePresse #dessin

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 1d

- t0: Macron nominates Lecornu as PM and charges him to form a gov
- t+26d: Lecornu announces gov
- t+27d: Lecornu resigns
- t+27d+1h: Macron accepts Lecornu's resignation
- t+27d+8h: Macron charges Lecornu to form a gov before [t+29d]
- now = t+28d... 😳

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twingoking.bsky.social @twingoking.bsky.social · 2d

"La folie, c'est de faire toujours la même chose et de s'attendre à un résultat different" Albert Einstein #Macron #Lecornu #Démission

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Marc Dubuisson @unpied.bsky.social · 2d

N'empêche, on se moque mais Lecornu a tenu sa promesse : il n'a pas utilisé de 49.3.

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JAC-AMR @jac-amr.bsky.social · 2d

Interdisciplinary approach to blood culture result management linked to decrease in mortality in community-onset S. aureus infections:
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
@kasic.bsky.social #JACAMRNews #IDSky

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

Presque.

Nini_MacBright @ninimacbright.bsky.social · Dec 3

J'ai étudié le nombre de jours passés à Matignon par tous les Premiers Ministres de Macron, et je peux vous affirmer que le prochain gouvernement durera très exactement 2 jours, 11 heures et 27 minutes

Graphique représentant le nombre de jours passés à Matignon par les Premiers Ministres de Macron

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

A mon avis, t'auras un meilleur fit avec un log inverse

a man drawing a graph with the words it 's crashing hard below it

ALT: a man drawing a graph with the words it 's crashing hard below it

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

...and if you try to use a brazilian accent, you have a 70% chances of stroke🧠💥

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇸Freedom of speech, they said! 🙄

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list | Amandla Thomas-Johnson

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

www.theguardian.com

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

Trop tard. Il est parti.

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

🇫🇷So, the guy promises "rupture and change in method", takes a month to propose a govt with 90% same guys as previous ones, and resigns less than 24 hours later because of the backlash. So predictable. 🤡
#France #Lecornu #politicalcrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

France’s PM resigns after less than a month amid widespread criticism of new cabinet

Sébastien Lecornu quits after Emmanuel Macron unveiled largely unchanged cabinet lineup

www.theguardian.com

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

Moi, je dis que c'est pas sympa pour les journalistes qui ont passé la nuit à écrire des articles sur le gouvernement Lecornu. 😠 Franchement, vu la prévisibilité de l'événement, il aurait pu démissionner hier, directement!

Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 2d

La présidence Macron est un égarement infini qui ruine toute hauteur politique et toute exigence démocratique. Ultime démonstration avec cet énième gouvernement Lecornu qui reconduit le pareil au même, dans le mépris des attentes de sursaut du pays. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Gouvernement Lecornu : l’ultime affront

Sourd à la censure de son gouvernement précédent, Emmanuel Macron a renommé une équipe quasi-identique et rappelé Bruno Le Maire. Au-delà même d’une censure qui semble inéluctable, la crise politique…

www.mediapart.fr

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Ministère des Bras Cassés 👻 ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈᶦᵉ @brascasses.bsky.social · 2d

Sébastien Lecornu : "J'ai décidé de démissionner pour être en rupture avec la rupture que j'avais proposé."

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d

Just a suggestion: forbid males to rule in or out when it comes to womens' body?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

The judge ultimately ruled that the teen was mature enough to raise two children, but not mature enough to decide if she was ready to be a mother.

(Published 2022 in partnership with The New York Times Magazine)

She Wanted an Abortion. A Judge Said She Wasn’t Mature Enough to Make That Decision.

As abortion access dwindles, America’s “parental-involvement” laws place further restrictions on teenagers — who may need to ask judges for permission to end their pregnancies.

www.propublica.org

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 2d

"the quickest way to get a collaborator to return edits on your manuscript is to write down their affiliation wrong" (ancient academic proverb)

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 2d

Eastman et al (JMC 2025 ASAP) Membrane Perturbations and Assay Interferences by #Ivermectin Explain Its In Vitro #SARSCoV2 #Antiviral Activities and Lack of Translatability. #MedChem #DrugDesign #DrugDiscovery #cheminformatics #OpenAccess #chemsky 🧪
doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Membrane Perturbations and Assay Interferences by Ivermectin Explain Its In Vitro SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Activities and Lack of Translatability

The antiparasitic drug ivermectin was proposed as a repurposed drug for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection based on in vitro studies, but proved ineffective in high-quality clinical trials. When ex...

doi.org

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 3d

🤔 the kind of opinion I can hardly refuse (or agree with)

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d

Probably the fake news big pharma terrorist radical left deep state lizard men from outerspace....

Wait, are the lizard men multicellular?