Paper linked in piece:
www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S187...

Why scientists are nervous about fungi They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

"For fungi, because they're similar to human cells, it's quite difficult to find a drug which kills the fungus but does not harm the human cell. So in the past 75 years, we have developed only five classes of antifungals."
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/g...

'Postkoloniaal?' Een tentoonstelling over de wereldwijde Europese graaicultuur en zijn gevolgen tot op vandaag

'Postkoloniaal?' Een tentoonstelling over de wereldwijde Europese graaicultuur en zijn gevolgen tot op vandaag vrtnws.be/p.8e6GBWOkp?t=177... @vrtnws.be

Not a lot of #COVID19 vaccination is going on in Australia. Especially alarming when it's low in the older groups at risk of the most severe outcomes.
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

This is figure 1, which shows Long COVID Disease Burden vs. Other Conditions, by Sex Predominance.

A study in Communications Medicine finds that Long COVID’s disability burden rivals that of Alzheimer’s and asthma in the US, but Long COVID receives 14% of its years lived with disability-proportionate funding from the National Institutes of Health. go.nature.com/4v23Nzv #medsky 🧪

Submitting to the ERC with full confidence

Zwerfseizoen van jonge wolven is begonnen: wie er een ziet, mag dat melden aan Welkom Wolf 

Zwerfseizoen van jonge wolven is begonnen: wie er een ziet, mag dat melden aan Welkom Wolf  vrtnws.be/p.APBV7l37k?t=177... @vrtnws.be

The Trump administration is an international health emergency Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · April 17 · 51m

This @bmj.com podcast is worth a listen

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Mosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats up In what is possibly another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have landed in Iceland for the first time. For many years, the island was the only Arctic country that could claim to be mosquito-free. B...

Welp lol

For those that don't know (included me!), Gremubamab binds specifically to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PcrV protein and the Psl exopolysaccharide.

Both are virulence factors used for adhesion and biofilm stability.

Thanks @microsoft-copilot.bsky.social !

#ESCMIDGlobal2026 #IDSky #ClinMicro

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.

The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.

The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Risk of Guillain–Barré Syndrome after Laboratory-Confirmed Dengue Infection | NEJM In a Brazilian self-controlled case series of 5055 hospitalizations for Guillain–Barré syndrome, laboratory-confirmed dengue was associated with an increased risk of Guillain–Barré syndrome occurri...

🧪 Risk of #Guillain–Barré Syndrome after Laboratory-Confirmed #Dengue Infection | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe - The Sick Times Long COVID, which has affected more than 400 million people around the world, is often underreported, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

“We are not treating [Long COVID] with as much seriousness as we should be treating it. And when that doesn’t happen, then people don’t open up.”

New feature by Jamie Ducharme about #LongCOVID's unreported toll across the globe.

thesicktimes.org/2026/04/14/l...

Frontiers | Commentary: Internal medicine at the crossroads of long COVID diagnosis and management We read with attention the article by Ranque and Cogan (1) entitled "Internal medicine at the crossroads of Long COVID diagnosis and management." W...

🧪 Now out, a joint effort of patients, clinicians and researchers: "When psychologizing #LongCOVID causes harm"
www.frontiersin.org/journals/med...

Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling A man with HIV has gone into remission after receiving bone marrow from his brother, who has a rare mutation that prevents the function of receptors that HIV binds to

Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...

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Study (N=2,689) of men (18-34) finds 95.1% reported using strategies to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex & had not consented; 65% successful. Physical pressure & verbal coercion common; overt force, physical restraint, pain also used. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧪 "#AlphaFold provides structural models for a substantial number of experimentally identified PPIs missed by #AI. At this stage, the main contribution of AI predictions is to provide quaternary structure models for experimentally identified PPIs." #omics #interactome rdcu.be/fcWWR

Humanity first, not country first

"A sustainable international order cannot be built on the country-first principle alone. It must begin with a different commitment: a humanity-first approach, placing the protection of human life at the centre of decision making"

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

This is how titles and ledes must be written: straight, factual, and clear 👇

🧪 New exciting data from Akiko Iwasaki & team:
In a mouse model of #LongCOVID, nasal anti-CD3 mAb increased #brain FoxP3+ IL-10+ Tregs, reduced microglial and astrocytic gliosis in white matter & hippocampus, restored neurogenesis, and improved short-term #memory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧪 Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human #pathogen transmission over 40 years | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Addressing the Costs and Care for Long COVID Long COVID is a post-acute infection syndrome characterised by the persistence of symptoms following a COVID-19 illness. This novel and complex condition has a debilitating and often disabling impact ...

🧪 And here's the #OECD report on #LongCOVID: an estimated economic cost of 135 billion per year! www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Addressing the Costs and Care for Long COVID Long COVID is a post-acute infection syndrome characterised by the persistence of symptoms following a COVID-19 illness. This novel and complex condition has a debilitating and often disabling impact ...

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Long Covid projected to cost OECD economies up to $135bn a year New research forecasts hit to GDP from lower productivity and workers quitting because of long-term illness

Financial Times: 'Long Covid projected to cost OECD economies up to $135bn a year'

'New research forecasts hit to GDP from lower productivity and workers quitting because of long-term illness'

www.ft.com/content/de44...

Genomics of GLP-1 drug response and side effects
With genomic and demographic data it's possible to predict magnitude of weight loss response
@23andme23.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41...

New Lyme disease vaccine offers protection—but falls short of trial goals Phase 3 trial didn’t meet its primary end point but developers still plan to seek approval.

🧪 New #Lyme disease #vaccine offers protection—but falls short of trial goals | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Copper supports regulatory T cell energetic state to sustain peripheral immune tolerance Slc31a1-mediated copper uptake maintains regulatory T cell function and peripheral immune tolerance.

🧪 #Copper supports regulatory T cell energetic state to sustain peripheral immune #tolerance | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SCORE | Center for Open Science SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

Perhaps the biggest contribution of SCORE will be the rich dataset that can be used for many explorations into claim extraction, examining repeatability, and assessing credibility. Explore the project and the data yourself! cos.io/score/ and osf.io/10.17605/OSF...

Efforts to advance and evaluate AI capabilities will benefit from using SCORE data for training, and there are several benchmarking efforts to evaluate repeatability and other scientific tasks: www.cos.io/benchmarking...

Predicting Replicability Challenge: Round 2 Results Growth trends are producing a "strain on scientific publishing." The rates of scientific output have risen from just under 4 million publications in 2000 to over 10 million in 2024 and the total size ...

Reusing the SCORE data, we are observing improvement by the latest AI methods in predicting replicability in an open competition: www.cos.io/blog/predict...