Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.

Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

I only recently learned "gucci" as a descriptive characteristic from a Youth in my lab, then later learned it was already passé.

(Do the kids still say passé?) 🙃

It is getting harder to tell

Dan Weinberger and I @yalesph.bsky.social are hiring multiple research positions in microbial/virus sequencing and bioinformatics workflows with respiratory pathogens, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, RSV, and/or hMPV.

See 👉 forms.gle/xpmzTtNqHFqK...

...if this somehow ends up being a milkshake duck, I quit

Forget who onhere suggested this, but it's a great follow.

(Also, I imagine each animal telling me I really should stop doomscrolling.)

In a non car-brained world, the fact that elite cyclists are regularly hit, and often killed, by drivers should lead some of the victim blaming people out there to question what they're saying. You can do everything right and still die.

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

More evidence that 9-valent HPV vaccine is associated with ⬇️cancer risk in males. It's not only beneficial for women but also for men #HPV #VaccinesWork #IDSky #MedSky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2847524

Me, agreeing to review a manuscript, trying to stick to my resolution of ≥3 reviews per 1st-or-last-author submission: 🤓

Me, clicking "accept" to find a paper with >40 Supp Figs: 🫠

Me, realizing each Supp Fig is in a separate file, with a gibberish filename, not numbered: 😱

I have now read this piece and it is very good.

Massive respect for @merenbey.bsky.social and Iva for their persistence and documenting this torturous process.

Highly recommended reading for anyone who cares about reproducibility in science.

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

Making events into public memory is a cultural technology you have to do on purpose and repeat over and over. The fight to keep hold of the truth never ends it's generational and idk, maybe we're bound to lose in the end. But I have to believe we can do better than we did in the last six years.

From one of the driving forces behind the COVID Tracking Project (iykyk).

As some of you may know... we're down $5m and may or may not ever claw any of it back. So, we're writing new grants.

If anyone would be willing to share a funded application for
- NSF CAREER or NIH DP2 that is 100% dry lab-based
- NSF BIO Capacity: Infrastructure

I will owe you a coffee forever!

A thread about the farthest apart two humans have ever been

Tomorrow in Monte Carlo: first match of the century for 2026

HPV-vaccinated women may require fewer cervical cancer screenings | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Women vaccinated against human papillomavirus at a young age may need only two or three screenings for cervical cancer over the course of their lifetimes, according to a new study by Norway's University of Oslo and Harvard Chan School.

Women vaccinated against human papillomavirus at a young age may need only two or three screenings for cervical cancer over the course of their lifetimes, according to a new study by Norway’s University of Oslo and Harvard Chan School.

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For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc April 2026 edition.

Here's the full chute deployment and splashdown of the Integrity capsule containing the Artemis crew (at 1.5x speed to fit within the Bluesky video limit). Welcome home!

The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

On to the semis! Up next: Carlitos

As the AIDS epidemic is expected to worsen due to all the aid cuts, it is important to remember the history and the heroic efforts that helped control this once devastating epidemic

At Wits university in Joburg, they have this poignant exhibit of TIME covers on AIDS over the decades 👇🏾

Also the bladder is flushed with regularity, which could accelerate re-equilibration after abx administration more rapidly than any other body compartment. Natural source control!

How Valentin Vacherot has made history at the Monte-Carlo Masters this year Can he go all the way?

(Warning: niche tennis content) It's a small thing, but I need small good things atm: Valentin Vacherot's sustained rise (now into top 20), after his out-of-nowhere win at a Masters 1000 last fall as an injury sub into qualies, has been incredible. First Monegasque to make QFs of his home tourney!

Maybe? But abx also act pretty fast - does this happen if the abx are ineffective? I don't blame "dilution" (nor hemoconcentration) for WBC changes in blood, the way I do for RBCs - a meaningfully different compartment, to be sure. Anyway, I don't think this is obvious either way.

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