Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

My quote of the day

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Georgia O'Keeffe Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Nine previously shown images on the womensart account, imcluiding paintings, embroidery, ceramics and sculpture

Have a great day :) xx

I’m already looking forward to #ESCMIDGlobal2027

🧪 #measles #vaccination
Thanks for posting this
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social 😢

This is a gift link, free to read, in case some people can’t read the whole thing

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

This gutted me.

“That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

🧪 #mpox #IDsky

First travel-related case of clade 1 #mpox identified in San Francisco.

www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...

HT @cidrap.bsky.social

Ghana: Mpox outbreak exceeds 1000 cases with nationwide spread across all regions

Read more at: beaconbio.org/en/report/

Request for information (RFI): Undiagnosed febrile illnesses with one death reported in Boni Forest, Lamu County, Kenya; widespread transmission in remote villages. RFI on diagnostic testing results
beaconbio.org/en/report/

NASA just shared the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

Each one of those swirls is a storm bigger than the entire Earth and going on for centuries. Let that sink in.

Zoologist, author and presenter Desmond Morris dies aged 98 Morris pursued dual passions of zoology and surrealist art, presenting BBC documentaries and hosting exhibitions

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

🧪 #escmidglobal2026
#STIsky
🙌 mention for #zoliflodacin an #gepotidacin as new treatments for #gonorrhoea
@gardp.bsky.social
Year in infectious diseases
1-hour Symposium
20 Apr 2026
14h45 - 15h45
Hall ICM 14

Highlights from late-breaking @TheLancet at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 📊

🔹 WGS + AI for RR-TB → better outcomes
🔹 UTI → nitrofurantoin best; fosfomycin worst
🔹 H5 immunity → partial cross-protection
🔹 M. pneumoniae CAP → steroids speed recovery

🚀 Precision + smarter antimicrobial use are shaping ID

🧪 #escmidglobal2026 mSCAPE is a national #metagenomics platform for detecting new potential pathogens
- timely - latency 10 days or fewer
- detecting ‘weird and wonderful’ pathogens
- showing potential now
Sakib Rokadiya @ukhsa.bsky.social presents

🧪 #escmidglobal2026
Ravi Mehta talking about a biomarker ddhC - present in acute viral infections - could identify a new virus in a serum, urine, csf in a new #pandemic - cool

Presenting our last poster at #ESCMIDGlobal today.
📍12:00–13:30, Poster Hall B3

Our poster looks at surveillance gaps in gonorrhoea across Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and South Africa — from missing regional data to limited resistance insights driven by diagnostic choices.

🧪 #escmidglobal2026
Highly recommended session 👇 to hear about continuous #mpox virus variant surveillance in DRC

Late-breaking disease surveillance approaches
1-hour Oral Session
20 Apr 2026
11h00 - 12h00
Hall A1-1

@krutikakuppalli.bsky.social

Leaders of ESCMID and IDSA met today at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 strengthening our collaborations and commitment to meeting the needs of the infectious diseases community. Working together for a healthier tomorrow!
IDSA #IDSky #InfectiousDiseases

Bhattacharya killing one of the most promising technologies in a generation for improving health, treating disease, & preventing mass death from pandemics was unforgivable; this will be his legacy

I was interviewed about his lies about mRNA vaccines here: www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/e...

BEACON Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.

Mpox, Ghana via @beaconbio.bsky.social - beaconbio.org/en/event/?ev...

Epiwise Epidemic risk projections powered by geo-intelligence Services Risk Projections & Datasets Up-to-date infectious disease risk projections, impact indicators, and input datasets based on peer-reviewed ...

What if we had been ready for potential Ebola in West Africa in 2014? The information was there, it just did get to the right people in time. With @epiwise.bsky.social we are aiming to change that. Come hear my talk tomorrow 20 April at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 L0032 11am A1-1 or visit www.epiwise.com

Monochrome photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman facing left with short dark hair, wearing a shirt and jacket

Portrait of pioneering Irish Modernist architect and designer Eileen Gray, Paris, 1926 by photographer Berenice Abbott #WomensArt

🧪 #escmidglobal2026
#STIsky
with gender equality in submissions and speakers - my first time here because there is now an ESCMID STI study group 😂

Very glad to see an almost full room in the outbreak investigation session at #ESCMIDGlobal2026!
Shows clear appetite for #PublicHealth and epi sessions among @escmid.bsky.social members!
#EpiSky

Now at #ESCMIDGlobal2026

“AMR Under Pressure: Smart Policies for Lean Times”

@drtedros.who.int the Director General of @who.int gives opening statements about AMR and calls on governments and partners to invest in combating this threat

📣 ESCMID is putting its money where its mouth is

Our own Katie Hostettler-Oi @kohost.bsky.social & Lena Siewert show how @escmid.bsky.social is reducing its carbon footprint (& yours) for a better 🌍

#ESCMIDGlobal2026 #ESCMIDgreentravel #IDSky #clinmicro #climate

www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

I used “lack” to mean “not having received vaccine for whatever reason”. It was meant to be a short value-free word. Sometimes, over-interpretation brings more heat than light.

#Yemen: 470% increase in #measles cases, from 1077 cases in 2022 to 6136 in 2024.
Half of the population need #humanitarian #aid.
Attacks on #healthcare workers.
Devastating.

Happening now at #ESCMIDGlobal2026

Excited to be having our first in person meeting of the newly formed #vaccine subcommittee.