‼️New Pub: first reported case of disseminated Toxo + HLH w/ TIL tx. This was unexpected and our pathology team helped make diagnosis by catching parasites on BMBx (pics included!). And a case of questionable sulfa allergy negatively impacting ppx strategy journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Toxoplasmosis-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis during tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy | ASM Case Reports

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a severe, rapidly progressing inflammatory syndrome that can be classified as primary or secondary. Secondary HLH often arises in the context of infections,...

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AI tech companies illegally downloaded and destroyed millions of books.

Here's the finished painting if you feel like buying it and hanging it on your wall #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4436...

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 8mo ago

Time to paint the bacteria

Super exciting that Kansas City is one of 11 US sites for FIFA World Cup 2026 Matches. My colleagues are hosting a series of talks to educate clinicians on how to prepare for influx of international travelers. These talks are open to anyone - register here: bit.ly/IDP2026ECHO #IDSky #MedSky

Infectious Disease Preparedness 2026 ECHO: Game Plan for Health!

Prepare for the 2026 tournament games in Kansas City with expert guidance on infectious disease readiness. This ECHO session offers practical strategies for health professionals and community leaders ...

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Gotta keep reminding myself that i am practicing ✨Gentle January✨ this year

Happy holidays! I’ve been taking a break from social media to raise this chubby munchkin. I’m working today and wish all my fellow healthcare workers good tidings for an easy, slow day ❤️ #IDSky

How I feel writing my own journal article manuscripts

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm currently working on a novel and at the end of an average day, I'm wiped out. The sheer amount of analysis, synthesis, making of connections, layering of prose, deepening of characterization, supplemental research... all the mental work is intense and exhilarating. Which is just to say, fuck AI.

Here’s a short skeetorial to raise awareness about the surprisingly high sodium content in some IV antibiotics...clinically important for patients with CHF. Judicious use matters!💧🧂 #emimcc #medsky #EMsky #IDsky #pharmsky #AMSky #FOAMed

a man wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt is holding something in his hands .

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt is holding something in his hands .

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Pastor Kirk Milhoan of the Diocese of Disinformation is apparently boarding a flight right now and is unavailable. He is currently the Chair of ACIP. As a reminder, ACIP is meeting right now.

#ACIP liaison member Jason Goldman: "This meeting is completely inappropriate...you are wasting taxpayer dollars...you are not accurately presenting the data to the American public, and that is a disservice...Your data is questionable."

ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body. Period. This is a goat rodeo of radical anti-vaxxers.

A little tea 🍵 to read on this cold morning

Ilan Schwartz@germhuntermd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We Dissent: Lessons From the 2025 Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Guidelines IDSA withdrew from what was to be ATS/IDSA CAP guidelines b/c of impasse over the panel's recommendation to treat CAP with antibacterial therapy when a viral pathogen is identified. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

A propos of nothing, I can’t rule out that my childhood vaccines caused my love of causal inference

Happy Antibiotic Awareness Week from our ASP team! A reminder to use our limited tools wisely, even in the setting of immunocompromising conditions 😎 #IDSky #MedSky

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️ Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity! C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊 #IDSky quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...

The interim CDC director who will rubber stamp the ACIP recommendations on MMRV vaccine and COVID vaccine is neither a scientist nor a physician. He is a former silicon valley executive. When was the last time you consulted a corporate executive for guidance on your health? 🤔...I'll wait.

Reaction's to ACIP's vote are coming in. The American Academy of Pediatrics says the meeting "promoted false claims and misguided information about vaccines as part of an unprecedented effort to limit access to routine childhood immunizations and sow fear and mistrust in vaccines."

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital

The cyber division of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations on Saturday quietly lifted a stop-work order put into place by the Biden administration in October.

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A couple of cool new ink paintings on yupo #sciart First, Mitosis in Drosophila. You're not gonna find this at Crate & Barrel artologica.etsy.com/listing/4352...

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

I share your love for mitosis, have made a fair number of representations of my favorite cell and stage, late anaphase in budding yeast mitosis 🔬…here’s my favorite (steel, bronze, silver, and apatite gemstones)

Hey everyone, On a whim, I crafted four tiny clover-shaped paintings. These are adorably small, mildly spooky, and completely ready to hang. If they're popular, I'll definitely make more. These four are up at Etsy - ShadowArtFinds. Have a legendary weekend, my artsy friends. 🌙🌙

Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical. These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months. Removing them puts millions of lives at risk. wapo.st/3FQovhf

Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines

The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.

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Hi Blueskies! I'm Michele and I make watercolor and ink paintings inspired by science. You can buy them at my shop artologica.etsy.com