I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!
Pharmageddon
@pharmageddon.bsky.social
Making games to teach & learn antibiotics, microbiology, and (soon) infectious disease epidemiology! Also sharing any good ID memes and infographics I find in the process... https://labbeaglegames.com/
🔥🔥IDSA AMR Guidance 2026🔥🔥 🔺Notable Updates from the 2024 IDSA AMR Guidance Document 🔺Meropenem dosing update: individualized dosing approach (1–2 g IV q8h) with higher doses considered in selected clinical scenarios. #idsky www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...
I am included in site wide sale! Get that teaching award with this one near trick. www.sanfordguide.com/products/ant...
Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge. #45- Wallaby Because @pharmageddon.bsky.social asked for it 😇 Very comprehensive resource found here: arwh.org/wp-content/u... #IDSky #VetSky #MedSky
This edition of #PeriodicGraphics describes how piezoelectric materials generate electricity, and how this process is used in common applications, including gas ignitors and medical imaging equipment. cen.acs.org/materials/el... #chemsky 🧪
a few pearls about fever that i find myself repeating to trainees (and patients): - fevers often resolve on their own, and it can be hard to know if any intervention changed the course - fevers tend to come at night. "afebrile so far today" is not always reassuring - fever ≠ infection #idsky
FirstcallID@firstcallid.bsky.social · last wk.New episode of The Host Response: Fever Is Not the Disease Fever isn't a diagnosis. It's a signal. A practical look at how this ID physician interprets one of medicine's oldest clinical clues. 🎧 Listen on Apple or Spotify #IDSky #MedEd
New episode of HARD DRUGS! GLP1 drugs have transformed obesity & diabetes, help treat heart disease, kidney disease and sleep apnea. They're far from the only drug with multiple uses. But sometimes, it takes several decades - and public funding - to learn about new uses.
Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight?
Hard Drugs · Episode
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Alpha-gal syndrome is an IgE-mediated delayed hypersensitivity to galactose-α-1,3-galactose (alpha-gal), a carbohydrate found in mammalian meat but absent from human tissue. The condition is initiated by exposure to alpha-gal through tick bites. Learn more: https://nej.md/4wIygTh
Good explainer of how outbreak detectives work. In this case, tracing how several clusters of cyclosporiasis started in New York City. #foodsafety #CDC #publichealth #IDsky #EpiSky #pathogens #cilantro
What Did They Eat? Here’s How One Case of Cyclosporiasis Was Solved.
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While my hair is hanging in there, I'm of the age where my social media feeds get targeted ads for hair loss products, e.g. Amazon's #1 bestselling "Nutrafol" As I study host-pathogen interactions, I wondered what other immune cell-themed grooming products might be envisioned .. Any other ideas?
Spain are the winners of the 2026 World Cup 🏆 Here's a look at how the materials that make up the shirts help them stand up to all the shirt-pulling and rough-housing in a typical Argentina match ⚽ #ChemSky 🧪
I'm spending the day at the MedEdGAMER conference. Currently up, a fantastic intro from @zachlondon.bsky.social talking about matching game mechanics with educational objectives. #meded
Outpatient clinic rooms should have TVs like inpatient rooms so we can watch world cup
This year to help all of our new medical and pharmacy residents become better stewards, I'm going to do a weekly Residency Survival Card! Follow us to get all the cards. There will be a new one every Monday.
Relatively short but nevertheless interesting story on why reshoring industries, in this particular case board games, isn't as easy as it sounds. I looked into printing Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs in the US years ago and it would have been about 5X the cost! www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...
What a Monopoly importer learned when it tried to make things in the U.S.A.
After getting hit with tariffs for the imported board games he sells, Jonathan Silva decided to see if he could produce a version of his Monopoly game in the United States. This is what he learned.
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Never gonna support a team the pronounces the "K" in "Cephalosporin"
Could malaria have been eradicated worldwide in the 1960s? 3 years ago, when I wrote about the malaria vaccine's history, I described the Global Malaria Eradication Program, launched in 1955 to eradicate malaria with DDT and other powerful insecticides worldwide... except in sub-saharan Africa.
If you're wondering what we talked about, you can hear @zach_london talk game development at the free online GaMER conference on July 17th! Sign up at mededgamer.org/conference-2026 2/3
The men’s football World Cup has reached the quarter finals stage ⚽️ Wondering what the trophy the eventual winners lift is made of? This edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social takes a look! cen.acs.org/materials/in... #ChemSky 🧪
neutrophils are all smiles and giggles until they degranulate a toxic brew of oxidants and proteolytic enzymes on you
“Sometimes a disturbing game closet is just a disturbing game closet.” My favorite: “Run!” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/c...
What’s Up With Those Creepy Board Games in ‘Widow’s Bay’?
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As always, we end our Bachelor's practical class with an agar art contest using the bright colis from @atinygreencell.bsky.social. As always, lots of beautiful images were created. Meet the winner, the Coli Cougar, our next year's class lab book cover.
Did you sign up for the best free online conference on research in games and medical education you've ever attended? Did you also mark your calendar and clear your schedule? Here's your weekly reminder! @EmpiricGame www.mededgamer.org/conference-2026
I listened to this today (to check the sound, but then I got sucked in), and honestly I think it might be our best podcast ever. Interested in neurodevelopmental disabilities and how we take care of the whole patient? And also, cursing? 👀 Take a listen!
Ali Christy, MD, PhD@oligoclonalband.medsky.social · last mo.SEASON 2!!! Finally, the episode of Immature Brains: A Child Neurology Podcast you forgot you were waiting for! Now with even more immaturity! rss.com/podcasts/immat… #pedsky #neurosky #neurodevelopment
stop telling yourself you deserve a sensitive man you deserve a sensitive AND specific man
I just realised that my latest research comic "Contagious Information" is now up! I made this with Jiajun Liang & Yiran Xu about their research on the creative ways people in China responded to censorship in the wake of COVID.
