Postdoc (Paris, France) PIPELINE – Evaluating immunization strategies against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with @vcolizza.bsky.social at INSERM More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2625

PhD position (Oxford, UK) An exciting opportunity to study the strain dynamics of E. coli across a unique cohort spanning health to disease. with @samlipworth.bsky.social at @modmedmicro.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2600

Very interesting preprint on how badly LLMs do peer review "All tested LLMs lacked both sensitivity to errors and specificity, recommending major revision or rejection for papers [...] published in top journals" The tendency to reject is influenced by the prompt, with "revisions" judged favorably

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 2w ago

LLMs, asked to "peer" review 200 papers published this year in top science and medicine journals, either rejected or recommended major revisions 76% of the time. Telling the LLMs the paper was a revision paper made them much more generous. arxiv.org/abs/2610.31414

A serious weakness in this paper by King and Worthington: The judges for the AI peer reviews are *not* experts in the field. They are former journal editors but no claim is made to substantive expertise in the reviewed papers. AI-generated reviews sound good *if you don't know the substance well.*

A while ago (actually, 17 April 2023) I jokingly told @hoferu.bsky.social "You realise that people will just throw papers through these LLMs to produce review reports...". The result: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 3,5 years on and it's so much worse. (Shamelessly plugging my own paper)

The dangers of using large language models for peer review

The recent advances in artificial intelligence, and particularly large language models (LLM) such as chatGPT (openAI, San Francisco, CA, USA), has initiated extensive discussions in the scientific com...

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Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · 3w ago

Astonishing. Every single time I ask Opus about a causal infefence topic it's wrong in some important way.

Conference Group photo Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam #ARCANE2026 #AMR #PublicHealth #HospitalNetworks #ScientificConference

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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The world is literally burning. All because the oil industry got us all addicted to burning their product. In other news: Airbus and Qantas flex about how they are able to fit an additional 20.000 liter of fossil fuel into an airplane: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight

The A350 landed in Toulouse 24 hours and 24 minutes after leaving Melbourne as airline plans direct London service

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🚨📣Call for abstracts now open! ARCANE Workshop on Adaptive Healthcare Networks & Antimicrobial Resistance 📍 Paris | 19–21 Oct 2026 arcane.sciencesconf.org?lang=en Scientific Committee: @pascalcrepey.bsky.social, @tjibbed.bsky.social, @andkarch.bsky.social, @vcolizza.bsky.social, Laura Temime

If you're in London, don't miss CARB-X Executive Director @koutterson.bsky.social’s Fleming Initiative guest lecture at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social this Thursday, May 21 at 5:30 PM BST. #IDSky 🧪 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4cVSEt9

CARB-X@carb-x.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join CARB-X Executive Director Kevin Outterson for his Fleming Initiative guest lecture at Imperial College London, where he will discuss viewing antibiotics as infrastructure to contextualize their importance in society. #IDSky 🧪 📅 May 21 ⏰ 5:30 – 6:30 PM BST 🔗 bit.ly/4cVSEt9

What we choose to implement - and when - matters. Our work shows that proactive screening strategies can reduce transmission by ~40% vs reactive responses. A key lesson for preparedness. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/cLnu50YCrcn

Proactive vs. reactive COVID-19 screening in schools: Lessons from experimental protocols in France during the Delta and Omicron waves

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted diverse policies to manage safety in schools, balancing transmission control with educational continuity. We evalu

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PNAS Nexus@pnasnexus.org · 7mo ago

A study of 25 primary schools in France found that weekly screening of all students during the Delta and Omicron waves of the COVID-19 pandemic reduced school transmission by around 40% compared to reactive strategies used at other schools. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/jhii50YCrcm

Robert Read from Journal of Infection describing AI in publishing as a tsunami of custard 😂 #ESCMIDGlobal2026

We're on a long trip in our EV, and more than ever before, non-EV drivers are (literally) lining up to ask questions about charging speed and costs. Not a lot of questions about range this time... I guess it's a matter of priorities.

Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab. 🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE) 🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX) 2-y positions | Start June 2026 #epidemiology #networks #matrices

I found this profoundly difficult to read, also because I have a 7-year-old daughter, and I would gladly spend eternity in hell to prevent this happening to her.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 9mo ago

I've interviewed moms like this—moms who won't vaccinate, reassuring themselves that if their child dies, it's God's will. It's almost impossible to change their minds, because they believe God won't let them into heaven if they vaccinate their kids, since vaccinating means not trusting God's plan.

Fun fact: the first draft of this paper was written November 2019, but somehow, something came in between.

Tjibbe Donker@tjibbed.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As part of the NeWIS project, we wrote a commentary in @cmijournal.bsky.social on the need for hospital network reconstruction for the control of antimicrobial resistance. "Towards a Europe-wide reconstruction and analysis of hospital networks" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mXF1,RGPg...

As part of the NeWIS project, we wrote a commentary in @cmijournal.bsky.social on the need for hospital network reconstruction for the control of antimicrobial resistance. "Towards a Europe-wide reconstruction and analysis of hospital networks" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mXF1,RGPg...

Nouvelle publication, avec la participation de Laura Temime, directrice du laboratoire MESuRS, sur les réseaux de soins et la prévention de la propagation des bactéries multirésistantes (RAM).

I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl. Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.

This motherfracker wants us to prove a negative. In science, you can prove a negative about causation by showing the causal pathway does not exist. “Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on. Thread [1/9]

The CDC updated its vaccine page to claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is "not evidence-based" and studies were "ignored." This is an outrage. Decades of research have found no link. This isn't science, it's RFK Jr. using the CDC as propaganda. Children will die because of this.

#AMR #Klebsiella cause >100,000 neonatal deaths globally each year. Our new preprint shows more than half of #Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis cases in African and South Asian are nosocomial, acquired through transmission in neonatal units. #WAAW doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🌳💻 Scientific Programmer position (7 years, TVöD E13) Play an important role in the Cluster by making a contribution to the integration of process models for all components of the forest system, and by helping to shape research in this area. 📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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Exciting news from the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg (@uni-freiburg.de)! 🌲🌳 Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster: 1️⃣ Modeling Coordinator 2️⃣ Scientific Programmer Find details below 👇

“Basically, no matter what anyone tells you, a plug in hybrid is just a more complex petrol car. You are always either hauling a useless engine around or hauling a useless battery around. It will require the same amount of servicing as any petrol or diesel vehicle, it has 1000s more components…

Robert Llewellyn@bobbyllew.bsky.social · last yr.

I have scrawled a measured critique of petrol hybrid vehicle promotion. I think I might have opinions llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

Herr Blume sorgt dafür, dass alle Porsche-Fahrer in 35 Jahre ein H-Kennzeichen führen können.

Jaap Burger@jaapburger.eu · last yr.

Ein innovatives Hybrid-Konzept: Verbrenner, die nicht nur Benzin, Diesel oder E-Fuels, sondern auch Profit verbrennen.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

"The possibility of prompt injection" was not on my list of the dangers of using LLMs for peer review" ( www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ). Then again, I didn't actually include a list, because I didn't use AI to write the bloody text.

The dangers of using large language models for peer review

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Health Nerd@gidmk.bsky.social · last yr.

HAHAHAHA I LOVE THIS. Really shows the generally worthless nature of peer review in the current system. It's all so broken.