Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
@tomk.eurosky.social
Clinical microbiology in LMIC & ID Epidemiology. Concerned about inequities and scientific integrity, yet dyed-in-the-wool optimist. All views my own, but I share because sharing is caring. (he/him/his)
Polls overestimate support for left-wing parties across 32 countries
Chris Prosser@caprosser.com · 18h agoBreaking it down further by party family, we see a fairly consistent pattern across the left party families but more variation on the right, with polls tending to underestimate Agrarian and Conservative parties, but not Christian Democratic and Far Right parties.
Because of CDC lay-offs and RFK Jr's anti-garlic fearmongering, the US can't prevent this threat properly!
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · yesterdayjesus along with all the other threats right now... be careful, portland...
#ResearchHighlight from Bipin Adhikari @bipinglobalhealth.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social Community engagement strategies for antimicrobial resistance #AMR control and interventions Read more 👉 ndm.ac/tropmed-res-hi Full publication 👉 bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/3/...
Sunday: I’ll do a quick fact check of this insane RFK Jr interview Monday: Up to 40 lies & it was only a 3 min clip! Tuesday: Ready to defend my 2nd PhD thesis on fascist quackery That's why @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social & I are holding him accountable rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...
RFK Jr is Asking to Be Proven Wrong Again So Here Are 40 Examples From Just One CNN Interview
He's just creating work for us at this point
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🤔 I thought the 🧠🪱 guy was supposed to "take on ‘Big Pharma’ while leading HHS"
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · yesterday🤯🤯🤯 “Steven Quay, a pharma executive known for his books making the case Covid came from a Chinese lab, is on the verge of getting Anthony Fauci’s old job” A Big Pharma executive & lab leaker, what could possibly go wrong? www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
📢 Hanouna décroche son siège à l'Académie Française 🙏 "Je suis tout à la fois le disciple de Spinoza et de Jean-Marc Morandini." www.legorafi.fr/2026/06/10/c...
Cyril Hanouna : « La société du divertissement est en train de tuer toute profondeur »
C’est dans sa bibliothèque consacrée quasi exclusivement aux philosophes que le trublion du PAF nous a reçus pour un entretien passionnant. Extraits.
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1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
"La normalisation du régime taliban ne serait donc pas seulement l’abandon du peuple d’Afghanistan. Elle serait la validation, par l’Europe elle-même, de la théorie djihadiste de la victoire." ➡️ pour prévenir la menace jihadiste il faut ACCUEILLIR les réfugiés afghans, pas les renvoyer chez eux! 🫶🇦🇫
Christophe Chartreux@libreavanttout.bsky.social · 2d agoAhmad Massoud et Aurélien Pradié : « Les citoyens d’Afghanistan qui arrivent aux frontières de l’Europe fuient la menace ; ils ne la portent pas » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
#Ebola in #DRC: 👉3,748 confirmed cases, 👉1,657 deaths (CFR 44.2%) as of 1 Aug, per the Congolese government. WHO: outbreak "intensifying," now the country's largest ever recorded. Source (ECDC): www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/ebola-out...
💊DoxyPEP effectiveness against ✅Chlamydia 67% ✅Syphilis 61% ❌Gonorrhea 0% [non-signif neg value] 📉dropping from 42% just after DoxyPEP implementation to 0 one year later driven by 📈 TetM prevalence🧬 Cohort study USA #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #IDSky #MedSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Durability of doxycycline effectiveness against gonorrhoea after implementation of post-exposure prophylaxis in southern California, USA: a retrospective, test-negative, observational study
We report rapid loss of doxycycline PEP effectiveness against gonorrhoea within the first year after doxycycline PEP implementation in MSM and transgender women in southern California, associated with...
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M Bouchez 🇧🇪 aussi. Même populisme. Même xénophobie. Même ignorance de la géographie. www.rtbf.be/article/geor...
Georges-Louis Bouchez demande une suspension partielle de l'Espagne de Schengen - RTBF Actus
Le parti libéral 'demande des contrôles ciblés sur les personnes venant d'Espagne, avec une suspension partielle de...
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon@jlmelenchon.bsky.social · 5d ago
🤗 last retraction of V.S. Aigbodion is the very first (out of 36) to be for another reason than image manipulation. They have invented values, but instead of randomizing the decimals, they just picked the next key on the keyboard 🥸. One day, I'll write the "Scientific fraud for dummies" handbook!😆
Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏@tomk.eurosky.social · 7d ago2 more retractions for VS Aigbodion from his favourite journal, the Int J Adv Manufact Tech @springernature.com Now counting 20 retractions out of 32 papers reported (and 41 published) in this journal only. 🧮 total 35 retractions for this author 🤦♂️
Don’t know how I missed this story last month. US oil company shows up in Greenland to start drilling. Invasion by dubious permits. Important story for Canadians. #ElbowsUp
Licensed to drill? How a Trump-linked Texas oil company is elbowing its way into Greenland
Greenland Energy says billions of barrels of crude could lie beneath territory and claims it has permission to bring drilling kit ashore – a claim denied by Nuuk
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🚨 RFKJr demande aux parents de vacciner leurs enfants contre la rougeole! 📢A vos postes, les antivaxx vont crier au deepfake dans 3... 2... 1...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoBASH: I want you to use your bully pulpit to tells parents who have not vaccinated their kids that they should vaccine their kids for measles. Will you do that? Look into the camera RFK Jr: I'll say it right now. Parents should get their children vaccinated for measles.
Antivaxxers saying it's a deep fake in 3... 2... 1...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoBASH: I want you to use your bully pulpit to tells parents who have not vaccinated their kids that they should vaccine their kids for measles. Will you do that? Look into the camera RFK Jr: I'll say it right now. Parents should get their children vaccinated for measles.
Ruine un titre A L'ORAL en enlevant une lettre: Le gant bleu 🐬
Olivier Bastien@bass42.bsky.social · 6d agoRuine un titre A L'ORAL en enlevant une lettre: La Guerre des Toiles
Au Portugal, l'extrême-droite établit une liste de gens à éliminer. Parmi eux, mon amie Cristina Sampaio ainsi que André Carrilho, deux très grands dessinateurs de presse dont le talent dérange. Force et soutien. ❤️✊ www.cartooningforpeace.org/soutiens/ale...
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
“We’re not talking about reaching utopia—we’re talking about what would it look like for the whole world to reach the level of inequality of South Korea.” Stiglitz said that “the encouraging news is that inequality is not inevitable — it is the result of policy choices & we know how to change them.”
Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 6d ago'Economic inequality is the clearest way to predict how countries will fare during a pandemic, a high-profile panel said Wednesday, calling for a rethink in how governments prepare for the next global health crisis.' www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07...
2 more retractions for VS Aigbodion from his favourite journal, the Int J Adv Manufact Tech @springernature.com Now counting 20 retractions out of 32 papers reported (and 41 published) in this journal only. 🧮 total 35 retractions for this author 🤦♂️
@spottingthespot.bsky.social · 3w agoAnd another retraction! Something tells me @tomk.eurosky.social will not be invited for dinner soon by the #papermill #fraud V.S. Aigbodion! The University Of Nigeria Nsukka most likely loves his 'output' for their rankings. doi.org/10.1007/s422...
🦠Ebola outbreak in DRC is currently still accelerating.📈 No end in sight...
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀@mackayim.bsky.social · last wk.TOTAL (blue dots) and confirmed case accumulation. Onwards and upwards, with an increase in daily case numbers (green bars) signalling worrying, uninterrupted levels of transmission.
Les chercheurs et enseignants français proposent un label "sans IA". Je ne suis pas sûr d'adhérer à 100% à leur démarche, mais c'est vachement intéressant ! 😊
Flo Débarre@flodebarre.eurosky.social · last wk.This, in France atecopol.hypotheses.org/13082
Now everyone can run over Trump -without harm! 🙏
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.Donald Trump said Morocco is naming a 660-mile highway in the Western Sahara after him, seemingly reflecting his landmark recognition of the kingdom’s rule of the disputed territory in 2020 that helped spur an investment boom.
⚖️Ethics committees (aka institutional review boards) are made to prevent this kind of misconduct. Mei should be living, and those who misguided the ethics committee should be behind bars. And the paper retracted, of course.
Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 2w agoA couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn’t made public. An exclusive from us and @science.org.
