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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This amazing image of an "Earthset" definitely shifts my sense of place: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Preparing for the ABMM was humbling—I left the exam feeling defeated 😔. Today, seeing the certificate with my name reminds me it’s real 🤏🙌. Grateful, humbled, and excited to keep learning and serving in this field 💡🧫✨.

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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

On #WorldSepsisDay, huge thanks to all the clinicians, nurses, lab professionals & researchers working to detect, treat & prevent #Sepsis. Your advances in diagnostics & therapies save lives every day. 💙 #PatientSafety #GlobalHealth #Infection #CriticalCare #MedTwitter

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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Truly a rewarding journey — honored to be part of it! Huge thanks to @roby-b.bsky.social for your dedication and invaluable mentorship throughout. Your guidance made all the difference for everyone involved. Learned so much through this process 🙏

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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I loved the ~10ish years I lived in the UES, but this is out of control 😱😱😱

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 03/09/2025

In a randomized, controlled trial, persons with early syphilis received a single treatment or three treatments with benzathine penicillin G at a dose of 2.4 million units. No benefit was seen with the additional doses. Full trial results: nej.md/3UVCKVZ #MedSky #IDSky

A diagram showing screening and randomization.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣 Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026. #histmed

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Annual Book Development Prize Competition

Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) invites submissions to its Annual Book Development Award Competition. The Award Two awards of £2000.00 each will be given …

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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This is amazing Sarah @microbecharmer.bsky.social !! I love how each cell in the fusarium macroconidia has its own personality!!!

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hjillianh @hjillianh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Do you have a period? Do you live in the continental US? Then do I have a study for you - please join VAMPP and help expand our understanding of the vaginal microbiome! Scan the QR code on the bottom left to see if you're eligible and learn more

A pink flyer with a darker outline of a uterus and fallopian tubes that says "We need your help investigating menstrual product use and the vaginal microbiome."
Why: Researchers from Duke University are conducting a study investigating if menstrual products advertised as scented or for odor control affect the vaginal microbiome compared to unscented menstrual products.
How: If you agree to participate you will be asked to: (each of the bullet points is shaped like a tampon)
Self-collect vaginal swabs during 4 menstrual cycles for microbiome assessment.
Complete a short questionnaire each cycle.
Complete a demographic and short health history questionnaire.
Use study-provided menstrual products during 2 menstrual cycles
(one cycle you will use scented/odor control products and one cycle you will use unscented products).
Who: Up to 50 of individuals aged 18-40 years who have regular menstrual cycles (approximately every 4 weeks) that last at least 3 days, can safely use tampons, do not have allergies/hypersensitivity to fragrances, are not or do not plan to become pregnant over the study period will take part in this study, and have not given birth in the past 12 months.
Compensation for your time will be provided.

There's a drop of blood with a QR code on it where you can learn more - I'll post that separately!

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 01/09/2025

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry. Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, PPU-@ox.ac.uk, PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬 Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Programme, The call for enrollment of students in October 2026 will be open from September 1st to October 20th, 2025

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

New #ISEPpapers! Regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "we describe a ciliate undergoing drastic morphological transformations... supergiants increase in size, change shape, and modify behaviour to cannibalize clonal relatives" #protists #microbes

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Emily Wong @emilybethwong.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

We are hiring! Please circulate in your networks. Join us in beautiful warm and wonderful KZN to answer some important questions about asymptomatic / subclinical TB. #TBsky #IDsky 🧪

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 27/08/2025

The 2024 rankings of bacterial threats

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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I’m excited to share that I’ve started a new chapter as Assistant Professor & Clinical Microbiology Section Director at @dukemedschool.bsky.social 🏥🔬. This is a dream opportunity, and I’m so grateful 🙏. Looking forward to growing, learning, and advancing clinical microbiology & patient care 🚀💙.

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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Thrilled to wrap up my Clinical Microbiology Fellowship at MSK! 🧫💉 Huge thanks to @ebabady.bsky.social & the incredible @mskcancercenter.bsky.social team for mentorship, guidance, and teaching 🙏✨ Grateful for the chance to support infection diagnosis in critically ill patients—what an experience!🌟🩺

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Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sepsis kills fast — we fast diagnostics This pilot study from @broadinstitute.org @mgh-id.bsky.social by David Roach, Noam Shoresh, @roby-b.bsky.social + team used CRISPR-Cas13a to detect gram-negatives and resistance markers from ~200 real clinical blood cultures. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A deadly tropical disease known as sleeping sickness has been eliminated from Kenya in a significant public health triumph. Uganda, Rwanda, Benin, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, & Togo have also eliminated sleeping sickness. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/who-declares...

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WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite After Decades of Suffering

Sleeping sickness is often fatal of untreated and in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s, 40,000 cases were being diagnosed in a year

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 21/08/2025

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Leishmaniasis is 95% fatal if untreated — yet it’s still overlooked, and media coverage is low. Our new report shows what gets decision-makers to pay attention ⤵️ wellcomeopenresearch.org/documents/10...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss

Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

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Weill Cornell Medicine's Pathology and Laboratory Medicine dept. @wcmcpathology.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Don't miss our departmental Residency Program Virtual Open House on Monday, August 25th at 4 pm, open to 2026 Residency Applicants. Register today using the QR code!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This week in my graduate-level Science Communication class, we're discussing scientific conferences, including how to find a conference that's helpful for you, how to make the most of attending a conference, networking, and effective presentation skills. Anyone have any advice to share? 🧪🦑🌎

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Let’s Talk Micro @letstalkmicro.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

⚙️ Breakpoints can be complicated — and updating them can feel daunting. How are things now? Are they better? 🎙️ Dr. Andrea Prinzi takes us on a “tour” of AST: history, breakpoints & more. Brought to you by bioMérieux. 🔗 Link in comments. #LetsTalkMicro #AST #podcast

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 14/08/2025

We are recruiting for an Editor to join the Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM)! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to handle JMM’s One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Disease section. Find out more and apply here: microb.io/4lnPPBU 🦠

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Journal of Medical Microbiology Editor for One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Diseases: Call for expressions of interest

12 August 2025

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UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics department @unc-bcbp.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Seminars are open to the public. Join us at our weekly 2025 Fall Seminar Series. Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminars begin on August 19, 2025.

UNC School of Medicine Biochemistry and Biophysics

2025 Fall Seminar Series
Tuesdays at 11:00 AM in 1131 Bioinformatics

August 19
Jiaoti Huang, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pathology; Professor Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; Professor of Cell Biology
Duke University School of Medicine-------------------------------------------------------Host: Pengda Liu
Title: “Hormonal therapy resistance of prostate cancer: Molecular mechanisms and novel treatment strategies”

August 26
Jessica Spinelli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
UMass Chan Medical School-------------------------------------------------------------Host: Tigist Tamir
Title: “Metabolic and physiological implications of flexibility in the electron transport chain”

September 2
Wellness day- no seminar

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Broad Institute @broadinstitute.org · 28/05/2025

A new pipeline could help scientists discover unique combinations of molecules that increase the effectiveness of antibiotics against drug-resistant bacteria. broad.io/CITADel-news @mit.edu @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social

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Making antibiotics more potent against drug-resistant bacteria

Scientists find combinations of known antibiotics and other molecules that, together, have greater bacteria-killing power.

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Duke Health @dukehealth.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

August is Children’s Eye Health & Safety Month — highlighting the importance of pediatric eye care as families prepare for the new school year. See more about protecting young eyes. www.cbs17.com/health-2/thi... #CommunityHealthDuke | #eyecare | #eyehealth | #dukeeyecenter

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Protecting Young Eyes: Duke doctor shares tips on This Month in Health

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. It raises awareness about the important role eye health plays in a child’s overall well-being and development, wh…

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UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics department @unc-bcbp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Our Fall Seminars Series begins on August 19 “Hormonal therapy resistance of prostate cancer: Molecular mechanisms and novel treatment strategies” by Jiaoti Huang MD PhD, Distinguished Prof. & Chair of Pathology (Duke University SOM) Host: Pengda Liu. 11 AM in 1131 Bioinf bldg.

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