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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We'll have dengue and malaria as far north as Michigan in the next few years and we are not prepared.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No way it's just Campylobacter. Crypto? Giardia?

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hospital Epis: if you are seeing Serratia SSIs, it's coming from the sink drains and it's because ppl are pouring protein shakes or body fluids down the drains. #IDSky

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

*looks up after picking bone shards out of cooked ground beef for 20 minutes before serving to 1 year-old* "Oh, it's about to get even worse!?"

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Outbreaks and foodborne illness have been in the news lately, but my food experience as a consumer hit a new low when I was picking bone shards out of my ground beef yesterday.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tapping the sign. Almost exactly a year ago. bsky.app/profile/cult...

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

CDC should get on this, STAT. I'd like to go outside at all, ever. The ticks are growing ever bolder... @timheidecker.bsky.social do they have a mask with this or do we need to buy the gimp wrap version instead?

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We need a study of med student's exposure to laboratory testing: pre-analytical variables for sample collection; how to collect and interpret a blood gas; what culture and gram stain results actually mean. Last I heard it was <7 days. It's a rare doctor who knows how to use the medical laboratory. 🧵

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I used to do food testing. There ARE redundancies and I can guarantee that this was tested twice with QC passing before releasing the result. In outbreak scenarios, the manufacturer is dissecting every aspect of the lab report to point to it being the lab's fault and not the mfr.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Correction: "Ebola spreads easily through contact with blood and body fluids. It can also spread through the air when these fluids are being coughed, vomited, or otherwise excreted from the body. It can also spread through the air during cleaning of blood and body fluids from surfaces."

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

They just hork it raw out of a GFS can and serve it with no seasoning.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yes, yes, exactly. We should assign risk based on the presumption that #ebola can travel through the air because we don't have evidence that it doesn't. Respirators for #ebola. Respiratory protection and fluid protection are critical PPE. We need to protect our first responders and caregivers.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This reporter is not adequately protected from Ebola.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Here we go again, public health claiming that Ebola is 'droplet' and we have nothing to worry about. Same thing happened with COVID. Look where it got us. Public health: we have already proven to ourselves that droplets generate aerosols, droplet v. airborne isn't real (it's just a risk framework)

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I would really like the @who.int to adopt the "aerosol until proven otherwise" stance instead of the "not aerosol unless proven" stance for emerging pathogens. Pretty please?

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🧵☣️Hantavirus - The ship's doctor has symptoms!? Buried in this article is a mention of the symptomatic individuals still on the *Hondius*, including the ship's doctor. Regardless of how it started, I am concerned about human-to-human transmission. 1/n

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Very excited to read this paper, hoping to see how it's framed and if the authors frame it as reflecting race + class or some other metric? Cool stuff.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Jeffries, silent. AOC, silent. Schumer, silent.* Elissa actually posting is good because war crimes are bad. I want to see more dems talking about the 25th. Shout it from the rooftops. Our president is not okay. *at least on Bluesky

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

@bloomberg.com was it you or MSN that misquoted the President of the United States? You forgot the part where he tells Iran to "open the fuckin' straight" and says "Praise be to ALLAH". (MSN does not appear to be on Bluesky. Wild). @nytimes.com what say you?

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Very exciting and a fresh take on what publishing and open peer review could look like.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Completely irresponsible and reckless reporting of immunization coverage from the Detroit News, sharing the fringe opinions of misinformed people as fact with no counterpoint. Do better @detroitnews.com www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

detroitnews.com

Child vaccination rate drops sharply in Michigan as RFK Jr influences policy

Michigan offers a unique view into the impact of Kennedy’s dismantling of vaccine policies that had successfully prevented large disease outbreaks for decades.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Oh lawd, he trippin'. "A Chat-GPT query sent to me by a friend."!?

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My vision for the public health systems of the future includes teaching citizenship, media literacy, and hygiene concepts... starting in kindergarten.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

bracing for one of the greatest official apologies of all time from Berkeley’s alumni relations team over this Big Give ad, which is… well, just watch

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Is Kid Rock okay? No one's really talking about it, but he looks like he would blow away in a wee breeze.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Considering I had to force stop *Calculator* for using up 38.6 GB of RAM this morning - agreed .

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

All of this is really bad. The fact that this quote is attributed to Kennedy is embarrassing, because that's clearly ChatGPT.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

@thatsregrettab1.bsky.social do you have a list of bots/unscrupulous publishers and journals? Because here's one: @snehapublisher.bsky.social

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I'm hiring right now and the number of generic, AI-generated cover letters trained on nothing but the job description is simply exhausting.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Who makes these stock photos? Nothing about the testing looks like this. Bonus points for the biochemicals being mostly correct.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

“Grated cheese sold under four brands has been recalled at various stores nationwide, including Walmart, Sam’s Clubs and Target, after testing found listeria. The Ambriola Company’s FDA-posted recall notice said the recall is limited to grated Pecorino Romano cheese”

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Boar’s Head among cheese brands in listeria recall from Walmart, Target, others

The recall is limited to grated Pecorino Romano cheese made at a New Jersey facility.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Couldn't get the COVID-19 vax today for myself or my 8 month-old despite having an appointment specifically for it. Anyone have any dessicated lung scrapings from someone who died of COVID recently?

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

@nbcnews.com what is in your style guide for naming organisms and why is it wrong?

A screenshot of an NBC News article with a highlight of Genus names all lowercase and one Genus name capitalized. None are italicized.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

YLE's bad take: we found out we can get the arsonists to agree to stop doing arson by *checks notes* letting them do arson.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Saw that article, laughed out loud. Airborne vs. droplet is no longer the recommended terminology; was helpful most of the time for risk assessments but the historical distinction was based on flawed methodology.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The 'gold-rush mentality' is exactly right and these startups continue to raise funds easily, even in one of the most challenging fundraising climates we've ever seen.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

NTM in perfusion devices. The outbreak of NTM and the subsequent recall of these devices in 2011 failed to make a lasting change to how we manage infection control policies around these devices. The IFUs still say fill with tap water and change the water every 30 days. 👀 #IDSky #clinmicro #IPSky

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Ice machines used in inpatient settings are rarely cleaned and maintained according to the manufacturer's instructions. We've recovered Acinetobacter, other Gram negatives, and mold from the ice dispenser. Infection preventionists - don't forget about this source during outbreak response!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

When public services go dark, it's time for the private sector to step up; if anyone in the US is in need of outbreak response testing and support for bacterial or fungal pathogens, Culturewell is here to help. Special discount and prioritization for public health orgs. getculturewell.com #IDSky

getculturewell.com

Advanced Germ Monitoring for Infection Prevention - Culturewell

Culturewell’s platform offers superior environmental germ detection and actionable insights to prevent healthcare-associated infections. 100x more sensitive than previous technologies.

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

New taxonomic names (Genus species) published for a ton of public health-relevant viruses. A major conflict between taxonomists and science communicators arises...

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WHO @who.int · 08/12/2024

Disease outbreak news on undiagnosed disease in #DRCongo bit.ly/3Zpj12M

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Sarah Beatty, MHSA, MLS(ASCP) @culturebeat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Findings from previous outbreak investigations and drain studies: Positive drain cultures were associated with the practice of dumping nutrition shakes down hand washing sinks (feeding the biofilm). 🧵1/X

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