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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wonderful demonstration of genomic variability even amongst type strains! And a great nedy 🦠🧫 story

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I love this question. One lesson is humility. High-income countries often assume innovation flows in one direction, but some of the most creative public health solutions have come from settings where resources are scarce.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“Imagine you’re defined as an Ebola suspect, you’re brought into a center, and then you’re kept there for 3 or 4 days without knowing the result. You get agitated, your community gets agitated, and everyone is angry at the health care workers.” I talked to @who.int’s Chikwe Ihekweazu who’s in Bunia🧪

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‘Working without them is painful’: WHO’s Ebola chief reflects on U.S. colleagues’ absence

Chikwe Ihekweazu, on the ground in Congo, discusses challenges of bringing the outbreak under control

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 08/06/2026

I am in #Uganda, where the government has mounted a prompt and capable response to the outbreak of #Ebola. Screening at the borders helped detect cases arriving from neighbouring #DRC, and the country’s surveillance, testing and case management systems are doing steady work. 1/3

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“the only durable answer is to invest in African institutions themselves: frontline surveillance, outbreak response, and local manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutics, and protective equipment” 6555a27a-21bd-45eb-b287-1c28900211e3.filesusr.com/ugd/73a7e6_8...

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Sequity @sequity.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Genomic data is powerful only when reliable. The 6Cs of quality—completeness, continuity, collinearity, correctness, contamination, concordance—show where things go wrong and how errors ripple downstream. Check out our latest blog post to learn more:

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A Genomic Data Quality Framework: The 6Cs and Downstream Consequences

This Genomic Data Quality Framework provides a basis for genomic quality control and laboratory process improvement

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I’ve got something exciting to share. After years of working with labs around the world, I’m starting something new! I’ve seen how many labs want to do more with genomics, but the path forward isn’t always clear. The process is complex, and without the right guidance, it’s easy to get stuck.

At the top there is a map of the world showing pins and illustrations of hospitals and laboratories. The text reads

SEQUITY MAKES GENOMICS WORK FOR YOU
Developing solutions that work with your unique lab, challenges and epidemiology
CONTEXT-DRIVEN
Delivering outcomes aligned with your objectives
GOAL-ORIENTED

This image is text only. This reads,
YOUR PARTNER FOR GENOMICS SUCCESS
STRATEGY
Figuring out what will work in your unique context
RESOURCES
Developing everything- from bioinformatics workflows to SOPs
TRAINING
Ensuring you have the knowledge and skills to deliver
ON-DEMAND SUPPORT
Ongoing support through the day-to-day

An abstract image at the bottom shows scientists working through a process, generating ideas. The text at the top reads,
FROM IDEA TO IMPACT
END-TO-END SUPPORT
From study design to sample, wet lab, bioinformatic, and reporting

VALUED-OUTCOMES
Unlock information and real-world impact

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Joseph Marcus @josephmarcusid.medsky.social · 01/08/2025

Since it is that time of year: One of the most rewarding parts of being faculty is paying forward mentorship with students, residents+ fellows for their research projects. So far, as 4th year faculty, I’ve mentored ~40 trainee projects (17 completed). Here are what I talk about at 1st meeting:

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a man in a suit and bow tie stands in front of a table full of measuring cups and boxes that say in the name of science

ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie stands in front of a table full of measuring cups and boxes that say in the name of science

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Answer: Countries that are high on the Welcoming Countries Rankings and where logistics would be great for hosting conferences. 🙏

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Amazing work from our colleagues in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and elsewhere, making the first sequences available from the ongoing Mpox epidemic in Sierra Leone. More to come - for now, head over to @pathoplexus.org: pathoplexus.org/seqsets/PP_S...

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Pathoplexus | SeqSets

Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years. Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network". This could be the next one. clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Really pleased to see this! Helps to address such a critical question for genomic interpretation Well done, @katholt.bsky.social et al!

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 20/05/2025

It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly! My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer. What a moment in global health history. Together!

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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Have said before that conference organisers when deciding on a host country should consider how easy it is for people to get visas (particularly for those from the Global South). For example, applying for a Canadian visa from the UK takes 344 days (www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...).

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Check processing times at IRCC - Canada.ca

Check how long it’s taking us to process different kinds of applications. Our processing times are updated regularly.

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Hello, I'm always trying to spread the word about the Academic Editing Circle, which organizes professional editors to volunteer time for Black and/or Indigenous scholars. I can't promise that a volunteer can donate time for a whole book-length dissertation, but maybe we can help.

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A must-read for anyone doing Global North-South work: Ways to level the highly unequal playing field "the African academic is spending their precious time contributing to your success. How are you contributing to theirs?"

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As more Global North countries swing towards the far right & openly become anti-immigrant, global health is even more a field for those with visa privilege www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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Passport And Visa Privileges In Global Health

The field of global health is extraordinarily unequal, with privileged people and institutions in the global North dominating all aspects of global health. One form of privilege, the passports and vis...

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Another is to support getting journals into local, high quality networks like @scielo.org. Resources like Redalyc (Mexico), TCC Africa, etc. We shouldn't force non-English communities to index in "our" indices. #r2rconf

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Landmark paper claxon! 'Evaluating the economic and health impact of proactive genomic epidemiology in a hospital setting' www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Significant savings associated with proactive genomic epidemiology.

Figure 6:
Overall annual potential savings and costs by use of the proactive genomic epidemiology approach
The health economic assessment uncovered yearly net cost savings of approximately € 1·25 million if initiated IPC measures completely halt transmission of clinical isolates after the second patient. The reduction in costs is due to a lower rate of costs for non-MDRO (red) and MDRO (blue) infections, respectively as well as colonization with MDRO (green). The costs for non-MDRO infections (red) are made up of the additional days a patient has to spend in hospital due to the infection (7·8 days), multiplied by the costs per patient for an additional day in hospital (€325). The costs for the colonization with MDRO (green) is composed of the average number of days a patient spends in the hospital (4·6 days), multiplied by the extra-costs incurred per patient per day for the isolation of the patient (€325). The cost for MDRO infections (blue) results from the average number of days a patient with an MDRO infection has to spend in hospital (7·8 days) multiplied by the additional costs incurred per day by a patient with an MDRO infection (€650).

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I've worked on cholera and its fascinating (two chromosome) genome, but beyond the data are very real human stories and public health need. This article gets at it well. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Dirty water and endless wars: why cholera outbreaks are on the rise again

The number of cases globally has surged since 2021, as war and the climate crisis pile pressure on vaccine supplies

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Take away: Bacterial vaccines could reduce use of antibiotics, not only to treat bacterial infections, but all diseases. Decreasing the likelihood that an unknown disease has bacterial cause means prescribers are less likely to use antibiotics across all disease. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Eliminate prescribers' uncertainty to catalyse the impact of vaccines on antibiotic use

The Article by Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade and colleagues1 estimated the potential effects of Shigella, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Campylobacter, norovirus, adenovirus, and rotavirus vaccines ...

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We're not being replaced by AI yet! AI can be immensely useful, but its "knowledge" is only as good as the algorithms and underlying data, and even asking chatbots to undertake processes is subject to weird error. A useful tool, like many others, rather than a replacement for us

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I can't even begin to explain how bad this for science and for America www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/s...

Screenshort of New York Times article titled "Ban on DEI language sweeps through the sciences"

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British HIV Association @bhiva.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What a great start to #HIVTestingWeek! BHIVA is delighted to see Sir Keir Starmer continue his commitment to getting the UK to zero new #HIV transmissions by taking an HIV test. This makes him the first PM ever to do so publicly, which we hope will encourage others to do the same. #HIVSky #IDSky

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Sir Keir calls on others to follow lead after becoming first PM to take HIV test

Metro was invited to Downing Street for the historic moment.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 08/02/2025

#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

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Emma Doughty @emmadoughty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Feeling very late to the party! Glad to see lots of scientists from Twitter in this friendlier environment! ❤️

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