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Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie @mpi-astro.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I fear I am too emotionally labile to read this now 🤧😷🤒 However, Hackney gelato in pistachio and lemon - my go to sore throat fixer - but also amazing when not unwell too! Highly recommend 🍨🍨❄️

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Oh cefazolin! That tracks for you. Absolutley the trend setter & practice change agent 👏🏻⭐️

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Same. Old. Classic. Vintage. But thanks to SNAP - still relevant! 🤣👏🏻

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#BMSSky Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week! I’m penicillin this year. The OG antibiotic! Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I’m penicillin - currently recovering from my first ever bout of Flu - and the words “you are an old soul & like nights in” have never felt more true!

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Let’s hope we learn from the marketing disaster that was plazomicin and we actually get this to bedsides

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I’d love to speak to some lab people ❤️

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Seems like an odd question but the WHO have highlighted disparate practise between 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸…..and we are rewriting UK guidance atm, and I’d love to know what the rest of the world does with BALs for micro.

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Lovely tutorial. One of those times when “no” is a full sentence 🤣

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

#Idsky #Microbiology Friends in the USA / Canada What is your national guidance for the laboratory processing of BAL fluid?! In the UK we advise a semi quantitative culture to enumerate bacteria…..we have been told your guidance is culture of the centrifuged deposit. All guidance appreciated…..

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Just a guess but your Dads northern isn’t he……

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Nothing. Sadly. It is already playing out in local government - with ineptitude evident. We just have to hope that MSM highlights how unfit they are to govern, but fb is a good barometer for mood - looking at my timelines the reform vote is pulling equally from L/T.

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A quick wet prep will tell you, you don’t even need to Gram.

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tbh that shade of pink is perfect for Rhodotorula sp., nothing else is quite that pink and small. Milkshake pink

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is the real reason for Brexit. We are, as a nation, a hot sweaty un-chic mess in the summer - and frankly for years we have been letting the whole continent down.

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Who will do these tests? Massive numbers of specialised biomedical scientists being made redundant. Risk. That’s the risk to the healthcare of all. WGS of newborns when we can’t even lift children out of poverty.

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TARGetAMR @target-amr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

📝 Registration now open! 📝 👀 Realising the potential of genomics to address AMR through precision public health in Wales 🎤 Professor Thomas Connor 📅 Wed 18th June @ 12 👉 Sign up: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...

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Patrick Lillie @pjlillie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

How do you balance public health risk with individual rights? Here’s how we tried to do it in a complex XDR-TB case, great collaborative effort! academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

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A decision-making model for public health authorities in circumstances of potentially high public risk

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

thebiomedicalscientist.net/2025/05/02/m... #biomedical #lab #manager Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️ Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST! Please share and spread the word.

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My lab: one of the most remote labs on earth

A guided tour of St Helena’s clinical and public health laboratories

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Please support my students kickstarter to finish an educational wastewater video game we started building! I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together! www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...

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What the Floc: Educational Wastewater Video Game

Educational video game where players operate a wastewater treatment plant to protect the city and environment from pollution!

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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My lab: one of the most remote labs on earth

A guided tour of St Helena’s clinical and public health laboratories

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The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Only through the enthusiastic engagement of the microbiology and infectious diseases communities have we managed to become greater than the sum of our parts. We look forward to the years ahead! 😊

Thank you to all our authors, reviewers, partners, and readers for contributing to the first 5 years of The Lancet Microbe.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 09/05/2025

Have you had a baby hospitalized for RSV? I want to hear about it! Message me here or through accounts in my bio. Please boost!

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

emdrassociation.org.uk Trauma counselling really helps - talking about the pressure points in a safe space might be needed post enquiry. Thank you for speaking, and helping the world see that the people behind the lab testing also suffered x

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Home - EMDR UK Association

EMDR UK Association: Realising the potential of people through EMDR therap

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IBMS @ibmscience.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📄 'Lost in the Bloodstream' brings together insights from NHS professionals to identify key challenges and opportunities in blood culture testing. The new report outlines practical recommendations to reduce contamination, improve accuracy and support patient care. 🔗 www.ibms.org/resources/ne...

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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Come on down, anyone eligible for a post-doc do consider applying for this exciting project with @jennyrohn.bsky.social, @scottishwormboy.bsky.social & me! Got a touch of #UTISky #IDSky #ImmunoSky & 🧪 about it! 😉

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Steven Tong @steventong.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Please apply if your interested in running a new adaptive platform trial for invasive Streptococcal infections. Will work closely with the #SNAP_trial team. @thedohertyinst.bsky.social Applications close May 20 2025. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92003...

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Details : Project Manager : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Really keen to see your genomic data - have you got partners set up to help blast through all the sequencing?

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Yes I was trying to find a better image than the one in the eucast guidance. I’ve got a plan of action - I was squinting to read the disc in your pictures as the cliffs vs beach were much clearer in your images.

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@erinmccreary.bsky.social @gurujosh.bsky.social @steventong.bsky.social - we have been having some chat with another centre & we are trying to work out if your images show a different strength of penicillin to what we use in eucast (pen 1). I’ll be raising with eucast too

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Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Oh fab! Really pleased you are doing this. Can you confirm if the images used in your presentation at eccmid to demonstrate how to read penicillin were Pen 10 discs?!?

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Contagion® @contagionlive.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

ICYMI: Mexico has confirmed its first human case and fatality from #H5N1 avian influenza. A child in Durango with no underlying conditions died from respiratory complications. #IDsky #MEDsky Read here: www.contagionlive.com/view/first-c...

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First Case and Fatality of AH5N1 (Avian Influenza) in Mexico

This case represents the second reported human infection with avian influenza A(H5) in Mexico, and the first confirmed case of influenza A(H5N1) in the country. The patient was a child who died from r...

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British Infection Association @biainfection.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Test your infection knowledge through the LearnInfection Platform endorsed by consultant specialists on a wide variety of infection topics. Use your BIA members details to login 👉 learn.britishinfecti... #Infection #InfectionTrainee #IDSky

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