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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Started one year ago yesterday at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention Next month we go live with MILES, our comprehensive Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Learning Health System What a year. The most exciting stuff is coming next year

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Tallinn; summer 2026 +1 for Odesa, a great Ukrainian restaurant somewhat hidden in the Old Town. Pictured is a herring pate with horseradish vodka compliments of the chef, and a red wine from a Ukrainian grape I’ve never heard of. All very lekker!

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It was a pleasure to talk at the @ampath.bsky.social #AMPEurope2026 conference in Tallinn this morning on the future of AI in CMID I presented a vision for pre- and post-analytic AI decision support and a key (missing) piece needed to get there Slides available at drive.google.com/file/d/1I5Ib...

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

MGH/BWH ID fellow class of 2014 Same friends, different day

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Note to self: If your audience is nodding off, point to centuries old stained glass windows to liven things up

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Nature Medicine @natmed.nature.com · 12/03/2026

Analyses of oral antibiotic use over 8 years in the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register and fecal metagenomes data of 14979 individuals found evidence that antibiotics can have long-lasting impacts on the gut microbiome. www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-…

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"Biology is…about propensities, potentials, vulnerabilities, predispositions, proclivities, interactions, modulations, contingencies, if/then clauses, context dependencies, exacerbation or diminution of preexisting tendencies.” - Robert Sapolsky, from his book Behave What a f-in great quote!

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Matthew J Shepherd @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🚨 New pre-print! 🚨 In the largest study of its kind to-date, we investigate the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient evolution of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... , and follow along with this thread, discussing our findings (1/21)

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 12/02/2026

Here is an announcement for everybody who is sick and tired on the attacks on science and scientists. It has been months in the making, but now we are ready to fight back. First episode airs tomorrow 5pm UK. New episode every friday. Incredible guests lined up. open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

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Announcing: Science Counterpunch

Fighting back for science & scientists was never more urgent

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Learned today that New Year’s Eve in Amsterdam is absolutely insane

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Cornwall, Oxford and London Holidays!

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This month's @natrevmicro.nature.com is fantastic! Here @amsterdamumc.bsky.social, my team is building from scratch a next-gen clinical micro informatics infrastructure to support real-time pathogen surveillance; explicitly connecting the hospital to public health www.nature.com/nrmicro/volu...

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Nature Reviews Microbiology - Volume 24 Issue 1, January 2026

Viral pathogens and global health, inspired by the Focus issue.

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today I am very proud to announce the release of the Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset - Mass General Brigham (ARMD-MGB; physionet.org/content/armd...) , as part of an NIH-funded collaboration led by Jonathan Chen at Stanford. (1/6)

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Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset Mass General Brigham (ARMD-MGB) v1.0.0

ARMD-MGB contains detailed microbiology and clinical metadata for >225,000 patients and >970,000 cultures collected over 10 years

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

When you can watch an entire series with a thoroughly unlikeable main character, you know the director and actor have done an amazing job! Also, the attention to detail in the set pieces somehow manages to capture the beauty of that time and place without empty sentimentality, brilliant

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor... No easy solutions, but a lot of excellent points. It may be that tomorrow’s leaders will be those who have the courage to fail

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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Now out in @natcomms.nature.com Kudos to @tylim.bsky.social and @jameshay.bsky.social for a huge effort and thanks to all the collaborators for their hard work. See the final version here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 19/11/2025

This week is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness week This article collection spans the breadth of #AMR across pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), covers epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, treatment, etc

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Antimicrobial resistance: a silent pandemic

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 19/11/2025

The role of AI in infectious diseases is emerging—offering new opportunities for infection prevention, detection & control. Explore developments & practical applications ⤵️ spkl.io/63323Ad83c @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek

Lancet infographic summarising the key findings and recommendations from The Lancet Infectious Diseases Series on AI in Infectious Diseases.

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

If successful for drug delivery, this could be really be helpful for minimizing adverse effects of treatment for infections… question is, can it get into a non-vascular space? (Ie abscesses or granulomas)…and can it be done cheaply so that we all can use it?

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thank you @tedpak.bsky.social for publishing the code for the LLM medical concept extractor you built for our recent paper! 2 things make this significant: a) This isn’t done enough in translational research and b) it’s designed for general use (ie Dockerized). Superb! github.com/tpaklab/llacie

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GitHub - tpaklab/llacie: Large Language Model Clinical Information Extractor

Large Language Model Clinical Information Extractor - tpaklab/llacie

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Gave my 1st talk in NL: how to make multicenter data analysis with patient data actually work. tl;dr: common data models (global interoperability) + LLMs (data harmonization, mapping, future-proofing) + federated learning (privacy) Let me know what you think! drive.google.com/file/d/1N3yk...

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Last chance world! Application closes tomorrow!

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This article doesn't explicitly say what (I think) many of us who practice/d in the US implicitly understand / feel, which is that health disparities, inequity and sickness are a feature, not a byproduct, of the US healthcare system. They are highly profitable www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Health care in the USA: money has become the mission

Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated ...

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Hey world, we have an opening for a PhD candidate in my lab! Come join our team in Amsterdam and help build an AI learning health system for infectious diseases (along the way eat some haring and get your bike game on) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/nl/vacatures...

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Vacatures - PhD Innovatieve AI-toepassingen in het laboratorium Medische Microbiologie - Amsterdam UMC

Wil jij met AI bijdragen aan snellere en betere diagnostiek van infectieziekten? Ben je analytisch sterk en werk je graag in een multidisciplinair team? Ontdek jouw impact bij Amsterdam UMC.

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

D'Angelo's music oeuvre is incredible but it was his song Africa that changed my entire perspective about what is possible with music. The acoustic demo version lifted the song to a new level, which I didn't think was possible. A true genius 🥲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlcA...

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D'Angelo - Africa (Acoustic Demo)

YouTube video by MonBienCherAmi

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It’s 2am. Do you know where your public health agency is?

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Awesome to be a part of this project to publish a huge EHR dataset of patients with/without AMR for the research community An equally large *harmonized* EHR dataset from my previous center (Mass General Brigham) is forthcoming & will allow for multicenter validation!

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Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset (ARMD): A Resource for Antimicrobial Resistance from EHRs - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset (ARMD): A Resource for Antimicrobial Resistance from EHRs

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets www.science.org/content/arti... There's a meta-story here about the generation of knowledge in the 21st century and the (immense) resources it takes to ensure it is of high quality. It is / should be an industry unto itself

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Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets

PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot... Dark futures ahead, but also some narrow paths to light

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The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Adrian Cazares @cazares-adr.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Imagine we could travel back in time ⏪⌛️to explore the world of bacterial pathogens before humans discovered and industrialised antibiotics We just did that to study the history of #AMR spread @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie... If you like time travel & biology, this 🧵is for you👇

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Pre- and postantibiotic epoch: The historical spread of antimicrobial resistance

Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialisation of antibiotics influenced their evolution is limited by a paucity of data predati...

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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Science is fun, but the history of science is even...funner! -Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that...the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

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Multi-armed bandit - Wikipedia

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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life

In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...

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