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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏

@tomk.eurosky.social
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Dad👧👧👧/Husband/Clinical Microbiology in LMIC & Epidemiology of ID Immigrant from🇧🇪 to 🇦🇫🇫🇷🇲🇬🇱🇧🇻🇳 Concerned about inequities and scientific integrity, yet dyed-in-the-wool optimist.😊 All views my own, but I share because sharing is caring. (he/him/his/🦥)

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EnFéeTamine @enfeetamine.bsky.social · 18h
J'ai eu une vision de leur convergence
Diagramme de Venn entre MAGA , Poutine et RN, graphiquement ça ressemble à un célèbre dictateur allemand
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 9h
🦆Qu'est ce qu'on se mare dans le coin (coin)
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 9h
La France est mûre pour un no kings day✊️🚫👑
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 10h
Si ça passe, on la rebaptise "ToWin"✊️
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14h
Ce qui nourrit le vote d'extrême droite. Qui sert de repoussoir à l'extrême centre. Et on recommence 🔄
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Christian Lehmann / France Tout Crame @lehmannchristian.eurosky.social · 18h
"Que l’Etat s’applique à lui-même ce qu’il impose aux familles..." Plus de 200 professionnels de santé rappelent aux représentants de l'Etat l'interdiction des violences aux enfants
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«Aucun jeune qui manifeste, même s’il trouble l’ordre public, ne devrait risquer de perdre un œil ou une main»
Dans une lettre ouverte aux représentants de l’Etat, plus d'une centaine de professionnels de la santé font part de leur inquiétude suite aux violences policières survenues lors des mobilisations lycé...
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 15h
Plus l'énergie de dingue dépensée pour la succion et, encre bien pire, pour la faire décoller. Complètement con.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 15h
C'est déjà ça. Mais t'imagine un peu la consommation d'énergie qu'il faut pour faire ce genre de cabrioles à une bagnole !!!
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 15h
Ah, c'est vrai, ça. Si ça relâche des gaz (vapeur?) brûlants, il va y avoir des accidents...
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
An electric car that pollutes more than a thermic one. Pure genius.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
🤔Un flic, quand il tousse, est-ce qu'il fait "keuf, keuf"?
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Force à toi
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Soldier Says 'Good Luck Everyone'
ALT: Soldier Says 'Good Luck Everyone'
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
J'ai pas fait les calculs, mais ça m'étonnerait pas.
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Folivao @folichulo.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Réunion à l'Elysée après le soutien du mouvement lycéen par les étudiants de HEC
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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 16/10/2026
📺 « L’objectif d’Israël est de détruire l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés palestiniens » Philippe Lazzarini, qui raconte dans un livre les six ans passés à la diriger, est l’invité de « Mediapart ». Une émission à voir en intégralité sur Mediapart 👉‍ l.mediapart.fr/Npa
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Mais surtout, comment on fait pour le faire revenir? Je veux pouvoir envoyer des coeurs poilus. Je veux pouvoir dire d'un seul émoji que je suis empathique, déconstruit, et pas rasé.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Une voiture électrique qui pollue autant qu'une thermique, y'a pas à dire, c'est du génie 🙃
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Marc Dubuisson @unpied.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"On ne m'ôtera pas de l'idée que, pendant la dernière guerre mondiale, de nombreux Juifs ont eu une attitude carrément hostile à l'égard du régime nazi" (P. Desproges)
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Bonjour @belgium-atmosphe.re Je suis Belge de citoyenneté et de coeur, mais en vadrouille de par le monde depuis belle lurette. Je peux quand même être validé, svp?
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Belgium Atmosphere @belgium-atmosphe.re · 16/10/2026
Great news for the ATmosphere! @eurosky.social is now an even better, safer, place to host your bluesky data and profile, as it builds upon solid values of openness, transparency and is not afraid, but rather invites, peer review and scrutiny. Moving is easy and free 👉 move.eurosky.tech
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
THIS is why they call me Woody
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Ce n'est ni la première, ni la dernière proposition débile du RN, mais celle-ci est particulièrement stupide 🏅
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/10/2026
"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements
AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI – which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution – released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.

Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, from whom OpenAI has claimed to derive its legitimacy, opened their initial advisory statement by saying that frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models. In ignoring the central premise of the Advisory Group’s position, OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest.

Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations. We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject, and we urge mathematicians and the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism. 

Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.

Association for Human Mathematics
Communications Working Group
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Alcho-bakou9 @bakou924.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
#acab #flicaille #violencespolicieres
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Collectif No Fakemed @collectifnofakemed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Et c'est lancé ! Après quelques années de préparation, de travail, d'échanges, un DU Info/Désinfo en santé voit le jour! Merci l'UVSQ pour ce projet fou ! @elisabethbik.bsky.social @vincentgranier.eurosky.social @garciavictor.bsky.social @edzard.bsky.social @richardmonvoisin.bsky.social
[𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗨 𝗗.𝗨] à l'UFR Simone Veil - Santé "𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 & 𝙙𝙚́𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚́ : 𝙙𝙚́𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚́" 
📍 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲̀𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁 ! 𝗽𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗮̀ : 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲.𝗺𝗮𝗰-𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗱@𝘂𝘃𝘀𝗾.𝗳𝗿
Avec la Pre Mathilde François, le Pr Olivier Saint-Lary & la Dre Stéphanie Marsan Morgane DESCHAMPSobjectif et format d'enseignement du DU: distanciel 1J/MOIsdouble approche scientifique comme SHScontact et inscriptions
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
🤨 mais c'est quoi le rationnel derrière ? Si les gens ne l'utilisent pas, c'est qu'ils sont en bonne santé. Pousser des gens en bonne santé à consommer des soins n'arrange personne.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
rejected by the committee in Guinea-Bissau. Africa CDC vowed to oppose it, but Stabell-Benn & Co. seem to have support from high-ranking officials.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Even when leaving RFK Jr and foul-smelling funding apart, the protocol doesn't respect Helsinki declaration principles, especially its #20. This is the most evident, concrete, and opposable argument that the ethics committee failed at spotting (incompetence?). Fingers crossed that it will be
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
a product just to know if it's not harmful, at least not on a wide population. The study design doesn't match the objectives. Product safety belong to phases I and II. In phase III (RCT), it's a secondary objective.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
The 'efficacy' they claim to test is the so-called 'non-specific effect'. I suppose that the Danish ethics committee gobbled their narrative, somehow. As regards why we don't conduct RCT just for safety, I would say (intuitively) that it's just not ethical: you're exposing participant to
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
... and successful theories are often found/designed only when many other theories have been proved wrong by other teams, who certainly also deserve merit.
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Tom Yates @tomayates.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Enjoyed this. Also, science is usually a sport played by teams, so making awards to individuals, duos or trios is problematic
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
I mean, yes of course, you can't run a study on malaria or dengue in Norway. But the clinical trials on these topics answer research questions that have high possible impact on public health, not to test some delusional theory coming from the Global North.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
pandemic on one side and emergency to find a vaccine vs a research question that would change little if it's answered in 2, 10, or 20 years. 🤔 you said "not uncommon". I'm not an ethics specialist, but never heard of a similar situation in LMIC (that I know quite well). How frequent is that?
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Was it? I thought it was to extend the external validity of the results, i.e. not to have only or massively Western participants. Will check. Besides, Guinea-B is hardly like Brazil (except the same language😜); the former is low-income, the latter upper-middle. Context is also very different:
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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 14/10/2026
« Vous condamnez les violences ? » : relai du discours de la police et du gouvernement, chiffres de policiers blessés (761) repris sans vérification... comment le journalisme de préfecture asphyxie le mouvement lycéen. bonpote.com/vous-condamn...
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« Vous condamnez les violences ? » : comment le journalisme de préfecture asphyxie le mouvement lycéen Comment le journalisme de préfecture asphyxie le mouvement lycéen
Une séquence médiatique emblématique du journalisme de préfecture. Comment les médias dominants tentent d'asphyxier le mouvement lycéen.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Hi! I'm not sure to get your point. Conducting the RCT in Guinea-Bissau (or another LMIC) just because the higher incidence of the outcome (death or hospitalization for an infection) allows a good statistical power at lower cost, is not ethical either, is it?
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
We all thank, applaud, praise and worship @jeremynewberger.bsky.social for this video 🙏 (and please, next time, reskeet his original post rather than referring to a Xitter post😊)
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Dear @stabellbenn.bsky.social, could you explain how you justified that the HBV-NSE study does not violate WMA's Helsinki declaration, in particular #20? Why won't you conduct it in a higher-income country that does not offer HBV vaccine at birth, e.g. Danemark?
Excerpt from the WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Participants 

20. Medical research with individuals, groups, or communities in situations of particular vulnerability is only justified if it is responsive to their health needs and priorities and the individual, group, or community stands to benefit from the resulting knowledge, practices, or interventions. *Researchers should only include those in situations of particular vulnerability when the research cannot be carried out in a less vulnerable group or community*, or when excluding them would perpetuate or exacerbate their disparities.

(highlight mine)

Original: https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki/
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nora bouazzouni @nora.bz · 14/10/2026
c'est complètement fou sheets.works/data-viz/hol... (via @kottke.org)
sheets.works
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Comments due by 10/13. Comments provide the paper trail that may slow down implementation near-term and reverse decisions in the long-run. Although researchers are likely to provide context on impact, anyone (from the public to patient advocates) can weigh in. rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...
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Oxford Medical Sciences Division @medsci.ox.ac.uk · 13/10/2026
CLOSING SOON: Nuffield Medical Fellowship for outstanding early career researchers The Fellowship offers a job contract, 5 yrs of research funding, and career progression opportunities. ⌛ Apply by Mon 19 October: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/nuffield-medica…
Three images of medical researchers, University of Oxford logo, and the text: Nuffield Medical Fellowships - Fellowships for outstanding early-career medical researchers. Applications are encouraged from candidates worldwide. Visit our website to learn more.
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Marc Choisy @mchoisy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interested in learning about the mathematical foundations of phylogenetic methods? Come and join this 5-day introductory course given at the VIASM in Hanoi in the first week of November by some of the best world experts in the field. viasm.edu.vn/hdkh/Mathema...
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A lovely moment at @itmantwerp.bsky.social last week, with Professor Paul Newton receiving an award from @rravinetto.bsky.social, recognising his pioneering work establishing medicine quality as a field. We're delighted to see his longstanding work and commitment recognised.
Photo showing a group of people on stage, with part of slide presentation seen behind and man on right holding framed certificate.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
A not-so-surprising health-related consequence of ICE 🇺🇸😮‍💨
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 13/10/2026
From Oxford scholar to creating opportunities for the next generation 🎓 Oxford alumna Shabana Basij-Rasikh has donated $2.5 million to fund a scholarship enabling an Afghan woman to pursue a master’s degree at Oxford each year. More info ⬇️ bit.ly/4s4lTQq
Portrait of Oxford alumna Shabana Basij-Rasikh smiling at the camera, wearing a cream-coloured headscarf and a teal top with embroidered detailing. Text below reads: ‘New scholarship to support Afghan women to study at Oxford.’
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Seicheloup @seicheloup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Un crayon de boa, c'est un peu comme un stylo plume ? #Jedemande
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Les Pets de Dame Auclesse @proutantique.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Et ben faisons ça fin avril, c'est pas grave.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Wishful thinking, a definition:
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Traduction en langage compréhensible par les autorités politiques: l'extrême-droite se nourrit du saccage des services publics (santé, école, transports,...). Si vous voulez (vraiment) les empêcher de prendre le pouvoir, alors commencez par arrêter le détricotage 🧶(et retricotez)!
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