New funding from #CDC will help ASM deliver accredited training to educate the clinical microbiology workforce on next generation sequencing technology to help prepare for the next pandemic. asm.social/PQ

I wrote this editorial for ASM on Oct 2017 after hurricane Maria. Never thought that this was going to apply on Oct 2022. #PuertoRico always in my mind.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/IA…

Pediatrics ✔️
Infectious Disease ✔️
Blue as cobalt ✔️

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Thread about a TEN hour delay to get surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, which is not a viable pregnancy, for doctors to confer with lawyers.

In case you were curious, I can’t stop watching this.

This one is for Mike Russo …

By the time you turn 35, you're in a blood feud with either Lowes or Home Depot, and have sworn vengeance against a minimum of two major airlines.

Hamid Bassiri (he/him) I agree (on all accounts)!

(Now, don't you need to get off Twitter and go back to your vacation, Hamid? 🥌)

Fantastic talk at by Mdphd student Jamal Green from ⁦silverman lab⁩. Leveraging early-life microbiome and a defined consortia of 9 microbes (which we call PedCom) to prevent autoimmune diabetes. Very proud of this work. Check out his poster tonight.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jc… JClinMicro EIC

Relative frequency and associated mortality of bacteremia by organism:

“Despite the outbreak, school leaders and students said having the prom was worth it to provide a sense of normalcy during the pandemic” abcn.ws/3MndK3k via ABC News

Saying it was “worth it” without an accounting of the full cost is simply callous.

Just seen on a students desk… I have questions.

plotsr: Visualising structural similarities and rearrangements between multiple genomes academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

This could not be more deserved - congrats Dr. Karen Puopolo !

Please read the story below about CAMB Graduate Group student @AliceSukhina & their family in Ukraine. If you want to help Ukrainian students at your schools, please consider sharing Alice’s concrete suggestions for how institutions can support Ukrainian students: tinyurl.com/UKR-Studnets

When you read commentary on tossing out COVID protections, consider the following:

- overstatement of harms of mitigation
-false dichotomies / analogies
- narrow sourcing
- data cherry picking
- emphasis on individualism
- dismissal of people vulnerable to disease outcome