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Julio C. Zuniga-Moya

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MD, MPH | Proud of being Honduran 🇭🇳 and Latinx | Mycology Research Postdoc at WUSTL🍄 | RT 🚫 Endorsements

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Julio C. Zuniga-Moya @julioczuniga1.bsky.social · Aug 4

www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016... 🚨🚨🍄🍄 new research from Washington University Mycoses Group (WUMG) reveals that Invasive aspergillosis & mucormycosis show broad geographic distribution across the U.S. Regions with higher incidence report lower associated mortality. @fungaldoc.bsky.social

Geographic distribution and associated mortality of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis among Medicare enrollees in the United States (2008-2015)

Invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis are widely distributed in the United States, with certain regions experiencing significantly higher incidences. For invasive aspergillosis, each increase of 5 c...

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15h

It's day 13 of the shutdown. What's Trump doing?

Negotiating a budget deal? No.

Preventing premiums from doubling? No.

Stopping 15 million Americans from losing health care? No.

He's meeting the Pres. of Argentina to reward him with a $20 billion bailout.

America first?

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Darcy Wooten (she/her) @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social · 1d

Headed to #IDWeek2025 @idsainfo.bsky.social?

Check out all the AMAZING #WashUMedicineInfectiousDiseases Division work including 11 presentations by ID trainees!!!! The future is bright!!!

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 23h

Last year, I had a paper rejected after 18 months with the @amjepi.bsky.social.

It's the first time I've had a paper rejected after being invited for revisions. And the first time I've had a paper sent out to completely new reviewers.

It stung so hard that it's taken me a year to look at again.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 WHO Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report is out. Rising rates of carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter and Enterobacterales and fluoroquinolone resistance in Salmonella are especially concerning. We are rapidly running out of new drugs.

www.who.int/news/item/13...

WHO warns of widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) r...

www.who.int

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IDWeek @idweek.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a trainee or early career professional getting ready for #IDWeek2025? 🧭 The Early-Career Road Map is your guide to can’t-miss sessions and events.

Start planning your week now!: https://idweek.org/attendees/residents/

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 1d

Happy International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples!

Buori riikkaidgaskasaš máilmmi eamiálbmogiid beaivvi!

www.un.org/en/observanc...

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples | United Nations

Site on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Here you will find information and related links.

www.un.org

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

The Mariners are two wins away from their first World Series appearance EVER ‼️

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

n.pr

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Respect to those who got here first.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 2d

Community-Acquired Respiratory Virus Infections: A Threat to Long-Term Survivors After Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant?

#IDSky

Community-Acquired Respiratory Virus Infections: A Threat to Long-Term Survivors After Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant?

Studies on late community-acquired respiratory virus (CARV) infections in long-term allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT) survivors are scarce, creating knowledge gaps on the epidemiology, risk of progression to lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD), and conditions linked...

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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 2d

Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment for Pregnant People With HIV in South Africa: A Modeling Analysis of Clinical Benefits and Risks

#IDSky

Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment for Pregnant People With HIV in South Africa: A Modeling Analysis of Clinical Benefits and Risks

Although prior studies of tuberculosis-preventive treatment (TPT) for pregnant people with human immunodeficiency virus (PPWH) report conflicting adverse pregnancy outcome (APO) risks, international guidelines recommend TPT for PPWH.

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Young ISHAM @youngisham.bsky.social · 2d

We have some exciting news to share! Out #YISHAMERS
@salmantongarcia.bsky.social, wants to extend an invitation for all of us to join the webinars courtesy of @efisg-escmid.bsky.social

We are so glad to share this information and the QR codes for you to join to each of the following meetings

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Young ISHAM @youngisham.bsky.social · 2d

We have some exciting news to share! Out #YISHAMERS @salmantongarcia.bsky.social, wants to extend an invitation for all of us to join the webinars courtesy of @efisg-escmid.bsky.social

We are so glad to share this information and the QR codes for you to join to each of the following meetings

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Julio C. Zuniga-Moya @julioczuniga1.bsky.social · 2d

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Incidence and outcomes of anal and cervical cancer among adults with HIV in Latin America: a retrospective cohort study - PubMed

In one of the few reports outside the United States or Europe, we did not observe a decrease in age-standardized incidence rates for anal and cervical cancer between 2000 and 2019. These data support ...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 3d

With every stupid action, they are definitely making infectious diseases great again

Cartoon of RFK Jr wearing a red MAGA hat which says “Make Infectious Diseases Great Again”

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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 4d

The continue to find new ways to hurt all of us. This is awful for all those being fired and it's awful for all Americans who these dedicated civil servants have served. I can only wonder how low our life expectancy will go in the U.S.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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OptaAce @optaace.optajoe.com · 3d

3 - Since the format's introduction in 1990, this year's Shanghai Masters final will be just the third at an ATP Masters 1000 event between two unseeded players, after Hamburg 1996 and Paris 2003. Fairytale.

#RolexShanghaiMasters

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Breaking News: Diane Keaton, who played some 100 movie and TV roles and won the best-actress Oscar for “Annie Hall,” has died at 79. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m...

Diane Keaton is smiling and looking to her right. She is wearing a black jacket, a white blouse, a black hat and glasses. A headline reads: "1946-2025: Diane Keaton." Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 5d

I would LOVE to do this!

What percentage of publicly funded studies have serious, but entirely avoidable, methodological flaws?

Sadly, I don't think any of the big funders would be courageous enough to support this.

Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

We should do a study on how much of the funded applied research suffers from problems that the unfunded methods research could have helped prevent or resolve

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d

gold standard science baby!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 5d

🦠 Save the date!
Emerging Infections 2025
📍 Minneapolis, MN | 🗓️ Nov 21, 2025

Now in its 31st year, this conference cohosted by Mayo Clinic, the University of Minnesota, and MDH unites clinicians, laboratorians, and public health experts to tackle today’s emerging infectious threats. #IDSky

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Tom Scriba @tomscriba.bsky.social · 5d

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad:

idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

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