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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
@tkes.bsky.social
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Clinical microbiology in LMIC & ID Epidemiology. 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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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · Nov 20
🦠💊During #WAAW, #OUCRU, partners, and local authorities met to improve antimicrobial resistance control and microbiology capacity 🧫🔬in underserved areas. 🌏
💡Solutions like MiniLab and Hub-and-Spoke were tested. It works!

👉Read more: t.co/towS7BF3uQ
#AMR #IDSky #MicroSky #GlobalHealth
Group picture of approx. 30 persons standing on the stairs of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, Vietnam. Picture taken during the UMAMiS project meeting. Text: "OUCRU, partners, with local government to improve antimicrobial resistance control & microbiology capabilities in underserved districts of Phu Tho, Vietnam. World AMR Awareness Week 2024" Picture of a blister. Text: "the challenge: lack of diagnostic tools. In underserved areas without microbiology labs, doctors oftern rely on symptoms to prescribe antibiotics. This leads to overuse & the rise of antibiotic resistance. World AMR Awareness Week 2024" Drawing of 1 big and 1 small hospital, connected by arrows. Text: "The solutions: new microbiology labs. - Mini-Lab empowers local health centres with on-site testing - Hub and Spoke model connects rural clinics to advanced lab services World AMR Awareness Week 2024"
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 23h
Il n'y a pas à dire, ils sont forts, ces GenZ! ✊️🇲🇬
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RFI @rfi.fr · 1d
🔴 URGENT - Crise à Madagascar: le président Andry Rajoelina a été exfiltré par un avion militaire français [Info RFI]
Crise à Madagascar: le président Andry Rajoelina a été exfiltré par un avion militaire français [Info RFI]
Le président malgache Andry Rajoelina a été exfiltré par un avion militaire français le 12 octobre 2025, est en mesure de confirmer RFI, après un accord avec le président Emmanuel Macron. Les autorités…
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 23h
"Normally" is the key word! "Normally" they don't publish crap!🤣
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 23h
When the funder insists on a positive result!
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d
New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...
If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model
Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...
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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d
#ScienceSky, tell your colleagues to leave X, delete those x buttons on your lab page and replace with a butterfly. I declare #Bluesky the official social network for science and by scientists (you and your network of colleagues operate as your own algorithm determining what you see here). 🩺 🧪
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍
“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 1d
That makes 18 retractions for this fraud addict! 🥸

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks again for the notification. 🙏Some publishers don't even care to let us know. I don't even dare to ask for a thank-you... 🙄
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 1d
🏆 he's definitely on a track to sit proudly on @retractionwatch.com 's wall of shame! 😆
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d
Si on place les mêmes éléments dans les mêmes conditions, la probabilité que le même phénomène se produise est de 1. CQFD 💯
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Sophie Tlk @sophietlk.bsky.social · 2d
Une boucle temporelle est une forme particulière de voyage dans le temps dans laquelle le futur est rattaché au passé, une certaine période du temps se répétant alors continuellement. Elle est parfois utilisée pour désigner une boucle de causalité.

Voilà.
ALERTE INFO | Sébastien Lecornu MENACE de DÉMISSIONNER à nouveau si "les conditions ne sont pas de nouveau remplies". (BFMTV)
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Fernanda Petersen @amr-twilight.bsky.social · 2d
Across Southeast Asia most newborn infections are now caused #AMR bugs, making standard treatments for neonatal sepsis ineffective. Without updated, locally informed treatment guidelines and new antibiotic development, infant mortality rates will rise.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Pathogen distribution and antimicrobial resistance among neonatal bloodstream infections in Southeast Asia: results from NeoSEAP, a multicentre retrospective study
Neonatal sepsis in tertiary hospitals in Southeast Asia is predominantly caused by gram-negative bacteria, with high rates of non-susceptibility to commonly prescribed antibiotics.
www.thelancet.com
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d
I must admit that this one was an artwork. No less than 10 image duplications in a single paper! 🥸

This author has published almost 300 papers, of which 185 are problematic, but only 17 retractions, so far... 🐌

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine
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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 3d
Well well, @tkes.bsky.social did it again! #papermill idiot Victor Sunday Aigbodion from the University of Nigeria Nsukka got another retraction! This #fraud has published nothing but made up papers. Finally one publishers, @natureportfolio.nature.com, is catching and retracting.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 2d
Urbicide. Noun. This ⤵️

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Drone footage shows the extent of destruction in Gaza City after Israel-Hamas cease-fire
The UN Estimates That 83 Percent of All Structures in Gaza City Were Damaged or Destroyed, Along With Most of Its Crops and Vegetation
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 4d
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d
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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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
En tout cas, ils ne partagent pas les mêmes valeurs, c'est sûr!
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
Ah ben voila! Bravo!

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Le Gorafi @legorafi.bsky.social · 4d
Furieux de ne pas avoir eu de prix Nobel, Donald Trump annule l’accord de paix de Gaza https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/10/10/furieux-de-ne-pas-avoir-eu-de-prix-nobel-donald-trump-annule-laccord-de-paix-de-gaza/
Furieux de ne pas avoir eu de prix Nobel, Donald Trump annule l’accord de paix de Gaza
Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.
www.legorafi.fr
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Le Gorafi @legorafi.bsky.social · 4d
Furieux de ne pas avoir eu de prix Nobel, Donald Trump annule l’accord de paix de Gaza https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/10/10/furieux-de-ne-pas-avoir-eu-de-prix-nobel-donald-trump-annule-laccord-de-paix-de-gaza/
Furieux de ne pas avoir eu de prix Nobel, Donald Trump annule l’accord de paix de Gaza
Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.
www.legorafi.fr
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Science Surf @wjst.de · 4d
even more issues - long version www.wjst.de/blog/science... and short version at pubpeer.com/publications...
Science Surf
But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay. For whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
www.wjst.de
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
It is possible that their message is not to the world but to a single person 🍊🤡🇺🇸 "we live in a world where [...] rule of law [is] abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation."
#NobelPeacePrize
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee surely is sending a message to the world with this award.
Excerpt from their press release:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
là où les régulations et les moyens sont plus limités, typiquement Asie, Afrique, Amérique Latine...
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
une augmentation dans les lacs à cause de l'accumulation
- la situation s'améliore pour certains ML, mais pas pour d'autres

Ce qui semble clair, par contre, c'est que les pays avec des régulations fortes (souvent à hauts revenus) s'en sortent mieux, tandis que la situation tend à s'empirer
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
C'est une sacrée question. Si je comprends bien, il y a une grande hétérogénéité dans les tendances (à la hausse vs à la baisse) de la pollution aux ML:
- la production diminue à certains endroits, mais pas à d'autres
- il peut y avoir, dans une même zone, une diminution dans les rivières mais
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
les antibiotiques sont le moins régulés, càd les pays à moyen revenus (BRICS et autre middle-income countries), qui sont aussi des endroits où les eaux usées sont mal traitées et qui vont donc à la fois contenir des vilaines bactéries et des trucs dégueulasses (ML), ça fait un cocktail explosif!
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
... est de plus en plus largement admis. Les gènes de résistance aux uns et aux autres se baladent fréquemment sur les mêmes plasmides, et certains gènes/mutations peuvent servir aux deux, typiquement les pertes de porines. Comme la pollution aux ML augmente dans les régions du monde où ....
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 4d
Salut. Je ne peux pas trop t'aider sur le cancer, mais par contre les résistances aux antibios (ABR), c'est mon dada. Je n'ai pas vu l'extrait en question, donc je ne peux pas me prononcer sur ce qu'elle a dit, mais par contre je peux confirmer que le lien entre pollution aux métaux lourds et ABR...
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