Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
@tkes.bsky.social
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
💡Solutions like MiniLab and Hub-and-Spoke were tested. It works!
👉Read more: t.co/towS7BF3uQ
#AMR #IDSky #MicroSky #GlobalHealth
Nah, it's called a REPUBLICUMP
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Nah, it's called a REPUBLICUMP
🧫Must read for #MicroSky addicts ⤵️
Every biologist knows the story of Fleming's chance discovery of penicillin. But is it true?
Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.
Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.
The Penicillin Myth
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.
press.asimov.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🧫Must read for #MicroSky addicts ⤵️
A quand la chimioprophylaxie antipalu quand on descend dans le sud? 🦟💊
🦟 Aucun cas autochtone et symptomatique d'arbovirose n'a été détecté en novembre.
La saison 2025 s'achève sur un bilan de...
• 805 cas de chikungunya (très large record)
• 29 cas de dengue
... répartis sur une centaine de foyers, surtout dans le Sud-est mais pas que.
La saison 2025 s'achève sur un bilan de...
• 805 cas de chikungunya (très large record)
• 29 cas de dengue
... répartis sur une centaine de foyers, surtout dans le Sud-est mais pas que.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A quand la chimioprophylaxie antipalu quand on descend dans le sud? 🦟💊
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
This is brilliant.
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is brilliant.
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
Quand un Francophone entend parler pour la première fois de la "tooth fairy"...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Quand un Francophone entend parler pour la première fois de la "tooth fairy"...
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Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Experimental mRNA #flu vaccine shows superior efficacy against symptomatic illness
The vaccine is 100% effective against both symptomatic and febrile flu, compared with 85% and 100% with the conventional 4-strain vaccine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
Photo: Penn State / Flickr cc
The vaccine is 100% effective against both symptomatic and febrile flu, compared with 85% and 100% with the conventional 4-strain vaccine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
Photo: Penn State / Flickr cc
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Experimental mRNA #flu vaccine shows superior efficacy against symptomatic illness
The vaccine is 100% effective against both symptomatic and febrile flu, compared with 85% and 100% with the conventional 4-strain vaccine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
Photo: Penn State / Flickr cc
The vaccine is 100% effective against both symptomatic and febrile flu, compared with 85% and 100% with the conventional 4-strain vaccine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
Photo: Penn State / Flickr cc
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Common antibiotic linked to risk of acute respiratory failure in kids, young adults
Although the overall risk was low, Canadian researchers found a higher risk of acute respiratory failure in 10- to 25-year-olds who took trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Although the overall risk was low, Canadian researchers found a higher risk of acute respiratory failure in 10- to 25-year-olds who took trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Common antibiotic linked to risk of acute respiratory failure in kids, young adults
Although the overall risk was low, Canadian researchers found a higher risk of acute respiratory failure in 10- to 25-year-olds who took trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Although the overall risk was low, Canadian researchers found a higher risk of acute respiratory failure in 10- to 25-year-olds who took trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21
The full impact of the pandemic has been much greater than what is indicated by reported
deaths due to COVID-19 alone. Strengthening death registration systems around the
world, long understood to be ...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
Thank god a 'proper economist' did the job! 😅
Behold what happens when you fix Roger Pielke Jr's serial errors:
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Thank god a 'proper economist' did the job! 😅
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
🗓️ The aid system is losing legitimacy. Join us for our Annual Event on 4 Dec as we explore how humanitarians can rebuild a narrative that admits flaws, shifts power to marginalised voices and defends core principles – while resonating with both donors & crisis-affected communities → buff.ly/9p4ZKZG
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🗓️ The aid system is losing legitimacy. Join us for our Annual Event on 4 Dec as we explore how humanitarians can rebuild a narrative that admits flaws, shifts power to marginalised voices and defends core principles – while resonating with both donors & crisis-affected communities → buff.ly/9p4ZKZG
🦠🐔Fatal human case of H5N5 in WA, USA
First death reported from rare bird flu strain thehill.com/homenews/sta...
thehill.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🦠🐔Fatal human case of H5N5 in WA, USA
The results of the RCT didn't support our hypothesis ➡️ The RCT "failed".🤦♂️
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
Review of the preprint that reports on the DTP-trial (NCT00244673)
Nonspecific Vaccine Effects Journal Club no. 23 The preprinted publication (1) which is the focus of this issue of the Nonspecific Vaccine Effects Journal Club (NSEvacc) JC is reporting the results fr...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The results of the RCT didn't support our hypothesis ➡️ The RCT "failed".🤦♂️
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity
👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review
www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
🦠 By 2050, AMR is estimated to contribute to 8.2 million deaths worldwide.
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🦠 By 2050, AMR is estimated to contribute to 8.2 million deaths worldwide.
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
For people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where access to infection prevention, diagnostics, and antimicrobials is limited, the impact of AMR is more severe.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
Retraction #23 for Aigbodion🤦♂️ The ethics team at Springer definitely beat all other publishers on the investigation and action taken against this papermiller/fraudster: 20/23 of these retractions are from Springer journals, while accounting for roughly one third (67/188) of problematic papers! 🥇
It happened again, @tkes.bsky.social strikes again! The #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion is having a bad day at the office with all his retractions! A few more to enter the @retractionwatch.com leaderboard!
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Retraction #23 for Aigbodion🤦♂️ The ethics team at Springer definitely beat all other publishers on the investigation and action taken against this papermiller/fraudster: 20/23 of these retractions are from Springer journals, while accounting for roughly one third (67/188) of problematic papers! 🥇
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
J'apprends à l'instant que l'ordre des médecins « ouvre l'instruction d'une action disciplinaire » contre les deux médecins, suite à la publication hier de mon enquête sur Youtube. A voir ce que ça donne !
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
J'apprends à l'instant que l'ordre des médecins « ouvre l'instruction d'une action disciplinaire » contre les deux médecins, suite à la publication hier de mon enquête sur Youtube. A voir ce que ça donne !
🩺Au-delà de l'aspect judiciaire de ce type de charlatanisme, cela doit nous faire réaliser que, en tant que corps médical, on laisse complètement tomber ces patients, douloureux chroniques, long covid, etc et on les jette dans les bras des charlatans.☹️
🔥Nouvelle vidéo ! Probablement une de mes enquêtes les plus importantes, je trouve. Le sujet est assez grave : l'infiltration des délires new age et de la charlatanerie dans les hôpitaux... Merci d'avance pour vos RT chamaniques😘 youtu.be/ILTgwty4bWM
Quand le bullshit s'infiltre à l'hôpital 😤 (Enquête)
YouTube video by G Milgram
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🩺Au-delà de l'aspect judiciaire de ce type de charlatanisme, cela doit nous faire réaliser que, en tant que corps médical, on laisse complètement tomber ces patients, douloureux chroniques, long covid, etc et on les jette dans les bras des charlatans.☹️
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause telekinesis
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause telekinesis
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
CARB-X has released updated eligibility criteria for 2025 Funding Round (opens from 1–12 Dec): therapeutics for Gram‑negative infections and Diagnostics for Salmonella Typhi for low resource settings
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
CARB-X has released updated eligibility criteria for 2025 Funding Round (opens from 1–12 Dec): therapeutics for Gram‑negative infections and Diagnostics for Salmonella Typhi for low resource settings
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
Join webinars on 4–5 Dec.
Find out more: ad-id.co/c1
@carb-x.bsky.social
#AMR #GlobalHealth
Reposted by Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏
This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis. Full APT-Sepsis trial results: nej.md/4o6xhaF
#MedSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #OBGYN
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis. Full APT-Sepsis trial results: nej.md/4o6xhaF
#MedSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #OBGYN
US-CDC has officially embraced anti-science😰
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
US-CDC has officially embraced anti-science😰
Just found my Xmas gift
If you haven't read it yet, today is a very good day to give yourself the gift of picking up Bitch Planet by @kellysue.bsky.social
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
hazlitt.net/feature/revo...
The Revolutionary Non-Compliance of Bitch Planet | Hazlitt
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro's comic series is set in a wholly unrecognizable dystopian universe in which women are punished for being themselves. (Wait a second...)
hazlitt.net
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Just found my Xmas gift