Willem van Schaik
@wvschaik.bsky.social
Microbiology, microbiome, antimicrobial resistance. Sometimes UK politics. Head of Research of the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, University of Birmingham. Also Co-Director of @target-amr.bsky.social.
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Excited to share our first look at Enterococcus faecium infection biology: diabetic wounds are complex, and E. faecium persists despite early immune responses. In diabetic mice, it shows impaired clearance + sustained neutrophil recruitment, worsening healing.
Enterococcus faecium colonization and persistence in a model of diabetic wound infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689639v1
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Excited to share our first look at Enterococcus faecium infection biology: diabetic wounds are complex, and E. faecium persists despite early immune responses. In diabetic mice, it shows impaired clearance + sustained neutrophil recruitment, worsening healing.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Revisiting another #TARGetAMR webinar for #WAAW! 🌍
🧬AMR, Genomics & Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
🔍Genomics can transform AMR surveillance - but policy and implementation matter.⚖️
🔗Revisit this webinar: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/fe...
#AMR
🧬AMR, Genomics & Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
🔍Genomics can transform AMR surveillance - but policy and implementation matter.⚖️
🔗Revisit this webinar: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/fe...
#AMR
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Revisiting another #TARGetAMR webinar for #WAAW! 🌍
🧬AMR, Genomics & Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
🔍Genomics can transform AMR surveillance - but policy and implementation matter.⚖️
🔗Revisit this webinar: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/fe...
#AMR
🧬AMR, Genomics & Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
🔍Genomics can transform AMR surveillance - but policy and implementation matter.⚖️
🔗Revisit this webinar: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/fe...
#AMR
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As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
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You have a tax on international students, you have less of them, huh, you have less revenue, and whoopsdaisy, you're back to the taxes you didn't want to hike and everyone is cross.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
You have a tax on international students, you have less of them, huh, you have less revenue, and whoopsdaisy, you're back to the taxes you didn't want to hike and everyone is cross.
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Good job this major export industry is in such robust health it can shrug this off.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Good job this major export industry is in such robust health it can shrug this off.
Well.....
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Well.....
"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
LOL. I understand that X has removed the feature now.
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
LOL. I understand that X has removed the feature now.
Post a movie where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Post a movie where you're from
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If you have meningitis you are too unwell to have tumours resected.
It would be surprising if there was an undetected burden of subacute/chronic gram negative bacterial meningitis that was presumably asymptomatic.
It would be surprising if there was an undetected burden of subacute/chronic gram negative bacterial meningitis that was presumably asymptomatic.
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you have meningitis you are too unwell to have tumours resected.
It would be surprising if there was an undetected burden of subacute/chronic gram negative bacterial meningitis that was presumably asymptomatic.
It would be surprising if there was an undetected burden of subacute/chronic gram negative bacterial meningitis that was presumably asymptomatic.
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still skeptical.... The crucial point is that, if bacteria get a foothold, like in a privileged site in a tumor, they will grow out and cause local and systemic problems.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
still skeptical.... The crucial point is that, if bacteria get a foothold, like in a privileged site in a tumor, they will grow out and cause local and systemic problems.
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🌍 #WAAW Spotlight
💬 Behind every resistant strain is a human story. Genomics shows patterns - but progress means tackling poverty, stigma & access.⚖️
🧬 AMR solutions must centre people, not just pathogens.
🔗 Revisit Social science lessons from HIV: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
#AMR
💬 Behind every resistant strain is a human story. Genomics shows patterns - but progress means tackling poverty, stigma & access.⚖️
🧬 AMR solutions must centre people, not just pathogens.
🔗 Revisit Social science lessons from HIV: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
#AMR
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🌍 #WAAW Spotlight
💬 Behind every resistant strain is a human story. Genomics shows patterns - but progress means tackling poverty, stigma & access.⚖️
🧬 AMR solutions must centre people, not just pathogens.
🔗 Revisit Social science lessons from HIV: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
#AMR
💬 Behind every resistant strain is a human story. Genomics shows patterns - but progress means tackling poverty, stigma & access.⚖️
🧬 AMR solutions must centre people, not just pathogens.
🔗 Revisit Social science lessons from HIV: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
#AMR
Hello @natmed.nature.com @sahelisadanand.bsky.social, I am trying to find the peer review reports for this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., but I cannot see them on the website.
Does this mean the authors declined to have these published alongside the paper, or is this an editorial oversight?
Does this mean the authors declined to have these published alongside the paper, or is this an editorial oversight?
Microbial signals in primary and metastatic brain tumors - Nature Medicine
A combination of high-resolution spatial imaging, spatial proteomics and transcriptional data reveals sparse and heterogeneous bacterial signals in gliomas and brain metastases.
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Hello @natmed.nature.com @sahelisadanand.bsky.social, I am trying to find the peer review reports for this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., but I cannot see them on the website.
Does this mean the authors declined to have these published alongside the paper, or is this an editorial oversight?
Does this mean the authors declined to have these published alongside the paper, or is this an editorial oversight?
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Years ago, my mother had the chance to join one of his workshops. Together, we prepared by going through the available "scientific literature".
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Years ago, my mother had the chance to join one of his workshops. Together, we prepared by going through the available "scientific literature".
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
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No Ralstonia pickettii? Usually when they print this stuff they have the decency to include it so I can at least get some citations.Why do Journals keep printing this stuff?
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
No Ralstonia pickettii? Usually when they print this stuff they have the decency to include it so I can at least get some citations.Why do Journals keep printing this stuff?
Your regular reminder that Wim 'The Iceman' Hofs talks nonsense.
Wetenschappers uiten publiekelijk kritiek op Wim ‘Iceman’ Hof: ‘nonsens’, ‘goeroe-achtig’, ‘gevaarlijk’
Wetenschappers uiten publiekelijk kritiek op Wim ‘Iceman’ Hof: ‘nonsens’, ‘goeroe-achtig’, ‘gevaarlijk’
www.volkskrant.nl
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Your regular reminder that Wim 'The Iceman' Hofs talks nonsense.
Not this again
'however, standard culture methods did not yield readily cultivable microbiota.'
'however, standard culture methods did not yield readily cultivable microbiota.'
The findings of a study in Nature Medicine introduce microbial elements as a component of the brain tumor microenvironment and lay the foundation for future mechanistic and translational studies. go.nature.com/44bO314 #medsky #microbiome 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not this again
'however, standard culture methods did not yield readily cultivable microbiota.'
'however, standard culture methods did not yield readily cultivable microbiota.'
If the UK's plan is '(1) withdraw from ECHR, (2) retrospectively change status of immigrants in the UK, (3) .... (4) profit!' then I have a bridge to sell to the current/future government.
Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If the UK's plan is '(1) withdraw from ECHR, (2) retrospectively change status of immigrants in the UK, (3) .... (4) profit!' then I have a bridge to sell to the current/future government.
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‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2026 🗓️🚨‼️
Excited to say the ContamCalendar is back for its fifth edition! We’ve created a fresh new design, folding out for an A3 monthly spread. It’s our best yet, we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄
Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️
Excited to say the ContamCalendar is back for its fifth edition! We’ve created a fresh new design, folding out for an A3 monthly spread. It’s our best yet, we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄
Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2026 🗓️🚨‼️
Excited to say the ContamCalendar is back for its fifth edition! We’ve created a fresh new design, folding out for an A3 monthly spread. It’s our best yet, we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄
Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️
Excited to say the ContamCalendar is back for its fifth edition! We’ve created a fresh new design, folding out for an A3 monthly spread. It’s our best yet, we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄
Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️
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Many congratulations Teresa!
Teresa Thurston was awarded the 2025 Pettenkofer Prize, recognising her contributions to identifying how different bacterial effectors impact the outcome of infection.
www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...
Teresa Thurston was awarded the 2025 Pettenkofer Prize, recognising her contributions to identifying how different bacterial effectors impact the outcome of infection.
www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...
2025 Pettenkofer Prize awarded to Teresa Thurston - Dunn School
The award by the Pettenkofer Foundation recognised Teresa’s contributions to identifying how different bacterial effectors impact the outcome of infection.
www.path.ox.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Many congratulations Teresa!
Teresa Thurston was awarded the 2025 Pettenkofer Prize, recognising her contributions to identifying how different bacterial effectors impact the outcome of infection.
www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...
Teresa Thurston was awarded the 2025 Pettenkofer Prize, recognising her contributions to identifying how different bacterial effectors impact the outcome of infection.
www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...
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*stares in Paul Verhoeven*
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
*stares in Paul Verhoeven*
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Incredible not just that this happened, but that it’s not even a second or third tier news story, let alone something Farage will actually be held accountable for. Doesn’t make the top 15 stories on either the BBC or the Guardian! Filed under “Wales”.
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Incredible not just that this happened, but that it’s not even a second or third tier news story, let alone something Farage will actually be held accountable for. Doesn’t make the top 15 stories on either the BBC or the Guardian! Filed under “Wales”.
Welcome to BlueSky @lucasbham.bsky.social !
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Welcome to BlueSky @lucasbham.bsky.social !