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Jeanne Marrazzo: “We want a magic pill for women, but no pill can provide the freedom and power that most cisgender men have to pursue the sex they want. Until we consider this power imbalance, the potential for this [doxyPEP] or any intervention will be limited.” #CROI2026
I am very sad to hear this.
📣 UKHSA is asking sexual health clinics and labs across England to help build a clearer picture of gonorrhoea testing.
Take part in this survey and help contribute to future improvements in GC culture!
🔗 surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo
Still time to apply and come and do modelling PhD on STI transmission and partner notification with me!
UK fees & stipend covered.
Get in touch to discuss before the application deadline of 14th January.
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead
Currently reading mother Mary - very good so far
📣 UKHSA is asking sexual health clinics and labs across England to help build a clearer picture of gonorrhoea testing.
Take part in this survey and help contribute to future improvements in GC culture!
🔗 surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo
what a fabulous choice!!! Cream always rise to the top......
happy Christmas - great to catch up this year and i got to see you twice!!
It’s that magical time of year 🥳 when we delete all work apps from our phones 🙌 Happy holidays everyone, and catch you in 2026! Oh, and don’t forget to register for the @shigellameeting.bsky.social
maybe they think there are lots of people who want to review papers between xmas and new year in their free time???? No idea - really but is good to have a spring clean before 2026...
📣 UKHSA survey on gonorrhoea testing practices in England
UKHSA is inviting sexual health services & diagnostic labs to take part in a national survey on current gonorrhoea testing practices across England.
⏱️ 15 minutes
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2026
🔗 Take part here: surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo
📣 UKHSA survey on gonorrhoea testing practices in England
UKHSA is inviting sexual health services & diagnostic labs to take part in a national survey on current gonorrhoea testing practices across England.
⏱️ 15 minutes
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2026
🔗 Take part here: surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Table of content issue 46 in 2025 Rapid communication Early influenza virus characterisation and vaccine effectiveness in England in autumn 2025, a period dominated by influenza A(H3N2) subclade K Tracking the evolution of an extensively drug-resistant cross-border Mycobacterium tuberculosis cluster, Europe, January 2016 up to August 2025: implications for European surveillance Global distribution of Xpert CT/NG assay Neisseria gonorrhoeae escape variants indicates sporadic emergence with limited clonality between 2016 and 2025 Outbreaks Investigation of a measles outbreak in a highly vaccinated middle school, France, 2023 Concurrent outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and O157:H39 with high asymptomatic carriage of other Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in nursery children, south-east Scotland, United Kingdom, July to October 2022
In our new issue, @ukhsa.bsky.social authors describe the early start to this year's #flu season in England with dominating #influenza A(H3N2) subclade K
Conclusion: #vaccination is effective against clinical disease caused by A(H3N2) viruses
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3046
#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🛟🧪🦠
Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics,
therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026
Wow - really beutiful - looks like an x chromosome medal! How fabulous
Do u actually get a medal? Hope so
great news - congratulations!
Happy 137 Birthday to the Pasteur institute
Lizzie Dale, the STASHH BSIG Representative, has given an insightful run-down of BSIG's new competencies assessment tool for microscopy in a newly published blog. 🔬
Read Lizzie's full blog via our LinkedIn page: bit.ly/47wsf2t to find out more about the new tool and how to access it.
And now for something completely different: #EntSoc25 Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...
Surely every case of congenital syphilis could be prevented with tests and treatment but important message never the less....
Podcast with me and @turiking.bsky.social for the @milnerevolution.bsky.social series, on plasmid evolution over the last 100 years, talking about our ( @cazares-adr.bsky.social , Nick Thomson, @sarah1alexander.bsky.social & co) recent paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
youtu.be/Mzr3TD4ijs0?...
100% of Penile cancer is preventable!
Next up - interesctionality and inequalities. IUSTI2025
Very informative presentation by Kate Nambiar - common presentations in trans men accessing sexual health services #IUSTI
Fabulous presentation by Dr. Janet Wilson at IUSTI2025. We should treat BV as a neglected condition
