Congratulations to all the @asm.org 2026 Award Recipients and especially to our own @pennmedicine.bsky.social Pathology and Laboratory Medicine faculty member Kyle Rodino, PhD for the ASM Early Career Clinical Microbiology Research Award In Clinical Microbiology!
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
Great talk today by @pennpathlabmed.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social faculty member, Kyle Rodino PhD at our national meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Los Angeles #ASMicrobe @asm.org
Congratulations to our 2025 ASM Award and Prize Recipients including our own @upenn.bsky.social Professor Susan Weiss, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award #ASMicrobe @asm.org
We still need to teach pathology in medical schools www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Meteorologist from Florida does a 3 minute report on the administrative cuts to NOAA.
Please watch and share with those that are less informed.
Metagenomics and diagnosis of infectious diseases in the news reported by the @BBCWorld today. A debilitating eye infection caused by Leptospira solved #Metagenomics #ClinicalMicrobiology
bbc.com/news/article...
I volunteer my time delivering meals for #MealsOnWheels. I know first hand how the elderly and infirm in need rely on these important services. Call your representatives and tell them to stop the cruelty by Trump and RFKJr and maintain MOW funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
The continuing destruction of our public health infrastructure by the authoritarian regime in charge of our government #StandUpForPublicHealth
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
Thank you Representative Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov for attending the #HandsOff Rally in Media, PA and for everything you are doing in Congress to protect our democracy. @indivisible.org
@asm.org called out (not in a good way) in this opinion piece in Nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At first I thought this couldn’t be a real bill in Iowa but here it is. Unbelievable! #ProudBlue #DemVoice1
www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...
#BanRepublicansNotVaccines
Use the 5calls app to contact your representatives, it’s really easy to use. I call my representatives almost everyday, only call them about a single issue at a time. apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...
I know so many people over the years who started their careers training in the EIS, this is a travesty for public health in this country. Trump is breaking this country. It was right out there in the open with #Project2025. #SilenceIsNotAnOption #YourVoiceIsYourPower USE IT!
The courts are out last guardrail but the administration doesn’t believe in the rule of law. Whether they comply with court orders is a major concern. Don’t be complacent and call your representatives every day to pressure them to stop the president. Use the 5calls app #SilenceIsNotAnOption
I donated to the World Health Organization Foundation to support their critical mission of protecting global health, particularly in times of uncertainty and reduced funding, please consider, whofoundation.donorsupport.com #1Dollar1World #HeathForAll
@ASM took down pages about DEI for “review” and is totally unacceptable to the profession of microbiology. Many pages are still down and every single page must be restored. We’re under attack by this government and right wing and ASM must defy these illegal EOs
Fly Eagles Fly 🦅 #EAGLES
Please join us for the 816th monthly meeting of the Eastern PA Branch ASM featuring Cesar de la Fuente, Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience @pennmedicine.bsky.social
Mark your 2025 Calendar- 816th Monthly Meeting or the Eastern Pennsylvania Branch of the @asm.org - see our website www.epaasm.org for program details
I prefer presidents who aren't wannabe authoritarians.
This incoming administration is the most dangerous to public health in America. We need as many voices as
possible to #StandUpForPublicHealth #StandUpForVaccines #YourVoiceIsYourPower www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
See our new publication - an ASM Guideline for reducing blood culture contamination. Happy to answer any of your questions.
doi.org/10.1128/cmr....
Another potentially dangerous political appointee for CDC Director, Dave Weldon, who doesn’t follow the science but debunked theories. The CDC is a national treasure protecting the nation’s health, Trump was to burn it down. #SayNoToDaveWeldon #TrumpsProject2025
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
#RawMilk is trending again so...
A 🧵 on Milk Hygiene and Infant Mortality seems necessary.
Pasteurization made milk consumption safer and reduced infant mortality in the early 20th century by nearly 50%. #MedSky #IDSky 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
As the great migration from Twitter to Bluesky begins, I have created the "Clinical Microbiology" starter pack to help you find your colleagues. Please let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/VTpSjBL
MAGA can drink all the raw they want because they don’t believe Salmonella, Campylobacter, Brucella, Listeria or other serious infectious diseases transmitted by raw milk are real. For the rest of us #SayNoToRawMilk
“Public health experts have warned consumers against drinking raw milk or raw milk products due to elevated risks of foodborne illness…Raw milk products are not pasteurized, a heating process that kills bacteria and viruses like bird flu.”
But RFK, Jr. pushes raw milk to the masses 😑
