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Our hybdid meeting on the indirects effects of CMV infection is ONLY 1 WEEK AWAY Not too late to snap up FREE TICKETS Sessions on paediatrics, immunocompromised host, CMV-TB, and critical illness/immunosenescence royalsociety.org/science-events… #IDtwitter #epitwitter #transplantID

So Jeremy Farrar asked for an "explainer thread" on Noble Prizes in Chemistry around AlphaFold and Protein design, so here goes.

Research invitation : Find out more and take part via this link standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9F… thankyou!

UK Secondary Care colleagues - the ACDP Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (Contact HCID) guidance has been updated and is now available online, including an updated VHF risk assessment algorithm: gov.uk/government/pub…

NEW PAPER 'Yield of routine mycobacterial culture of osteoarticular specimens in a tertiary orthopaedic hospital in England, 2017–2022' Yield is low overall, in line with US data Targetted approach will often make better sense jbji.copernicus.org/articles/9/217… #IDtwitter #epitwitter

NEW LETTER Useful exchange of letters about the RATIONS trial published today with contributions from Hannah Rickman Palwasha Yousafzai Khan, me and several others, and replies from Anurag Bhargava Madhavi Bhargava and team thelancet.com/journals/lance… [1/n]

Transplant folks, who maintains IPD meta-analysis platforms? Interested in pooled analyses of observational data. Looks like ESOT have one for European liver transplants. Is there something similar for kidneys? #EpiTwitter The Herrick Society BTS

An innovative #norovirus vaccine #ClinicalTrial will open across the UK over the next 2 weeks. Despite being one of the most common and infectious causes of diarrhoea & vomiting, there aren't yet any licensed vaccines anywhere in the world 💉 Read more ➡️ nihr.ac.uk/news/uks-first…

White to mate in 2! 🤔

It takes a special kind of nonsense speak to claim the way to protect future generations of farmers is to provide a large tax incentive for non-farmers to buy up land, pricing actual would be farmers out. That is exactly what the status quo does

I'm preparing a fellowship application Need to cost consultant salary for when I CCT I work 80% LTFT and have taken research blocks, which didn't count towards training Think I should start few points up consultant payscale Is there a policy I can reference? James Steen

NEW PAPER! Work led by Gus Hamilton and Gabriele Pollara finds reduced IL-6 signalling may REDUCE risk of TB disease Challenges idea that IL-6 plays essential role in immunity to Mtb, and suggests IL-6 drives immunopathology Great use of data from ITHGC thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…