Moritz Kramer & colleagues discuss global approaches to infectious disease analysis and modelling, emphasizing federated approaches and addressing challenges in data interoperability, equity, & trust.
Part of our Focus issue on #infectiousdiseases.
Thinking about how this might go
Listener: My chains aren't converging
Andrew: Your model is bad
Aki: Your parameterization is bad
Richard: The Buddha teaches us that numerical integration is suffering
ESCMID 2026 highlights
COBRA Trial – One day is enough
Dutch RCT: 1 day of antibiotics after ERCP drainage for cholangitis was non‑inferior to 4–7 days.
Bottom line: Antibiotic durations can safely be much shorter once source control is achieved.
#IDSky
clarityinitiative.org/escmid-2026-...
New research article
Emergence of carbapenemase-producing #Escherichia coli in acute care hospitals in 32 European countries (the CCRE survey)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #Ecoli #OpenAccess #OA
😀 Enter the amortized Bayesian workflow from here 👉
pipme.github.io/amortized-Ba...
Huge thanks to my great collaborators:
@avehtari.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @stefanradev.bsky.social, @lacerbi.bsky.social, @marvin-schmitt.com!
Expanding the Stan User’s Guide
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/04/e...
Maybe we shouldn't let a black-box AI product decide who gets to become a board-certified physician... ?
🧪 #IDsky #immunology #GlobalHealth
This obituary and tribute to #mensch Barry Bloom is uplifting and beautiful - an extraordinarily complete scientist and person
Thank you @yhgrad.bsky.social and Marc Lipsitch
This link is #FreeToRead via @archive.org
archive.ph/LfUO3
"Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are." It turns out, microbes follow the same rule!
Very proud to share our lab's new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com showing that bacteria don't just respond to their environment, they respond to each other.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very pleased to see this work published. We analysed the oral microbiomes of children with noma and found that previously uncharacterised Treponema bacteria were both prevalent and highly abundant.
journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
This Review discusses global approaches to infectious disease analysis and modeling, focusing on federated methods and addressing long-standing challenges in data interoperability, equity and trust.
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Clinical Literature Appraisal and Research education in InfecTious diseases
Author summary Noma is a rapidly progressing necrotic disease that destroys the tissues of the mouth and face, mainly affecting children living in abject poverty. Although antibiotic treatment can be ...
