Regular contributor to This Week in Microbiology, also known as TWiM and a Professor of Microbiology at MUSC
Charleston SC
Joined July 2013
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Michael Schmidt retweeted
Another photo from the amazing event Saturday night that was TWiV 1000. The photographer is Chris Suspect who is well known for his street photography. This photo reflects his unique style #twiv #microbeTV
This is an article that requires your careful reading and then reflection or as Aldus Huxley said "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad".
Research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak, scientists warn washingtonpost.com/investiga…
Michael Schmidt retweeted
One cause of the 'death of expertise' is the failure of higher education to train students to think critically. It's not easy. NYU chose to illustrate this trend by firing a professor whose course was difficult. Shameful. nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/ny…
Michael Schmidt retweeted
In today's NYTimes article on #poliovirus in NY, an expert is quoted as saying vaccinated people are protected against the virus. This is WRONG. They are not protected against infection. They are protected from getting paralysis. Vaccinated people may still get infected.
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We now have expert guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency, with two pages of recommendations that codify the best practices on ventilation, air filtration and air disinfection from academic experts and federal agencies of the last two years. epa.gov/system/files/documen…
Bacterial Species In the Age of Next-Generation Sequencing | ASM.org asm.org/Articles/2021/Octobe…
Today is the American Hospital Association's fifth annual #HAVHope Friday, a campaign to encourage hospitals and healthcare systems to join together with their communities to prevent violence and foster peace. Please help us in supporting this important effort!
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Michael Schmidt retweeted
Can I point out how critical it is to get the answer to the impact of vaccination on transmission. We are just amount to miss this critical window. Anyone listening? wsj.com/articles/covid-19-va…
At the end of June, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the former chairman of Google, Dr. Eric Schmidt on his new podcast REIMAGINE. Now it's up to us to get busy. reimaginepod.org/episode/ep-…
Michael Schmidt retweeted
This pediatrician's license to practice should be revoked for publishing this rubbish nytimes.com/2020/08/12/opini… ignores the age-old understanding that children DRIVE PANDEMICS #COVID19
This is a consequence of cost of sequencing dropping from $100M to $500 per human genome... is this signaling the end of need for us to write in our food diaries? Discuss over dinner tonight.
DNA Metabarcoding Useful for Analyzing Human Diet - New study in @ASMicrobiology's @mSystemsJ skyw.io/OeqZWj
It was honor to remember the contributions made by Dr. Levy
The #TWiM holobionts pay tribute to Stuart Levy, and reveal the remarkably diverse array of cyclic nucleotides synthesized by bacteria that likely mediate interactions with animal and plant hosts bit.ly/2kXD7lf This Week in Microbiology
Very cool story by Carl Zimmer...Wondrous microbes...New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill nyti.ms/2XljuRp.
Ada and I love doing this. Is a nice break from the intensity of the meeting and allow us all to rest our collective feet for a few.
This is one of my favorite #ASMicrobe events every year! Congrats @adahagan + @TWiMSchmidt on dispelling these myths to an even broader audience!
Now to start collecting more #MicrobiologyMyths for 2020...
Michael Schmidt retweeted
New episode of the #science #podcast This Week in Microbiology #TWiM 198: Unexpectedly pathogenic bacteriophages bit.ly/2KhmE5O an extracellular bacterium associated with Paramecium, and induction of antiviral immunity by bacteriophage that prevents bacterial clearance
Update on major fail by #aa.com turns out the not only inconvenienced 150 folk going to DFW, they had another mechanical with the flight to Miami. What’s going on with air travel- record profits with record delays?