Sean Vidal Edgerton
@penandpangolin.bsky.social
📚 Ph.D. Student, Zoology | UBC.
🦠 Evolutionary Virology + One Health Genomics.
🔬Scientific + Biological Illustrator.
🏳️🌈 Co-Founder: 500QueerSci.
📍 Vancouver, BC // LA native.
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IG: @ThePenAndThePangolin
http://www.thepenandthepangolin.com/
🦠 Evolutionary Virology + One Health Genomics.
🔬Scientific + Biological Illustrator.
🏳️🌈 Co-Founder: 500QueerSci.
📍 Vancouver, BC // LA native.
🍉 .
IG: @ThePenAndThePangolin
http://www.thepenandthepangolin.com/
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The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
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www.science.org/content/arti...
June 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles, but they were not requested by California. Both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass made it clear that the state did not authorize or want federal troops deployed.
June 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles, but they were not requested by California. Both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass made it clear that the state did not authorize or want federal troops deployed.
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BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
June 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
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Dyson, Nivea, Tiffany & Co., Capital One, UPS, Disney, DoorDash, Live Nation, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, PepsiCo, Nissan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citi, Mastercard, Booz Allen Hamilton, & Deloitte
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19 companies pulling back their support for Pride
For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Dyson, Nivea, Tiffany & Co., Capital One, UPS, Disney, DoorDash, Live Nation, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, PepsiCo, Nissan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citi, Mastercard, Booz Allen Hamilton, & Deloitte
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He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler
In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...
www.nbcnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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Another 10/10 title @mmpharmd.bsky.social
Results implementing a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program suggest that “tailoring swiftly” allows sites to adapt materials and delivery to their different resources and contexts. #IDSky
doi.org/10.1017/ash....
doi.org/10.1017/ash....
Tailor swiftly: lessons learned from a nationwide implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program for asymptomatic bacteriuria | Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology | Cambridge Core
Tailor swiftly: lessons learned from a nationwide implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program for asymptomatic bacteriuria - Volume 5 Issue 1
doi.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Another 10/10 title @mmpharmd.bsky.social
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5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
May 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
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Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
pll.harvard.edu
May 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
May 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham
Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
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There are no words left.
May 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There are no words left.
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
April 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.
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Disease prevention is class solidarity.
Cleaning air by removing pathogens via ventilation and filtration on top of preventing their entering airspace at all by wearing a mask is a gift to all we share space with.
There is no safety net but the choices we make to reduce each others suffering.
Cleaning air by removing pathogens via ventilation and filtration on top of preventing their entering airspace at all by wearing a mask is a gift to all we share space with.
There is no safety net but the choices we make to reduce each others suffering.
April 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Disease prevention is class solidarity.
Cleaning air by removing pathogens via ventilation and filtration on top of preventing their entering airspace at all by wearing a mask is a gift to all we share space with.
There is no safety net but the choices we make to reduce each others suffering.
Cleaning air by removing pathogens via ventilation and filtration on top of preventing their entering airspace at all by wearing a mask is a gift to all we share space with.
There is no safety net but the choices we make to reduce each others suffering.
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Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID go.nature.com/4l2Sm5M
Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID
go.nature.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID go.nature.com/4l2Sm5M
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1/ Being an infectious disease expert in the U.S. today feels like standing in the eye of a storm. Science should be our shield, but instead, we’re under attack, our expertise disregarded, our funding slashed, and public health increasingly politicized. 🧵
February 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
1/ Being an infectious disease expert in the U.S. today feels like standing in the eye of a storm. Science should be our shield, but instead, we’re under attack, our expertise disregarded, our funding slashed, and public health increasingly politicized. 🧵
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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RFK Jr. is not "questioning science"--he is lying about clinical trials, he is lying about the mountains of *reproducible* available data, and he is lying about safety and efficacy findings.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
RFK Jr. is not "questioning science"--he is lying about clinical trials, he is lying about the mountains of *reproducible* available data, and he is lying about safety and efficacy findings.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.