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Sean Vidal Edgerton

@penandpangolin.bsky.social
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📚 Ph.D. Candidate, Zoology, UBC. 🦠 Evolutionary Virology + One Health Genomics. 🔬Scientific + Biological Illustrator. 🏳️‍🌈 Co-Founder: 500QueerSci. 📍 Vancouver, BC // Los Angeles 🍉 . IG: @ThePenAndThePangolin www.thepenandthepangolin.com

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...
Plot showing skewed distribution toward comp science and applied physics
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE
Raid in Los Angeles
Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity.
Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement:
"SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody.
"We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it.
"We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/06/2025
Dyson, Nivea, Tiffany & Co., Capital One, UPS, Disney, DoorDash, Live Nation, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, PepsiCo, Nissan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citi, Mastercard, Booz Allen Hamilton, & Deloitte popular.info/p/pride-and-...
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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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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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
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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...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Jonathan Ryder, MD @jonathanrydermd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Another 10/10 title @mmpharmd.bsky.social
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/05/2025
5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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...
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Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with  'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'.

of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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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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
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Leyla Asadi, MD PhD @leylaaa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
There are no words left.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"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...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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...
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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...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
Large-scale government funding needed
About 35 million adults and 30 million working-age adults, or roughly 1 in 7, said they had experienced long COVID by late 2022 and 2023. Lost wages due to long COVID among working-age survey respondents were estimated at $211 billion in 2022 and $218 billion in 2023.
An age- and sex-adjusted model of 2022 data from 154,430 participants estimated that those vaccinated against COVID-19 had a 14% lower risk of protracted symptoms than their unvaccinated peers, but a fully adjusted model found no difference in risk. In comparison, a fully adjusted model of 2023 data from 220,664 respondents found a higher risk of long COVID among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
Risk factors for the condition were lower household income, Hispanic ethnicity, female sex, and gay, lesbian, or bisexual status. Long COVID was tied to elevated risks of recent unemployment, financial problems, and anxiety and depression.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 25/03/2025
Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID go.nature.com/4l2Sm5M
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Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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.
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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.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS @jessicamalaty.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I fear there is deep truth here.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Farm workers in Merced CA pause for a pic while working in the sweet potato harvest. For weeks they have started their days at 3am and are happy to see the season end as the temps have dropped to almost freezing on some nights. #WeFeedYou
Farm workers pausing to take a selfie as they work in the sweet potatoes on a very cold day
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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS @jessicamalaty.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Lots of Qs, concerns, and bad takes in my DMs about #H5N1. Here is an excellent situation update by emerging infectious disease expert, @saskiapopescu.bsky.social and her colleagues. www.rand.org/pubs/comment...
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How to Get Ahead of H5N1
The ongoing H5N1 outbreak presents a critical test of the United States' ability to apply the hard-earned lessons of a recent health emergencies. The time to act is not when the threat becomes unmanag...
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Scientists have discovered carnivorous squirrels in California. Read more: bit.ly/41Hnz7g
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
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Kaylee Byers, PhD @kayleebyers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
First rat pub announcement on this app 🧪 🐀 🧬 We found that rats in Vancouver carry Hepatitis E Virus and that viral lineages are clustered on either side of a major roadway. Ratty relationships (family groups) also helped to explain HEV status. @sfu-fhs.bsky.social doi.org/10.7589/JWD-...
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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Just a reminder that ~25% of adults are disabled, ~19% of undergrads, yet less than 10% of graduate degree recipients identify as such. #DisabledInSTEM #DisableAcademia #Disability
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Workers are harvesting romaine lettuce in Hollister CA. When they begin work at 5:30 am, there is freezing cold dew on the crop. This makes it hard to pack good quality lettuce. In addition, workers share that their fingers feel numb as they harvest. #WeFeedYou
Workers harvesting romaine lettuce
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 11/11/2024
Pertussis in infants is terrifying but it’s not just the cough. It’s the fact that babies literally STOP BREATHING. ~2/3 of infants hospitalized have apnea (life threatening pauses in breathing) Vaccination starts at 2 mo so it’s important EVERYONE is immunized to protect our littlest ones.
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS @jessicamalaty.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is so heartbreaking. The reason why Tdap vaccination is encouraged with *every* pregnancy is bc babies don’t get their first dose of DtaP until they are 2mo old. Antibodies transferred to baby in utero protect newborns in those first few weeks of life. Dying of pertussis is a horrible death.
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Serological evidence for SARS-CoV-2-like viruses in Sunda pangolins, likely reflecting the wildlife trade. Again exposes the idiocy of the "pangolin papers" accusations. I and others have even been accused of faking the pangolin data. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Serological evidence of sarbecovirus exposure along Sunda pangolin trafficking pathways - BMC Biology
Background Early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) involved in the illegal wildlife trade in mainland China were identified as hosts of severe acute...
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Sean Vidal Edgerton @penandpangolin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Highlighting Scientific Illustrators who transform scientific concepts into accessible, accurate visualizations. From exploring nature's beauty to helping clarify complex ideas, these illustrators bring science to life. go.bsky.app/7Vqt1Kq #SciArt #ScientificIllustration #SciComm #ArtAndScience
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Sean Vidal Edgerton @penandpangolin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Costa Rican Jewel Scarab // created during the #scienceillustration program at CSUMB, inspired by the first insect I pinned in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Capturing its iridescence over many long nights, but it landed me at NMNH Smithsonian after the program #Chrysina #sciart #entomology #acrylic
acrylic painting of a jewel scarab beetle
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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The recent spike in global temperatures is so extreme that it has confounded scientists. A new animation from NASA shows the severity of warming. Read more: bit.ly/3Z0pT6f
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