Kristen Pidgeon
@kristenpidgeon.bsky.social
Administrative Director, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Center for Microbial Medicine (tinyurl.com/2xve6jfp)
CHOP Microbiome Center (tinyurl.com/4bwdn2wk)
Posts/reposts reflect my own opinions. 📌
Center for Microbial Medicine (tinyurl.com/2xve6jfp)
CHOP Microbiome Center (tinyurl.com/4bwdn2wk)
Posts/reposts reflect my own opinions. 📌
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Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
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We understand that the government shutdown is impacting vital support of SNAP and WIC effective 11/1 for our families and community members. Access to healthy food is crucial. If you need assistance, check out local resources here: ms.spr.ly/63328tEcIm.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We understand that the government shutdown is impacting vital support of SNAP and WIC effective 11/1 for our families and community members. Access to healthy food is crucial. If you need assistance, check out local resources here: ms.spr.ly/63328tEcIm.
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Join my team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Research Technician III-Microbiome Center careers.chop.edu/70oyDxL
Research Technician III-Microbiome Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America | Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Apply for Research Technician III-Microbiome Center job with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphi...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Join my team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Research Technician III-Microbiome Center careers.chop.edu/70oyDxL
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
Doctors push back on Trump admin’s autism & Tylenol link | CNN
Dr. Paul Offit and Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell joins The Lead
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September 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
tinyurl.com/yc5nhcv4
In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
Reposted by Kristen Pidgeon
This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
September 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
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"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world."
-Drew Weissman
-Drew Weissman
Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”
In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...
In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...
Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”
In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.
www.statnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world."
-Drew Weissman
-Drew Weissman
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In her latest op-ed for @usnews.com, AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly discusses how HHS’ decisions on vaccines - along with recent CDC firings - are putting our children’s health at risk.
Read more: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
Read more: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
September 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In her latest op-ed for @usnews.com, AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly discusses how HHS’ decisions on vaccines - along with recent CDC firings - are putting our children’s health at risk.
Read more: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
Read more: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
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Florida's Surgeon General is dead wrong. Requiring children to get vaccinated to prevent measles, mumps & polio is not akin to "slavery."
Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved millions of lives & reduced the infant mortality rate by 40%.
Vaccines save lives — period.
Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved millions of lives & reduced the infant mortality rate by 40%.
Vaccines save lives — period.
Breaking News: Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.
nyti.ms
September 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Florida's Surgeon General is dead wrong. Requiring children to get vaccinated to prevent measles, mumps & polio is not akin to "slavery."
Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved millions of lives & reduced the infant mortality rate by 40%.
Vaccines save lives — period.
Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved millions of lives & reduced the infant mortality rate by 40%.
Vaccines save lives — period.
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We are very fortunate to have Nicola Segata presenting a seminar Friday August 29, 2025. Please join us!
August 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We are very fortunate to have Nicola Segata presenting a seminar Friday August 29, 2025. Please join us!
This generous support allows our team to do the most impactful work for children. We are so grateful!
Donors Join Forces to Support Center for Microbial Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Donors Join Forces to Support Center for Microbial Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Today Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced funding to support the recently launched Center for Microbial Medicine. This pioneering initiative is made possible by three transformative g...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This generous support allows our team to do the most impactful work for children. We are so grateful!
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We are incredibly grateful for the generous support we have received for @centermicrobialmed.bsky.social. Support from these donors is allowing us to improve pediatric health through the lens of the microbiome and bring precision pathogen surveillance to reduce infections in children.
Donors Join Forces to Support Center for Microbial Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Donors Join Forces to Support Center for Microbial Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Today Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced funding to support the recently launched Center for Microbial Medicine. This pioneering initiative is made possible by three transformative g...
www.chop.edu
August 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We are incredibly grateful for the generous support we have received for @centermicrobialmed.bsky.social. Support from these donors is allowing us to improve pediatric health through the lens of the microbiome and bring precision pathogen surveillance to reduce infections in children.
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Out today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... From @kknoop.bsky.social & myself on early life immune development & the beautiful publication from Megan Koch & M Shenoy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Take home message: timing of early life exposures, milk IgG here, is critical for immune development.
Setting the table for immune tolerance
Interaction between breast milk antibodies and gut microbes shape immune responses during weaning
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Out today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... From @kknoop.bsky.social & myself on early life immune development & the beautiful publication from Megan Koch & M Shenoy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Take home message: timing of early life exposures, milk IgG here, is critical for immune development.
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Privileged to write this editorial with @gretchentg.bsky.social of @ucs.org in @science.org: "Scientists’ role in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Privileged to write this editorial with @gretchentg.bsky.social of @ucs.org in @science.org: "Scientists’ role in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hey HHS, look what scientists like me knew back in 2021👇🏻
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections, not vaccines, are the main driver of new coronavirus variants
When the coronavirus copies itself, there is a chance its RNA will mutate. But new variants must jump from one host to another, and the more infections there are, the better chance this will happen.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey HHS, look what scientists like me knew back in 2021👇🏻
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
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Researchers’ chances of winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health have dropped under a new policy. scim.ag/4f7uew2
Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
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July 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Researchers’ chances of winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health have dropped under a new policy. scim.ag/4f7uew2
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Researchers came from around the United States to showcase projects, ranging from modeling coastal hazards to teaching quantum information science, that were killed prematurely this spring by one of a half-dozen federal agencies. scim.ag/3Tv5iVC
Democrats stage a science fair of canceled grants to show what’s been lost
Partisan fight over Trump cuts heats up as Congress works on 2026 spending bills.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Researchers came from around the United States to showcase projects, ranging from modeling coastal hazards to teaching quantum information science, that were killed prematurely this spring by one of a half-dozen federal agencies. scim.ag/3Tv5iVC
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Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov, @mayor.lacity.gov we need clear information from state and local authorities on what our rights are when confronted by masked unID ed agents who are now disappearing, neighbors, co-workers and family members. Please have comms post on all platforms.
July 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov, @mayor.lacity.gov we need clear information from state and local authorities on what our rights are when confronted by masked unID ed agents who are now disappearing, neighbors, co-workers and family members. Please have comms post on all platforms.
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In a new Cornerstone blog, read about studies from CHOP's Dr. Bev Davidson & team highlighting how several AAV capsid variants could improve the precision of gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders: http://ms.spr.ly/63328SWf56
June 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In a new Cornerstone blog, read about studies from CHOP's Dr. Bev Davidson & team highlighting how several AAV capsid variants could improve the precision of gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders: http://ms.spr.ly/63328SWf56
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"In a scathing public letter, employees of the National Institutes of Health accused the administration of undermining the agency’s work and endangering people’s health. "
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#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
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#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
In a scathing public letter, employees of the National Institutes of Health accused the administration of undermining the agency’s work and endangering people’s health.
zurl.co
June 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"In a scathing public letter, employees of the National Institutes of Health accused the administration of undermining the agency’s work and endangering people’s health. "
zurl.co/d52x2
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
zurl.co/d52x2
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
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President Donald Trump’s administration is shuttering a network of centers funded by the National Institutes of Health that aims to prevent future pandemics.
The research is “unsafe,” NIH has concluded. scim.ag/40185Jx
The research is “unsafe,” NIH has concluded. scim.ag/40185Jx
NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start
Agency calls research to identify viral threats “unsafe”
scim.ag
June 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
President Donald Trump’s administration is shuttering a network of centers funded by the National Institutes of Health that aims to prevent future pandemics.
The research is “unsafe,” NIH has concluded. scim.ag/40185Jx
The research is “unsafe,” NIH has concluded. scim.ag/40185Jx
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Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and his family have donated $50 million to CHOP and Penn to accelerate research into autism.
Penn and CHOP said the Luries’ gift is the largest ever for academic medical centers with a singular focus on autism at all ages.
Penn and CHOP said the Luries’ gift is the largest ever for academic medical centers with a singular focus on autism at all ages.
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and family donate $50 million to CHOP and Penn for autism institute
The purpose of the new Lurie Autism Institute is to expand research already being done at CHOP and Penn, form a global hub for research, and attract more scientists to the field.
www.inquirer.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and his family have donated $50 million to CHOP and Penn to accelerate research into autism.
Penn and CHOP said the Luries’ gift is the largest ever for academic medical centers with a singular focus on autism at all ages.
Penn and CHOP said the Luries’ gift is the largest ever for academic medical centers with a singular focus on autism at all ages.
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“If this leads to vaccines not being recommended, millions of people could lose access, pay more for vaccines and for preventable illnesses, and children will be at greater risk of diseases we haven’t faced in decades,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said.
#GiftLink
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#GiftLink
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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