Burgetta Eplin Wheeler
@burgettalee.bsky.social
Associate director of comms for @NCStateVetMed in Raleigh, NC. Former PR for @GoTriangle. Former @newsobserver journalist. Mental health advocate. WV native. @MarshallU grad. Mom to Fawkesy Cat. Grandma.
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
With a $5.5 million NIH grant, an NC State behavioral vet has joined the fight against #opioidaddiction. Dr. Margaret Gruen aims to find ways to measure how chronic pain affects how dogs think and behave. Knowing those biopsychosocial effects of pain is important for treatment.
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NC State Behavioral Specialist Gets $5.5 Million NIH Grant for Research Contributing to Opioid Fight
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October 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
With a $5.5 million NIH grant, an NC State behavioral vet has joined the fight against #opioidaddiction. Dr. Margaret Gruen aims to find ways to measure how chronic pain affects how dogs think and behave. Knowing those biopsychosocial effects of pain is important for treatment.
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“He came into the room, and there was just something about him. I looked at that tail! I looked at the interaction he has with Phillip and Cara! There was no way this dog was ready to stop.”
#pugs #pugrescue @dogs.bsky.social @i-love-pugs.bsky.social
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#pugs #pugrescue @dogs.bsky.social @i-love-pugs.bsky.social
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‘He’s Got to Live!’ — The Case of WALL-E and the Power of Exploring Possibilities
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September 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“He came into the room, and there was just something about him. I looked at that tail! I looked at the interaction he has with Phillip and Cara! There was no way this dog was ready to stop.”
#pugs #pugrescue @dogs.bsky.social @i-love-pugs.bsky.social
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#pugs #pugrescue @dogs.bsky.social @i-love-pugs.bsky.social
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
Another beautiful human being who gives me hope.
Third-year NC State vet student Joe Richardson is the son and grandson of trail-blazing doctors who spent decades serving rural Hertford County, NC. He is planning to care for people, too — by caring for their animals. The question is, which ones? #ruralveterinarian #ncpol
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September 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Another beautiful human being who gives me hope.
Loved ❤️ meeting this beauty: ✍️ Third-year NC State vet student Azariah Spurlock, a West Virginia native, created an interactive coloring book to help children with limited opportunities see that anyone can be a veterinarian — and not just for puppies and kittens. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-stu...
NC State Student Creates Coloring Book to Help Children Picture Possibilities in Veterinary Medicine
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September 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Loved ❤️ meeting this beauty: ✍️ Third-year NC State vet student Azariah Spurlock, a West Virginia native, created an interactive coloring book to help children with limited opportunities see that anyone can be a veterinarian — and not just for puppies and kittens. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-stu...
#overheard in WV: a series. "I'm just glad I'm going to be dead soon."
August 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
#overheard in WV: a series. "I'm just glad I'm going to be dead soon."
✍️ Cat owners, @cats.bsky.social take note! If you also have dogs prescribed chewable Apoquel for allergies, the meds can result in acute kidney injury in felines that find the pork liver-flavored pills impossible to resist. Two cats have needed dialysis at #NCStateVetMed. ncst.at/CWSP50WAoSI
Alert: NC State Seeing Cats Severely Ill From Ingesting Chewable Allergy Medicine for Dogs
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August 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
✍️ Cat owners, @cats.bsky.social take note! If you also have dogs prescribed chewable Apoquel for allergies, the meds can result in acute kidney injury in felines that find the pork liver-flavored pills impossible to resist. Two cats have needed dialysis at #NCStateVetMed. ncst.at/CWSP50WAoSI
🖋️Because scientists can take their cutting-edge research, study its efficacy and then apply it directly to life-changing patient care — all at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine — #NCStateVetMed is at the center of cancer treatment innovation.
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The Future of Cancer Care Starts Here
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July 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🖋️Because scientists can take their cutting-edge research, study its efficacy and then apply it directly to life-changing patient care — all at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine — #NCStateVetMed is at the center of cancer treatment innovation.
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#NCStateVetMed is on @bsky.app now! Follow for the latest on the latest life-changing research, innovative patient-centered care and leadership in veterinary education. Oh, and for pictures of cute animals and endangered red wolves. :) #veterinaryeducation
A blue sky, rolling fields and contented cows just 60 seconds from our classrooms— there’s no place we’d rather be!
Follow @ncstatevetmed.bsky.social to see how we’re advancing care, research and veterinary education. #NCStateVetMed
Follow @ncstatevetmed.bsky.social to see how we’re advancing care, research and veterinary education. #NCStateVetMed
July 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
#NCStateVetMed is on @bsky.app now! Follow for the latest on the latest life-changing research, innovative patient-centered care and leadership in veterinary education. Oh, and for pictures of cute animals and endangered red wolves. :) #veterinaryeducation
📝 #NCStateVetMed was so successful at crafting and relaunching its veterinary curriculum last fall that it planned a forum to share lessons learned, and more than 100 veterinary educators from across the globe have signed up to attend in person in Raleigh.
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NC State’s Success with Recrafting Veterinary Curriculum Leads to International Forum
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July 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
📝 #NCStateVetMed was so successful at crafting and relaunching its veterinary curriculum last fall that it planned a forum to share lessons learned, and more than 100 veterinary educators from across the globe have signed up to attend in person in Raleigh.
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Just a little something from the trinket bowl at therapy. #mentalhealth
July 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Just a little something from the trinket bowl at therapy. #mentalhealth
✍️ Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder, #NCStateVetMed cell biologist and prof, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the NIH for her cutting-edge research into understanding how organs develop. Dr. Julio Belmonte, assistant professor of physics, is her co-investigator. 🖊️ graphic, too
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July 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
✍️ Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder, #NCStateVetMed cell biologist and prof, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the NIH for her cutting-edge research into understanding how organs develop. Dr. Julio Belmonte, assistant professor of physics, is her co-investigator. 🖊️ graphic, too
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👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾 Dr. Ronald Li, #NCStateVetMed associate professor of emergency and critical care, is the recipient of the 2025 American Veterinary Medical Foundation’s Career Achievement in Feline Research Award for his groundbreaking work in blood disorders in cats.
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NC State Clinician Scientist Honored for Career Achievements in Feline Research
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July 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾 Dr. Ronald Li, #NCStateVetMed associate professor of emergency and critical care, is the recipient of the 2025 American Veterinary Medical Foundation’s Career Achievement in Feline Research Award for his groundbreaking work in blood disorders in cats.
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Innovative research is a pillar of #NCStateVetMed and its Veterinary Scholars Program is one of the strongest in the US. More than 50 students are spending 10 weeks immersed in meaningful mentorship and diving deeply into the innovative research projects that our faculty lead.
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Summer Research Program Opens Doors of Discovery for Veterinary Students
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July 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Innovative research is a pillar of #NCStateVetMed and its Veterinary Scholars Program is one of the strongest in the US. More than 50 students are spending 10 weeks immersed in meaningful mentorship and diving deeply into the innovative research projects that our faculty lead.
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BOVINE BOOT CAMP. Lauren Buslinger, an RVT and preclinical laboratory instructor at #NCStateVetMed, had the idea to offer Cape Fear Community College students a chance to experience top-tier training and hands-on learning with large animals at NC State’s 80-acre working farm.
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NC State Offers ‘Livestock Boot Camp’ to Aspiring Registered Veterinary Technicians
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June 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
BOVINE BOOT CAMP. Lauren Buslinger, an RVT and preclinical laboratory instructor at #NCStateVetMed, had the idea to offer Cape Fear Community College students a chance to experience top-tier training and hands-on learning with large animals at NC State’s 80-acre working farm.
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HEADS UP, @dogs.bsky.social! I was so happy to exercise my creative brain yesterday and create this graphic, but the message is more important! We've had fatal cases of mushroom toxicity at #NCStateVetMed this week. Read more here: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/pet-owner-al...
May 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
HEADS UP, @dogs.bsky.social! I was so happy to exercise my creative brain yesterday and create this graphic, but the message is more important! We've had fatal cases of mushroom toxicity at #NCStateVetMed this week. Read more here: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/pet-owner-al...
Attending a book reading @quailridgebooks.bsky.social by Rob Christensen, political reporter and editor extraordinaire. He has written a book about @newsobserver.com and the Daniels family. Trained Frank3 how to be a copy editor when I worked there almost 30 years. 30. Years.
March 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Attending a book reading @quailridgebooks.bsky.social by Rob Christensen, political reporter and editor extraordinaire. He has written a book about @newsobserver.com and the Daniels family. Trained Frank3 how to be a copy editor when I worked there almost 30 years. 30. Years.
BREAKTHROUGH: #Veterinarians have had no drug to help cats fight hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but research led by Dr. Joshua Stern at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine has shown that the drug rapamycin can reverse underlying pathology of #HCM. @cats.bsky.social
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Studies Led by NC State’s Top Researcher Propelling First Drug to Treat Feline Heart Condition to Market
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February 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
BREAKTHROUGH: #Veterinarians have had no drug to help cats fight hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but research led by Dr. Joshua Stern at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine has shown that the drug rapamycin can reverse underlying pathology of #HCM. @cats.bsky.social
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One of the reasons we are all freaking out is because Democratic leadership is nowhere to be seen.
We need a democratic pseudo president to address what is going on and what we can do about it.
Someone who has rallies, interviews. Show us sane in an insane world.
We need a democratic pseudo president to address what is going on and what we can do about it.
Someone who has rallies, interviews. Show us sane in an insane world.
January 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
One of the reasons we are all freaking out is because Democratic leadership is nowhere to be seen.
We need a democratic pseudo president to address what is going on and what we can do about it.
Someone who has rallies, interviews. Show us sane in an insane world.
We need a democratic pseudo president to address what is going on and what we can do about it.
Someone who has rallies, interviews. Show us sane in an insane world.
#overheard in West Virginia (from a North Carolinian): “I didn’t have any of those iced hamburger-looking things.” For the record, this is the same man who asked for baby asparagus balls when he wanted Brussels sprouts. 😂
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December 27, 2024 at 10:28 PM
#overheard in West Virginia (from a North Carolinian): “I didn’t have any of those iced hamburger-looking things.” For the record, this is the same man who asked for baby asparagus balls when he wanted Brussels sprouts. 😂
Watching NCAA National men’s soccer championship. Go, Herd!!! @formarshallu.bsky.social #ncaamenssoccer
December 17, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Watching NCAA National men’s soccer championship. Go, Herd!!! @formarshallu.bsky.social #ncaamenssoccer
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The US ranks first in the world in school shootings, and dead last among high income nations in health care categories. But we’re really, really good at sports, entertainment, and war. #priorities
December 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
December 10, 2024 at 6:46 PM
If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
"Nurses, residents, aides, specialists—they are asked to absorb the rage and panic induced by the American health-care system, whose private insurers generate billions of dollars in profit and pay executives eight figures because they deny care to desperate people."
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A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing?
What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.
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December 10, 2024 at 5:25 PM
"Nurses, residents, aides, specialists—they are asked to absorb the rage and panic induced by the American health-care system, whose private insurers generate billions of dollars in profit and pay executives eight figures because they deny care to desperate people."
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