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Shaun Keegan

@shaunkeegan.bsky.social

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Infectious disease epidemiologist @lshtm.bsky.social Mathematical modeller, stats for epidemiology, AMR & vaccine development. Also occasional rants about football and whoever Liverpool FC are playing. 🖖 Add ♾️ + 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) https://keegan.science/

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 33m

Love a commitment to the environment

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 1h

Same story - 2 very different takes.

Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 5h

My web address is self indulgent. What scientist doesn’t live for the joy of me? Idk

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 5h

I used to be so confused when I saw a non institutional email on a paper, and I now realise, they’re future proofing against a lot of stuff.

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 5h

Okay my biggest regret tonight is not buying multiple Yazoos while in the shop. I think after around 10 years or so I’m willing to accept the new strawberry flavour as pleasant so it’s a welcome aside to the banana. Which has never not been AMAZING 😍

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 5h

I rarely say this, but I HOPE this is AI 🙃

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 6h

It’s not even like Frank is hunting, and doing the chirpy thing. They’re quiet. I’m obviously going to spoil them on command

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 6h

I’m not exaggerating, I can’t recall the last time we were both in bed and not a cat was to be seen. They’re absolutely up to something.

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 6h

Not to be dramatic, but I’m in bed. Crawford is in bed, and asleep. Neither cat is in the room. I can’t say I’m not alone as a cat parent/guardian in assuming the pair of little shites are up to something right?

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 15h

Worth remembering however there have been 64 cases including 43 deaths already in this Ebola outbreak including most recently a 3-week-old neonate that died.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 15h

Is that even a thing anymore? Gurl this isn't 2015 anymore, even 2019 anymore.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Manchester synagogue terrorist pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 999 call

Police say Jihad al-Shamie made call to emergency services during attack that resulted in the deaths of two worshippers The Manchester synagogue terrorist rang 999 during his deadly attack pledging allegiance to the terror group Islamic State, police have said. Jihad al-Shamie, 35, made the call claiming responsibility for the attack after driving his car at worshippers outside Heaton Park synagogue in north Manchester on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur last week. Continue reading...

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18h

These images are separated by one day

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 15h

They seem to see Jesus as an optional character to consider when useful to them. If they followed him they'd be passionate socialists who valued humans as human

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 16h

'This is what the Lord Almighty said: "Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other."'

Do these people not read their own Bible?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 15h

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 15h

Did you leave less than the appropriate tip for them?

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 16h

This is a comedy sketch, right?

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

Now he will win. Because that's how it is here. It's simply too funny not to do, so that's what will happen. I don't make the rules.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

The counting of votes will proceed as normal, the returning officer said, “in line with the rules for the counting of votes as set out in the 1993 Act”.

http://jrnl.ie/6837130

Jim Gavin will be on the ballot and votes will be counted as normal, returning officer confirms

Gavin made the shock announcement late on Sunday night to withdraw from the presidential election.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 16h

We're funding doctoral programmes to train the next generation of clinically-active academic leaders. 🩺

This call continues our commitment to supporting healthcare professionals in research careers.

Applications are open now. Here’s what you need to know 🧵

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 18h

Clown wrasses, like all wrasses and parrotfish, start their lives biologically female and transition through a series of color phases before ending as a male in their ‘terminal phase’. Here we see a male terminal phase clown wrasse chasing a female initial phase #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d

Please buy my woolcat, snoutcat, and hoofcat friends some hay if you can. 🥰

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have $8 to spare for our hay drive? donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

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Que Sera Sara 🐎🦋 @solfabulous.bsky.social · 18h

How embarrassing that Trump is screaming for the insurrection act over a chicken suit

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18h

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 18h

I used to do gymnastic, and honestly, I'd have gone just for the half hour stretch warm ups. it's hard to explain how contorting yourself a bit makes you feel so good for the week after