Kristen Pidgeon

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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Happy #nationalresearchadministratorday to my fellow admins! 💪🏻⭐️

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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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.

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.

"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

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...

www.savehhs.org

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.

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!

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.

Setting the table for immune tolerance Interaction between breast milk antibodies and gut microbes shape immune responses during weaning

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.

A red quotation mark graphic, followed by bold text excerpted from an August 14th Science magazine editorial by Gretchen Goldman and Erica Chenoweth, saying "The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particular partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society."

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/...

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.

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.

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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

Researchers’ chances of winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health have dropped under a new policy. scim.ag/4f7uew2

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.

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

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.

AAV gene therapy

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

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.

"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

NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start Agency calls research to identify viral threats “unsafe”

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

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.

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.

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Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.

But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

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“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

YouTube video by CHOP Research Institute Celebrate Science: The 2025 CHOP Research Poster Day and Scientific Symposium

Our annual Poster Day and Scientific Symposium on May 6, 7, and 8 welcomed scientists, staff, and students to celebrate advances in pediatric research. This year we highlighted a decade of breakthroughs from our Frontier Programs.

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Congrats @joeyzacks.bsky.social ! So well deserved! 🎉

Excited to share our new work in @aga-gastro.bsky.social! We show that dietary fiber alters the window of susceptibility to C. difficile following antibiotic exposure. This really fantastic study was co-led by an amazing team @rinniehewlett.bsky.social @alhecht.bsky.social and Amanda PeBenito.