Wes Marner
@wesmarner.com
Chemical Engineer who decided that public engagement and equity in science was his thing. Star Trek nerd. Opinions are my own. 🏳️🌈
Positively revolting press release in my inbox from the US Department of Education today: Opening a public portal for anyone to snitch on DEI activities in public schools via a website called "EndDEI"
Keep resisting in all ways you can.
Keep resisting in all ways you can.
February 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Positively revolting press release in my inbox from the US Department of Education today: Opening a public portal for anyone to snitch on DEI activities in public schools via a website called "EndDEI"
Keep resisting in all ways you can.
Keep resisting in all ways you can.
Powerful testimony by @moonsledges.bsky.social at @mdibiolab.bsky.social about the power of biomedical research to provide the gift of time - and the risk of ending support for research.
Continue to call your elected representatives. Tell them to halt any cuts to the NIH.
mdibl.org/the-power-of...
Continue to call your elected representatives. Tell them to halt any cuts to the NIH.
mdibl.org/the-power-of...
The Power of Science, The Gift of Time
mdibl.org
February 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Powerful testimony by @moonsledges.bsky.social at @mdibiolab.bsky.social about the power of biomedical research to provide the gift of time - and the risk of ending support for research.
Continue to call your elected representatives. Tell them to halt any cuts to the NIH.
mdibl.org/the-power-of...
Continue to call your elected representatives. Tell them to halt any cuts to the NIH.
mdibl.org/the-power-of...
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Early-career scientists are essential to the Morgridge mission, and the majority have some level of competitive support from NIH. Several researchers share thoughts on how federal funding supports their mission to conduct high-impact research.
Read their stories: morgridge.org/story/the-am...
Read their stories: morgridge.org/story/the-am...
The American investment in research is about people - Morgridge Institute for Research
Early-career scientists are essential to the Morgridge mission, and the majority have some level of competitive support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Here, early-career researchers sha...
morgridge.org
February 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Early-career scientists are essential to the Morgridge mission, and the majority have some level of competitive support from NIH. Several researchers share thoughts on how federal funding supports their mission to conduct high-impact research.
Read their stories: morgridge.org/story/the-am...
Read their stories: morgridge.org/story/the-am...
"Science" doesn't discover new medicines, develop new diagnostic tools, or save lives
Scientists do that
Decades of taxpayer support for biomedical scientists have returned countless discoveries to the American People
What does that funding mean to those scientists?
morgridge.org/story/the-am...
Scientists do that
Decades of taxpayer support for biomedical scientists have returned countless discoveries to the American People
What does that funding mean to those scientists?
morgridge.org/story/the-am...
The American investment in research is about people - Morgridge Institute for Research
Early-career scientists are essential to the Morgridge mission, and the majority have some level of competitive support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Here, early-career researchers sha...
morgridge.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Science" doesn't discover new medicines, develop new diagnostic tools, or save lives
Scientists do that
Decades of taxpayer support for biomedical scientists have returned countless discoveries to the American People
What does that funding mean to those scientists?
morgridge.org/story/the-am...
Scientists do that
Decades of taxpayer support for biomedical scientists have returned countless discoveries to the American People
What does that funding mean to those scientists?
morgridge.org/story/the-am...
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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Let's talk about the effects all the political goings on in the US are having on science trainees (to raise awareness).
A whole gen has been told that STEM is important. They invested their lives in that pursuit. And now:
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
What are you hearing from them?
A whole gen has been told that STEM is important. They invested their lives in that pursuit. And now:
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
What are you hearing from them?
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.eenews.net
February 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Let's talk about the effects all the political goings on in the US are having on science trainees (to raise awareness).
A whole gen has been told that STEM is important. They invested their lives in that pursuit. And now:
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
What are you hearing from them?
A whole gen has been told that STEM is important. They invested their lives in that pursuit. And now:
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
What are you hearing from them?
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I just signed up for this @indivisible.org call. They're literally our best bet right now for traditional political/electoral action, imo. Please consider joining me. mobilize.us/s/0x5dTb
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
mobilize.us
February 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I just signed up for this @indivisible.org call. They're literally our best bet right now for traditional political/electoral action, imo. Please consider joining me. mobilize.us/s/0x5dTb
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It's amazing how badly most congressional Democrats are misreading the mood of their base.
On the bright side, if you're ever considered running for Congress, the 2026 Democratic Party primaries are going to be a prime moment for "throw the old guard out" insurgents.
On the bright side, if you're ever considered running for Congress, the 2026 Democratic Party primaries are going to be a prime moment for "throw the old guard out" insurgents.
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It's amazing how badly most congressional Democrats are misreading the mood of their base.
On the bright side, if you're ever considered running for Congress, the 2026 Democratic Party primaries are going to be a prime moment for "throw the old guard out" insurgents.
On the bright side, if you're ever considered running for Congress, the 2026 Democratic Party primaries are going to be a prime moment for "throw the old guard out" insurgents.
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This is a great morning to call all your elected officials and ask them to absolutely lose their shit
January 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is a great morning to call all your elected officials and ask them to absolutely lose their shit
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Does anyone have an example they can share of good leadership from their institutions with respect to the federal changes and their impact on higher education and science/research?
Cuz I’m mostly hearing crickets.
Cuz I’m mostly hearing crickets.
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Does anyone have an example they can share of good leadership from their institutions with respect to the federal changes and their impact on higher education and science/research?
Cuz I’m mostly hearing crickets.
Cuz I’m mostly hearing crickets.
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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Two things concerned scientists can do:
1. Call your members of Congress and explain how disruptions in funding would be disastrous for jobs and research in their district/state.
2a. Call your dept. chair and express your concern. The goal is to end the convo w/…
1. Call your members of Congress and explain how disruptions in funding would be disastrous for jobs and research in their district/state.
2a. Call your dept. chair and express your concern. The goal is to end the convo w/…
January 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Two things concerned scientists can do:
1. Call your members of Congress and explain how disruptions in funding would be disastrous for jobs and research in their district/state.
2a. Call your dept. chair and express your concern. The goal is to end the convo w/…
1. Call your members of Congress and explain how disruptions in funding would be disastrous for jobs and research in their district/state.
2a. Call your dept. chair and express your concern. The goal is to end the convo w/…
First skeet (did I use that right?) from my institution! I'm proud to lead a group that develops the next generation of fearless scientists!
We're always hiring...check out our website (morgridge.org) for info.
We're always hiring...check out our website (morgridge.org) for info.
January 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
First skeet (did I use that right?) from my institution! I'm proud to lead a group that develops the next generation of fearless scientists!
We're always hiring...check out our website (morgridge.org) for info.
We're always hiring...check out our website (morgridge.org) for info.
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Great quote here that I wish was in every story about publicly owned or operated spaces like parks, transportation services, and libraries. They're not supposed to make money! They're designed to serve the public.
January 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Great quote here that I wish was in every story about publicly owned or operated spaces like parks, transportation services, and libraries. They're not supposed to make money! They're designed to serve the public.
I went to one of these segregation academies for 6th-9th grade. Let me tell you that it took a long time to undo the damage and the insidious prejudice that the school installed. We shouldn’t be sending public money to private schools.
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across the Deep South: Alongside about 200 majority-Black public school districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social,
@natlash.bsky.social, @mrsimon22.bsky.social
propub.li/3BFytzN
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social,
@natlash.bsky.social, @mrsimon22.bsky.social
propub.li/3BFytzN
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with white students.
propub.li
December 20, 2024 at 1:52 AM
I went to one of these segregation academies for 6th-9th grade. Let me tell you that it took a long time to undo the damage and the insidious prejudice that the school installed. We shouldn’t be sending public money to private schools.
I and many in HigherEd have experience so much of this behavior. Mentors wield so much power over #postdoc and #gradstudent careers that calling out monstrous mentors is essential. Let's prepare not-monstrous mentors with tools to encourage the best behavior.
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors?
It’s time for a reckoning.
www.chronicle.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I and many in HigherEd have experience so much of this behavior. Mentors wield so much power over #postdoc and #gradstudent careers that calling out monstrous mentors is essential. Let's prepare not-monstrous mentors with tools to encourage the best behavior.
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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What if they just periodically had to sit in their office closets while someone simulated being a shooter in the corridor, like my grade school children do?
“New York state is considering creating a special hotline exclusively for CEOs to report perceived threats”
New Crisis Hotline for CEOs?
Governor of New York wants to protect CEOs
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
What if they just periodically had to sit in their office closets while someone simulated being a shooter in the corridor, like my grade school children do?
Today’s mass shooting in a school happened in my town, just a few miles from where my kid goes to school. People have asked me if we were afraid because it was “so close to home.” The answer is no, I’m afraid because “close to home” is EVERYWHERE now. No one is safe anymore. #ItsTheGuns #GunControl
December 17, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Today’s mass shooting in a school happened in my town, just a few miles from where my kid goes to school. People have asked me if we were afraid because it was “so close to home.” The answer is no, I’m afraid because “close to home” is EVERYWHERE now. No one is safe anymore. #ItsTheGuns #GunControl
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Thoughts and prayers without action means more school shootings, more dead kids.
More ACTION is needed by our elected officials.
And more BACKBONE to stand up to gun manufacturers.
This is uniquely a United States problem that doesn't have to happen.
More ACTION is needed by our elected officials.
And more BACKBONE to stand up to gun manufacturers.
This is uniquely a United States problem that doesn't have to happen.
December 16, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Thoughts and prayers without action means more school shootings, more dead kids.
More ACTION is needed by our elected officials.
And more BACKBONE to stand up to gun manufacturers.
This is uniquely a United States problem that doesn't have to happen.
More ACTION is needed by our elected officials.
And more BACKBONE to stand up to gun manufacturers.
This is uniquely a United States problem that doesn't have to happen.
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Vaccines and values: When you’re having a tough conversation about medicine, don’t just pile on evidence − listen to someone’s ‘moral foundations’
Vaccines and values: When you’re having a tough conversation about medicine, don’t just pile on evidence − listen to someone’s ‘moral foundations’
Being presented with facts doesn’t do much good if you don’t feel like your core values are respected. That’s especially true when it comes to health care decisions.
theconversation.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Vaccines and values: When you’re having a tough conversation about medicine, don’t just pile on evidence − listen to someone’s ‘moral foundations’
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Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
I wonder how many of the other crimes in New York get hundreds of detectives attached to them.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/n...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/n...
UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting: Detectives Scour Video Record of Suspect’s Movements
Cameras are everywhere in Manhattan and they helped lead investigators to a distinctive backpack in Central Park that could be a key piece of physical evidence.
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:43 PM
I wonder how many of the other crimes in New York get hundreds of detectives attached to them.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/n...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/n...
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The subtext of all these pieces—this one unironically mentions Thompson's multiple "homes" and takes care to note that insurers' "profits are capped by federal law," lest you think they're soulless money-grubbers—is that the system is working just fine, and you lowly ingrates are the problem.
Washington Post editorial board scolds people for celebrating murder of insurance exec, says "we’re skeptical that this particular moment lends itself to nuanced discussion of a complicated, and heavily regulated, industry," then proceeds to argue that we can't really have a better system.
Opinion | A sickness in the wake of a health insurance CEO’s slaying
There is no excuse for the killing of Brian Thompson or celebrating his death.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2024 at 10:39 PM
The subtext of all these pieces—this one unironically mentions Thompson's multiple "homes" and takes care to note that insurers' "profits are capped by federal law," lest you think they're soulless money-grubbers—is that the system is working just fine, and you lowly ingrates are the problem.
Received this via a diversity practitioner group. Two things stand out for me: First, visible AND invisible diversity both remain opportunities ("Truth 2"). Rather than replace them, we should augment race and sexual orientation as areas of inclusion ("Truth 3").
www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
Change Is Here: 5 Hard Truths & A Blueprint For Your DEI Plan In 2025
“Identity-based DEI” is facing a barrage of scrutiny, criticism and legal challenges. Here are 5 truths you need to address, and a roadmap for your DEI plan in 2025
www.forbes.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Received this via a diversity practitioner group. Two things stand out for me: First, visible AND invisible diversity both remain opportunities ("Truth 2"). Rather than replace them, we should augment race and sexual orientation as areas of inclusion ("Truth 3").
www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...