Teresa Monkkonen

Today is a great day to #VOTE if you haven't and you're in the US!

Mom academic life today:
Me: Hey, let's draft my paper discussion
Daycare: calls pretty much immediately for pickup of my daughter.
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Powerful

I hope this is an incredible boost to family wellness and their economy and I hope other states take note!

IACUC protocol year 3 review due in 5 days OMG.

This is 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski, killed in the horrific violence at the Annunciation Catholic Church. We must honor their memories and hold their families close as we come together to heal.

a man wearing a black sweater and a white shirt is making a face . ALT: a man wearing a black sweater and a white shirt is making a face .

We gonna have to move?!?!

the light out on College was a real mess.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

1/56 Californians is COVID positive right now! Part of the reason I feel compelled to share this is because a lot of the infrastructure on communicating this to the public has been disrupted. :( www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

Important- if you had an illegally terminated grant that was reinstated, you might not be safe. Staff are being told that grants *may* be canceled after October 1st, 2025 if not "in line with agency priorities". POs are being muzzled and can't tell grantees directly.

#NIH #NIH_funding

RIP Jim Lovell. While I wake up and think about biology every day, I think space is amazing and Apollo 13 is an incredible story and mission.

This is a key point--terminations have hit every corner of the country.

See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us

Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.

Join us at a Teach In for Science event in San Diego next week, to talk about why funding cuts to biomedical research affect every person living in America. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/this-affec... 🧪

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

Universities hold patents on 50% of FDA approved drugs, and research done at universities contributed to 90% of current medications. Think about what we stand to lose if federal funding is cut by 50% 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

agreed!!!

I submitted a grant today. That's it, that's my small win for today.

Happy Earth Day!

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.

Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…

Ugh

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Promotional poster by Indivisible urging members of Congress and Senators to reject H.R. 22, titled 'Silencing Americans Act.' Features an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone, with bold text and directional arrows.

TOMORROW: The House is expected to vote on the GOP's voter suppression bill. To protect fair elections in 2026, we must stop H.R. 22 (we're calling it the "Silencing Americans Act"). Contact your representative ASAP and urge them to vote NO: act.indivisible.org/...

President Trump’s Tariffs Will Help America Win the War Against Birds President Trump has announced a sweeping plan of tariffs against dozens of nations, including the Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands, which are u...

"Trump’s tariffs against the penguins will revitalize the American economy."

I'm over 40 now and I went running in the wrong shoes. 😐

If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.

Hakeem Jeffries threatens lawsuit over delayed Texas special election One month after Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner's death, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call a special election to fill his seat.

It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027.

Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.

Hey I'm sorry to hear it.