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Teresa Monkkonen

@drtmonkkonen.bsky.social
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Early stage investigator #ESI at San Diego State University @SDSU. Tweets and opinions are my own. I lead a lab studying the breast tumor microenvironment. teresamonkkonen.weebly.com I am a mom and an outdoors enthusiast.

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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hello! If you have any new autophagy data or publications please consider submitting an abstract for the Women in Autophagy virtual symposium for this fall! www.womeninautophagy.com
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Home | Women In Autophagy
Women in Autophagy (WIA) is an international network dedicated to promote the careers of trainees and young scientists interested in autophagy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2026
DOGGETT: Doesn't your budget propose another 12% cut for NIH? VOUGHT: Most of what you said is untrue. NIH was not cut at all-- D: My Q is don't you propose another 12% cut? VOUGHT: We propose a cut D: Is it your feeling that we just can't afford to invest more in doing something about cancer?
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I'm trying to get back into running. It is really hard at this stage of life and living in CA with a heat wave! I am still proud of my 3.6 miles this morning.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Congrats to Brayden Chin on being the first MS student from our lab to defend! We are proud of you and you are a great scientist!
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Preprint Alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Title: Endothelial Cell Autophagy Suppresses Metastasis In Mouse Mammary and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Models
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I did this too while making some walks across campus!
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thanks @drsalinaslab.bsky.social for a great talk at SDSU yesterday!! I definitely learned a lot.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Today is a great day to #VOTE if you haven't and you're in the US!
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Powerful
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I hope this is an incredible boost to family wellness and their economy and I hope other states take note!
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
IACUC protocol year 3 review due in 5 days OMG.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 29/08/2025
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.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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...
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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.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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.
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Republicans R Evil 👿 @republicansrevil.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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... 🧪
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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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...
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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.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I submitted a grant today. That's it, that's my small win for today.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy Earth Day!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/04/2025
So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…
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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/04/2025
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/...
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.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/04/2025
"Trump’s tariffs against the penguins will revitalize the American economy."
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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...
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I'm over 40 now and I went running in the wrong shoes. 😐
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Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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.
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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.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/04/2025
A picture is worth a thousand words. The administration says they're cutting a trillion in government spending. So far, 2025 spending is $1.89 trillion. It was $1.76 trillion at the same time last year. Spending is on pace to increase by 7.4% from last year. www.marketwatch.com/story/despit...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
a word cloud of the titles of canceled NIH grants with gender and minority being that largest words
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22/03/2025
Unfortunately, there was another round of FUNDED grants cancelled yesterday. These illegal cuts stop projects that have been in progress for years, interrupt lifesaving research, and destroy the public good of science in the US. If you were impacted, please share you story with us: fedfreeze.org
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FedFreeze.org
Fight Trump's funding freeze to protect lifesaving care and research.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 19/03/2025
By attacking science: We are less safe because science informs national security and medical care. We are less prosperous because science drives innovation and economic benefit. We are less free because science and democracy depend on the liberty to ask questions, and seek and share knowledge.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
The American Medical Association has a youtube page; they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other outbreaks since the CDC isn't allowed to.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Besides science I also like running. Today was my first 5k since the arrival of these ladies! I'm proud of my splits.
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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.kuow.org/stories/how-... #medsky #researchsky #Blackmedsky
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How far could Trump’s NIH funding cuts set medical innovation back? By decades, UW researchers warn
The Trump administration has cut NIH funding levels and paused new and existing grants from the agency, which totalled $35 billion in 2023. That’s left critical studies of various illnesses and drugs ...
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Wondering if your PO, SRO, or other NIH official is still at NIH? Tara pointed out this useful search tool. Unfortunately my MIRA PO, who just took over this portfolio in December, is no longer listed. 💔
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We made snail Rail mail!
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Teresa Monkkonen @drtmonkkonen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hello I'm in need of a good fiction book. Please help!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today is the day!! Absolutely in awe about what a bunch of grad students were able to pull off when they looked around and realized no one else was standing up.
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AltAirForce @altairforce.altgov.info · 07/03/2025
IT’S WORKING!!!! KEEP SHOWING UP, MAKING YOUR VOICES HEARD!!!
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.
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