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Wes Marner

@wesmarner.com
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Chemical Engineer who decided that public engagement and equity in science was his thing. Star Trek nerd. Opinions are my own. 🏳️‍🌈

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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 28/09/2026
Any system that requires survivors to make the bold step of public disclosure before institutions will take even meager action is obscene. Protection of perpetrators isn't new, and it needs to end. This thread talks about opportunity lost in using Title IX to make a difference.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
*claps hands together after posting* “Another full day of work completed. I’m pooped!”
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 27/02/2025
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.
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 25/02/2025
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...
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The Power of Science, The Gift of Time
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Morgridge Institute for Research @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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...
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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...
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 20/02/2025
"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...
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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...
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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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?
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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/02/2025
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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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...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is a great morning to call all your elected officials and ask them to absolutely lose their shit
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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.
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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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Chris Pickett @chrispickett5.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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/…
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 16/01/2025
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.
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Morgridge Institute for Research
Morgridge Institute scientists recognize that a fundamental understanding of human biology will drive the next big advances in human health.
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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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.
Quote: Rinks in many cities provide a valuable community service, Franzen-Elmer said, but rely on subsidies from local governments.

“We offer ice for community types of programs. Our high schools utilize these facilities for high school hockey,” Franzen-Elmer said. “It's important to the community to keep them going.”
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 20/12/2024
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.
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 17/12/2024
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...
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What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors?
It’s time for a reckoning.
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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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?
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 17/12/2024
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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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 16/12/2024
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.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 12/12/2024
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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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.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 07/12/2024
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...
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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.
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jw 🏫 @farwent.net · 07/12/2024
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.
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 06/12/2024
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...
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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
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 05/12/2024
And not just Texas…
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Razvan Borza @rborza.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
⚠️THREAD OF ALL SCIENCE-RELATED STARTER PACKS! ⚠️ 🔄Share to help people finding its topic/field - STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY Structural Biology 1: bsky.app/starter-pack... Structural Biology 2: bsky.app/starter-pack... Crystallography: bsky.app/starter-pack... Synchrotron&CryoEM: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 16/11/2024
Reviving my activity here. Who wants to talk about #STEM training, professional development, and community engagement?
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 30/01/2024
The academic ecosystem is going through a re-alignment. As we make changes to the current system, are we aligning new goals to what we want scientific training to be, or to what it has currently become? Commentary from @chronicle.com
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Scientific Research Needs a Radical Restructuring
An exploitative system has made STEM unappealing to would-be academics.
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 27/09/2023
As I tinker with making changes to my social media footprint, this article from The Chronicle of Higher Ed caught my eye. Systems change is hard, but the system needs to change.
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Opinion | Higher Ed’s Ruinous Resistance to Change
The academy excels at preserving the status quo. It’s time to evolve.
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 11/08/2023
Study shows that people of color fare worst in receiving postdoc offers. There are lots ways we can remove bias from our hiring practices. An infuriating quote from the summary: "He worries PIs might get “grumpy” if they encounter roadblocks that cause significant delays in the hiring process."
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Science | AAAS
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Wes Marner @wesmarner.com · 31/07/2023
If you're interested in making a difference for #postdocs at a world-class research university, then check out this position opening at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/career-developme…
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