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Patrick (Patty) Monari

@patrickmonari.bsky.social
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Postdoc at UPenn exploring the neurobiology of play and cooperation in the Sanguinetti Lab! Fulbright NZ, UW-Madison, and Swarthmore alum. patrickmonari.com. They/he

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2025
5. The right-wing enthusiasm for AI science is not about doing better science faster. It’s about eliminating one of the most effective forms of societal resistance to authoritarian control.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"To retreat from [diversity, equity and inclusion] is to close the door to possibilities for better science and a better future. This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward." @anthrofuentes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion
Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through di...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The $50 billion that NIH spends every year does more for Americans than Jeff Bezos could hope to dream of. Bezos is a smart guy, in the right place at the right time who built a delivery business. NIH and NSF are THE engines of American discovery and innovation. GTFO
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
That is 54, 5-year NIH biomedical research grants. Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 22/05/2025
Trump's NSF funding down 51% from the 10-year average www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Heartbroken to hear that the @hhmi.org Hanna Grey fellowship competition is being cancelled this year. I poured so much work and creativity into this app and am very grateful for everyone who helped me revise. It is such a difficult time to be a young scientist.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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Catherine Marler @cmarler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context
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Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This was a great paper to work on! The effects of intranasal oxytocin are context dependent - when California mice are isolated, oxytocin *increases* wound inflammation in a dose-dependent manner. Exciting implications for how neuropeptides interact with the immune system!
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emmahammond.bsky.social @emmahammond.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Excited to share that I just published my first ever first-author paper in Psychoneuroendocrinology in the Marler Lab. We found that oxytocin may impair wound healing when animals are isolated. @cmarler.bsky.social @patrickmonari.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Oxytocin impairs wound-healing during social isolation but not social living
Social isolation hampers immune system function, and the biological mechanisms driving this effect remain understudied. We hypothesized that oxytocin …
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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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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 28/03/2025
Wisconsinites will not be bought. Our votes are not for sale.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/03/2025
ICYMI: We're back cataloging Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reporting from @msifry.bsky.social: Bernie Sanders, in the wake of his Fighting Oligarchy tour, is hiring full-time organizers in Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and several Western states. Among other things, they are working on Wisconsin's upcoming supreme court election and flipping swing House seats.
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Bernie’s ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Is Organizing, Too
Capitalizing on a surge of Democratic energy, the Sanders team is hiring full-time organizers and pushing supporters toward critical local issues.
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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A statement by SBN (again co-written by the DEI Comm with edits from the Exe Comm) on why using rodent models of trans health are important studies for the community and everyone else!
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is a super clear and helpful article explaining why the 15% indirect cost rate is unfair, hurts science, and does NOT increase $ for research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Is flat 15% fair?
An NIH funding policy is misguided and damaging
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The ad-hoc termination of training grants, PhD fellowships, and center grants at Columbia is catastrophic and sends a message. The WH will: * Seek revenge at all costs * Destroy science & higher ed, if it can * Risk lives, careers and the economy. Rest assured: they will not stop w/Columbia
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power. Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
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emmahammond.bsky.social @emmahammond.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It is more clear than ever that we need grassroots antiracist organizing. When the system is built to harm groups of people, you need to work outside of it. I am so proud to have published this work with my peers on building antiracist communities in academia! online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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A Guide to Building and Sustaining Antiracist Learning-Action Communities in Academia
Institutional racism in academia is longstanding and deeply embedded into policies and practices surrounding grading, hiring, mentorship, retention, and more. Academics who value racial equity can cha...
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Bence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8
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Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Antiracist change has always been needed (and fought for) in academia - right now is certainly no different. But it's also clear from the shift in conversations over the past month and a half that we're in a period of unique challenge, and necessity, for antiracist work. 1/n
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Regardless of style and tactics, everyone in the American scientific community must hold to the principles of independence, peer evaluation, and inclusion...We will not turn our backs on them now." @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org YES!!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
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Cancellation megathread
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"I don't know what NSF is going to be now, but it's not more efficient. It's just a mess." My story on today's firings and their impact. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
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National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce
NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Firings happening right now at the NSF.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/02/2025
The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone. “It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.
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America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI
Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?
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Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This has been one of the most important articles I've ever written. Grassroots collective action that operates *in parallel* to institutions is an important way to push for change. Here, we offer a recipe book for how we've been doing it over the past four+ years. In press osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2025
These are research grants awarded through evaluation of their merits by scientific peers, in which the investigators are carrying out important, ground-breaking work. They're being targeted because, as required by NSF guidelines, they include some investment in benefits for the broader community.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025
READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“‘Science can and should as a community organise itself to maximise its ability to act collectively, ethically and – when necessary – politically.’ The scientific community needs to speak up – not just for the sake of science, but of human decency, dignity and morality.”
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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Some additional #NSF thoughts. As always, these thoughts are mine alone. But here goes, It seems the damage this situation has already caused to the research enterprise in the US may be catastrophic (and irreparable?).
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Dr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com · 24/01/2025
For the PRFB people: I have contacted and heard back from a program officer that as of now, nothing appears to have changed in regards to this cycle that just submitted in the Fall, and the only known change he is aware of is a new track in this coming F25 cycle here: new.nsf.gov/funding/info...
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Announcing a New Track in the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Program: Biological Research, Understanding and Solutions for a Resilient Planet
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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
also want to develop this expertise? SERVE ON STUDY SECTION! Participating in this incredibly important service provides such insight into how this whole review process works and is so invaluable for ourselves and our colleagues
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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Nacho Sanguinetti @neuroetho.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🔥🔥🚨 Deadline coming up! But still in time to apply to a MindCore fellowship as a postdoc. I’m looking for an independent postdoc with experience in freely moving ephys to perform triple Neuropixel in the wild Agouti!! Get in touch! 🧪https://mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctoral-research-fellowship/
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | MindCORE
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Is there a formula for competitive grant applications? Araj et al. break down the core elements of successful proposals in their latest perspective article! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Elements of successful NIH grant applications | PNAS
Is there a formula for a competitive NIH grant application? The Serenity Prayer may provide one: "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cann...
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Dr. Kathleen M. Munley @thefishiedoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I have a lot of new followers here, so I’m reposting this ad! I’m recruiting 2-3 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my new lab at @ualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2025! The application deadline is December 1st. Reach out to me via email if interested! Pls share widely! 🐟🧠🧬🍂
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Nacho Sanguinetti @neuroetho.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h
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