Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/20255. 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. 9516168
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariNeedhi 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/...science.orgThis is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusionRecently, 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... 14424
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The $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 926350
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2025That is 54, 5-year NIH biomedical research grants. Or 270 years worth of biomedical research. 310753
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025tl;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.whitehouse.govRestoring Gold Standard ScienceBy 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 10024491048
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 22/05/2025Trump's NSF funding down 51% from the 10-year average www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1104
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariAudrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Heartbroken 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. 712228
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Can 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.latimes.comJapanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEHThe 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 ... 278285237269
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariCatherine Marler @cmarler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context 1114
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This 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! 061
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) Monariemmahammond.bsky.social @emmahammond.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Excited 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...sciencedirect.comOxytocin impairs wound-healing during social isolation but not social livingSocial isolation hampers immune system function, and the biological mechanisms driving this effect remain understudied. We hypothesized that oxytocin … 1409
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Working 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 🧵 19664613511
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariGovernor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 28/03/2025Wisconsinites will not be bought. Our votes are not for sale. 34668981501
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/03/2025ICYMI: We're back cataloging Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.mcsweeneys.netLest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and CrimesEarly in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We... 322968
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Reporting 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.prospect.orgBernie’s ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Is Organizing, TooCapitalizing on a surge of Democratic energy, the Sanders team is hiring full-time organizers and pushing supporters toward critical local issues. 834976
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariDrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 21/03/2025A 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!sbn.org 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. 24119
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariPolly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 14/03/2025This 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/...science.orgIs flat 15% fair?An NIH funding policy is misguided and damaging 02912
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The 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 23935227
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Musk 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 18372413304
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) Monariemmahammond.bsky.social @emmahammond.bsky.social · 05/03/2025It 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...online.ucpress.eduA Guide to Building and Sustaining Antiracist Learning-Action Communities in AcademiaInstitutional 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... 1187
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariBence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8 720862
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Huge shout out to @emmahammond.bsky.social @bendouglas.bsky.social and bsky-less Michelle Marji, Duncan Cleveland, and Candice Malone, as well as the rest of ALAN 020
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025You can read the whole thing here: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... end/nonline.ucpress.eduA Guide to Building and Sustaining Antiracist Learning-Action Communities in AcademiaInstitutional 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... 100
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025So, I helped publish a thing. It's a recipe book that we (alaneuro.weebly.com) made over the past five years. It's about doing advocacy work in academia that is rooted in grassroots organizing. We think it's important. We hope you do too. 5/n 110
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The current situation is a reminder that we cannot rely solely on DEI initiatives that are funded and sanctioned by academic institutions. We need to build our own communities that push for intersectional antiracist change, beyond what institutions tell us we can and can't do. 4/n 110
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The fear among us is palpable too, and also understandable - why stick your neck out to do advocacy work when it could end poorly for you personally? Even those that recognize its importance are changing the language they use and how they communicate among themselves and with their institutions. 3/n 100
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Funding for DEI initiatives is under extreme threat. Not only that, but countless examples of anticipatory compliance (both universities and public/private funding bodies) signal that, when the chips are down, institutions would rather align with dominant systems of power than exercise courage. 2/n 100
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Antiracist 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 153
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariLeslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️ 8592149
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) Monarianthrofuentes.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/...science.orgCome together, right nowThe 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... 05615
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariMadison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025LGBTQ 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...motherjones.comLGBTQ 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?'" 311847851
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariStand 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...reddit.comCancellation megathread 14294239
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariJonathan 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...npr.orgNational Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforceNSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research. 5293158
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariLeslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Firings happening right now at the NSF. 43610406
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariMother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/02/2025The 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.motherjones.comAmerica will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEIColleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what? 451214522
Patrick (Patty) Monari @patrickmonari.bsky.social · 13/02/2025This 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...osf.ioOSF 032
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2025These 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. 17897208
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. 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...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH 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 25469984077
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025READ 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...theguardian.comTrump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith ButlerThose who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage 9593233
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariNeedhi 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.” 03919
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariMatt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Some 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?). 33622
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025I 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.washingtonpost.comWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments. 15754323914329
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariDr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com · 24/01/2025For 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...new.nsf.govAnnouncing a New Track in the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Program: Biological Research, Understanding and Solutions for a Resilient Planet 061
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariMatt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Looks 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...new.nsf.govBuilding Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO) 27118132
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariColin 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 17541226
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025also 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 0307
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariTim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024OK 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) 14635205
Reposted by Patrick (Patty) MonariJohanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Women 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/ 361192596