Patrick (Patty) Monari
@patrickmonari.bsky.social
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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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.
July 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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"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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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...
www.science.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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
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
“You can still be rich even if you’re not a billionaire!” Sure—and if you strip billions from someone like Jeff Bezos, he’ll invest less in building things that actually improve people’s lives. Amazon has done more for the average person than the government could dream of.
June 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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
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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That is 54, 5-year NIH biomedical research grants.
Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.
Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.
Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles amid mass deportation protests will likely cost $134 million, the Pentagon’s acting budget chief said.
Troops deployed to LA will cost $134M, Pentagon official says
The acting budget chief said the estimate covers costs such as travel, housing and food.
www.politico.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
That is 54, 5-year NIH biomedical research grants.
Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.
Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.
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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.
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
www.whitehouse.gov
May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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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Trump's NSF funding down 51% from the 10-year average www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Trump's NSF funding down 51% from the 10-year average www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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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.
May 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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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.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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 ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
“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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Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context
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
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@cmarler.bsky.social
@patrickmonari.bsky.social
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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 …
www.sciencedirect.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context
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!
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...
@cmarler.bsky.social
@patrickmonari.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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 …
www.sciencedirect.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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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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...
@cmarler.bsky.social
@patrickmonari.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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 …
www.sciencedirect.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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...
@cmarler.bsky.social
@patrickmonari.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Wisconsinites will not be bought.
Our votes are not for sale.
Our votes are not for sale.
March 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Wisconsinites will not be bought.
Our votes are not for sale.
Our votes are not for sale.
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ICYMI: We're back cataloging Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.
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...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
ICYMI: We're back cataloging Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.
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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.
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.
prospect.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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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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!
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.
sbn.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is flat 15% fair?
An NIH funding policy is misguided and damaging
www.science.org
March 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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
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
March 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
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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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
Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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
Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
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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...
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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...
online.ucpress.edu
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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...
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8
March 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8
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
March 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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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NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb!
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
March 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb!
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️