Patrick Monari, PhD
@PatrickKMonari
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Postdoc at UPenn exploring the neurobiology of play and cooperation in the Sanguinetti Lab! https://t.co/LTKmrHj2jO. They/he
Madison, WI
Joined February 2019
i take every chance i get to remind everyone that the people running this country are not only evil but, perhaps even more importantly, incredibly fucking stupid
Transgender swimming champion Lia Thomas will have her records and titles stripped after UPenn was pressured by the Trump administration. The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor.
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Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.
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1/ RFK Jr. just fired the entire U.S. vaccine committee. He says they were corrupt. But here’s what he didn’t tell you… 🧾💰 #RFKJr #VaccineCommittee #PublicHealth
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Happy to share our recent publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, with @rosvall_lab, @reject_resubmit, and many more!
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There is a new platform, Sci-Net ( https://t.co/SPy41cSJP5) where researchers can help each other by providing paywalled papers. The platform builds upon Sci-Hub meme token $scihub to reward active members.
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Again the police exist to protect wealth and property, not people
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Proud to have contributed to @JiaxuanQi's masterpiece out @Nature! She shows dopamine transients track the quality of song during juvenile song learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism!
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Nature - Dopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during...
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The primary reason universities aren't fighting for their research enterprises is that they are feckless cowards. But the OTHER reason is that research, like education, is a money-losing front for their real business: building expansive real estate empires.
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I'm no mathematician, but I do know this: 99% is a hell of a lot bigger than 1%. Together, the American people can defeat Trump's advances toward authoritarianism and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the billionaire class.
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this is actually fucking jaw-dropping. while trump cuts programs you need to live, he’s turning the white house into a car dealership to advertise his unelected shadow president’s failing company. dystopian levels of corruption
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lotta “I stand up for science when someone comes for my grants, but won’t stand up for my students and colleagues when my university scapegoats them and tries to quash their right to political speech and their academic freedom” going around
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New paper and new preprint from the lab! Jess Minder's paper on gestational timing delays and embryonic diapause is now out in @ScienceAdvances: https://t.co/XpA0YtbCrX Luisa Schuster's work on 24/7 behavior monitoring of family life & 'mouse midwives': https://t.co/8a9EgqYaQI
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Oxytocin induces diapause, a temporary developmental delay, in pre-implantation mouse embryos to help ensure their survival.
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We’re told that rural America doesn’t like progressive ideas. Not what I saw today at our great rally in Altoona, WI — population 9,200. People here, and across the country, understand that health care is a human right, and our economy must work for all, not just the few.
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Great rally in Kenosha. 4,000 people came out to say: NO tax breaks for billionaires. NO cuts to Medicaid. NO oligarchy. NO authoritarianism. NO MORE billionaires buying elections.
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We wrote a recipe book for academics who want to build small antiracist communities. While we don't have all the answers, we think this is incredibly important for the current moment.
New! 🚨 A Guide to Building and Sustaining Antiracist Learning-Action Communities in Academia, from @PatrickKMonari et al.
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A letter that my colleagues and I wrote regarding the installation of a U.S. military base in the Galápagos Islands has been published in @ScienceMagazine. This decision is unconstitutional, as it violates multiple articles of the Ecuadorian Constitution, which recognizes nature
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A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham
https://t.co/X77uE19e0J
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NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
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2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK. The way they speak about “DEI hires” is how they view Black people in the workplace.
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