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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂

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Neuroscientist (PhD) interested in brain mechanisms of learning and memory. NHP anesthesiologist. Associate stats gay. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights. No LGB without the T. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · Mar 2

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 2h

much love to you and your family, Celeste. May her memory be a blessing.

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 5h

The willingness of a University to capitulate to partisan criticism is sad and self-defeating. Universities like Texas A&M wlll suffer from situations like this...

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 4h

I'd forgotten the utter futility of trying to access a journal article in an APA publication online. Dorothy Bishop says it's better to bury your article in the garden than publish it as a book chapter, and I'd add publishing in APA journals to that assessment.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 19h

A challenge with NHPs.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 21h

[PCR enters the chat]

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 22h

assuming these fools don't get us all killed I'm going to have decades of examples if I ever teach statistics again.

Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 22h

BRING ME MORE ORGANOIDS www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted boys who are circumcised have higher rates of autism, which he said could be a result of Tylenol.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

woooo congratulations Kurt!!! Well-deserved!!!

kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

ALT: kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

this absolute nonsense is what causes me to laugh and promptly delete any emails appealing for alumni donations

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

Deep dive by WRAL into the chaos of UNC's football program and our $30 million coach 1/n
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Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 1d

Supplemental material right now:

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david alexander @davidalexander.bsky.social · 2d

im so fucking tired www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-...

Spotify Teams Up With ChatGPT to Personalize Music and Podcast Recommendations

Spotify has partnered with ChatGPT to provide users with music and podcast recommendations.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

I would argue this 1976 paper from Yadin Dudai - in Drosophila - ushered in the modern era of neurobiology of memory. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

dunce, a mutant of Drosophila deficient in learning. | PNAS

Normal Drosophilia learn to avoid an odorant associated with electric shock. An X-linked mutant, dunce, has been isolated that fails to display thi...

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

they also don't have to be for fruit fly neurobiology to be interesting and worthy of study, so desperately trying to make flies = people is unnecessary and annoying.

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La Libre @lalibre.be · 1d

”Je ne suis pas encore morte” : Dolly Parton rassure ses fans après l'annulation de ses concerts

Dolly Parton, 79 ans, rassure sur son état de santé après les révélations de sa sœur Freida. ... %

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

good, we can move on from this acetaminophen in pregnancy nonsense now

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d

Prenatal Acetaminophen Exposure Does Not Disrupt Human Fetal Brain Development in Cortical Organoid Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.681041v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d

Prenatal Acetaminophen Exposure Does Not Disrupt Human Fetal Brain Development in Cortical Organoid Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.681041v1

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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 2d

@sfn.org please consider hosting your next meeting outside of the 🇺🇸

Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 2d

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The 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for.

Search, explore, and start planning your experience today.

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Dr. Fimkenstein’s Monster @fim.bsky.social · 2d

I quote this on an almost weekly basis at work and get zero looks of recognition from those around me. Definition of hostile work environment.

E = mily² @emily.news · 2d

just took damage on realizing that the generation of people who will not understand this joke from Star Trek IV are already alive

three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says " hello computer "

Alt: three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says "hello computer" (it's that scene from Star Trek IV where Scotty does this. it's funny because he's an engineer and he doesn't know how to use a computer because you're not supposed to talk to computers but he doesn't know that.)

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 2d

🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...