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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Completely moved to hear the emotion in your voice, @profgalloway.com, regarding alleged abuse of Belgian Malinois and prisoners. The notion that anyone could abuse the bond of a Malinois to perpetuate heinous acts is disgusting. They will die for you. Mine is one of the best things to happen to me

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Dating myself, but I'm always excited to hear a streaming recording of a show where I was present. My voice from the past is coming back to me

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

They once told you to never read the comments, but one of the best parts of social media nowadays is reading the comments on official government posts

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Which Renaissance painting is this

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

So glad I've spent the last couple of days in the woods immersed in science and teamwork with @virusesimmunity.bsky.social, @yalecii.bsky.social, and colleagues, unplugged from media for the most part

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I made a chartreuse swizzle to start

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A farewell to the summer with a suggestion from @anderseriksson.bsky.social : it's not Mountain Dew; it's a chartreuse swizzle (Chartreuse, pineapple juice, lime juice and falernum), which is orders of magnitude more expensive (glass from Cognitive Surplus)

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I made a post earlier about Fluorescence Friday, but some people say it's Fascist Friday because of the ouster of UVA president... to which I say I'm still going to do science for the public interest for as long as I can

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

People consider the pineal gland to be a Third Eye. Maybe they should have focused on the Subfornical Organ instead - also in the middle of the brain, but with a newly acknowledged pathway for T cell traffic between the gut and the brain that affects behavior #FluorescenceFriday

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

For this #fluorescencefriday I've got my go-to image of small pain sensing nerve fibers and collagen in the toe, now selected as one of many examples of the "Beauty of Science" for the current exhibit at @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A Bouvaldier, because it's been that kind of week

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Today's activity: not exactly Maiden or Master of Puppets

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

COVID funding is being terminated

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Mouse midline cerebral cortex, including the anterior cingulate area, motor cortex, and somatosensory cortex. Nuclei in blue and myelin tracts in green. Magenta staining for the c-Fos immediate-early gene as a proxy for sustained neuronal activity. #FluorescenceFriday

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Meanwhile writing a grant that includes "disabled" or "accessible" is a red flag as far as the WH is concerned

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Pardon my language, but What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What DEI policies have been banned? None here. And here's just one of multiple lawsuits regarding interference with NIH funding

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

They shouldn't be forgiven, however

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The "intervention" is perhaps a tactic in which "rock bottom" is accelerated toward an addict to shock them into changing their perspective. It's possible that Americans do not appreciate the benefits of particular institutions until they are removed

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Simple messages are needed but tough. One I try is that university "overhead" pays construction, plumbers, electricians, utilities, accountants, thousands of jobs

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

LOL DALL-E image generator is quick but imperfect

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

New NIH throws us under the bus and shows the real agenda: ending universities. Note inclusion of Harvard and Yale, but non-university research institutes, University of Texas, and other red state institutions are omitted. Republicans will find out too late that they too benefit from overhead

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If your data aren't smooth you'll take the wrong exit

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

RNA FISH of the periventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in mouse brain, including cells expressing Crh (green) - these are upstream regulators of cortisol release from adrenal glands and co express a receptor for cortisol (Nr3c1; magenta) and Tubb3 (yellow) #fluorescenceFriday

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm a fan of the art and that's a very optimistic perspective. The philosophy of kintsugi includes the notion that things which were broken can become even more beautiful rather than being discarded. That which doesn't kill can make you stronger. Let's hope so

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Current status Just be grateful for the minutia you can do

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Yes this is true "it has always been easier to destroy than it is too create". Like a little boy pulling leaves off plants. Or a Malinois with a toy

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

One of the biggest headaches has been that the media tended to subvert some of the messages. But a lot of science messaging is boring to people, and people also don't understand that sometimes your hypotheses are wrong

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Rapid Unscheduled Dissassembly is the name of my new band Image by Amy Brown

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The sensors transmitting information that we interpret as pain are throughout our body and reach into the outermost layers of the skin (visualized here in magenta in a transgenic mouse's toe under a two-photon microscope). Pain is a major symptom of long COVID and other chronic syndromes

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

neurons outside the brain are also beautiful

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The demon that waits at the top of my stairs

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

When your FISH probes didn't arrive by end of day today

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Happy Friday the 13th, just like usual. Most 13ths are on Fridays. This Python 3.x code snippet and ouput demonstrate it

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Almost never use a box plot alone. It's not hard to overlay the actual data points. If there are a lot, throw in a violin plot. Or even try all three approaches

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If I'm not thinking about science or music I am thinking about my dog

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Current ChatGPT version refuses to draw pathogens, so the artist that I hired to generate this image for my wife still beats it. ChatGPT has no problem drawing a syringe, however. (I'm working on a completely different image that also has a virus in it)

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Checkmated by openAI. Can I say "don't you know who I am?" 😁

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Christopher A. Baker @bakermind.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've posted a version of this #FluorescenceFriday before, but now it also represents preliminary data suggesting links between COVID-19, autoimmunity, and small fiber neuropathy. preprint out #CovidIsntOver #LongCovid

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