Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 10hSometimes procrastination pays off 092
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026"The US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women’s health and status that has followed Dobbs," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social, "to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women’s death and indignity."theguardian.comWhy has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira DoneganThe US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories 12208119
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line. 1126971
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This feels like the modern neuroscience equivalent of "there's no way anyone wrote 10-page essays without chatgpt" 120
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Someone tell the AI biology labs that the best place to buy antibodies is from Santa Cruz. 0103
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂ǝʞɐlq ǝʌɐp @blakestah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Indeed, NIH submissions with biosketches signed before Saturday are bouncing with errors today. Just incompetence in administration at NIH. 142
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This headline had no photo associated with it so I assumed it was the one below it. 2317
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Good fucking God, don't give any of these things unpublished data. Its data security 101. 52710
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026shot www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comAlberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of ratProvince’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin 100
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Never bet against elite vanity. 2145
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.comkeepthe60days.comKeep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace periodDHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026. 02839
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If anyone has an “official” NIH link for the details, please share… 166
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comThe comedians turning AI anxiety into punchlines: ‘It’s so good, it’ll completely alter our grasp on reality’Across videos, standup and cartoons, humorists are skewering big tech’s attempt to make AI ubiquitous and inevitable 000
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 15311136
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the existence of the vicinome implies the "vidinome" and the "veninome" as well 041
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.comkeepthe60days.comKeep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace periodDHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026. 02839
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026People: Pretty soon generative AI will take over not only education but surgery, you won't even need humans for anything Claude: hold my beer 7312
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026well that's enough of the information superhighway for today 040
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“AI” IS impacting labor, but not in the ways you think. In some cases, people generating “workslop” are making their colleagues’ jobs more difficult. Snippet from my video Myths of AI and Productivity, in which we at dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0... 814041
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ontario peeps! www.eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-do...eventbrite.caPavlov's DogzThe Pilot Presents Pavlov's Dogz 174
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering: Multiplexed emotion representation in the amygdala" 092
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These aren’t the droids we’re looking for: Transient object recognition deficits following non-invasive Force manipulation of the inferior temporal lobes. 062
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026how many minutes into a failed teams meeting do I just give up and log off 120
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We just today got a talk about exactly how bad these tools are bsky.app/profile/hert... 163
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026good explanatory thread but I know in my heart there's going to be some airport self-help bestseller called THE SECOND BRAIN: WHY YOU'RE ONLY USING HALF OF YOUR POTENTIAL in the next two years 1825525
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social 213843
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This thread is superb 🧪 24414
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Another lab preprint from @matejaperovic.bsky.social - are estrogens neuroprotective? Here looking at older women 70* we found associations- using data from the NAcc - suggesting it depends on MHT formulation,cognitive domain tested & APOE genotype more when published www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...medrxiv.orgAssociations of menopause hormone therapy with late-life cognition and brain health vary by formulation and APOEε4 presenceImplications of menopause hormone therapy (MHT) for cognitive aging remain unclear despite decades of research. Potential reasons include insufficient consideration of MHT type, despite notable pharma... 043
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we currently know it. I've been thinking about this book for over 5 years, and am excited to finally write it. 2843156
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeovertheguardian.com‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeoverAs more PE firms invest in food establishments, people are bemoaning the ‘same-ification’ of NYC’s restaurant scene 68112
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hello everyone following after I was added to a "defend democracy" list. First, I don't know who did that or if you can trust the list. However I shall use my soapbox. My proposal for defending democracy is Defend trans rights as if they were your own rights 🏳️⚧️ Because they are 💫 16412
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Direct link to me. NBC kept the parts on Hinton & existing regulatory solutions, but cut discussion of the US exec branch of govt & tech resisting regulation like 2 year olds resist bed. My full quote: "We have not seen AI go rogue. We've seen people be sloppy with their software and make mistakes."youtube.comIran Government-Led Rally Sends Defiant Message to U.S.; How to Reset the AI Doomsday ClockYouTube video by NBC News 075
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Or as I told someone at NBC yesterday "it's not 'a rogue AI', it's sloppy software." I won't even use "an AI" to refer to a program (or robot,) these people are using the term to refer to a bunch of cloned threads. 13310
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I miss having a kill switch on all the "apple intelligence" "features" 120
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026probably can't put this on repeat in the office music.apple.com/us/album/hea...music.apple.comHeated Rivalry - The Unauthorized Musical Parody (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) by Dylan MarcAurele & The Original Off-Broadway Heated Rivalry Unauthorized Musical Parody Cast on Apple MusicAlbum · 2026 · 11 Songs 000
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026@mirya.bsky.social just introduced me to Gmail templates for saying no to academic things in her newsletter and my AuDHD self is LOVING it. miryaholman.substack.com/p/systems-fo...miryaholman.substack.comSystems for saying not and yesHello darlings! 1245
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2026‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on sciencetheguardian.com‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on scienceParticipants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses 9200117
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Turkeys are innovating on duck duck goose 151
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂flatscan comics @flatscan-comics.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Happy Pride: Trans Allies #comicsky #webcomic #comics #trans #pride #pridemonth #transformers 19031
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪 1621760
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comFeeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it allIt’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re headed 000
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comNew lawsuit accuses Trump administration of blocking NIH grants as form of censorshipThe administration has used a list of 235 keywords – such as ‘gender’ and ‘racist’ – to prevent topics from being funded 010
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We’re all looking for the guy that could have prevented this…. 0234
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"It stated Ms Green micro-dosed mushrooms and that could be the reason for prior bleeding around the kidneys." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auDoctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugsArtificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly. 43525
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How do keep a narrative active in our mind despite interruptions? The default mode network can maintain a representation of an interrupted story over a delay, even when the delay is filled with a demanding task. This representation is strikingly transformed from the initial experience!biorxiv.orgCortical and Hippocampal Pathways to Mental ContinuityHow do people preserve mental continuity when tasks are interrupted? One established pathway runs through the hippocampus, which stores snapshots of our mental context for later reinstatement. We prop... 17824
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comResearchers warn social media driving harmful misuse of Alzheimer’s blood testsExclusive: Alzheimer’s blood tests should not be used on their own and risk leading people to believe they are inevitably going to develop dementia 120
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Love it when a (now former) collaborator insists on adding lab personnel to a proposal budget "to recoup costs" incurred generating preliminary data, which is not how grants work. 121
Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Christeene is the best there is. Here is a clip of her doing Tori Amos’s Sugar with Joanie Drago (show coming at the Parkside) and James on vocals and guitars and five other people out of shot. 182