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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂

@markgbaxter.bsky.social
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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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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 10h
Sometimes procrastination pays off
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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."
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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This feels like the modern neuroscience equivalent of "there's no way anyone wrote 10-page essays without chatgpt"
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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Someone tell the AI biology labs that the best place to buy antibodies is from Santa Cruz.
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ǝʞɐlq ǝʌɐp @blakestah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indeed, NIH submissions with biosketches signed before Saturday are bouncing with errors today. Just incompetence in administration at NIH.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This headline had no photo associated with it so I assumed it was the one below it.
A screenshot from the WaPo highlight email with the headline “She was arrested and faces charges for months, but her twin was the suspect, suit says” The photo is of a golden retriever and a small pig standing on the side of the road.
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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good fucking God, don't give any of these things unpublished data. Its data security 101.
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
shot www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Never bet against elite vanity.
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If 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.com
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Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period
DHS 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.
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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If anyone has an “official” NIH link for the details, please share…
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The 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
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This 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 🧪
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the existence of the vicinome implies the "vidinome" and the "veninome" as well
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If 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.com
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Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period
DHS 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.
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People: Pretty soon generative AI will take over not only education but surgery, you won't even need humans for anything Claude: hold my beer
A poorly drawn brain with a rectangle labeled "superior temporal gyrus"
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
well that's enough of the information superhighway for today
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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...
There are three stacked screenshots from a video of Alex, a brown trans woman, sitting on a pink chair and speaking into the camera while holding a small microphone. She has short black curly hair and is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and light tan pants. Behind her is a cat-shaped pillow with an image of a tuxedo cat on it, and behind her chair are rows of books on a light blue wall. Underneath are captions from the video that say: “But generative AI can also reduce wages in other ways, namely by punishing workers who use the tools and pass on ‘workslop’ to their colleagues.”, “...researchers report that receiving generative AI text or images from colleagues results in lower perceptions of the competence of their colleagues.” and “Getting slop from your colleague makes you think worse of them. And if those workers are women or older, or people of color, then it confirms their co-workers’ biases against them.”
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ontario peeps! www.eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-do...
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Pavlov's Dogz
The Pilot Presents Pavlov's Dogz
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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"
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These aren’t the droids we’re looking for: Transient object recognition deficits following non-invasive Force manipulation of the inferior temporal lobes.
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
how many minutes into a failed teams meeting do I just give up and log off
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We just today got a talk about exactly how bad these tools are bsky.app/profile/hert...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
good 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
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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
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This thread is superb 🧪
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another 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...
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Associations of menopause hormone therapy with late-life cognition and brain health vary by formulation and APOEε4 presence
Implications 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...
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excited 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.
Screenshot of a deal report from Publishers Marketplace that reads: “Coauthor of AI CON and cohost of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast Alex Hanna’s NET WORKS: IMAGENET AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN AI DATASET, on the labor behind ImageNet’s cache of 14 million photos from the early aughts that became the backbone of AI datasets, to Rachel Moore at MIT Press (world).
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeover
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‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeover
As more PE firms invest in food establishments, people are bemoaning the ‘same-ification’ of NYC’s restaurant scene
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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello 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 💫
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Direct 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."
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Iran Government-Led Rally Sends Defiant Message to U.S.; How to Reset the AI Doomsday Clock
YouTube video by NBC News
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Or 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.
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I miss having a kill switch on all the "apple intelligence" "features"
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
probably can't put this on repeat in the office music.apple.com/us/album/hea...
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Heated 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 Music
Album · 2026 · 11 Songs
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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...
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Systems for saying not and yes
Hello darlings!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2026
‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
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‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Turkeys are innovating on duck duck goose
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flatscan comics @flatscan-comics.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Pride: Trans Allies #comicsky #webcomic #comics #trans #pride #pridemonth #transformers
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You 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 🧪
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all
It’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
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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New lawsuit accuses Trump administration of blocking NIH grants as form of censorship
The administration has used a list of 235 keywords – such as ‘gender’ and ‘racist’ – to prevent topics from being funded
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re all looking for the guy that could have prevented this….
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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...
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Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs
Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How 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!
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Cortical and Hippocampal Pathways to Mental Continuity
How 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...
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Researchers warn social media driving harmful misuse of Alzheimer’s blood tests
Exclusive: Alzheimer’s blood tests should not be used on their own and risk leading people to believe they are inevitably going to develop dementia
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love 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.
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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Christeene 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.
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