Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂
@markgbaxter.bsky.social
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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February 12, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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Do I know any Kenyon alumni on here?
February 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Do I know any Kenyon alumni on here?
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Someone get ProfBooty over here. There’s a non-coding RNA paper that needs addressing.
February 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Someone get ProfBooty over here. There’s a non-coding RNA paper that needs addressing.
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
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Happy to share the newest study from our lab, led by superstar postdoc Dr. Rodrigo Campos Cardoso, where we resolve the infralimbic cortex GABAergic circuits of fear extinction: tinyurl.com/38vvr2my
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Happy to share the newest study from our lab, led by superstar postdoc Dr. Rodrigo Campos Cardoso, where we resolve the infralimbic cortex GABAergic circuits of fear extinction: tinyurl.com/38vvr2my
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“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality”
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Oregon Health & Science University board of directors has voted to begin negotiations with the NIH about potentially transitioning the university’s primate research center to a sanctuary for the animals.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4a6mycK
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4a6mycK
Oregon primate center to negotiate transition to sanctuary
The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the primate center, voted unanimously for the move.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality”
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
Optogenetics so powerful it can relocate the primary visual cortex! www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
A mesoscale optogenetics system for precise and robust stimulation of the primate cortex
Li et al. present a microLED-based mesoscale optogenetic system for centimeter-scale,
million-pixel primate cortical stimulation. Optogenetically evoked saccades with accurate
retinotopic organization...
www.cell.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Optogenetics so powerful it can relocate the primary visual cortex! www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one.
So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵
So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one.
So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵
So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵
Just narrowly avoided signing off an email with "Thank you for your hell" but I should have just left it
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Just narrowly avoided signing off an email with "Thank you for your hell" but I should have just left it
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Reposted by Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂
It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.
February 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.
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Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
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God I love dplyr.
February 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
God I love dplyr.
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How does neuronal gene expression evolve over time in response to experience? CytoTape will help us find out - a major milestone for neuroscience, providing new ways to study memory & aging 🧠
Congrats to the whole team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration on this work 🎉
Congrats to the whole team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration on this work 🎉
Our CytoTape work is published today in Nature @nature.com! CytoTape is a genetically encoded, flexible, intracellular protein tape recorder for spatiotemporally scalable and multiplexed recording of cellular activities continuously across weeks in vitro and in vivo. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
How does neuronal gene expression evolve over time in response to experience? CytoTape will help us find out - a major milestone for neuroscience, providing new ways to study memory & aging 🧠
Congrats to the whole team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration on this work 🎉
Congrats to the whole team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration on this work 🎉
I hear imagination in nonhuman animals is making news today! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Event representation in Pavlovian conditioning: Image and action
In a typical Pavlovian conditioning experiment, a relatively insignificant event, the conditioned stimulus (CS), is paired with a biologically more me…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I hear imagination in nonhuman animals is making news today! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PREP-aring is worth it: Success of the Case Western Reserve University Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program and its Scholars
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
PREP-aring is worth it: Success of the Case Western Reserve University Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program and its Scholars
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The #AI company blames the store, and they're right – the store should NEVER have hired the AI company.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #facerec #AIEthics #AIBias via @fipr-policy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #facerec #AIEthics #AIBias via @fipr-policy.bsky.social
‘Orwellian’: Sainsbury’s staff using facial recognition tech eject innocent shopper
Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am not a criminal’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The #AI company blames the store, and they're right – the store should NEVER have hired the AI company.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #facerec #AIEthics #AIBias via @fipr-policy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #facerec #AIEthics #AIBias via @fipr-policy.bsky.social
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Besieged by ICE and need whistles? See below.
Want to help communities besieged by ICE get whistles? See below.
Want to help communities besieged by ICE get whistles? See below.
Some wildly generous person just spent a bunch of their credit card points and bought us a huge gift card to Polymaker so we can buy filament!
I did not know that was a thing you can do (I'm afraid of cards b/c ADHD trauma) but HOLY SHIT?? BRILLIANT???
More gift card links are now added here!
I did not know that was a thing you can do (I'm afraid of cards b/c ADHD trauma) but HOLY SHIT?? BRILLIANT???
More gift card links are now added here!
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We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!
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February 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Besieged by ICE and need whistles? See below.
Want to help communities besieged by ICE get whistles? See below.
Want to help communities besieged by ICE get whistles? See below.
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Fixed at 2025 levels measured across the whole of NIH. Some individual institutes may do more or less.
February 4, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Fixed at 2025 levels measured across the whole of NIH. Some individual institutes may do more or less.
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Ahead of today's hearing with NIH Director Bhattacharya, @sanders.senate.gov released a report on cuts to critical healthcare research. New NIH awards in key health areas were down 16% last year, cutting off innovation for new cures.
Read the whole report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
Read the whole report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Ahead of today's hearing with NIH Director Bhattacharya, @sanders.senate.gov released a report on cuts to critical healthcare research. New NIH awards in key health areas were down 16% last year, cutting off innovation for new cures.
Read the whole report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
Read the whole report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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In today's 4-hour podcast, we have our first recurring guest and our favorite entrepreneur venture capitalist vampire, Bryan Johnson. We break down how to adapt his vampire PRP facial routine for those with beards and the effects on the #beardmicrobiome. Check it out!
February 3, 2026 at 1:09 AM
In today's 4-hour podcast, we have our first recurring guest and our favorite entrepreneur venture capitalist vampire, Bryan Johnson. We break down how to adapt his vampire PRP facial routine for those with beards and the effects on the #beardmicrobiome. Check it out!
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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter