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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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Donate - Trans Lifeline

Support our work with a donation! Trans Lifeline is primarily funded by individual donors; donations of all sizes are deeply appreciated and put to good

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4h

PERINATAL ORGANOPHOSPHATE FLAME RETARDANT EXPOSURE ALTERS ADULT HPA AXIS FUNCTION AND AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR IN A SEX-SPECIFIC MANNER IN MICE https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682090v1

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 8h

Nice piece of reporting

And who knows what besides lead is in these processed pseudo food powders

Eat real food people

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 14h

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Lauren Vetere @laurenmvetere.bsky.social · 16h

The 18th Science New Wave film festival starts this Friday! Join us for a weekend-long celebration of science and cinema, including feature and short films, documentaries, experimental films, science fiction, and projects that defy categorization.
www.labocine.com/events/scien...

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

Brown is "consulting"

Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 3d

OMG waffle bowls

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 3d

Just in time for flu season! Can't be criticized for flu and covid deaths if no one's tracking them!

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

we control all three branches of the federal government and we can't keep it open! Must be the fault of that pesky radical left!

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

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

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 4d

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.

www.chronicle.com

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

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.

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

Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 5d

A challenge with NHPs.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 5d

[PCR enters the chat]

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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.

www.usatoday.com

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

Deep dive by WRAL into the chaos of UNC's football program and our $30 million coach 1/n
www.wral.com/sports/belic...

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 · 5d

Supplemental material right now:

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david alexander @davidalexander.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

”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 · 6d

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

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6d

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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