Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂

a cartoon character says welcome to the world of tomorrow !!! Alt: a cartoon character says welcome to the world of tomorrow !!!

Adding below my signature on letters of recommendation now: "Note: No AI was used at any point in generating this recommendation letter."

Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

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"it's actually a P60"

Looking forward to an outstanding seminar @nanopharmnc.bsky.social

One community addressing the "species problem" is the Gordon Research Conference on the Frontal Cortex, which intentionally built itself on bridging connections between researchers studying human, NHP, and rodents of all kinds. www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Talk is cheap; Secretary Kennedy should prove that he is “not scared of germs” and swim in the Potomac this week

Bed death in the nucleus accumbens

Compass Pathways soars as psilocybin depression treatment hits second Phase 3 trial goals Compass Pathways' psilocybin drug COMP360 succeeds in second pivotal trial for treatment-resistant depression, with CEO Kabir Nath eyeing potential approval by mid-2027.

COMP006, had a smart design. Roughly 1/2 patients in the trial took two 25 mg doses of the drug three weeks apart. A quarter of the trial’s subjects received two doses of 10 mg, another quarter two doses of 1 mg. Compass Pathways meets primary for MDD. endpoints.news/compass-path...

Arial 11 or gtfo

New syllogism just dropped:

All Australian vertebrates are skinks.
Hugh Jackman is an Australian vertebrate.
Hugh Jackman is a skink.

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In defense of trans quality of life — Jessica Kant Today trans people exist in an atmosphere where it has become normal for strangers to demand of us that we extemporaneously provide inarguable, indisputable proof that without very safe medical care w...

Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.

Nothing could possibly go wrong!

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

One day I shall learn to put thoughts to paper better... but for now. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...

well if I hadn't already had my weetabix ...

Good God almighty that was terrifying!

just realized Crusher must have gone to med school at NYU

"new form of knowledge production" girl please

I'm in for next Friday 🎉

I thought you'd all be sidelined by stomach bug tonight 🎤

Calling all PFC and PFC-adjacent neuroscientists--registration for the GRC Frontal Cortex - "Frontal Cortex in Function, Dysfunction, & Therapies" is open! Check out the amazing lineup of speakers for this year's program, feat. keynotes by Geoff Schoenbaum & Helen Mayberg
www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Legislation, Industry, and the Future of Psilocybin for PTSD - Lucid News The FDA acceptance of Compass Pathway’s Investigational New Drug Application for their COMP360 compound as a possible therapy for PTSD introduces a new area of possible therapies using psilocybin.

approval to study psilocybin/COMP360 assisted therapy for PTSD

we shall see if it is more effective than MDMA

www.lucid.news/legislation-...

new prefrontal cortex just dropped! (h/t the Sinai Initiative slack that's still churning along even as we have dispersed)

Wow AI is so amazing we should use it for all our scientific diagrams

oh my god is zoomgov back for study sections

I mean it's either this or vaccinate your goddamn kids

The Novel Progressive Ratio with Reset Task Reveals Adaptive Effort-Delay Trade-Offs The progressive ratio (PR) schedule is a popular and well-established tool used to study decision-making and effort across species. In this task, subjects perform an instrumental response to receive a...

A nice highlight of @zeenarivera.bsky.social's PR with reset task! www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...

or, indeed, "everyday" episodic memory - of course this is ideal for biology because you know exactly when memory formation starts, but I think there is a lot to be said for trying to understand how it generalizes to other forms of memory

Excited to share our study in Neuron led by
@travisgoode.bsky.social, a K99 PDF (interviewing for Faculty) and Sahay lab team with collaborators at BROAD, Hopkins, and UW Seattle, defining a neural circuit that links prior experience with feeding behavior. Open Access: sahaylab.com/publications