Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂

Backward Conditioning Reveals Flexibility in Infralimbic Cortex Inhibitory Memories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668258v1

"can we put this poor bastard out of their misery and give them a fundable score"

Associating with Colossal should get you some combination of laughed/booed out of any serious academic setting. Frivolous attention-seeking nonsense but with a nasty undercurrent of sweaty investors.

What killed the competitive renewal at NIH? Following up on yesterday’s whinesplaining about the relative difficulty of getting a NIH grant across pertinent career eras, I had some more thoughts on generational expectations and gasligh…

What killed the competitive renewal at NIH? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/w...

stock critiques of "incremental" and "lack of productivity" I think are common - my advice to new faculty (Before Current Era) is to leverage data from an existing grant as prelim data for a new R01 and try to interleave them rather than trying to renew grants

They could start by killing the "pay grants up front" policy.

Lying is like breathing to these people.

wait do we not say "da bomb" anymore

Star Trek The Voyage Home scene. Kirk, Bones, Uhura, Chekhov, Scotty, Sulu, and Spock are pictured loitering about in 1980's downtown San Francisco, standing over a newspaper box. Spock's wearing a bathrobe. Closed caption reads, "It's a miracle these people ever got out of the 20th century."

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Stay alert to OMB’s shenanigans.

the worst thing is this could currently apply to several different people

to add insult to injury now my timeline is wall to wall with that horrible man's evil face

These fucking people.

oh honey

This paper has garnered considerable attention and has been used politically, including recently.

Of course, this paper (which is a research finding) is itself false, limiting research to those where statistical tests can be applied and over-estimating the number of false positives.

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We're cooking with beef tallow again so health issues will be a thing of the past soon.

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social The hurricane study is even sadder than you discussed. ICYMI, average damage is higher for women- vs men-named storms, but that’s because _all_ storms used to have women names, and response tactics have improved over time. It’s all an artifact of recent vs older storms.

"An arrest is merely an allegation. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." Oh, NOW they understand the concept of due process.

Louder now.

Doing a PhD where you abandon a project after less than a year is probably perfect preparation for industry.

also explains most "public intellectuals" and pop psychology books

Imagine if LLMs came out with a "not sure, but here's my best guess? You should verify this information" we would have stopped hearing about them instantly. You know like how we ignore scientists