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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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I assume all the same right-wingers who went after Harvard's president will demand resignations here, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

my attention has been drawn to something worse than "mouse prefrontal cortex" - the central sulcus of the mouse

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I come to rescue RDoC not to bury it OR What is required to translate RDoC into transformative drug discovery open.substack.com/pub/zendudes...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

When will genetic studies of psychiatric diseases provide bona fide targets for drug discovery? Chapter 1: It's been 25 years since the sequencing of the human genome...so far minimal impact on neuropsychiatric drug discovery... open.substack.com/pub/zendudes...

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It has been more than 15 years since the RDoC recommendations were published. The RDoC recommendations have had no impact on psychiatric drug discovery to date. zendudest.substack.com/p/rip-rdoc?r...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Conclusion: of the 7 major classes of ‘novel’ psychiatric drugs, the potential therapeutic actions of 6 were discovered using animal models of drug action. zendudest.substack.com/p/why-animal...

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Why are animal models useful for CNS drug discovery? zendudest.substack.com/p/why-animal...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you work with faculty whose ESI eligibility (NIH applications) ended/ends Oct 2024 to June 2025, they're getting an extension to Oct 2025. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... h/t NORDP list

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Press release from Senator Welch about the event... www.welch.senate.gov/hear-from-th...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-n...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Diencephalic and white matter knock-on effects in hippocampal amnesia - why they matter https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.21.655297v1

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Wednesday

submitted 9 days ago • 132 comments

they're the same picture dot jpg

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Please double check the expiration date on any NOFO you are applying do. They are updated on the form, (Expiration date) with a link to the notice, but other aspects aren't edited.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"We need to have academic freedom of ideas." Which ideas Jay? You are supporting the termination of thousands awards b/c a party disagrees with "DEI"

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Thrilled to share our latest preprint and first major project from the lab, where we show a mechanism for direct interoceptive input to the insular cortex. Work by the incredible @zhezhao2017 with help from many others including @stefanoberto83.bsky.social

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Eurovision espousing the GOP elections platform I see

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

croque non-binaire

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

12 POINTS TO MALTA

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

"'Keep it straight'... said no one at Eurovision ever"

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 way to go Anelise!

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments