Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚

Neuroscientist interested in brain mechanisms of memory and cognition. NHP anesthesiologist. fiend. πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ Trans rights are human rights. He/him. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-15

all you people did you just start there or did you successfully migrate? @tdverstynen @dlevenstein @NicoleCRust

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-15

had sort of shrugged off all the "mastodon is too hard" whining and now as I try to figure out migrating to another instance I am just ready to give the whole thing up

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-13

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Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-12

@nahtanoj oh goddammit. Well over to neuromatch I go

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-12

@nahtanoj oh god why do we have to get off of this instance?

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-11

I have to throw out these tea towels I've had since 1999 right

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-10
Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-09
Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-09

no, <journal name redacted> I will NOT provide exact p-values to 4 decimal places

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-09
Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚ boosted:
2023-05-08

For version control in R, Microsoft used to archive R packages (MRAN). Now Groundhog does it (GRAN).
datacolada.org/108

Also: just released Groundhog 3.1.0 fixes some bugs in v3.0.0 (blog post talks about 3.0.0)

#rstats

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-07

Well this explains why I feel like I've been beaten all over with a stick after flying home from California yesterday beige.party/@RickiTarr/1103223

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚ boosted:
Ricki Yasha TarrRickiTarr@beige.party
2023-05-07

Welcome to Middle Age, you're now sore for two days, because you sat in a bad chair.

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚ boosted:
Star Trek Minus Contextnocontexttrek
2023-05-07
Voyager scene. Captain Janeway is standing next to a food replicator, which is wall panel with interface and a little cubby inside where things just appear when she asks for what she wants. It's an otherwise normal starship room, maybe a ready room or mess hall, hard to say. Ok so she's standing alongside it and the closed caption reads, "Coffee, black."
Next picture is closer in and Janeway looks surprised and taken aback looking at the replicator. Closed caption reads, "[Computer]: Make it yourself."
Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚ boosted:
2023-05-07

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Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-05

@kjhealy was not one member of the NAS available to "contribute" this magnum opus? Was Pinker busy on a photo shoot or something?

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-04

New National Academies report underscores the vital importance of biomedical research with nonhuman primates and challenges that must be addressed to move the field forward nap.nationalacademies.org/cata

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚ boosted:
2023-05-04

What the....? πŸ˜‚ 🀣

Got this from @SoyTrek on the birdsite ... OMG! πŸ˜†

This was apparently really submitted to an advice column, here: πŸ‘

slate.com/human-interest/2023/

#StarTrek #StarTrekDS9

#5ciFiGirl

The Wife I’m a Surrogate for Wants Me to Spend More Time With Her Husband. That’s a Very Bad Idea
ADVICE BY JESSICA STOYA

Dear How to Do It
I'm a 21-year-old woman, and I'm seven months pregnant at the time of writing this. My boyfriend is on deployment, and while he was away, | decided to surrogate for a couple that lives in the area. The money is better than anything I could make otherwise, and part of the contract I signed meant that I moved in with β€œMiles” and his wife, rent-free and for much nicer accommodations than I could The couple I'm carrying for is super sweet and some of the friendliest people I've ever met, which is starting to turn into a problem. I'm sure it’s just a combination of pregnancy hormones, my boyfriend being away, and having a little too much free time, but I've found myself fantasizing about Miles. It doesn’t help that his wife, β€œKeiko,” keeps pushing us to spend more time together when she’s not hanging out with me. Nothing overtly sexual has happened, but sometimes he does this thing where he rubs my ankles (the swelling’s bad), and it just feels so unbelievably good. In my more rational moments, I can tell that this is very definitely a Bad Idea. But I'm living in his house, and he’s really quite good-looking for a guy in his 40s. And a few times I've β€œlet my hands slip” to rub at his shoulders or chest. He always gently asks me to stop after a moment, but I know I’'m on the verge of losing control here. How do I stop thinking about this guy?
Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚markgbaxter
2023-05-04

Splendid dinner with Bita in the Rose City 🌹 twitter.com/bita137/status/165

Mark Baxter πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‰πŸ§‚ boosted:
2023-05-04

Friends of the #learningsalon,
John Krakauer, @melaniemitchell , Claire Sun & I are excited to have a prominent memory researcher & a creator of Hippocamera:

@barense talk to us about Hippocamera
Friday, May 5, 4-6 PM ET

Meeting link: crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
Join us!

p.s. link to material: hippocamera.com

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