Mark Peifer (He, him)
@peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
One fun thing about Bluesky and time zones--I get up to see the European view of the world
February 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
One fun thing about Bluesky and time zones--I get up to see the European view of the world
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⚙️ A Bipartite Evolutionary Mode
The eukaryotic proteome isn't a uniform soup.
We resolve it into two distinct modes:
A rigid "Architectural Core" (Cytoskeleton/Chaperones)
A highly plastic "Operational Engine" (Metabolism/Translation) (3/5)
The eukaryotic proteome isn't a uniform soup.
We resolve it into two distinct modes:
A rigid "Architectural Core" (Cytoskeleton/Chaperones)
A highly plastic "Operational Engine" (Metabolism/Translation) (3/5)
February 7, 2026 at 8:50 AM
⚙️ A Bipartite Evolutionary Mode
The eukaryotic proteome isn't a uniform soup.
We resolve it into two distinct modes:
A rigid "Architectural Core" (Cytoskeleton/Chaperones)
A highly plastic "Operational Engine" (Metabolism/Translation) (3/5)
The eukaryotic proteome isn't a uniform soup.
We resolve it into two distinct modes:
A rigid "Architectural Core" (Cytoskeleton/Chaperones)
A highly plastic "Operational Engine" (Metabolism/Translation) (3/5)
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"One person, as they appear to be placed in handcuffs, says: 'I was here delivering pizza for the protesters. I had no idea that this was happening. I moved to the side of the curb when they started rushing everyone and now they’re arresting me.'"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Minneapolis protesters arrested during one-month anniversary of Renee Good’s death
Several demonstrators taken into custody Saturday after marking killing of Minnesota woman by immigration officer
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
"One person, as they appear to be placed in handcuffs, says: 'I was here delivering pizza for the protesters. I had no idea that this was happening. I moved to the side of the curb when they started rushing everyone and now they’re arresting me.'"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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When you buy on amazon, you give money to a trillionaire who treats his staff like this (and kill your local bookstore, grocery store, etc)
"Former Washington Post reporters launch GoFundMe to help repatriate international staff who was fired and now facing logistical challenges getting out of their countries and back home."
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:49 AM
When you buy on amazon, you give money to a trillionaire who treats his staff like this (and kill your local bookstore, grocery store, etc)
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Look at this 🙂 #CryoEM
Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 9, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Look at this 🙂 #CryoEM
Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Just wait until the Defenders of Western Civilization learn about opera.
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Just wait until the Defenders of Western Civilization learn about opera.
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Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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Loved the halftime show but 950 day streak on Duolingo really failed me.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Loved the halftime show but 950 day streak on Duolingo really failed me.
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Look at the replies and then understand why I yell at the nonsense initiatives the EU has pulled instead of reinforcing what we already have 🧪
Anybody know what the threshold was for MSCA funding this time round? Results are coming out and it looks brutal.
February 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Look at the replies and then understand why I yell at the nonsense initiatives the EU has pulled instead of reinforcing what we already have 🧪
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
No, the sugar cane wasn't actual sugar cane nor was the boy Liam Ramos, for those obsessed with ignoring the power of symbols
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
No, the sugar cane wasn't actual sugar cane nor was the boy Liam Ramos, for those obsessed with ignoring the power of symbols
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The registration deadline for this wonderful meeting is approaching! Be sure to reserve your spot before March 10!
Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!
February 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
The registration deadline for this wonderful meeting is approaching! Be sure to reserve your spot before March 10!
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My quote of the day
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio
February 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
My quote of the day
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio
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"Alternative truth" requires somebody continually working to maintain it and to isolate/separate it from the, you know... truth.
NBC just clipped out the "olympic boos" directed at JD Vance, so that USA audiences would not know it happened.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
NBC just clipped out the "olympic boos" directed at JD Vance, so that USA audiences would not know it happened.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
"Alternative truth" requires somebody continually working to maintain it and to isolate/separate it from the, you know... truth.
NBC just clipped out the "olympic boos" directed at JD Vance, so that USA audiences would not know it happened.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
NBC just clipped out the "olympic boos" directed at JD Vance, so that USA audiences would not know it happened.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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🔬Join our #ReproductionMS seminar with Dr.
@maikbischoff.bsky.social on "Coiling a Duct: How Mesenchymal Cells Sculpt Male Reproductive Organ Architecture" this Wednesday, 11 February 12pm CET. DM for Zoom details.
@maikbischoff.bsky.social on "Coiling a Duct: How Mesenchymal Cells Sculpt Male Reproductive Organ Architecture" this Wednesday, 11 February 12pm CET. DM for Zoom details.
February 9, 2026 at 10:22 AM
🔬Join our #ReproductionMS seminar with Dr.
@maikbischoff.bsky.social on "Coiling a Duct: How Mesenchymal Cells Sculpt Male Reproductive Organ Architecture" this Wednesday, 11 February 12pm CET. DM for Zoom details.
@maikbischoff.bsky.social on "Coiling a Duct: How Mesenchymal Cells Sculpt Male Reproductive Organ Architecture" this Wednesday, 11 February 12pm CET. DM for Zoom details.
I guess 95% loving it and 5% hating Bad Bunny is a "division"
February 9, 2026 at 11:44 AM
I guess 95% loving it and 5% hating Bad Bunny is a "division"
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we just watched actual history happen
“If I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” —Bad Bunny
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
we just watched actual history happen
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Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
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You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
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Bad Bunny ends his Super Bowl halftime show in front of a sign reading "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Bad Bunny ends his Super Bowl halftime show in front of a sign reading "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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