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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 52m

and @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social's Art Chancsky asks the followup question: is it time for UNC to admit its mistake and fire Belichick? chapelboro.com/sports/chans...

Chansky's Notebook: The Right Time? - Chapelboro.com

If UNC went ahead and pulled the plug on Bill Belichick's tenure in Chapel Hill, this would be the best time to do it.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 54m

Deep dive by WRAL into the chaos of UNC's football program and our $30 million coach 1/n
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Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

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Gerry Cohen @gercohen.bsky.social · 1h

Wake Co Bd of Elections will conduct municipal elections on Nov 4 for 13 municipalities. Early voting starts Thurs Oct 16 at the Board of Elections office in Raleigh, then sites open in Apex, Cary and Garner Sat Oct 25 for 8 consecutive days (including 2 Saturdays + 1 Sunday) ending Nov 1. #wakepol

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 56m

Time for more of this! If they won't stand up, vote them out in the primary and frankly, if you're almost 80 its time to leave Congress (speaking as a 67 YO)

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: Justin Pearson of the "Tennessee 3" is challenging Rep. Steve Cohen.

There's an age dynamic: Cohen is 76, Pearson is 30.

And an ideological one: Cohen left CPC last year + is pro-Israel. Pearson says war in Gaza is a "genocide."

@axios.com www.axios.com/2025/10/08/j...

"Tennessee Three" member Justin Pearson runs to oust Rep. Steve Cohen

Pearson is one of the most high-profile primary challengers to an older House Democrat.

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Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: Justin Pearson of the "Tennessee 3" is challenging Rep. Steve Cohen.

There's an age dynamic: Cohen is 76, Pearson is 30.

And an ideological one: Cohen left CPC last year + is pro-Israel. Pearson says war in Gaza is a "genocide."

@axios.com www.axios.com/2025/10/08/j...

"Tennessee Three" member Justin Pearson runs to oust Rep. Steve Cohen

Pearson is one of the most high-profile primary challengers to an older House Democrat.

www.axios.com

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 1h

anyone know anything about those signs popping up about taxes and vacant retail? nothing on them about who’s behind it, what to do, etc.

we are curious.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 1h

Those are fly eyes!!

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 1h

Our first extraordinary biologist featured this week is Katherine Brown, @biologists.bsky.social Publishing Director and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor, who has been closely involved with @prelights.bsky.social since its inception. #100biologists

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats to the winners! Its notable that Omar Yaghi was a refugee. Refugees and immigrants once again making American science great!

Nature @nature.com · 5h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Office of Research at UNC SOM @oor-unc.bsky.social · Aug 14

UNC scientists uncovered a hidden role for the tumor suppressor gene SETD2. Now, thanks to the work of Dr. @brianstrahl.bsky.social and Dr. Abid Khan, we know SETD2 also plays a key structural role in maintaining nuclear integrity during cell division! go.unc.edu/SETD2 @brianstrahl.bsky.social

UNC Scientists Uncover Hidden Role of Tumor Suppressor Gene in Protecting the Genome | Newsroom

In a surprising twist, UNC scientists discovered that SETD2, a tumor suppressor best known for modifying DNA-packaging proteins, also preserves nuclear structure during cell division—a hidden role tha...

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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · Mar 1

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
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Maxim Tsenkov @mitsenkov.bsky.social · 1d

The latest #AlphaFold DB update is out!

We synchronised with UniProt release 2025_03, predicted protein isoforms across all species, and provide MSAs used to generate each prediction.

Proud of the team at the PDBe for the hard work that went into this. Grateful to play my part in it!

EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 1d

We’re renewing our collaboration with Google DeepMind!

We'll keep developing the AlphaFold Database to support protein science worldwide 🎉

To mark the moment we’ve synchronised the database with UniProtKB release 2025_03.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

🖥️🧬 #AlphaFold
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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 16h

Lichen and moss cover the rock in Eldorado Canyon #nativeplants 🌿

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 14h

UNC Biology had a 3rd terrific tenure talk by Kacy Gordon. They study interactions between germ cells & somatic gonad support cells of C. elegans exploring how genetic signals produce cellular movements & shape changes during development & the reproductive life of the animal 1/2
www.kacygordon.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday when his wife suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, she had regained cell service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.

Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation

Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4h

8 October 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Helene Akar, was born in Bar-le-Duc.

In August 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Vintage black-and-white photo of a young gril smiling and standing in a garden, wearing a plaid dress and knee-high socks.

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 14h

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 3h

“Most of these positions aren’t positions for which we can hire domestically,” (Dr. Martin ) said, pointing to, for example, America’s shortage of anesthesiologists'

Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 3h

Another year, another refugee/child of refugees wins a Nobel prize! #RefugeesWinNobels

Nature @nature.com · 5h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 1d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3h

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Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social · 3h

A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!

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Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social · 3h

A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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