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Mark Peifer (He, him)

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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

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    Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social

    I called both @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov this AM and emphasized my concerns about this decision and other recent federal guidance about vaccines, which will put American lives at risk.

    I asked both senators to start impeachment proceedings against RFK Jr.

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    Bungo Akiyoshi @bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social

    My attempt to become a professor was unsuccessful again but the diplonema tagging paper is now published in Open Biology. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

    Diplonemids are highly diverse and abundant marine plankton with significant ecological importance. However, little is known about their biology, even in the model diplonemid Paradiplonema papillatum ...

    Discovery of unique mitotic mechanisms in Paradiplonema papillatum | Open Biology

    Diplonemids are highly diverse and abundant marine plankton with significant ecological importance. However, little is known about their biology, even in the model diplonemid Paradiplonema papillatum ...
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    MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social

    In case you've ever wondered, I talked with @amjeve.bsky.social about science, myself, and the future of #DevBio as part of the Pathway to Independence Fellowship @biologists.bsky.social 🧪 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

    JoaquĂ­n Navajas Acedo is a Postdoc in the lab of Dr Alexander Schier in Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is interested in how the nervous system evolves and develops at the singl...

    Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo

    JoaquĂ­n Navajas Acedo is a Postdoc in the lab of Dr Alexander Schier in Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is interested in how the nervous system evolves and develops at the singl...
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    Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

    Also, 30,000 fake papers out of 1 million+ does not indict or threaten science as a whole. This entire "science is in crisis from within" narrative is a right-wing myth.

    For their analysis, the scientists built a database of more than a million scientific papers. They searched for the papers in online forums where sleuths share duplicated images and tortured phrases, as well as the Retraction Watch Database, maintained by the Center for Scientific Integrity. The researchers compiled a list of 30,000 papers that have either been retracted or show signs of having come from a paper mill. They discovered connections between the papers that strongly hinted that they were the product of large-scale fraud. Many of these connections linked clusters of editors and authors who often worked together.
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    Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social

    I think this quote is both unsustainable and unsupported by the analysis in the piece. First and foremost, it portrays fraud as consuming science rather than merely growing alongside it. Much of the “fraud” in the paper is just metric gaming whackamole that doesn’t get read, cited or used.

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    BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social

    He must love infections and cancer. A short list of what’s been achieved or is in active development with this tech: – Seasonal flu (Phase 3) – RSV (FDA-approved, 2024) – CMV (Phase 3) – HIV (early trials) – Rapid-response design for emerging pathogens www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

    Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

    RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research

    Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic
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