@BrianGural

budding scientist | 🫀🧬 💻 w/ UNC Genetics | graduate minion of @The_DataDragon

 Chapel Hill, NC
Joined April 2013
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Nigel Parker: On the UNC Board of Trustee’s decision to remove funding for DEI initiatives triangleblogblog.com/2024/05…

Nigel Parker: On the UNC Board of Trustee's decision to remove funding for DEI initiatives

The UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees’ decision to repeal $2.3 million from all DEI initiatives and reallocate that money to the UNC police department is a betrayal of my university's professed...

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Meet Rachel Sharp, one of our Advisory Board members at #ElevateColab. Funded by the @dana_fdn and IMI, we're exploring the intersection of ​#neurodiversity and the workplace. Share your perspective and pre-register today for early access to our events 🔗 forms.gle/QcA6HiXSyxCNohxx5
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New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ @daveyalba and @Leonardonclt gift link: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
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🎉 Congratulations to @Kamran_Khan360 for this great article! In the #humancellatlas era, modelling atlases for cell-type #signatures is tricky. Our #plugin for #CIBERSORTx eliminates #multilevel #unwanted #variation, improving signature selection! 🔗academic.oup.com/bioinformat…

cellsig plug-in enhances CIBERSORTx signature selection for multidataset transcriptomes with sparse...

AbstractMotivation. The precise characterization of cell-type transcriptomes is pivotal to understanding cellular lineages, deconvolution of bulk transcrip

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My dad was part of this union and had stickers of this EVERYWHERE. Probably the most personally niche thing I’ve seen on this app
Daily Union Elections@UnionElections30 Sep 2023
Not my union, but have to re-up the best logo out there, belonging to @InsulatorsUnion
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Individuals taken into custody has reportedly had their handcuffs removed. Likely not the suspect. #UNC
Grant Lefelar@GrantRLefelar28 Aug 2023
Just heard over police scanner: suspect in custody #UNC
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UNC student ID from all system schools approved as voter ID for 2023 election triangleblogblog.com/2023/07…

UNC student ID from all system schools approved as voter ID for 2023 election

Yesterday the North Carolina Board of Elections approved 99 student and public employee ID cards for use in the 2023 and 2024 elections. As we reported earlier, beginning with the 2023 municipal...

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Does anyone in academia have a reasonable explanation for why I (a low-pay graduate student) need to front $1,170 to register for a conference? Not to mention that my T32 paid me a lump sum in January and won't again until next month
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We have a fully funded postdoc position available to study heart failure through the lens of spatial transcriptomics. If you, or anyone you know are interested in joining us, please get in touch! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings…
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This seems like a great time to remind everyone how many Republicans in the NCGA campaigned on promises to not further restrict reproductive rights after Roe was overturned. #ncpol A few examples 👇 🧵
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This article - especially its comment section - is a dumbstruck fire. No mention of the leaky pipeline? Or the deeply entrenched idea of the default male subject/phenotype? Or any of the dozens of other ways inequities rear their heads in science? nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opini…

Opinion | A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t...

Research ought to be independent, not ideological.

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Next week! Our trajectory queen 😊 @JoleneRanek @purvislab @comp_cy @CompMedUNC
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BREAKING: Duke attys have indicated they intend to challenge the legal standing of grad workers as employees, aiming to reverse the NLRB’s 2016 Columbia decision. @DukeU: stop these reprehensible union-busting tactics, recognize our majority, and meet us at the bargaining table.
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what would you call a scientist who studies neuro, genetics, and bioinformatics? quantitative neurogeneticist? genetic computational neuroscientist? a huge nerd?
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clinical genetics is powerful, but far from equitable. what needs to happen for that to change? frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

Frontiers | Utilizing Public Health Frameworks and Partnerships to Ensure Equity in DNA-Based...

DNA-Based Population Screening in the United States has the promise to improve the health of all people in all communities. We highlight recent DNA-based pop...

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Down with the B6
StarkLab@lab_stark5 May 2022
Was your study ever limited by the behavioral and physical capabilities of C57BL/6 (B6) mice? Our new preprint describes C57BL/6J x FVB/6J hybrid mice with improved cognitive capabilities and no age-dependent decline in sensorimotor behavior. 1/8 (bit.ly/3w3uje9)
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excited to be the first graduate minion of @The_DataDragon! starting computational, identifying biomarkers of cardiac cell types to improve our understanding of heart failure🫀❤️
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A big day in human genomics. It took 21 years after first sequencing of the human genome to get the complete version science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… @ScienceMagazine
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