Hey if you’re having an outpoor party this weekend, remember to still distance. Group photos and four people in the kitchen helping to clean up defeat the purpose.

Austin Hepperla (Austin Hepperla, PhD ) is defending tomorrow! His talk at 3 pm is "Integrative Genomic Analyses of Chromatin and Epigenetic Regulation Across Eukaryotes: A Journey from Yeast Transcription to Human Cancer"

Let’s get into BIG week! Academic Chatter™ #AcademicTwitter #BlackInGenetics #BlackInGeneticsWeek

I'm so ready to connect with my people! Let's go BIG next week. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 #BLACKandSTEM #BlackAFINSTEM #BlackLivesMatter #phdchat #AcademicChatter #BlackInBiological

#BlackInGeneticsWeek has started! Make sure you're following and participating! #BlackInGenetics

We are proud to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October with Disabled in Higher Ed - #DisInHigherEd! We will be sharing their content and we encourage the disabled folx in our community to join in using #BlackInGenetics #DisabledRollCall ! Academic Chatter™ #BLACKandSTEM

I'm proud to say that thanks to @MarkiaASmith we now have a job board on our website. There orgs can submit opportunities to #RecruitBIGenetics and other BlackInX orgs. But also everyone can see jobs available! blackingenetics.com/job-board

Come learn about biomedical research training opportunities at UNC Chapel Hill: BBSP @ UNC, UNC PREP IMSD @UNCSOLAR from our Director of Admissions Joshua Hall !!!! 11/9 | 4:20pm EDT #ABRCMS2020

For everyone attending #ABRCMS2020 check out IMSD, they played a huge role in my development as a scientist and person and I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEM. They have created a fantastic community to foster support for URM scientists.

3/ The fact that in many academic faculties consciousness, non-white can not be synonymous with excellence is so problematic and so prevalent. No one is asking you to sacrifice quality for diversity. Your definition of "quality" is skewed by historic elitism and segregation.

Wow! #BlackandSTEM don’t miss this funding opportunity! One cancer researcher will get $75,000 per year that increases to $100,000 if/when you accept a TT faculty position. If the NIH won’t #FundBlackScientists then BlackinCancer said they would do it themselves 🤩

People thrive when they aren’t afraid to bring their whole selves to everything they do.

** Grad and Undergrad ** Opportunity Alert

In NC public schools and looking for diverse #STEM graduate students to connect w/ your K-12 students, classrooms, or out of school programs? These #bwfgdep awardees would love to contribute & BWF has provided $ to support their outreach efforts. bwfund.org/funding-opport… #nced

Fellow Tar Heels, as of today, everyone is eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in NC. Go get your shot! Your getting the shot takes us one more baby step towards getting out of this pandemic. More info on where to get your shot here: myspot.nc.gov NCDHHS

After a year+ without conferences, I’m so looking forward to today’s Keystone Symposia virtual #eSymposia, #Epigenetics #Chromatin Architecture, Development and Disease, to explore emerging mechanisms of #GeneRegulation! keysym.us/VKSEpigenetics… #VKSEpigenetics21

BWFUND's Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (#bwfgdep) Award application now open through June 19th for URM Predoctoral STEM focused students at NC institutions of higher education. bwfund.org/funding-opport…

Spread the word: Applications are open for the Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellowship, a one-year STAT KSJ at MIT program for early-career U.S. journalists from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the profession. statnews.com/sharon-begley-… Writers of Color