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Mohamed Noor
@mafnoor.bsky.social
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Executive Vice Provost @DukeU . Genetics/ evolution. Science consults for #StarTrek , & speak/videos/write on science in sci-fi. Personal acct- views are my own. (he/ him/ his)
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mafnoor.bsky.social
Happy US Thanksgiving to all! Really grateful for all my friends & connections on this platform!
Happy Thanksgiving- drawing of pumpkins
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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benjaminahr.mobi
I got to go on the @ncse.bsky.social Safeguarding Science podcast with ST science advisor @mafnoor.bsky.social and the episode is out! Star Trek and Evolution together on one episode! ncse.ngo/safeguarding...
Safeguarding Sound Science | National Center for Science Education
Safeguarding Sound Science, Evolution EditionThe second season of Safeguarding Sound Science examines the everyday impacts of evolution, the grand theory that informs our understanding of all life on ...
ncse.ngo
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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thetransporterroom.net
The ultimate intersection of fiction and fact: Star Trek. We were so honored to interview Dr. Mohamed Noor and dive deep into how the show's focus on discovery and scientific integration pushes our understanding of the universe. @mafnoor.bsky.social

📺 Watch the full interview: youtu.be/P9d936OOFYo
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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thetransporterroom.net
A replicator would be amazing, but I'd never trust a transporter. They're like death traps! I'm concerned replicators might be abused if widely available. Remember why the Kazon wanted one? #StarTrek #SciFiTech @mafnoor.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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thetransporterroom.net
🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT🚨

Welcome aboard! In this exclusive interview, The Transporter Room sits down with Dr. Mohamed Noor, acclaimed evolutionary geneticist and Star Trek science consultant. @mafnoor.bsky.social

Be sure to Like, share, and follow

📆 November 9th |1PM PT / 4PM ET
🎞️ youtu.be/P9d936OOFYo
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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caitismuheil.bsky.social
Congrats Sarah, @mafnoor.bsky.social, and team on such a cool paper!
Transposable elements drive much of naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster
Recessive lethal mutations are widespread across studied species, with estimates suggesting that each individual carries at least one. Numerous lethal alleles persist in wild populations at higher fre...
www.biorxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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drnickiw.bsky.social
Just in case you need some joy/laughs, the new season of Abbott Elementary starts now on ABC.
October 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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caitismuheil.bsky.social
Excited that we could share some of our recent work on how temperature affects sporulation and recombination rate in Saccharomyces 🎤🌡️🧬🔬
Thanks for having us Mike & @heredityjournal.bsky.social!
heredityjournal.bsky.social @HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Sep 25
🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast!

We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world.
@ncstate.bsky.social
@gensocuk.bsky.social

Episode:
shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...
September 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
mafnoor.bsky.social
Fun interview of Adam Nimoy about his book, conducted last summer... www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_EQ...
Duke Jewish Alumni Network Book Club: “The Most Human" by Adam Nimoy
YouTube video by Jewish Life at Duke
www.youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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tyranicus.net
"The Enterprise Guys" with Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, and John Billingsley, moderated by @mafnoor.bsky.social
#STLV
August 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
mafnoor.bsky.social
Come see a new evolution talk at #STLV this Thursday! #StarTrek
August 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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davidmack.pro
GET AN EARFUL OF THIS:

#StarTrek: KHAN — A full-cast audio drama written by Kirsten Beyer & @davidmack.bsky.social, based on a story by Nicholas Meyer. Premiering September 8 from CBS Eye Podcast Productions and Realm.

Official Trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71e...
Official Trailer | Star Trek: Khan
YouTube video by Star Trek
www.youtube.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
mafnoor.bsky.social
Fun chat about the science and more in the most recent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode! #StarTrekSNW www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q9b... on the 7th Rule podcast!
Don't Eat the Olive | Strange New Worlds, ep 303 "Shuttle to Kenfori" w Dr Mohamed Noor | T7R2 #164
YouTube video by The 7th Rule
www.youtube.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
mafnoor.bsky.social
Honored to have gotten to contribute a tiny bit to #startreksnw season 3-- GREAT season and hope everyone loves watching it as much as all the folks enjoyed making it! (Red circle added)
Screenshot of end-credits from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 episode 1 with "Dr. Mohamed Noor" circled in his listing as a "Technical Consultant", alongside Dr. Erin Macdonald.
July 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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drmarcj.bsky.social
My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
grad.uwo.ca
July 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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lablabella.bsky.social
Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social tells us about th domestication of yeast in bread 🍞

Humans have made a profound impact on the genome of S. cerevisiae

And commercial baking strains are super weird!

#Evol2025 #Evol25
June 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
mafnoor.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do
The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.
www.nature.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
mafnoor.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/s...
Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again | CNN
NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned communications blackout.
www.cnn.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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evolmtg.bsky.social
The program for Evolution 2025 is now live! Talk schedules for both the virtual and in-person meetings can be found here: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr...

@sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025
Evolution 2025
www.xcdsystem.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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miquai.bsky.social
See you next week, Astro on Tap West LA!
An ad for my “Astrobiology of Star Trek” talk next Thursday, May 22, at 9 pm at Thunderbird (12217 Wilshire Blvd)
May 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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mollyprz.bsky.social
Amidst all the terrible and terrifying news, so lovely to hear of
@jkpritch.bsky.social's election to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!
April 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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malissalongo.bsky.social
6pm PST/9pm EST, Dr. @mafnoor.bsky.social joins #The7thRule for this intriguing episode of TNG, "The Masterpiece Society!" Set your clocks/phones to Trek over to the live chat!
youtu.be/_hBCIKCqe9s?...
April 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
mafnoor.bsky.social
www.dw.com/en/how-accur...
How accurate is the science in movies and TV? – DW – 04/19/2025
Hollywood films aren't always known for having realistic scenarios. So how do scientists work with some of the biggest productions to bring real science to science fiction?
www.dw.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
mafnoor.bsky.social
Great article on/ by Jayne Brook in latest Duke University magazine. #StarTrek dukemag.duke.edu/stories/seed...
Seeds of a Career
Thinking back through the years since I graduated from Duke, I am struck by the variety of roles I have played in my career: I have saved and lost lives; stopped or failed to stop an innocent person f...
dukemag.duke.edu
April 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM