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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽

@needhibhalla.bsky.social
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Cell biologist and geneticist, Professor, mom and consumer of alcohol. Those might all be related. I grind til I own it. She/her/hers. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6859-0073 personal account

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 7h
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 10h
The deadline is approaching! NIH is proposing changes to how peer review is used in funding decisions and how outcomes are reported and they want to hear from you. Comments are due by October 13! Comment here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 9h
If you are an NIH funded scientist and have not commented, you are agreeing that this change is a good idea. If, you, like me, think ditching peer review is a bad idea, take the 5 minutes and post a comment.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 7h
Congratulations, Robin! 🥳🎊🎉
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7h
a filthy week
tons of brine martini at home
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s here! Can’t wait to read. Thank you, @jeannasmialek.bsky.social.
Hardcover of The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth by Jeanna Smialek, turquoise cover with a pink quill.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 17h
Let me also note that much more recently Princeton denied tenure to Sarah Chihaya, who was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography last year for BIBLIOPHOBIA
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 9h
Supreme Court justices who served prior to 1966 stayed for a median of 15.3 years. But for the justices who served after 1966, that number jumped to 25.7 years (not including the current justices). bit.ly/3VmxQ7X
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How Supreme Court Terms Have Changed over Time
This interactive data visualization shows how justices are serving longer terms than ever before.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a beauty story. Really enjoyed the depth. www.allure.com/story/rikers...
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What Happened When 3 Women on Rikers Island Got Beauty Makeovers
After months with only commissary product options, the inmates spoke with Allure about the impact of having their hair and makeup done before their release.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 8h
Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland has proposed a bill calling on the Smithsonian to preserve and permanently exhibit artifacts related to the Trump administration’s escalating aggression against the institution’s museums and research centers.
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Congressman Calls on Smithsonian to Document Trump’s “Narcissistic Self-Worship”
Democrat Jamie Raskin’s proposed bill asks the institution to preserve items related to Trump’s “propagandistic assault on American history.”
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 8h
Yes
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There are many technologies that, when you look at physical strength, are superhuman. That doesn’t mean we put them in charge. And we can apply that same approach to A.I.,” Arvind Narayanan argues on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
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Opinion | Intelligence Isn’t Power
The computer scientist Arvind Narayanan explains that just because A.I. is intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean it’s powerful.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
This is the big announcement I was curious if we would ever see. Good reason to think that Obama is the strongest possible endorsement El-Sayed could get rn. In the primaries, Stevens ran ads as if she had an Obama endorsement, which helped her win Detroit. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit
Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9h
@noamross.net on NPR this morning. www.npr.org/2026/10/09/n... "I am always enthusiastic about more investment into science, but you could think of this as someone planting a tree somewhere where THEY just burned down a forest. We've lost so much scientific investment under this administration."
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After his university cutbacks, Trump announces $100 million for STEM researchers
The Trump administration is funneling $100 million into educating STEM researchers who are U.S. citizens. The move comes after other changes under Trump have forced cutbacks in university research.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 9h
It's just been announced at NYCC so I guess I can tell you that I'm writing The Regulators for Marvel. My five issue comic series will be out in 2027. Mutants, magic and monsters woven into the very fabric of Jim Crow America.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 9h
1.) Very few viral essays (even good ones!) are worthy of 200+ pages. There are some rare exceptions (End Times Fascism, for instance), but mostly it makes for exasperating reading. 2.) The audience that's justifying your proof of concept already read the abridged version! There's no novelty.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 9h
"There is more pressure on authors to justify why the idea must exist in the form of a book-length inquiry rather than a magazine piece or podcast. Writers must demonstrate a more impressive platform—not just that they are an expert on the topic but the expert." Lolsob
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 10h
This is the same thing that was done to Central Americans in the early 1980s and was the whole reason for the Orantes Hernandez litigation back then. It’s due process and access to asylum unraveling in real time. Orantes for those interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orantes...
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Orantes-Hernandez injunction - Wikipedia
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 13h
Their treatment by the US immigration authorities is just unconscionable. Also: many of them have most of their relatives there. And so much property just impounded and stolen by our government.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 14h
The prospect of returning to the center of the country— which is extremely insecure and violence— is just impossible. A young man just broke down an started crying at that point. He said nobody cares about me here in Haiti.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 14h
Emphasizing: people I am speaking to are strong and have tremendous spirit. But they have been devastated. They mostly entered the U.S. legally, worked for several years, were detained (frequently illegally), arbitrarily deprived or denied status, treated brutally, and dropped here with nothing.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 9h
Thread.
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Black Film Alerts 🎥 @blackfilmalerts.bsky.social · 9h
Issa Rae performs the hit song, “Broken Pussy” at the ‘Insecure’ 10-year anniversary event! 😭 Yvonne Orji, Jay Ellis, and Natasha Rothwell are singing along with her!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 9h
Lol...sure if @standupforscience.net didn't exist, I would take this bet. But I'm gonna hedge this one 😈
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11h
UPDATE: After hearing from friends in the DMs, we’re gonna make this a cohosted gathering. So after my censored remarks, we’ll hear about people actually doing the work that so many of our institutions pretend to. If your org wants to cohost, DM me.
Black & white photo of “Black Community Survival Conference: Serve the People Body & Sold” —a banner hanging above a group of people standing on a platform. This is a photo depicting the work of the Black Panther Party.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11h
So let me know if you want to come to a virtual talk next wk on “Reimagining Leadership.“ Time tbd. The focus is on cultivating critical, creative, and caring capacities in medicine, but I think it applies beyond that. I’m pretty sure we can do this without any leaders.
Ruha’s title slide for “Reimagining Leadership” with a quote by Saidiya Hartman: “Care is the antidote to violence.”
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11h
Instead of the talk I spent hours preparing, they urged me to switch to a fireside chat and talk about my professional “journey.” But… this is the journey. And walking away is also movement.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11h
So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11h
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 13h
last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 11h
Glad to share this new Microbial Primer on Mirror Biology written w/ Jolien Sweere. It's free to all in the @microbiologysociety.org journal Microbiology, edited by Steve Diggle. Thanks for this opportunity to outline our scientific knowledge of this significant topic. doi.org/10.1099/mic....
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13h
Woohoo! This should be automatic grounds for promotion to full professor.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13h
Two things. One, my mom is 100% printing out the announcement from the congressional record. Two, it's not lost on me that the day this comes out is the same day the feds announced yet another investigation into a different Black woman—simply because she's serving her country.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12h
My response to this news has oscillated between a.) there's almost nobody I'd rather have involved in what is certain to be a site of considerable shenanigans for the foreseeable future & b.) those shenanigans might make this dreadful, soul-crushing work & I want Dom to write & skeet & do podcasts.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13h
I've been appointed to NACIQI, the federal advisory committee that recommends which accrediting agencies the U.S. Department of Education should recognize. Looking forward to using my expertise to help guide the future of U.S. higher education. www.cehd.udel.edu/a-national-v...
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A National Voice on Institutional Quality and Integrity - College of Education & Human Development
Associate Professor Dominique J. Baker has been named to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 11h
Troye Sivan’s fourth album, ‘She’s the Best,’ is a candid deconstruction of the pop star’s party-boy façade that fully realizes his potential, writes critic Craig Jenkins.
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This Is Troye Sivan’s Finest Work
Troye Sivan’s fourth album, ‘She’s the Best,’ is a candid deconstruction of the pop star’s party-boy façade that fully realizes his potential, writes critic Craig Jenkins.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 11h
Congratulations Adele! 🥳🎊🎉
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Adele Marston @marstonlab.bsky.social · 18h
Excited for this new chapter!
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
My man looks like Twister Sister is informing him that they're not gonna take it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
My man looks like someone microwaved a Ken doll
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
My man looks like a Vienna sausage fresh out of the case
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
My man looks like the guy nervously hiding a zombie bite
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 14h
The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...
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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 14h
Deesha Philyaw explores the power of raising the stakes in fiction.
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From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually become my debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Fr…
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 14h
President Trump and his Adminstration have become untethered from reality and are being advised by some dummies, so it is going to be rough going for a bit.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 14h
One of the dynamics of the Maine senate debates is how deftly Jackson is baiting Collins to go headfirst into affronted victimhood mode. Her incredibly thin skin is something I wrote about in my profile of her in 2020:
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The Immoderate Susan Collins
After a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?
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