Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8hIn 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 821081147
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 7hHoly 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... 418089
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 10hThe 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... 02029
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 9hIf 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. 13948
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s here! Can’t wait to read. Thank you, @jeannasmialek.bsky.social. 3524
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 17hLet 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 2498
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 9hSupreme 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/3VmxQ7Xbrennancenter.orgHow Supreme Court Terms Have Changed over TimeThis interactive data visualization shows how justices are serving longer terms than ever before. 25631
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What a beauty story. Really enjoyed the depth. www.allure.com/story/rikers...allure.comWhat Happened When 3 Women on Rikers Island Got Beauty MakeoversAfter months with only commissary product options, the inmates spoke with Allure about the impact of having their hair and makeup done before their release. 212226
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 8hDemocratic 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.hyperallergic.comCongressman 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.” 15623
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9hIn @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.”nyti.msOpinion | Intelligence Isn’t PowerThe computer scientist Arvind Narayanan explains that just because A.I. is intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean it’s powerful. 5434
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8hThis 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...chicagotribune.comBarack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in DetroitFormer President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month. 322724
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽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."npr.orgAfter his university cutbacks, Trump announces $100 million for STEM researchersThe 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. 04115
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 9hIt'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. 1041599275
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 9h1.) 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. 3151
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽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 2211
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 10hThis 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...en.wikipedia.orgOrantes-Hernandez injunction - Wikipedia 424257
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 13hTheir 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. 245383
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 14hThe 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. 344562
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 14hEmphasizing: 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. 3544119
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Black Film Alerts 🎥 @blackfilmalerts.bsky.social · 9hIssa 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! 07127
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 9hLol...sure if @standupforscience.net didn't exist, I would take this bet. But I'm gonna hedge this one 😈 2174
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11hUPDATE: 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. 01023115
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11hSo 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. 11117139
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11hInstead 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. 1100979
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11hSo 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 1672114
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11hI’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. 61976839
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 13hlast 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. 19998390
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 11hGlad 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.... 2128
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23hLol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.nytimes.comPrinceton 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. 121173254
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13hWoohoo! This should be automatic grounds for promotion to full professor. 1334
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13hTwo 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. 2572
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12hMy 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. 1459
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13hI'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...cehd.udel.eduA National Voice on Institutional Quality and Integrity - College of Education & Human DevelopmentAssociate Professor Dominique J. Baker has been named to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. 4043252
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Vulture @vulture.com · 11hTroye 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.vulture.comThis Is Troye Sivan’s Finest WorkTroye 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. 081
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Adele Marston @marstonlab.bsky.social · 18hExcited for this new chapter! 4484
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13hA 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. 3649121
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13hNew 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 7866022772
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15hMy man looks like Twister Sister is informing him that they're not gonna take it 51675
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16hMy man looks like someone microwaved a Ken doll 33135
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16hMy man looks like a Vienna sausage fresh out of the case 22573
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16hMy man looks like the guy nervously hiding a zombie bite 454215
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 14hThe 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...courthousenews.comICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find himThe agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car. 11743379
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 14hDeesha Philyaw explores the power of raising the stakes in fiction.bit.lyFrom Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in FictionThis 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… 11712
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 14hPresident 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. 1181
Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 14hOne 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:nymag.comThe Immoderate Susan CollinsAfter a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump? 715134