Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

Just a gentle reminder to save PDFs of the work you published this year especially in digital publications because you could look up one day and find that that pub doesn’t exist anymore and isn’t archived anywhere and is just gone

Ask me how I know!

He uses legal harassment as an intimidation tactic to scare people out of speaking up.

This isn’t just about a video. This is not the America I know, and I’m not going to let this next step from the FBI stop me from speaking up for my country and our Constitution.

The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video in the first place. He believes in weaponizing the federal government against his perceived enemies and does not believe laws apply to him or his Cabinet.

Now Trump is weaponizing the FBI to go after the Members of Congress who spoke out against him.

The President is corrupt and none of us should back down in the face of these intimidation tactics.

West Virginia Sen. Justice agrees to pay nearly $5.2 million in overdue taxes The Internal Revenue Service last month filed liens totaling more than $8 million against Justice and his wife on unpaid personal taxes.

U.S. Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million in overdue personal taxes, the latest saga for the former billionaire who has been followed by a trail of financial challenges going back well over a decade. https://to.pbs.org/3K98FQW

Supporting data for that blog post I wrote about tied scores at the NIH. The first figure depicts the issue with real review outcomes from 2016. The "pilot study" itself, well, take a look.
public.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Hal...

And finally all at SyracuseU - @shaharsu.bsky.social @jessniblo.bsky.social for protein analyses, @rmshepherd.bsky.social for culturing, & @oliverio.bsky.social for leading this effort with me!

Amazing thread: every time we expand the range of what's possible for terrestrial extremophiles, the likelihood life exists elsewhere in the galaxy goes up for me.

Breaking:

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.

Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.

kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

Data centers are important for many reasons BUT consumers should NOT have to pay higher bills to facilitate the huge amounts of electricity they eat up.

The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.

I find it interesting, who says that things are tight, here’s one way to cope — and who says this thing is underrated/forgotten/clever.

Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.

ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.

The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.

Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

California issues update to reaffirm that vaccines are not linked to autism | Governor of California

🔗 Read more:

While RFK Jr spreads conspiracies, California will stick to science.

U of Winnipeg's 5-year strategic plan includes focus on research, reconciliation | CBC News The University of Winnipeg says it wants to build an inclusive campus that's strong on research and a leader in moving reconciliation with Indigenous communities forward, as it sets its priorities for...

The statement says they want to focus on their new plan so they removed him. We talking about this new plan? Why couldn't he execute this fairly anondyne plan?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"I am writing to advise the UWinnipeg community that Dr. Todd Mondor, President and Vice-Chancellor, is no longer with the University, effective immediately."

You good Winnipeg?

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

My ERA commons is broken! 😆🫠

COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.

Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.

How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social

If you want to read something completely nuts from the unregulated world of direct to consumer genomics, look no further.

And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.

2 of 4 PETITIONERS-PLAINTIFFS' RESPONSE TO THE COURT'S NOVEMBER 24, 2025 ORDER In response to this Court's order of November 24, 2025, Petitioners-Plaintiffs ("Plaintiffs") respectfully provide their position on how the Court's fact-finding inquiry should proceed. First, the Court should immediately require the government to promptly file declarations) identifying all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025, regardless of whether they were the ultimate decision-maker or had direct input into the decision, as well as all those with knowledge of the decision-making process. Second, once these declarations are filed and depending on what information they disclose, the Court should then determine the appropriate sequence of witness testimony, and the manner in which that testimony should be provided. At this initial stage, Plaintiffs list as potential witnesses only those identified in the whistleblower disclosure of Erez Reuveni, former Acting Deputy 1 Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 193 Filed 11/25/25 Page 2 of 4 Director of the Department of Justice ("DOJ") Office of Immigration Litigation ("OIL"), see ECF 158-1 ("Reuveni Disclosure"): 1. Former Acting Deputy Director of OIL Erez Reuveni' 2. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign 3. Former Acting Director of OIL August Flentje 4. Counselor to the Deputy Attorney General James McHenry 5. Associate Deputy Attorney General Paul Perkins 6. Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security James Percival 7. Acting General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security Joseph Mazzara 8. Former Acting Assistant Attorney General (now Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General) Yaakov Roth 9. Former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove This list is not intended to be exhaustive: it reflects only those individuals expressly identified in the whistleblower materials. Beyond these individuals, the whistlebl…

As Judge Boasberg considers how to move forward with contempt proceedings re: Alien Enemies Act flights, plaintiffs provide list of names for potential witness testimony.

The list includes former DOJ official Emil Bove, who is now a federal judge on the 3rd Cir.

British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents

ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

A New Flu Variant May Make Cold Season Brutal This Year U.S. flu rates remain low, but experts are keeping an eye on a new strain that’s been linked to unexpectedly early and severe seasons in several other countries

It's a very very bad flu season this year. If you haven't gotten your vaxx yet (looks at herself*) get it. At minimum it will make your infection less bad.

*(Time got away from me and I'm too chicken shit to mix Covid and Flu vaccines so I got my Covid shot but not my flu . I will tomorrow!)

Provost: "Every academic decision right now will be based on student demand as measured by credit hour production and ROI as measured by earnings after graduation."

Faculty: "What about the new school for civics?"

Provost: "...Except that one."