Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
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: 0000-0002-6859-0073
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- "'The consequences are enormous,' said Drew Weissman, director of the Institute for RNA Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2023 Nobel laureate in medicine for the discoveries that enabled the mRNA Covid vaccines. 'It has so much potential for other therapies.'"
- "Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
- Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
- important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...
- “Let’s be clear. Trump’s war on science is not making America healthy again. It is making Americans and people throughout the world sicker…This must end. Congress, the scientific community, and the American people must stand up and fight back.” 🧪
- It's worse than we thought. www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...
- THE ACCURACY 😭😫
- Gurl.
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- “Julia Slotkin, who read an article wherein the United States government seriously pondered, after essentially stripping women of all rights, what they could maybe ‘do’ to encourage them to have more children, including giving women medals if they have more than six…
- Slotkin, to her immense credit, did not fall into an open grave while laughing maniacally and clawing dirt onto her own face. Rather, she simply put down her phone and continued making a sheet-pan dinner.” 🫠
- Afternoon cocktails in the backyard with my sweetie #SaturdayAfternoon
- I think we need to remember that there are two goals for this administration: delaying or stopping funding outright AND chilling the enthusiasm for participating in the biomedical research enterprise. Research is most successful, and inclusive, when its support is stable and certain.
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- That’s why we need to remember that resegregating academic science is an explicit goal of theirs and needs our attention as much as the delay or termination of funds
