Bhav
@bhavkhatri.bsky.social
Theoretical physicist/biologist. Interested in evolutionary theory & inference, statistical mechanics of genotype-phenotype maps, virus evolution, and DNA/chromatin polymer physics.
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Bhav
@bhavkhatri.bsky.social
· Jul 16
A new material constant of DNA is the major determinant of looping dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.664086v1
I'm very pleased to share this work, which discovers a new material property of DNA—the bending friction— in essence how "sticky or viscous" DNA is as it bends & loops due to all the complex molecular interactions within itself & water
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Someone should send Trump this!
#r4today
#r4today
BBC Trust says Laura Kuenssberg report on Corbyn was inaccurate
Regulator says report on Labour leader’s views about shoot-to-kill breached impartiality and accuracy guidelines
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Someone should send Trump this!
#r4today
#r4today
Lewis Goodall:
"I would have much more time for the Prescott dossier if it raised partiality questions across the spectrum – complaints about Reform over-representation, Green and Lib Dem under-representation, a tendency to follow orthodox economic analysis.."
#r4today
"I would have much more time for the Prescott dossier if it raised partiality questions across the spectrum – complaints about Reform over-representation, Green and Lib Dem under-representation, a tendency to follow orthodox economic analysis.."
#r4today
Trump’s attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
magazine.newstatesman.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Lewis Goodall:
"I would have much more time for the Prescott dossier if it raised partiality questions across the spectrum – complaints about Reform over-representation, Green and Lib Dem under-representation, a tendency to follow orthodox economic analysis.."
#r4today
"I would have much more time for the Prescott dossier if it raised partiality questions across the spectrum – complaints about Reform over-representation, Green and Lib Dem under-representation, a tendency to follow orthodox economic analysis.."
#r4today
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria!
Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
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Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology 2026
ECMTB is coming to Graz, Austria in July 2026. Registration and Call for Contributions are open!
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November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria!
Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
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Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
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You've got to ask why promising UK green technology companies — here developing hydrogen electrolysers and fuel cells, which could be critical for storing excess energy capacity of renewables— are being allowed to fail by this Labour government?!
#greentechnology
#greentransition
#hydrogen
#greentechnology
#greentransition
#hydrogen
UK electrolyser and fuel-cell manufacturer seeks insolvency after failing to secure new financing
Bramble Energy had developed PEM fuel cells and AEM electrolysers based around printed circuit board technology
www.hydrogeninsight.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You've got to ask why promising UK green technology companies — here developing hydrogen electrolysers and fuel cells, which could be critical for storing excess energy capacity of renewables— are being allowed to fail by this Labour government?!
#greentechnology
#greentransition
#hydrogen
#greentechnology
#greentransition
#hydrogen
So the left & right both criticise the BBC, so surely they are unbiased??
But BBC is the defender of the currently right wing status quo/centre & interests of those in power.
The status quo may have been more left post war, but right have been constantly pushing it further right since.
#r4today
But BBC is the defender of the currently right wing status quo/centre & interests of those in power.
The status quo may have been more left post war, but right have been constantly pushing it further right since.
#r4today
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So the left & right both criticise the BBC, so surely they are unbiased??
But BBC is the defender of the currently right wing status quo/centre & interests of those in power.
The status quo may have been more left post war, but right have been constantly pushing it further right since.
#r4today
But BBC is the defender of the currently right wing status quo/centre & interests of those in power.
The status quo may have been more left post war, but right have been constantly pushing it further right since.
#r4today
Pray tell me why the BBC are asking an investment banker from Deutsche Bank about the UK employment situation and macroeconomics!
Clear left wing bias!!
#r4today
Clear left wing bias!!
#r4today
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Pray tell me why the BBC are asking an investment banker from Deutsche Bank about the UK employment situation and macroeconomics!
Clear left wing bias!!
#r4today
Clear left wing bias!!
#r4today
This is all misdirection. While the BBC continues to fail daily to talk about the facts on how neoliberal economics has failed working class communities and society, we get the right wing zealots sniff blood to push the BBC further right and the country closer to fascism.
#r4today
#r4today
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This is all misdirection. While the BBC continues to fail daily to talk about the facts on how neoliberal economics has failed working class communities and society, we get the right wing zealots sniff blood to push the BBC further right and the country closer to fascism.
#r4today
#r4today
Harrowing story and completely preventable if this company — Character AI — gave a shit more than converting addiction to profit.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Harrowing story and completely preventable if this company — Character AI — gave a shit more than converting addiction to profit.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
I would hope that Lisa Nandy as a Labour minister would highlight the systematic right-wing bias in economic reporting on the BBC: e.g. governments are not households and so they do not need to balance the books, and in fact doing so can damage the economy!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I would hope that Lisa Nandy as a Labour minister would highlight the systematic right-wing bias in economic reporting on the BBC: e.g. governments are not households and so they do not need to balance the books, and in fact doing so can damage the economy!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
The bias against left that #r4today on show again: lead headline news item far right agitator Musk's $1trillion pay out Vs historic election of first Muslim, first south Asian and first democratic socialist major of New York—home of Wall street & finance—not lead, but 3rd item on hourly headline!
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The bias against left that #r4today on show again: lead headline news item far right agitator Musk's $1trillion pay out Vs historic election of first Muslim, first south Asian and first democratic socialist major of New York—home of Wall street & finance—not lead, but 3rd item on hourly headline!
Microplastics is just another example of unfettered capitalism not living within it's means causing damage to ourselves, our planet and ecosystems in which we depend to survive long term. We are unique as a species that as populations grow we use more energy per capita not less!
#r4today
#r4today
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Microplastics is just another example of unfettered capitalism not living within it's means causing damage to ourselves, our planet and ecosystems in which we depend to survive long term. We are unique as a species that as populations grow we use more energy per capita not less!
#r4today
#r4today
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Great reporting, great story-telling: How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Great reporting, great story-telling: How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
I can't help thinking that if Cuomo won there would be wall to wall coverage right now about the failure of the "hard/radical" left. As it is, feels this momentous win for the left in the heart of capitalism and finance is being downplayed.
#r4today
#r4today
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I can't help thinking that if Cuomo won there would be wall to wall coverage right now about the failure of the "hard/radical" left. As it is, feels this momentous win for the left in the heart of capitalism and finance is being downplayed.
#r4today
#r4today
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Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
Given that increasing taxation is likely to reduce spending power and growth, you can tell that the government aren't serious when there exists a simple way to reduce gov expenditure: the BoE pays — for no good reason — £20B to £30B interest on commercial bank reserves!
#r4today
#r4today
An unnecessary banking subsidy whose time is up
Labour can save public money and enhance central bank independence with some tweaks to the BoE remit
www.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Given that increasing taxation is likely to reduce spending power and growth, you can tell that the government aren't serious when there exists a simple way to reduce gov expenditure: the BoE pays — for no good reason — £20B to £30B interest on commercial bank reserves!
#r4today
#r4today
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”The entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in these sorts of events.”
Trump Throws “Great Gatsby” Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions
President Trump held a lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago Friday, just hours before an estimated 42 million people lost SNAP benefits across the country. Kirk Curnutt, the execut...
www.democracynow.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
”The entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in these sorts of events.”
Marginal pricing is a choice that means gas sets the price of all electricity generation. We need to make different choices that brings down prices and penalises carbon emissions.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Marginal pricing is a choice that means gas sets the price of all electricity generation. We need to make different choices that brings down prices and penalises carbon emissions.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
When Zia Yusuf and Reform cite academic research that means they found the one paper that supports they ideology!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
When Zia Yusuf and Reform cite academic research that means they found the one paper that supports they ideology!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
It was Carl Sagan who warned that divergence between technological advance & general scientific education of the public that would lead societies "to slide into superstition and darkness". The fact that a serious news programme suggests ghosts might exist suggests we're well down the slide! #r4today
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It was Carl Sagan who warned that divergence between technological advance & general scientific education of the public that would lead societies "to slide into superstition and darkness". The fact that a serious news programme suggests ghosts might exist suggests we're well down the slide! #r4today
There was no need for stabilisation of the economy, because it wasn't unstable in any sense in the first place! Conservatives did decimate the economy, but the solution is for gov to spend and not balance the books, which is repeating the Tory mistake!!
#r4today
#r4today
October 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
There was no need for stabilisation of the economy, because it wasn't unstable in any sense in the first place! Conservatives did decimate the economy, but the solution is for gov to spend and not balance the books, which is repeating the Tory mistake!!
#r4today
#r4today
Renewables are cheaper and the marginal pricing system means we don't get that benefit and instead the most expensive provider to guarantee energy sets the overall price!
This is a choice and there other choices that would allow consumers to benefit from cheaper renewables!
#r4today
This is a choice and there other choices that would allow consumers to benefit from cheaper renewables!
#r4today
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Renewables are cheaper and the marginal pricing system means we don't get that benefit and instead the most expensive provider to guarantee energy sets the overall price!
This is a choice and there other choices that would allow consumers to benefit from cheaper renewables!
#r4today
This is a choice and there other choices that would allow consumers to benefit from cheaper renewables!
#r4today
Why would Hamas want to continue controlling Gaza if they called for release of Marwan Barghouti, who is their political opponent? Sadly, Israel refused his release, since he is likely the strongest chance for forming a 2-state solution. #r4today
October 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Why would Hamas want to continue controlling Gaza if they called for release of Marwan Barghouti, who is their political opponent? Sadly, Israel refused his release, since he is likely the strongest chance for forming a 2-state solution. #r4today
Great how @zackpolanski.bsky.social handled Victoria Derbyshire: clearly wealth tax is not a panacea & govs can directly invest. And yes stop treating IFS as some unbiased economic arbiter—just look at their foundations! They are die hard, card-carrying "balance the books" economists!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
Institute for Fiscal Studies - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Great how @zackpolanski.bsky.social handled Victoria Derbyshire: clearly wealth tax is not a panacea & govs can directly invest. And yes stop treating IFS as some unbiased economic arbiter—just look at their foundations! They are die hard, card-carrying "balance the books" economists!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak