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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· 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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Why is the premise of Amol's questions to head of OBR that welfare spending is too large and that debt is bad.
We need the BBC to stop being a mouthpiece of orthodox economics and thereby the interests of the rich and powerful.
#r4today
We need the BBC to stop being a mouthpiece of orthodox economics and thereby the interests of the rich and powerful.
#r4today
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Why is the premise of Amol's questions to head of OBR that welfare spending is too large and that debt is bad.
We need the BBC to stop being a mouthpiece of orthodox economics and thereby the interests of the rich and powerful.
#r4today
We need the BBC to stop being a mouthpiece of orthodox economics and thereby the interests of the rich and powerful.
#r4today
#r4today financial segment helping us be in hock to and being exploited by the bond markets!
The fact that they're ok with Reeves budget is not a good thing!
Instead we need govs to spend to tackle the many deep challenges in the UK and a BoE backing the gov instead of working against it.
The fact that they're ok with Reeves budget is not a good thing!
Instead we need govs to spend to tackle the many deep challenges in the UK and a BoE backing the gov instead of working against it.
Pretty sickening that the BBC are so pally with an investor in bond markets.
Bond markets want to make profit from gov borrowing and have no interest in the social welfare of the country.
Again the BBC show complete bias towards orthodoxy on economic matters!
#r4today
Bond markets want to make profit from gov borrowing and have no interest in the social welfare of the country.
Again the BBC show complete bias towards orthodoxy on economic matters!
#r4today
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
#r4today financial segment helping us be in hock to and being exploited by the bond markets!
The fact that they're ok with Reeves budget is not a good thing!
Instead we need govs to spend to tackle the many deep challenges in the UK and a BoE backing the gov instead of working against it.
The fact that they're ok with Reeves budget is not a good thing!
Instead we need govs to spend to tackle the many deep challenges in the UK and a BoE backing the gov instead of working against it.
Pretty sickening that the BBC are so pally with an investor in bond markets.
Bond markets want to make profit from gov borrowing and have no interest in the social welfare of the country.
Again the BBC show complete bias towards orthodoxy on economic matters!
#r4today
Bond markets want to make profit from gov borrowing and have no interest in the social welfare of the country.
Again the BBC show complete bias towards orthodoxy on economic matters!
#r4today
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Pretty sickening that the BBC are so pally with an investor in bond markets.
Bond markets want to make profit from gov borrowing and have no interest in the social welfare of the country.
Again the BBC show complete bias towards orthodoxy on economic matters!
#r4today
Bond markets want to make profit from gov borrowing and have no interest in the social welfare of the country.
Again the BBC show complete bias towards orthodoxy on economic matters!
#r4today
For me the key thing about Farage's racist comments is that he could easily say that was who I was then, I've changed, I denounce them and apologise to those students.
But he didn't and that tells me everything you need to know.
#r4today
But he didn't and that tells me everything you need to know.
#r4today
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
For me the key thing about Farage's racist comments is that he could easily say that was who I was then, I've changed, I denounce them and apologise to those students.
But he didn't and that tells me everything you need to know.
#r4today
But he didn't and that tells me everything you need to know.
#r4today
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Haldane really disingenuous about @zackpolanski.bsky.social using perjoratives "lala land economics" & "funny money solutions": borrowing is not QE & he didn't advocate printing money! Haldane lashing out to avoid substance of argument: govs can borrow to command resources in economy.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Haldane really disingenuous about @zackpolanski.bsky.social using perjoratives "lala land economics" & "funny money solutions": borrowing is not QE & he didn't advocate printing money! Haldane lashing out to avoid substance of argument: govs can borrow to command resources in economy.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social actually talking economic sense and very clearly and forcefully stating that govs are not households!!
#r4today
#r4today
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social actually talking economic sense and very clearly and forcefully stating that govs are not households!!
#r4today
#r4today
The goal of gov is not to get debt down—goal of gov is to spend to drive the economy, by giving money to people to spend in the economy to drive demand and to invest in the infrastructure: both encourage private investment.
As Keynes said "Anything we can actually do, we can afford"
#bbclaurak
As Keynes said "Anything we can actually do, we can afford"
#bbclaurak
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The goal of gov is not to get debt down—goal of gov is to spend to drive the economy, by giving money to people to spend in the economy to drive demand and to invest in the infrastructure: both encourage private investment.
As Keynes said "Anything we can actually do, we can afford"
#bbclaurak
As Keynes said "Anything we can actually do, we can afford"
#bbclaurak
Feels like rewriting of history here—it was always about protecting NHS from being overwhelmed with COVID.
Also as my paper shows, we did not need an endless lockdown to eliminate COVID & but potentially a matter of months if we stayed in lockdown in June 2020.
#r4today
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Also as my paper shows, we did not need an endless lockdown to eliminate COVID & but potentially a matter of months if we stayed in lockdown in June 2020.
#r4today
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Happy that I have finally published this work at @epljournal.bsky.social which calculates the distribution of pandemic extinction times using only NPIs (yes lockdowns) & predicts that the covid pandemic could have been eliminated in a time of order months! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Feels like rewriting of history here—it was always about protecting NHS from being overwhelmed with COVID.
Also as my paper shows, we did not need an endless lockdown to eliminate COVID & but potentially a matter of months if we stayed in lockdown in June 2020.
#r4today
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Also as my paper shows, we did not need an endless lockdown to eliminate COVID & but potentially a matter of months if we stayed in lockdown in June 2020.
#r4today
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What's shamebolic is a discussion of our economic future without saying capitalism has caused climate change and will cause future economic damage.
This is like arranging the deck chairs on the titanic, when we should be moving to a war-like economy to defeat climate change.
#r4today
This is like arranging the deck chairs on the titanic, when we should be moving to a war-like economy to defeat climate change.
#r4today
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What's shamebolic is a discussion of our economic future without saying capitalism has caused climate change and will cause future economic damage.
This is like arranging the deck chairs on the titanic, when we should be moving to a war-like economy to defeat climate change.
#r4today
This is like arranging the deck chairs on the titanic, when we should be moving to a war-like economy to defeat climate change.
#r4today
If you look at composition of BBC board of 13 (before resignations) then only one who you could say is out-and-out on the left (Muriel Gray) with the rest likely centrist or further right. So not a surprise that in fact there a bias against anything left wing, socially or economically.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
The Tube presenter, the former ballerina and the banker: the BBC board’s members
While the director general, Tim Davie, is often in the spotlight, here is what you need to know about the rest of the broadcaster’s leadership
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If you look at composition of BBC board of 13 (before resignations) then only one who you could say is out-and-out on the left (Muriel Gray) with the rest likely centrist or further right. So not a surprise that in fact there a bias against anything left wing, socially or economically.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
Fact that Laura Kuenssberg asked both Mahmood and Phelps basically the same questions tells you everything you need to know!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Fact that Laura Kuenssberg asked both Mahmood and Phelps basically the same questions tells you everything you need to know!
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#bbclaurak
What made me angry about Tories is they had knack of promoting ethnic minorities with callous views to positions of authority, since they calculate that it is more difficult to call them racist or immoral. It seems with Mahmood Labour are taking a leaf out of their playbook.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What made me angry about Tories is they had knack of promoting ethnic minorities with callous views to positions of authority, since they calculate that it is more difficult to call them racist or immoral. It seems with Mahmood Labour are taking a leaf out of their playbook.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
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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November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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
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#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
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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
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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