Bhumi Purohit
@bhumi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Georgetown's McCourt School, comparative political scientist. Spend most of my time thinking about gender + bureaucracy in India.
been inactive on bsky b/c i've been busy ruining things
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
been inactive on bsky b/c i've been busy ruining things
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#FirstView from @iojournal.bsky.social -
How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment - https://cup.org/4n84OB6
- Nikhar Gaikwad, @kolbyhanson.bsky.social & @aliz-toth.bsky.social
How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment - https://cup.org/4n84OB6
- Nikhar Gaikwad, @kolbyhanson.bsky.social & @aliz-toth.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#FirstView from @iojournal.bsky.social -
How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment - https://cup.org/4n84OB6
- Nikhar Gaikwad, @kolbyhanson.bsky.social & @aliz-toth.bsky.social
How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment - https://cup.org/4n84OB6
- Nikhar Gaikwad, @kolbyhanson.bsky.social & @aliz-toth.bsky.social
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NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
October 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
I know there are many crises at the moment but I would like us to discuss another one: bros talking crypto at cafes. It's inescapable and insufferable and someone do something.
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I know there are many crises at the moment but I would like us to discuss another one: bros talking crypto at cafes. It's inescapable and insufferable and someone do something.
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NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...
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How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
At a time when we're witnessing so much cruelty, it's crucial to recognize and credit good people doing thankless, benevolent, and sometimes therefore dangerous work.
The Sudan Emergency Response Rooms was considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year and last. Here's their story. n.pr/43fHNEZ
This Nobel Peace Prize front-runner didn't win -- but did get the 'alternative Nobel'
The Sudan Emergency Response Rooms was considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year and last. Here's their story.
n.pr
October 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
At a time when we're witnessing so much cruelty, it's crucial to recognize and credit good people doing thankless, benevolent, and sometimes therefore dangerous work.
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🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities!
Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.
Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India - https://cup.org/4mZR3Em
- @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, @simonchauchard.bsky.social & FLORIAN SICHART
#FirstView
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India - https://cup.org/4mZR3Em
- @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, @simonchauchard.bsky.social & FLORIAN SICHART
#FirstView
October 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities!
Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.
Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Francesca and her colleagues have contributed so much public data on India, it's truly transformative (and fricking hard work!)
Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Francesca and her colleagues have contributed so much public data on India, it's truly transformative (and fricking hard work!)
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
My two year old has started following me around and constantly asking "Mumma doing? Mumma doing?" and it's easily my favorite part of each day
October 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
My two year old has started following me around and constantly asking "Mumma doing? Mumma doing?" and it's easily my favorite part of each day
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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
“If the United States and others are serious about achieving lasting peace in Sudan, they must empower the country’s civilian representatives, not its warlords,” Suliman Baldo and Mai Hassan write.
Opinion | The World’s Warlords Are Watching Sudan
If the world recognizes Sudan’s military government, it will exacerbate a humanitarian crisis — and betray the country’s pro-democracy movement.
nyti.ms
September 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#polisky
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Really great and carefully done paper on the bureaucracy ⬇️
Do managerial bureaucrats impact the quality of service provision for difficult-to-monitor tasks?
In my JMP, I argue that they do but that the type of bureaucrats having an impact is not what gets most attention in the literature (and from politicians / media).
Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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In my JMP, I argue that they do but that the type of bureaucrats having an impact is not what gets most attention in the literature (and from politicians / media).
Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Really great and carefully done paper on the bureaucracy ⬇️
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for
open science, design, aggregation, transfer..?
Call open now with @egap.bsky.social
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Deadline 31 October
Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for
open science, design, aggregation, transfer..?
Call open now with @egap.bsky.social
egap.org/our-work/res...
@awilke.bsky.social
Deadline 31 October
EGAP Innovation Grants 2025 – EGAP
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September 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Please share:
Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for
open science, design, aggregation, transfer..?
Call open now with @egap.bsky.social
egap.org/our-work/res...
@awilke.bsky.social
Deadline 31 October
Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for
open science, design, aggregation, transfer..?
Call open now with @egap.bsky.social
egap.org/our-work/res...
@awilke.bsky.social
Deadline 31 October
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Do you need a helping hand? Here’s where to find all kinds of help in D.C., from legal aid to housing assistance. 51st.news/a-guide-to-g...
A guide to giving and receiving help in D.C.
Where to find all kinds of assistance, from legal aid to food donations to political organizing.
51st.news
August 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Do you need a helping hand? Here’s where to find all kinds of help in D.C., from legal aid to housing assistance. 51st.news/a-guide-to-g...
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Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.
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“Mothers arrive at our clinics exhausted, often after walking for hours carrying malnourished babies,” writes Mohammed Mansour with the International Rescue Committee in Gaza. “They ask, ‘Will my child survive?’ or ‘Do you have any milk or food?’ These are questions we can’t always answer.”
Opinion | The World Is Letting Gaza Starve
Today, many children in Gaza are so hungry they may never recover, and our supplies are critically low.
nyti.ms
July 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“Mothers arrive at our clinics exhausted, often after walking for hours carrying malnourished babies,” writes Mohammed Mansour with the International Rescue Committee in Gaza. “They ask, ‘Will my child survive?’ or ‘Do you have any milk or food?’ These are questions we can’t always answer.”
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🚨 Paper now as "just accepted" at @The_JOP. We ran the first WhatsApp deactivation experiment focused on multimedia content ahead of the 2022 election in Brazil. We find a reduction in users' recall of false rumors -- and, to a smaller degree, of true news. Null effects on attitudes. Full thread ⬇️
In the Global South, WhatsApp is more popular than X or Facebook.
New in @The_JOP, we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
New in @The_JOP, we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
July 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 Paper now as "just accepted" at @The_JOP. We ran the first WhatsApp deactivation experiment focused on multimedia content ahead of the 2022 election in Brazil. We find a reduction in users' recall of false rumors -- and, to a smaller degree, of true news. Null effects on attitudes. Full thread ⬇️