Debdutta Paul
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Debdutta Paul
@dbdttpl.bsky.social
science journalist by day • aspiring author by night • I deeply care about communicating science through impactful stories. And, I find solace in mountains and jungles.
“And once the stars are everywhere, they stop glowing altogether.”

Loved this piece!

www.newslaundry.com/2025/10/27/m...
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara: Why India’s most beloved TV moment failed when it tried again
Piyush Pandey’s death has brought back memories of his most enduring contribution to Indian pop culture.
www.newslaundry.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
All the “use AI to do [this]” ads on YouTube are so stupid that I can’t even tell if some human actually vetted them.
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Call for pitches: Dialogue Earth

▶️Articles between 1,000 and 1,500 words
▶️English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, and Bengali

#ScienceJournalism #science #journalism #SciWri #job #opportunity #pitch #story #freelance #freelanceGig

dialogue.earth/en/pitch/
Pitch
We publish articles by journalists, academics, experts, policymakers and activists on global climate change and environmental issues
dialogue.earth
August 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Tarbell Grant

▶️Original reporting on artificial intelligence and its impacts
▶️$1,000 - $15,000

⭕Deadline: September 14th, 2025

#ScienceJournalism #science #journalism #SciWri #grant #pitch #story #research #apply #freelance #freelanceGig

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Tarbell Grants
Tarbell Grants offers awards of $1,000 - $15,000 to support journalism on AI and its impacts.
www.tarbellfellowship.org
August 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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HOME Alliance Media Fellowship Program

🔹Theme: Investigating Geoengineering: Risks, Realities, and Real Climate Justice
🔹1yr starting Sep 2025
🔹Stipend: 2000 USD
🔹At least 3yrs exp

⭕Apply by 10 Sep, 11.59 PM UTC

#ScienceJournalism #SciWri #fellowship

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Call for Applications: HOME Alliance Media Fellowship Program - HOME Alliance
handsoffmotherearth.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Will Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government, those who voted it to power, and those “liberal” governments around the world who let it do this — be ever held accountable?

Will the Germans tell Zionist Jews the hypocrites they are?

The world won’t forget.

www.telegraphindia.com/world/childr...
Children starve in Gaza hospital as Israel's blockade cuts off food and medical supplies
In greater numbers than ever, children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient's Friends Hospital, the main emergency center for malnourished kids in northern Gaza
www.telegraphindia.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
What can we call no serious disease but constant sickness?

Adulting.
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I *love* the Let’s Talk Psychology Podcast. The latest is one of my most favourite episodes.

youtu.be/FLh4VBteyVQ
Depression Guilt, and the Years You Can’t Get Back
YouTube video by Let's Talk Psychology Podcast
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July 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I am sick and tired of being sick… and tired.
July 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This story has been sitting with me since it was decommissioned by a physics publication on April 21, 2025, the filing date. So here it goes.

🎬 Presenting the first science journalistic story on my own blog.

🔗 debduttapaul.com/2025/06/15/t...
The Universe Is More Complex Than We Thought
I investigate, as a science journalist, the claims and counter-claims of what dark energy is up to.
debduttapaul.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The confidence with which ChatGPT hallucinates! Oh my.
May 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Ooops, I am addicted to Notion.
May 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
While the kings go to war, the grasses die.
রাজায় রাজায় যুদ্ধ হয়, উলুখাগড়ার প্রাণ যায়।
May 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
রাজায় রাজায় যুদ্ধ হয়, উলুখাগড়ার প্রাণ যায়।
May 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
There is nothing to be proud of going to war.
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm tired. It's ruthless out there. I'm just so tired.
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I am practically hopeful of my dreams — so they shall live on.

I *will* make them a reality.

As the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Dear world, here I come!
April 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Shoutout to everyone writing a book and silently wondering if it's any good. You're doing better than you think!

#Booksky #Writer #Author
March 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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First up, an interview with Ravinder Kaur whose sociological work at IIT Delhi has directly shaped at least one national policy and should inspire our other STEM institutes to take similar cold, hard looks at themselves 👀 #HumanIITies thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...
March 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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”Constantly, I’ve been trying to do things at IIT Delhi without rejecting the institution as such.”
LabHopping’s month-long special series #HumanIITies kicks off with this interview of sociologist Ravinder Kaur by Aashima Dogra. Do read.
thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...
The tempered radicalism of Ravinder Kaur
An interview with Ravinder Kaur, IIT Delhi Emerita Professor of Sociology
thelifeofscience.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Descriptions of fishes available on Freshtohome are epic!

— বাঙালি
March 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#PoorJoke : We are astronomers. Both theoretical and experimental physicists look down on us. And we look up to every body else, including the stars.
February 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Nope, I don't "shed light on __" any more. It's a cliche, well overused.
February 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
www.aip.org/history-prog...

Going through this oral interview just reinforced my understanding why DEI needs to keep happening.
Willard Libby - Session I
Marlowe:
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February 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM