Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D.
@apoorvaj.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary researcher. I design more effective #Environmental, #Risk, #Visual & #ScienceCommunication to improve #Decisions, #Behaviors, & products amid tectonic global shifts in Media use, Technologies, & Mis- and Disinformation.
Also: 🐶 + 👩🏻🌾 = 😇
Also: 🐶 + 👩🏻🌾 = 😇
NGL, I hadn’t anticipated having $30 extra every month because I’d no longer need to pay for Paramount+, Disney+, and Hulu, but I’m kinda glad to have extra time to read & garden! Am I super bummed to miss out on the new season of Only Murders in the Building? Absolutely. 🙁 But… 😐🤷🏻♀️⛓️💥
September 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
NGL, I hadn’t anticipated having $30 extra every month because I’d no longer need to pay for Paramount+, Disney+, and Hulu, but I’m kinda glad to have extra time to read & garden! Am I super bummed to miss out on the new season of Only Murders in the Building? Absolutely. 🙁 But… 😐🤷🏻♀️⛓️💥
Little of sunshine ☀️ amidst the ☁️ recent gloomy skies:
🫱🏽When your best friends make a plan and you are SO IN!🫲🏼
Showed this to my dog because she is 100% that friend who’s always ready to roll, no questions asked. 😇
🫱🏽When your best friends make a plan and you are SO IN!🫲🏼
Showed this to my dog because she is 100% that friend who’s always ready to roll, no questions asked. 😇
August 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Little of sunshine ☀️ amidst the ☁️ recent gloomy skies:
🫱🏽When your best friends make a plan and you are SO IN!🫲🏼
Showed this to my dog because she is 100% that friend who’s always ready to roll, no questions asked. 😇
🫱🏽When your best friends make a plan and you are SO IN!🫲🏼
Showed this to my dog because she is 100% that friend who’s always ready to roll, no questions asked. 😇
Just watched a kid in Minneapolis, with no political leanings, innocently say on the news, “We practice for these, but I never thought it would actually happen.” It baffles me that kids have to *practice* running active shooter drills at *school* & now church like it’s normal. Let that sink in. 💔
August 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Just watched a kid in Minneapolis, with no political leanings, innocently say on the news, “We practice for these, but I never thought it would actually happen.” It baffles me that kids have to *practice* running active shooter drills at *school* & now church like it’s normal. Let that sink in. 💔
Just breaking my self-imposed digital silence to prophesize that the @colbertlateshow.bsky.social writing is likely going to be epically gloves-off 🔥 in its final months. A laughably bad decision; all but ensures 🙏🏽🤞🏽 that Stephen’s next gig will be even more iconic & the 💰won’t be going to CBS! ⏳
July 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Just breaking my self-imposed digital silence to prophesize that the @colbertlateshow.bsky.social writing is likely going to be epically gloves-off 🔥 in its final months. A laughably bad decision; all but ensures 🙏🏽🤞🏽 that Stephen’s next gig will be even more iconic & the 💰won’t be going to CBS! ⏳
Reposted by Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D.
Not great news for those of us living in the Gulf Coast! #CNN Exclusive: FEMA is “not ready” for hurricane season, internal agency review shows
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/p...
Exclusive: FEMA is “not ready” for hurricane season, internal agency review shows | CNN Politics
Hurricane preparations at FEMA have slowed to a crawl. With hurricane season weeks away, a new assessment raises a number of red flags about how the agency would respond to a major disaster.
www.cnn.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Not great news for those of us living in the Gulf Coast! #CNN Exclusive: FEMA is “not ready” for hurricane season, internal agency review shows
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/p...
Reposted by Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D.
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Important examples of debunked and fact-checked misinformation and #disinformation on the latest India-Pakistan conflict triggered by the killing of unsuspecting civilians and tourists in the attack at Pahalgam. #OperationSindoor #India #factcheck #medialiteracy
#Thread India launched an attack on several sites in Pakistan as retaliation for the killings of 26 civilians in Kashmir last month, Pakistan claims to be responding to these attacks. However, #misinformation is being shared on SM with old content
#FactCheck #OperationSindoor
#FactCheck #OperationSindoor
May 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Important examples of debunked and fact-checked misinformation and #disinformation on the latest India-Pakistan conflict triggered by the killing of unsuspecting civilians and tourists in the attack at Pahalgam. #OperationSindoor #India #factcheck #medialiteracy
Dear @thedailyshow.com - My husband, the engineer and math whiz who was thrilled by the light saber—Sith Lord connection, would like me to bring to your attention this fixed version of the chart that Jon used on tonight’s episode. 🫣 Yes, I am acutely aware of the nerdiness quotient here. 😎 🙏🏽
May 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Dear @thedailyshow.com - My husband, the engineer and math whiz who was thrilled by the light saber—Sith Lord connection, would like me to bring to your attention this fixed version of the chart that Jon used on tonight’s episode. 🫣 Yes, I am acutely aware of the nerdiness quotient here. 😎 🙏🏽
Logged in to email & saw that @ametsoc.org & @agu.org are, once again, leading by example with a joint statement to co-produce a novel 💡OPEN ACCESS💡 collection of climate change research after the the US National Climate Assessment’s staff & authors were dismissed. 🥲 www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
AGU AND AMS JOIN FORCES ON SPECIAL COLLECTION TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM OF RESEARCH SUPPORTING THE U.S. NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
www.ametsoc.org
May 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Logged in to email & saw that @ametsoc.org & @agu.org are, once again, leading by example with a joint statement to co-produce a novel 💡OPEN ACCESS💡 collection of climate change research after the the US National Climate Assessment’s staff & authors were dismissed. 🥲 www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
Text from a friend today: “How’re you doing?”
My response: “Well, I just started following an account called Daily Bunnies to get a dose of fluffy bunny content everyday on BlueSky, so you tell me how you think it’s going…” 😶
This is not* an (unintentional) plug for @dailybunnies.bsky.social 🫠
My response: “Well, I just started following an account called Daily Bunnies to get a dose of fluffy bunny content everyday on BlueSky, so you tell me how you think it’s going…” 😶
This is not* an (unintentional) plug for @dailybunnies.bsky.social 🫠
May 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Text from a friend today: “How’re you doing?”
My response: “Well, I just started following an account called Daily Bunnies to get a dose of fluffy bunny content everyday on BlueSky, so you tell me how you think it’s going…” 😶
This is not* an (unintentional) plug for @dailybunnies.bsky.social 🫠
My response: “Well, I just started following an account called Daily Bunnies to get a dose of fluffy bunny content everyday on BlueSky, so you tell me how you think it’s going…” 😶
This is not* an (unintentional) plug for @dailybunnies.bsky.social 🫠
Ok I didn’t know I needed this until I saw it. Oh the delusional bliss of imagining life as this baby bear trying to catch snowflakes!! 🥹
May 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ok I didn’t know I needed this until I saw it. Oh the delusional bliss of imagining life as this baby bear trying to catch snowflakes!! 🥹
‘Environmental health’ IS public health. The NIH-cuts-induced unavailability of crucial peer-reviewed research is likely to have far reaching impacts; not just on policy, decision-making, science communication, & public awareness, but also on public health & safety.📣
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...
Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions
With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
‘Environmental health’ IS public health. The NIH-cuts-induced unavailability of crucial peer-reviewed research is likely to have far reaching impacts; not just on policy, decision-making, science communication, & public awareness, but also on public health & safety.📣
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...
🌱 Spring harvests have slowly begun and this pastel + contrast palette has me in love 😍 Sweet peas, Stock, Snapdragons, Ranunculus, Roses, and Dianthus make for a stunning combination. 🤩 #GardeningInZone9b
April 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🌱 Spring harvests have slowly begun and this pastel + contrast palette has me in love 😍 Sweet peas, Stock, Snapdragons, Ranunculus, Roses, and Dianthus make for a stunning combination. 🤩 #GardeningInZone9b
I love survey design but when the GAD-7 questionnaire asks how often in the last 2 weeks, I’ve felt a) nervous, anxious or on edge; b) like I couldn’t stop worrying’, & no response option can reliably measure the frantic screaming in my head, a ‘Nearly every breathing moment’ option may be needed. 😣
April 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I love survey design but when the GAD-7 questionnaire asks how often in the last 2 weeks, I’ve felt a) nervous, anxious or on edge; b) like I couldn’t stop worrying’, & no response option can reliably measure the frantic screaming in my head, a ‘Nearly every breathing moment’ option may be needed. 😣
Reposted by Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D.
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
reut.rs
April 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
Today’s daily reminder: It’s great to have a moral code & perhaps even aspire to be an idealist but, if, despite repeated proof that they have no track record of telling the truth, you’re still “surprised”, “shocked” or “appalled” that someone lied- again -you may be confusing reality with Utopia.🤷🏻♀️
April 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Today’s daily reminder: It’s great to have a moral code & perhaps even aspire to be an idealist but, if, despite repeated proof that they have no track record of telling the truth, you’re still “surprised”, “shocked” or “appalled” that someone lied- again -you may be confusing reality with Utopia.🤷🏻♀️
Ever had to stand in front of a room full of people & make sense non-stop for 24+ hours; no rambling; no sounding like you can barely string together a coherent sentence; & no sleep? Me neither. Now if the DNC could only emulate the spirit Booker & his tag-team mates exemplified & DO what matters🤞🏽
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Ever had to stand in front of a room full of people & make sense non-stop for 24+ hours; no rambling; no sounding like you can barely string together a coherent sentence; & no sleep? Me neither. Now if the DNC could only emulate the spirit Booker & his tag-team mates exemplified & DO what matters🤞🏽
How you have to leave your seat even if it’s only for 15 seconds because if you simply get up and walk away, your German shepherd considers that as an act of concession and promptly “captures” your spot so you then have to scan the room for another spot while looking like an aimless flamingo. 🦩 🙆🏻♀️
a man in a tuxedo stands next to a man in a red shirt on a couch
ALT: a man in a tuxedo stands next to a man in a red shirt on a couch
media.tenor.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
How you have to leave your seat even if it’s only for 15 seconds because if you simply get up and walk away, your German shepherd considers that as an act of concession and promptly “captures” your spot so you then have to scan the room for another spot while looking like an aimless flamingo. 🦩 🙆🏻♀️
Yet another example of why I will emphatically disagree with people who think Elon Musk is some kind of genius because he claims to be doing radically different things, like calling LiDAR “a fool’s errand” 🙄… but then going on to invest in it substantially 😑.
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finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
Elon Musk Says Tesla Doesn't Need Lidar Because 'People Don't Shoot Lasers Out Of Their Eyes' After YouTubers Put His Cars Through Wylie E. Coyote Tests
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk doubled down on his longtime skepticism of LiDAR technology on Thursday following the videos of YouTubers testing his EV vehicles against a ‘Wile E. Coyote' fake...
finance.yahoo.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Yet another example of why I will emphatically disagree with people who think Elon Musk is some kind of genius because he claims to be doing radically different things, like calling LiDAR “a fool’s errand” 🙄… but then going on to invest in it substantially 😑.
finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
Reposted by Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D.
I'm glad someone with this expertise can get out of the US and speak freely about what's going on here. It is everything, not just the unis.
If you know a university in Canada is interested in hiring a geologist/evolutionary biologist, please let me know!
www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
If you know a university in Canada is interested in hiring a geologist/evolutionary biologist, please let me know!
www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’
Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.
www.chronicle.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm glad someone with this expertise can get out of the US and speak freely about what's going on here. It is everything, not just the unis.
If you know a university in Canada is interested in hiring a geologist/evolutionary biologist, please let me know!
www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
If you know a university in Canada is interested in hiring a geologist/evolutionary biologist, please let me know!
www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
Reposted by Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D.
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
Today’s daily reminder: Don’t forget to teach your kids that owning up to & taking responsibility for mistakes, apologizing sincerely, & making efforts to fix things or to not repeat the mistakes, particularly ones that endanger the lives of people who risk it all to serve, will always be 💯% right.
March 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Today’s daily reminder: Don’t forget to teach your kids that owning up to & taking responsibility for mistakes, apologizing sincerely, & making efforts to fix things or to not repeat the mistakes, particularly ones that endanger the lives of people who risk it all to serve, will always be 💯% right.
Honest question for vocabulary geniuses - Is there an English word that encompasses the comedy, the emotion, the deep irony, but also the sometimes profound gravity, pain, and despair felt simultaneously, each time you realize that what qualified as a parody 15 years ago is now legit reality? 😳
March 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Honest question for vocabulary geniuses - Is there an English word that encompasses the comedy, the emotion, the deep irony, but also the sometimes profound gravity, pain, and despair felt simultaneously, each time you realize that what qualified as a parody 15 years ago is now legit reality? 😳
There is no one in the world who exercises more caution while closing a door🚪 than a German shepherd’s 🐕 human because in the seconds between *beginning* to close a door & *actually* closing it, 🐶 💨 Poof!! 💨 the snoot appears, & if you’re not atrociously careful… well, then… t’was nice knowing ya. 👋🏽
a close up of a dog 's nose looking at the camera .
ALT: a close up of a dog 's nose looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
There is no one in the world who exercises more caution while closing a door🚪 than a German shepherd’s 🐕 human because in the seconds between *beginning* to close a door & *actually* closing it, 🐶 💨 Poof!! 💨 the snoot appears, & if you’re not atrociously careful… well, then… t’was nice knowing ya. 👋🏽
😂😂 It’s like looking in a mirror 🪞
PARK RANGER: to be a guide you need to be able to name all the animals
ME: no problem
[later with a tour group]
ME: that’s Greg, & that's Sydney…
ME: no problem
[later with a tour group]
ME: that’s Greg, & that's Sydney…
March 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
😂😂 It’s like looking in a mirror 🪞