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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yet another Kalshi offering that serves no legitimate economic purpose. It's not possible to make a rational bet on this without material non-public information. It's a market solely for fraud by both regulators and corporate insiders, and everyone connected to it in any way should go to prison.

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Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results

Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Me: 15+ yrs of science communication experience, 3 degrees across 3 disciplines, experience leading high-impact applied, international research & yet… My 🧠 : “If I don’t watch Stephen Colbert’s last week of shows or read any posts on it, then it never really ended, & I don’t have to deal with 💔.”😔

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Living in a data-is-currency era: #Blink “security” cameras have now *automatically & without consent* enabled AI-summaries of our camera alerts, TWICE (under the guise of a limited free trial this time), even after I manually turned this “feature” off. How is this “private” or “secure”? #dataethics

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The bowling innings of SRH is exactly why I enjoy watching T20 cricket 🏏. When it began, at 0-0, I was writing a paragraph; 10mins later, still writing but the team at the top of the table has lost 5 wickets; 3 in the 1st over for the first time ever in the IPL, to debutant Praful Hinge #SRHvsRR 🫪

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Me: Using an iPhone to take photos of my dog’s toe beans because.. She’s cute and why not? 🥰 ARTEMIS II CREW: Using a *Nikon D5* (!!!) to take photos of a PLANET.. 🌏 OUR planet, AND the moon 🌕(!!) from, lemme get this right, S-p-a-c-e?! Does anyone else feel spoiled AF right now by Science?

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Artemis II crew’s photos of Earth are SO RIDICULOUSLY MESMERIZING; I have not been able to look away for hours! If you want to feel awe and wonder to momentarily escape current events, there is nothing better to bring peace to your mind & maybe a tear or two 🥹. www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... 🌏

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Artemis II Journey to the Moon - NASA

Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, and will reach the lunar sphere of influence—when the Moon's gravity exerts more force on the Orion spacecraft than the Ear...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Absolute chills hearing the astronauts on the #ArtemisII each saying what they are ‘a go’ for. What an incredible feat of science and human ambition is unfolding literally at this moment! #science #NASA 😱 May the force be with you, Artemis crew!! 🙏🏽 🌖

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Reddit wouldn’t allow me to post a comment on a sub because it thought I was AI. 😅 God forbid a human uses the correct grammar and punctuation they spent years learning. To those responsible for this — my 8th & 10th grade English teachers would like to see you. 🫣 You’ve been warned; they’re scary.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

What sort of conversation in the editorial team led to the decision to green light this graphic?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Quick reminder for folks presenting at @ametsoc.org #ams2026: Not everyone in your audience is going to have masterful command over all the acronyms. Your amazing work, when interspersed with too many acronyms or frequent jargon, risks hindering your audience’s comprehension & retention. #scicomm

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Thursday at @ametsoc.org #ams2026: Invaluable info on improving disaster / hazard forecasting & risk communication by operationalizing social, behavioral, and decision sciences research, i.e., turning scientific data into impactful, actionable, and realistic decision support solutions = My 👏🏽 JAM! 👏🏽😃

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Under-rated, incredibly important sessions at the @ametsoc.org conference on: 1. Leveraging UX research, design thinking, social & behavioral science for more impactful decision support services; & 2. Better serving & preparing rural & hazard-prone communities to respond to disaster events. #ams2026

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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… 😐🤷🏻‍♀️⛓️‍💥

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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. 😇

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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. 💔

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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! ⏳

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025

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.

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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

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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. 😎 🙏🏽

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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...

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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.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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 🫠

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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!! 🥹

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

‘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...

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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.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🌱 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

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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. 😣

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

So many variables, so much information, so many stories but so little time & such small windows for attention and audience retention… it’s a tough ecosystem for sure. There are very interesting studies in journalism, communication & social psychology research, if you’re interested, btw.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025

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

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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.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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.🤷🏻‍♀️

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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🤞🏽

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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. 🦩 🙆🏻‍♀️

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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...

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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...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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...

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‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’

Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Feels like it’s worth adding: I am among those who are extremely worried that if even 1 of their many drafted-then-deleted social media posts, likes/reposts on climate change, political discourse, media, research funding, or immigration etc. were published, they could lose their careers & dreams. 😥

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is the only appropriate use of the caps lock + “Important”. This dog looks how I want to feel. 🫣

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Can confirm: self-censorship among people vulnerable to sudden, devastatingly vast blows to their lives & futures - early career scientists, non-citizens, non-White folks…& those whose *social media posts* will be the basis of petty, retaliatory, vindictive actions against a) them & b) free speech.😔

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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.

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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? 😳

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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. 👋🏽

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

😂😂 It’s like looking in a mirror 🪞

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today’s Daily Reminder: Teach your kids (human or otherwise), and anyone else who will listen to you, to be okay with being told ‘No’. Learning to handle rejection, not take it personally, & knowing they won’t always get their way will 💯% pave the way for their future to be healthier & happier. 📣

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Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D. @apoorvaj.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This all kinds of surprising… 😒 said not a single person.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

India's new residential rooftop solar scheme, established Feb 2024, has reached a milestone of 1 million installations, or about 3GW. The govt is targeting 2 million by October, and 10 million by March 2027 to reach about 30GW total.

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Rooftop installations under PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana cross 1 million mark: Pralhad Joshi

Over 1 million households have been solarised under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, India's largest domestic rooftop solar initiative. Launched in February 2024, the scheme aims to solarise one ...

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile' "Aix Marseille University, France’s largest university..wants to expand the program to other schools and European countries to absorb all the researchers who want to leave the United States" #AcademicSky www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...

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NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says

“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”

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