walking off to Dhoom!!! MY MAYOR

i can’t believe a good thing happened in 2025

hiked old rag mountain over the weekend for the last bit of autumn and outdoor bouldering for 2025 🍁 🍂

Teaching media literacy in schools an effective counter to misinformation more coverage of our latest APSR www.thehindu.com/education/te...

everyone i know is watching the blue jays and becoming more angry at the phillies

america’s national pastime 🔥 love to see it

How effective are user corrections on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve effectiveness? In piece led by @sachaltay.bsky.social we find corrections have small effects, adding a fact-check unlikely to make them more effective misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-... 1/6

i don’t think we talk enough about how american academia is more productive than literally anywhere else because we do not use microsoft teams

ty to APSA experiments section for this year’s best paper award!!

it would be hilarious and cosmically correct in the year 2025 for a canadian team to win the world series toronto is america’s team

philly fishtown bar hopping round up from the weekend: milkcrate cafe, bardot, ortlieb’s, poison heart, druid’s keep ✨ 🍻

no kings in philly 👑

nice coverage of our APSR article in The Print today! “Children are learning to fight fake news. Study shows classrooms help" theprint.in/feature/biha...

🚨New @ausis.bsky.social research in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! "Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India," co-authored by @sumitra.bsky.social, won the Best Paper award from @experimentsapsa.bsky.social. Read more: www.american.edu/sis/research...

🚨 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👇🏽

#OpenAccess from August 2025 - The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India - cup.org/472gDEr - @simonchauchard.bsky.social & @sumitra.bsky.social#OpenAccess

how can you not love baseball

celebrated the end of a beautiful era of phillies baseball last night with a bunch of homemade pasta, good wine, and even better company ❤️‍🩹 i’m not crying

🚨🚨 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.

#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#OpenAccess& FLORIAN SICHART #FirstView

real phillies fans are mad they are doing well tonight

i’m gonna have to explain to my therapist tomorrow what a bunt is

it’s the end of a pretty good era of phillies baseball. time to relax :)

i miss the person that i was on friday. happy. confident. unbroken by philadelphia sports

LFG PHILLIES!!!!!!

it’s RED OCTOBER folks 🔥

good morning

phillies scrimmage. almost 5,000 more than the actual playoff game in cleveland today ♥️

doing this when your main hobby and interest is philadelphia sports means that professional colleagues get to see a very suicidal side of you

eagles win. phillies win. mets are out. 4-0 birds. red october coming up. all of the rest of sunday to look forward to. what a weekend 🍻

nice mention of our survey data on indian americans in yesterday’s @nytimes.com piece on mamdani and south asian voters! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n...

red october is coming so sorry in advance to my bluesky friends as i will probably post a version of this every other day

🚨 new paper out w/ @simonchauchard.bsky.social in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social on the link between misinformation and religiosity- does religious belief cause people to endorse more misinformation? And if so, what can we do about it? thread below ⬇️

i just got back from a hiking trip and went down a photo rabbit hole and now i want nothing more than to be back on the road again not built for academia, not built to lock in

WOW WHAT AN INNING

unable to wrap my head around whatever this is

How are misinformation and religion related? In a new article in @bjpols.bsky.social, @ausis.bsky.social professor @sumitra.bsky.social explores whether religion drives belief in misinformation in India. Read more here: www.american.edu/sis/research...

one more point that holds until further clarification: if existing faculty on H1B leave the country for a visa renewal, on re-entry they would also have to pay 100k. hard to see how visa-based profs and research staff would continue to remain in US jobs under these conditions.

The best angle of Eagles lineman Jordan Davis blocked field goal you’ll see, from CBS Philadelphia Photojournalist Casey Kuhn. And then Casey gets in on the celebration. Jordan Davis reached over 18 miles per hour. My guy was FLYING. What a shot. What a scene. What a win #eagles

new white house FAQ, which implies the $100k fee applies to cap-exempt orgs. what this means for universities: 1) if you hire a non-US citizen for a TT job, you have to pay the fee 2) if someone with an H1B visa on a TT job tries to change jobs, they also pay www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

trying to have a relaxing sunday and here come the eagles playing worse football than the losing teams in friday night lights

took my first waymo in SF this weekend, i was primed to find this wasteful and creepy but im afraid to admit i loved every single second of it

it has never been more clear to me than this moment that american academics need a compulsory crash course in immigration and visa rules 😪

people from around the world were summoned back to their offices today -- some have had to get on last minute flights costing thousands of $$ -- thanks to the chaos and panic factory this administration has created. how appalling.

the thing is that the UK (where i also lived) is most certainly *not* the land of opportunity or a welcoming haven. there is a reason so many immigrants decide to make their lives in the US. it is so sad to see this kind of destruction in a place so many of us proudly considered home.

vote choice among indian american citizens in 2024. these folks are not MAGA / trump fans

last point on H1B visas. seeing so some folks say that they “had it coming” because the community votes R. so here is your reminder — with good data — that indian americans consistently and overwhelmingly favor the democratic party. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

absolutely insane. i hope all my h1b colleagues at APSA are back in the US 🙏