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Bhumi Purohit

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Assistant Professor at Georgetown's McCourt School, comparative political scientist. Spend most of my time thinking about gender + bureaucracy in India.

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Días de Aprendizaje 19: Hub Regional de EGAP en América Latina, 2026 – EGAP

El Nodo Regional de EGAP en Latinoamérica @egap.bsky.social realizará un taller de Días de Aprendizaje Santiago en alianza con el Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, del 27 al 31 de julio de 2026:

egap.org/project/dias...

Compartan con sus redes y consideren aplicar

28.01.2026 15:51 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

21.01.2026 07:59 👍 54 🔁 52 💬 13 📌 3

My 2-year-old opened the newspaper, took a look at a photo of the cabinet, and said, "Why only uncles? Why no aunties?"

This cabinet has a lot of other problems too but why indeed.

19.01.2026 10:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Winter 2025 Roundup Articles on authoritarianism, toxicity in politics, and more.

I like to pull together the latest work on gender and politics from the global south a few times a year, mostly as an accountability mechanism to keep up. Here's the latest one with articles published since September 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo...

#GenderSky
#PoliSky

16.01.2026 10:51 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

17.12.2025 11:58 👍 29 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 1

🚨Reminder to consider this great opportunity!

Clarification: timing is a bit crazy yes, but we ideally need people to express interest before the end of the year so we can potentially work on an application when we come back in early January :)

17.12.2025 09:04 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

11.12.2025 00:18 👍 1152 🔁 626 💬 32 📌 30
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Research Manager_Peer Mentorship Project.docx RESEARCH MANAGER POSITION Project: “Peer Mentorship in Telangana” Lead Researchers Dr. Rachel Brulé (Boston University, USA) Dr. Bhumi Purohit (Georgetown University, USA) Alyssa Heinze (UC Berkele...

For folks in the social and research sectors in Telangana: we're looking for a research manager based in Hyderabad for a new project involving training of elected politicians to improve governance.

Job ad here, please pass on the word: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

09.12.2025 12:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excited to post the latest version of my JMP: The female labor supply constraints of spousal jealousy bit.ly/4nn9apn

I use two field experiments to study the role of spousal jealousy in constraining married women’s employment. More below 👇:

03.12.2025 14:22 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1

been inactive on bsky b/c i've been busy ruining things

07.11.2025 05:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Logo featuring the text "IO" in large white letters on a maroon background, accompanied by the hashtag "#FirstView" at the bottom.

Logo featuring the text "IO" in large white letters on a maroon background, accompanied by the hashtag "#FirstView" at the bottom.

#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

16.10.2025 13:20 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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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...

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.

16.10.2025 16:01 👍 3008 🔁 1588 💬 53 📌 111
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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👇🏽

15.10.2025 15:33 👍 152 🔁 71 💬 4 📌 6

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.

15.10.2025 08:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

14.10.2025 01:31 👍 80 🔁 24 💬 6 📌 1
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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):

07.10.2025 18:49 👍 136 🔁 54 💬 4 📌 6

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.

11.10.2025 20:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🚨🚨 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.

09.10.2025 11:39 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

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.

08.10.2025 14:09 👍 5235 🔁 2465 💬 83 📌 109

Francesca and her colleagues have contributed so much public data on India, it's truly transformative (and fricking hard work!)

08.10.2025 13:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

02.10.2025 16:23 👍 8706 🔁 5462 💬 230 📌 217

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

01.10.2025 12:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

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:

30.09.2025 17:43 👍 2667 🔁 763 💬 17 📌 43
26.09.2025 18:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

18.09.2025 18:00 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Really great and carefully done paper on the bureaucracy ⬇️

13.09.2025 13:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats!

12.09.2025 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"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."

09.09.2025 16:44 👍 15426 🔁 5202 💬 220 📌 164

Excited to be working from Madrid this year at @uc3m.es in the Fall and IE in the Spring!

09.09.2025 13:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
EGAP Innovation Grants 2025 – EGAP

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

01.09.2025 13:02 👍 19 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1