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Jhumka Gupta, ScD

@jhumkag.bsky.social

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Public health researcher focusing on violence against women and girls, migration, menstrual justice. Personal account www.jhumkalab.org

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Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · 8d

And I am integrating Saja Boys into my PhD seminars!

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 15d

Remember when RFK Jr. challenged Senator Wyden to a mailbag size contest?

Defend Public Health has a new campaign. You can help prove that scientists and healthcare workers do not, in fact, support RFK Jr.’s agenda by sending Senator Wyden a postcard.

Click on the link below to get started.

Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health

When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 17d

Are you an early career scientist? Do you want to build your skillset to address intimate partner violence? Apply to REMAP!

Mentorship from leading IPV/GBV researchers, training in measurement and ethics, a stellar global peer cohort. Childcare stipend for in-person training!

go.ucsd.edu/46O1NRg

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Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks. June 2024 over here!

Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats!!! May. Ask when you first submitted? Still waiting on an NOA which I’m afraid will not happen by 9/30

Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · 27d

As I still wait for my NOA which may not happen by 9/30

Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congrats to you!! May I ask when it was approved for funding? I’m still waiting for mine and have been told it is not guaranteed before 9/30

Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · Sep 6

Shoutout to Huntrx and Saja Boys for helping get my daughter up early for middle school.

Thanks to neighbors for welcoming her belting out K-pop Demon Hunters lyrics at 7:30 as she waits for the bus

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jul 3

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Jun 30

Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · Jun 30

As a brown person living in Manhattan when 9/11 happened I know racism and Islamophobia never went away but boy is it not great to log on every day and see politicians being so gleefully awful toward a guy who looks like me and my family

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · Jun 26

There are two kinds of people we’re fighting in public health — antivaxxers and minimizers. And minimizers are almost worse than antivaxxers. With antivaxxers, bad is clearly bad — they lie, twist facts, push grifts, and spread disinformation. They do what we expect them to do.

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Forbes @forbes.com · Jun 24

Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.

Here’s How Much New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is Worth

www.forbes.com

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Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · Jun 23

Wow. I have never seen something like this in Bangla. “Hashi Kusshi” and “Karap na”. Nailed it.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 22

My Bangladeshi friends tell me Zohran Mamdani’s Bangla is quite good in this new ad.

Around 100,000 Bangladeshis living in New York.

Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · Jun 23

9 months is entirely too long for a manuscript to be under review. I will email the editor weekly until there be a movement

Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · Jun 23

2025 “non-commercial” is 2021 “MPH crowd”

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 22

My Bangladeshi friends tell me Zohran Mamdani’s Bangla is quite good in this new ad.

Around 100,000 Bangladeshis living in New York.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · Jun 22

Think having a LGBTQ+ child means you failed as a parent? Actually, disowning that child means you failed as a parent!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jun 19

I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

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Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jun 12

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Jun 12

My University has told us that despite growing ug and grad majors, we are losing a TT history position (not filling line of departing prof). Today they announced they hired a new "chief artificial intelligence strategist." Guess how I feel about this.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 7

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life.
If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test.
OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Jun 5

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

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Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social · May 22

Hey scientific journals 👋 Would you consider waiving publication fees for work partially funded by NIH awards that have since been terminated?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · May 20

The FDA has unveiled plans to narrow its approval for updated coronavirus vaccines to older adults and people with at least one health condition that puts them at high risk for severe disease, marking a significant shift in the agency’s approach to green-lighting the shots.

FDA to limit covid shot approval to elderly, those with medical conditions

The agency will narrow its approval for updated coronavirus vaccines, marking a significant shift in the agency’s approach to green-lighting shots that have been recommended broadly to the public.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jhumka Gupta, ScD @jhumkag.bsky.social · May 17

My child decided to use paprika for blush. How is your morning?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · May 15

People are still out here trying to say that RFK Jr. might have some “good ideas”.

There are no pros to this con.

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Lisa Pickoff-White @pickoffwhite.bsky.social · Apr 30

“You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers,’” U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer L. Thurston said at a hearing challenging recent immigration sweeps.

Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: 'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin'

'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,' a judge said in ordering the Border Patrol to halt warrantless sweeps in California.

calmatters.org

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