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sumitra.bsky.social
Sumitra Badrinathan
@sumitra.bsky.social
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assistant professor @AmericanU. working on countering misinformation in developing countries. @upenn.edu PhD in polisci & philly sports fan 📍washington, dc https://sumitrabadrinathan.github.io/
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 7h
phillies are wearing powder blue for the elimination game tonight so they have a chance to ruin absolutely everything that i associate with happiness
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 22h
managed to tie it up! what a concept
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 1d
i’m gonna have to explain to my therapist tomorrow what a bunt is
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 1d
it’s the end of a pretty good era of phillies baseball. time to relax :)
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 1d
i am thankfully not a sixers fan so i can safely go lay in traffic now
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 1d
it’s the end of a pretty good era of phillies baseball. time to relax :)
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 3d
might have to quit sports and find a new hobby
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 3d
i am fine with the birds going 4-1 it was just a hard hit to take after the miserable game at the bank last night
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 3d
ok we are clearly upset about different sports lol
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 3d
tbh it is objectively the funniest year for a canadian team to win the championship for america’s national pastime
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 3d
i miss the person that i was on friday. happy. confident. unbroken by philadelphia sports
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 4d
LFG PHILLIES!!!!!!
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 4d
it’s RED OCTOBER folks 🔥
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 5d
if you did that she would propose a duel (at blue bottle, where they respectably play tom petty and oasis)
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 5d
i think after listening to a few songs that travis might be the english teacher in that couple
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 5d
consider this my contribution to ~the discourse~
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 5d
good morning
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 6d
phillies scrimmage. almost 5,000 more than the actual playoff game in cleveland today ♥️
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 7d
i’ve never understood why other cities don’t care as much haha
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 7d
doing this when your main hobby and interest is philadelphia sports means that professional colleagues get to see a very suicidal side of you
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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 8d
A theory. Everyone who cares about politics on bluesky ALSO needs to make a habit out of posting about their other interests and hobbies. Making bluesky work for many communities of interest will increase the political reach of the experts here.
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 10d
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 🍻
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 11d
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...
As Mamdani Rises, South Asians Emerge as a Political Force in New York
www.nytimes.com
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 12d
red october is coming so sorry in advance to my bluesky friends as i will probably post a version of this every other day
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 13d
oh they KNOW
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 13d
@sisresearch.bsky.social @ausis.bsky.social
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 13d
paper is open access www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

we hope the findings

(1) provide some hope that we can marshall social identities to improve misinformation outcomes

(2) highlight that motivated reasoning does not need to be just partisan- misinformation can have religious roots
The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
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