Sumita Pahwa
@sumitapahwa.bsky.social
Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Book: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/5829/politics-as-worship/
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Bureaucracy is part art, part science, and part politics. Art because it cannot operate under the certainties of science, science because it deals in realities not subject to the political wills of sovereigns and citizens, and politics because it rules the fate of generations in ways art does not.
i've been wrestling with--on a theoretical-liberal-theorist level--the perennial tension between professionalization and accountability
technical competence requires professionalization... but strategic clarity requires accountability
www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...
technical competence requires professionalization... but strategic clarity requires accountability
www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Bureaucracy is part art, part science, and part politics. Art because it cannot operate under the certainties of science, science because it deals in realities not subject to the political wills of sovereigns and citizens, and politics because it rules the fate of generations in ways art does not.
Happy the Turkey Takes 50% More Time than You Thought and the Meat Thermometer is Unreliable day!
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Happy the Turkey Takes 50% More Time than You Thought and the Meat Thermometer is Unreliable day!
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Recipe PSA: the recipes on packaging are the most tested recipes on the planet.
And finally pie #3. This one is just the classic pumpkin, and the recipe is the one printed on the Libby’s can! This one was last because there is basically nothing that can go wrong with it.
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Recipe PSA: the recipes on packaging are the most tested recipes on the planet.
Heather Boushey's book Finding Time talked about the 'great American wife' as unpaid partner in the economy, and how and why recognizing care labor as an economic cost is fundamental to retooling the economy. Worth reading.
Lot of thoughts about That Article, but one thing that made me scream. The cost of childcare was not zero! That our system devalues feminized care labor doesn’t make it actually free. Opportunity costs are a thing, childcare is more expensive because of Baumol, not because it was free before.
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Heather Boushey's book Finding Time talked about the 'great American wife' as unpaid partner in the economy, and how and why recognizing care labor as an economic cost is fundamental to retooling the economy. Worth reading.
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"Will this have to stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God's creation?" is the new "Is this going to be on the test?"
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Will this have to stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God's creation?" is the new "Is this going to be on the test?"
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
Every left-leaning academic and reporter of my acquaintance has a poker-playing group 🤷
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Every left-leaning academic and reporter of my acquaintance has a poker-playing group 🤷
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I get invited to multiple CTO Dinners every month. The CTOs are from a wide range of industries. All of us continue to outsource work to India, Brazil, Eastern Europe and Ukraine. None of us think AI can replace coders. We continue to expand our teams, hiring overseas.
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I get invited to multiple CTO Dinners every month. The CTOs are from a wide range of industries. All of us continue to outsource work to India, Brazil, Eastern Europe and Ukraine. None of us think AI can replace coders. We continue to expand our teams, hiring overseas.
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Much as fish don’t know about water, political reporters don’t know about Twitter brain
this administration is more twitter pilled than any previous iteration and the only reason it isn’t called out more regularly is because our top political reporters are just as mentally broken
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Much as fish don’t know about water, political reporters don’t know about Twitter brain
"Je veux pas avec ces histoires" 🤣 brava.
These French babies arguing 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Je veux pas avec ces histoires" 🤣 brava.
This is just so lovely.
University of Cambridge on Instagram: "Why would an atheist believe in ghosts? 👻
This is the mystery that social anthropologist Ashley explored in her Master's dissertation: why does a future-forward...
79K likes, 591 comments - cambridgeuniversity on October 30, 2025: "Why would an atheist believe in ghosts? 👻
This is the mystery that social anthropologist Ashley explored in her Master's dissertati...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is just so lovely.
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Guess we’re discovering moral hazard again, again
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Guess we’re discovering moral hazard again, again
I'm going to guess that most of us would hesitate to define our functional languages in terms of those we can 'actually speak,' because fluency is often a challenge, but, in descending order:
English, Hindi, French, Arabic (MSA & Egyptian), v broken Punjabi.
English, Hindi, French, Arabic (MSA & Egyptian), v broken Punjabi.
My first languages are English & Scots.
I can speak conversational French & I read it a bit better.
I'm fluent in American Sign Language.
I know a teensy bit of restaurant Spanish.
#language #languages #languagelearning #linguistics #polyglot #writing #writingcommunity #ASL #Scots
I can speak conversational French & I read it a bit better.
I'm fluent in American Sign Language.
I know a teensy bit of restaurant Spanish.
#language #languages #languagelearning #linguistics #polyglot #writing #writingcommunity #ASL #Scots
How many languages do you actually speak?
I'll go first. Me: 4
#language #languages #languagelearning #linguistics #polyglot #writing #writingcommunity
I'll go first. Me: 4
#language #languages #languagelearning #linguistics #polyglot #writing #writingcommunity
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I'm going to guess that most of us would hesitate to define our functional languages in terms of those we can 'actually speak,' because fluency is often a challenge, but, in descending order:
English, Hindi, French, Arabic (MSA & Egyptian), v broken Punjabi.
English, Hindi, French, Arabic (MSA & Egyptian), v broken Punjabi.
I'd like to pin someone else's post....
If everybody could just stop publishing for a year or two so I can catch up on reading and sleep, that would be super
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I'd like to pin someone else's post....
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Why the #UnitedStates will never have a woman #President - a woman is elected #PrimeMinister of #Japan, and the "standard bearer of US media" does an entire article about her...handbag 🤦♀️
The Most Impactful Political Handbag Since Mrs. Thatcher’s
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Why the #UnitedStates will never have a woman #President - a woman is elected #PrimeMinister of #Japan, and the "standard bearer of US media" does an entire article about her...handbag 🤦♀️
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
Wow, people still using twitter, and how!
Also, is this the same Ben Smith who worked for AP and then tne NYT? What happened to him?
Also, is this the same Ben Smith who worked for AP and then tne NYT? What happened to him?
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Wow, people still using twitter, and how!
Also, is this the same Ben Smith who worked for AP and then tne NYT? What happened to him?
Also, is this the same Ben Smith who worked for AP and then tne NYT? What happened to him?
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Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
Yup! My children have more homework and more packed schedules in freaking California today than I did in the hypercompetitive Indian elite school system 30+ years ago.
Hard agree with most of this large chunk--why isn't this what the article is about, I plead.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yup! My children have more homework and more packed schedules in freaking California today than I did in the hypercompetitive Indian elite school system 30+ years ago.
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Oops, here’s the link
Malleable Minds: The Effects of STEM- vs. Humanities-Focused Curricula
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Oops, here’s the link
Sholay Movie chakki pissing scene
YouTube video by Cut to Cut
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You can tell this is a very US-centric, low-desi rep social media platform by the fact that there is zero zilch Dharmendra death news.
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
You can tell this is a very US-centric, low-desi rep social media platform by the fact that there is zero zilch Dharmendra death news.