Apoorva Joshi, Ph.D.

Just breaking my self-imposed digital silence to prophesize that the @colbertlateshow.bsky.social writing is likely going to be epically gloves-off 🔥 in its final months. A laughably bad decision; all but ensures 🙏🏽🤞🏽 that Stephen’s next gig will be even more iconic & the 💰won’t be going to CBS! ⏳

Exclusive: FEMA is “not ready” for hurricane season, internal agency review shows | CNN Politics Hurricane preparations at FEMA have slowed to a crawl. With hurricane season weeks away, a new assessment raises a number of red flags about how the agency would respond to a major disaster.

Not great news for those of us living in the Gulf Coast! #CNN Exclusive: FEMA is “not ready” for hurricane season, internal agency review shows
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/p...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Important examples of debunked and fact-checked misinformation and #disinformation on the latest India-Pakistan conflict triggered by the killing of unsuspecting civilians and tourists in the attack at Pahalgam. #OperationSindoor #India #factcheck #medialiteracy

A late night comedy show host with grey hair and a grey beard fake-laughs while pointing to a graph with an x-axis saying ‘Statements over time’ and a y-axis that has been edited to say ‘Not Ok?’

Dear @thedailyshow.com - My husband, the engineer and math whiz who was thrilled by the light saber—Sith Lord connection, would like me to bring to your attention this fixed version of the chart that Jon used on tonight’s episode. 🫣 Yes, I am acutely aware of the nerdiness quotient here. 😎 🙏🏽

AGU AND AMS JOIN FORCES ON SPECIAL COLLECTION TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM OF RESEARCH SUPPORTING THE U.S. NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

Logged in to email & saw that @ametsoc.org & @agu.org are, once again, leading by example with a joint statement to co-produce a novel 💡OPEN ACCESS💡 collection of climate change research after the the US National Climate Assessment’s staff & authors were dismissed. 🥲 www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

Text from a friend today: “How’re you doing?”
My response: “Well, I just started following an account called Daily Bunnies to get a dose of fluffy bunny content everyday on BlueSky, so you tell me how you think it’s going…” 😶

This is not* an (unintentional) plug for @dailybunnies.bsky.social 🫠

Ok I didn’t know I needed this until I saw it. Oh the delusional bliss of imagining life as this baby bear trying to catch snowflakes!! 🥹

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.

‘Environmental health’ IS public health. The NIH-cuts-induced unavailability of crucial peer-reviewed research is likely to have far reaching impacts; not just on policy, decision-making, science communication, & public awareness, but also on public health & safety.📣
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

A white ceramic vase is standing on a table and it has many differently colored fresh cut flowerts in it.

🌱 Spring harvests have slowly begun and this pastel + contrast palette has me in love 😍 Sweet peas, Stock, Snapdragons, Ranunculus, Roses, and Dianthus make for a stunning combination. 🤩 #GardeningInZone9b

I love survey design but when the GAD-7 questionnaire asks how often in the last 2 weeks, I’ve felt a) nervous, anxious or on edge; b) like I couldn’t stop worrying’, & no response option can reliably measure the frantic screaming in my head, a ‘Nearly every breathing moment’ option may be needed. 😣

So many variables, so much information, so many stories but so little time & such small windows for attention and audience retention… it’s a tough ecosystem for sure. There are very interesting studies in journalism, communication & social psychology research, if you’re interested, btw.

South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

Today’s daily reminder: It’s great to have a moral code & perhaps even aspire to be an idealist but, if, despite repeated proof that they have no track record of telling the truth, you’re still “surprised”, “shocked” or “appalled” that someone lied- again -you may be confusing reality with Utopia.🤷🏻‍♀️

Ever had to stand in front of a room full of people & make sense non-stop for 24+ hours; no rambling; no sounding like you can barely string together a coherent sentence; & no sleep? Me neither. Now if the DNC could only emulate the spirit Booker & his tag-team mates exemplified & DO what matters🤞🏽

a man in a tuxedo stands next to a man in a red shirt on a couch ALT: a man in a tuxedo stands next to a man in a red shirt on a couch

How you have to leave your seat even if it’s only for 15 seconds because if you simply get up and walk away, your German shepherd considers that as an act of concession and promptly “captures” your spot so you then have to scan the room for another spot while looking like an aimless flamingo. 🦩 🙆🏻‍♀️

Elon Musk Says Tesla Doesn't Need Lidar Because 'People Don't Shoot Lasers Out Of Their Eyes' After YouTubers Put His Cars Through Wylie E. Coyote Tests Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk doubled down on his longtime skepticism of LiDAR technology on Thursday following the videos of YouTubers testing his EV vehicles against a ‘Wile E. Coyote' fake...

Yet another example of why I will emphatically disagree with people who think Elon Musk is some kind of genius because he claims to be doing radically different things, like calling LiDAR “a fool’s errand” 🙄… but then going on to invest in it substantially 😑.
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‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’ Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.

I'm glad someone with this expertise can get out of the US and speak freely about what's going on here. It is everything, not just the unis.

If you know a university in Canada is interested in hiring a geologist/evolutionary biologist, please let me know!

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Feels like it’s worth adding: I am among those who are extremely worried that if even 1 of their many drafted-then-deleted social media posts, likes/reposts on climate change, political discourse, media, research funding, or immigration etc. were published, they could lose their careers & dreams. 😥

This is the only appropriate use of the caps lock + “Important”.

This dog looks how I want to feel. 🫣

Can confirm: self-censorship among people vulnerable to sudden, devastatingly vast blows to their lives & futures - early career scientists, non-citizens, non-White folks…& those whose *social media posts* will be the basis of petty, retaliatory, vindictive actions against a) them & b) free speech.😔

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

Today’s daily reminder: Don’t forget to teach your kids that owning up to & taking responsibility for mistakes, apologizing sincerely, & making efforts to fix things or to not repeat the mistakes, particularly ones that endanger the lives of people who risk it all to serve, will always be 💯% right.

Honest question for vocabulary geniuses - Is there an English word that encompasses the comedy, the emotion, the deep irony, but also the sometimes profound gravity, pain, and despair felt simultaneously, each time you realize that what qualified as a parody 15 years ago is now legit reality? 😳

a close up of a dog 's nose looking at the camera . ALT: a close up of a dog 's nose looking at the camera .

There is no one in the world who exercises more caution while closing a door🚪 than a German shepherd’s 🐕 human because in the seconds between *beginning* to close a door & *actually* closing it, 🐶 💨 Poof!! 💨 the snoot appears, & if you’re not atrociously careful… well, then… t’was nice knowing ya. 👋🏽

😂😂 It’s like looking in a mirror 🪞

Today’s Daily Reminder: Teach your kids (human or otherwise), and anyone else who will listen to you, to be okay with being told ‘No’. Learning to handle rejection, not take it personally, & knowing they won’t always get their way will 💯% pave the way for their future to be healthier & happier. 📣

This all kinds of surprising… 😒 said not a single person.

US multinationals purge website references to climate change Walmart and Kraft Heinz among big corporations deleting or rewriting statements as Trump climate attacks intensify

Climate change is solved!