Nishmeet Singh (he/him)

Please conserve! ਪਵਣੁ ਗੁਰੂ ਪਾਣੀ ਪਿਤਾ ਮਾਤਾ ਧਰਤਿ ਮਹਤੁ ॥ Pavaṇ gurū pāṇī piṯā māṯā ḏẖaraṯ mahaṯ. Air is the Guru, Water is the Father, and Earth is the Great Mother of all. - Guru Nanak

Last year I got tenure, this year I'll be a visiting scholar at Harvard, and I got a 6-figure advance to publish a book next year. In honor of these accomplishments, here's a list of embarrassing confessions revealing how dumb my brain is in many ways:

I’m hiring 2 RAs and 1 Research Manager for a project based out of Mumbai for at least a year. Projects on women’s agency, LLM-bots, women’s health, and employment. Know anyone who might be interested? #hiring Apply: shorturl.at/AFkq8

1/8. Most Indians see the Big Fat Indian Wedding as a national achievement and are not put off by it, according to TV commentary, including on BBC. Really? Did BBC, anyone, do a poll/survey of most Indians? People hit the streets for what they see as a national achievement – like to greet the returning T20 world cup winning team. Anyone seen Mumbaikars dancing on the streets to celebrate the Ambani wedding? #ambaniwedding #psainath

You Can't Jail An Idea lokmarg.com/you-cant-jail-…

mr Gates,the methane emitted by cows & all herbivores is part of the biogenic cycle which is recycled as grass . Cows & nature are not the problem . Your mind set that treats life & biodiversity as disposable is the problem. You want to engineer the cow & food to milk profits

NEET exam should be stopped, the first victim of this exam was a dalit girl Anitha who was from Tamilnadu, she had scored 1176/1200 marks in 12th exam, she wanted to become a doctor, NEET ruined her dreams, she even went to the Supreme Court against NEET, but her petition was rejected, ultimately she committed suicide.

1/5. Never mind the entries thrown up on google search, please stop calling Indian languages ‘vernacular.’ There’s a colonial context to the use of the word in the British Raj – from the older Latin origin: tongues of the home-born slave. #britishraj #language #psainath

Students at @iiit_hyderabad, supposed to be one of the top engineering colleges in the country, are in an ongoing health crisis caused due to appalling mismanagement and negligence going on since well over a year. 🧵👇on mass typhoid breakouts, food poisoning, underreporting..

Evidence from our paper on who is 'able' to use electricity as heat waves hit Delhi. It's certainly not the slum dwellers and people are forced to work outdoors. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic system in US. And, here is an example section from her book.

Why is Jean Dreze, an economist and social activist, Champion of the NREGA Act, RTI Act, and the National Food Security Act, campaigning for @vinodbagodar , who is CPIML(L)'s candidate from Koderma Loksabha constituency? #IndiaNeedsLeft 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Courtesans were sex workers is the most historically misunderstood thing I have ever heard. Much of the chatter around Tawaifs has began because of Heeramandi but many have no clue about the history of courtesan so let me shed some light on the same.

FSSAI Increases Permissible Pesticide Levels in Spices by 10 Times Known as the maximum residue limit (MRL), the MRL has been increased from 0.01 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) to 0.1 mg/kg. #Governance thewire.in/government/fss…

Quick comparison of manifesto promises on food security: Congress has 4 specific promises, whereas the BJP seems at a loss for ideas.

best thing I've seen today. 😂😂😂

@AHAkramLodhi Congratulations. Would love to read it especially since my current PhD research is in East Africa.

WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet. This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. @ATLNewsFirst

In case you are wondering if the police officer has been reprimanded for what he did to this professor. No. The professor has been charged with battery against the police officer.

PhD students who aren't able to finish their degrees because they protested their university's complicity in genocide and war crimes and want my help to figure out their next steps, career-wise -- let me know.

Hey #EconTwitter can we please get mad and radicalised about @PrincetonEcon PhD student Hassan Sayed being expelled for his support of Palestine and @EmoryEconomics prof Caroline Fohlin being brutalised by state police amongst Gaza Solidarity protesters?