Dialogue: Science, Scientists, and Society
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A journal from @IAScBng dedicated to issues around rethinking the social contract of science, and science policy, evaluation, and practice
Bangalore
Joined August 2024
Block your calendar – this month’s Kaapi with Kuriosity is here!! Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist and the director of ICTS-TIFR, will deliver a talk titled ‘Why Strings?’ Register now at https://t.co/SunkW5vMnD ! More details at https://t.co/L6AjxNf43i
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New article by Dhruv Raina in Dialogue on the contemporary salience of scientific temper in India. https://t.co/i6Qxe70Oal
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New article by @MenonBioPhysics in Dialogue on the vexed and important issue of how academicians and academic institutions navigate questions pertaining to boycotts in response to egregious acts by governments. https://t.co/YvNpLeqqJR
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Important and well thought out piece
India’s agricultural trade policies have long prioritised protection through tariffs, price guarantees and export bans. This shield has come at a cost, raising consumer prices, reducing trust in India as a reliable supplier and weakening its bargaining power in trade deals.
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New article out in Dialogue by Prof. Durgadas Kasbekar on less discussed aspects of the use of DNA fingerprinting: https://t.co/xjjb1CqajZ
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Confluence and Dialogue hosted a panel discussion on the origin, background and debates around the idea of scientific temper on the Scientific Temper Day, 2025. Recording of the panel discussion is available here: https://t.co/HtID9xPKer
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#Podcast 🎙️ As our second episode drops today, here’s a moment from the very first conversation of the series. Watch EP 01 here: https://t.co/uD1IXWV14F ▶️ The next one will be uploaded today — stay tuned! @Archives_NCBS @NCBS_Bangalore
#Podcast 🎙️Episode 01 of our podcast Gender in/of Science: Feminist Conversations Part 2, is out now! ▶️Watch here: https://t.co/mmSIoNlX4c
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#Podcast Episode 02 of our podcast Gender in/of Science: Feminist Conversations Part 2 is out now! In this episode, Gita Chadha talks to L S Shashidhara, Centre Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, India. Check it out now! https://t.co/3tIA9EBiET
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New edition of Science Diplomacy Review is now available online at https://t.co/XeXP0vzt12. Read interesting articles. If you are working on any aspect of Science Diplomacy, we invite you to contribute to this journal.
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Interesting piece on the myriad problems of academic publishing: https://t.co/jULTobsKTS
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https://t.co/90Xg9rfUmo Public Understanding of Science: Cultural Distance Model of Science Communication by Gauhar Raza and Surjit Singh. The authors invite other academics to make use of the data provided with this article for further studies.
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New in Dialogue: @gauharraza9 and Surjit Singh discuss the history and effectiveness of science communication to the public, and the results of a long-term study assessing this in India. Data have been made available for non-commercial purposes, with accreditation. Link below
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I thought of publishing this in Current Science. Apparently, they do not publish anything other than Science. Indian Academy of Sciences has two other online Journals to cater to such articles. This one has just appeared in Confluence.
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What happens when a field biologist lands up in an art and design college? Dr. Chandrima Home shares her pedagogical experiences in this Confluence article: https://t.co/mqcDDZEHUz
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⭐️New Article Alert: Prof. Arunan reflects on deeply rooted cultural norms and academic power structures that often enable bullying and suppress equity in Indian institutions: https://t.co/HANl1ysISY
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A very thoughtful interview with Prof. P. Balaram, a towering intellectual figure in Indian biology. https://t.co/4WpJzmefu6
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Former IISc director P. Balaram shares his views on the state and future of science and challenging times for academics in contemporary India.
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A panel discussion on the impact of AI on science education and research, bringing together IISER Pune faculty from different domains: https://t.co/6eiossc7Ay
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People: do please continue the 'dialogue'. If you have thoughts on this important issue, please do consider submitting a manuscript to Dialogue.
The question of open-access science publishing requires innovative models to solve. In this paper, we propose one such model—a Government of India-led digital platform that espouses the principles of DPI and allows unfettered science publishing and access to knowledge.
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New Perspective piece out in Dialogue: https://t.co/PYMFm1I9yU Shambhavi Naik (@TheNaikMic) from the Takshashila Institute (@TakshashilaInst ) writes about potential new paradigms for Open Access publishing in India (and the Global South)
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I have uploaded a Copy of Prof. Narlikar and Dr. Dabholkar's paper on the internet archive. (Dated in it's own way, but still relevant and the only test done and published in an Indian context I could find) I couldn't find a free copy anywhere. https://t.co/GuAUhaRW3M
In the 2010s Naralikar, Dabholkar and 2 others(I think) ran a famous experiment through the paper Sakal. They devised a statistical test of astrology. They took horoscopes of the 100 scholarly students and 100 of those with learning difficulties. 1/
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