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Ecologist | Fitness enthusiast | Book lover | prefer data to opinion | reluctant tweeter | Scientist @ccmb_csir | tweets are personal

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@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
8 months
I am still looking for a #postdoc to join the project. Request folks to please share with their network - need your help to get the word out. Will be extending the deadline for the postdoctoral position. They can email/DM me for details.
@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
8 months
1/3 Love plants? Intrigued by traits? Want to delve deeper into plant community dynamics? Come work with us! The Community and Functional Ecology Lab at the Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (CCMB, Hyderabad) is hiring (see media + next tweet). Please RT.
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Looking for a #postdoc position? Keen on plants? Excited about #traits and community #ecology . Let's talk...the CaFE lab is hiring. See attached. Please RT. 1/3
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1/3 Love plants? Intrigued by traits? Want to delve deeper into plant community dynamics? Come work with us! The Community and Functional Ecology Lab at the Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (CCMB, Hyderabad) is hiring (see media + next tweet). Please RT.
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So, I am going to take this opportunity to shout out a big yay! to all my students and others in field ecology. You are generating data under conditions that many students from countries with impressive publications records will just never survive.
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@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
4 years
Are you fascinated by ecological diversity? Then join us! Two open PhD positions in our new lab @ccmb_csir - more here: Please share. #PhDposition #ecology #biodiversity #forestecology #globalchange
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2 years
On the 75th year of a hard-won independence, let us hope to live up to the ideals that define(d?) us - let secularism triumph over extremism, pluralism over prejudice, tolerance over bigotry, reason over rabidity, truth over symbolism. #IndiaAt75
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Meghna
2 years
So, this happened a couple of months back.
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Meghna
4 years
Giving a talk today about the ecology of trees. Aimed at high-school students but all are welcome. Thanks to @NCBS_Bangalore and @BLiSC_India Complete event details: Registration: Live stream:
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Meghna
1 year
Excited to share my invited commentary in @NatureNV . Check the link below.
@NatureNV
Nature News & Views
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How interactions between neighbouring plants vary with rainfall might explain patterns of plant diversity and predict responses to global environmental change. Learn more in a super N&V by @MeghnaSrishti @csir_ccmb
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4 years
A lucid and informative article by the excellent @MenonBioPhysics about the possible trajectory of COVID-19 in India. Are We Finally Seeing a Light at the End of India’s COVID-19 Tunnel? via @TheWireScience
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Meghna
3 years
Spent the good part of last month out in the field, setting up a new project. Totally forgot twitter, even after being back for two weeks. Feels so good to disappear :)
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Meghna
4 years
A reminder about two open #phdpositions in our lab! Deadline: 20th August.
@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
4 years
Are you fascinated by ecological diversity? Then join us! Two open PhD positions in our new lab @ccmb_csir - more here: Please share. #PhDposition #ecology #biodiversity #forestecology #globalchange
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Meghna
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Thrilled to be a part of this exciting network looking underground! Along with collaborators Dr. Yadugiri (from @kreauniversity ), Dr. Sreejith K (from @kscste_kfri ), and Shubham (PhD student @ccmb_csir )...
@spununderground
SPUN
8 months
Congratulations to our newest Underground Explorers! This cohort adds 33 new Explorers working to sample belowground fungal biodiversity across the planet’s underexplored regions. Please join us in congratulating these talented scientists.
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Very nice! We certainly need a space for natural history information that cannot otherwise go into a statistical framework for a paper. For all nature observers out there...please consider contributing.
@Biotropica
Biotropica
3 years
Biotropica announces a new paper category: Natural History Field Notes
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Meghna
3 years
Love #plants ? Curious about global change? This #PhD opportunity may be for you! Eager to begin our collaborative project on how functional traits mediate seedling performance along light and water gradients in human-modified forests. #PleaseRT #PhDposition
@researchbavaria
Research in Bavaria
3 years
The Department of #PlantEcology at @unibt is inviting applications for a #PhD position in coop with @ccmb_csir . Take your chance & apply now–the #WesternGhats is waiting for you👉 #FieldResearch #TropicalForests #PleaseRT @MeghnaSrishti @bay_ceer @DAADIndia
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4 years
I totally relate to this! I had a recent conversation with a journal that decided to go the 'pay-to-publish' way and outlined why a $2000 fee puts this journal out of reach for many of us. I feel my options shrinking...and it has nothing to do with quality of science.
@Martin_A_Nunez
Martin A. Nuñez
4 years
As a researcher from a developing country, I struggle A LOT MORE with publication fees (for open access), than with accessing papers to read (pay wall) A "fair" journal with a fee of $400 dollars is a huge barrier for me Complex and important topic!
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4 years
Just back from a short stint in the field. Endorphins soaring. #ecology #forest #fieldwork #WesternGhats Can't wait to head back. Yup, heading back soon :D
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This is not just in the COVID-19 situation. PhD students are the backbone of the research community. They help a lab grow, they bring in fresh ideas, they chart new directions for research, and help researchers do more than they ever could on their own.
@TheWireScience
The Wire Science
4 years
PhD students in India are often ridiculed for their choices, by their own families or by trolls who think of them as ‘parasites’. But these scholars also make up the majority of the workforce in India's response to COVID-19. | @joelpalpath
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Meghna
3 years
Our paper is out in @JEcology . Thanks to co-author, cool collaborator, and awesome theoretical ecologist Simon Stump, who recently finished his postdoc from @Yale (EEB & @YaleEnvironment .
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Meghna
4 years
#Ecology and #evolution folks - must read. Very timely for me personally because I have been on a 'niche' trip. Across spatial scales. #AcademicTwitter
@urban_sci
Marc Cadotte
4 years
Long time coming! We started this discussion with a working group five years ago! @k_carscadden 's great and authoritative overview of the niche breadth concept. #ecology #evolution #conservation with @stulivingstone @NCEmery @MichelleAfkhami
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Meghna
1 year
Finally, it dawns that quantity and quality of data is proportional to resources. #AcademicChatter
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Meghna
3 years
Wonderful to see such spirit! Should make us introspect on the severe ageism in Indian academia...the baseless notion that only those who manage to do it all by 35 have done anything worthwhile. Let's make some space for passion.
@abhijit_MLab
Abhijit Majumder
3 years
4 yrs ago...Ranjita has joined for her PhD now and will be working on mechanobiology of wound healing
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Reminds me of Malabar pit vipers curled up comfy in my seed traps ever so often...Too lazy to put up a picture :D
@ForestPlots
ForestPlots
1 year
Fieldwork with a twist! When the Ecuador RAINFOR team went to measure the tree they found this beautiful Bothrops bilineatus ("loro machaco") - a highly venomous Amazon pit viper.
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Meghna
2 years
But but but...not traveling to #ESA2022 because it's too far, too expensive and I am so tired of all the hoops to jump through for a visa. Anyone else feel that the whole visa deal is just absurdly unfair?
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Meghna
4 years
For grad students in #India looking at a career in #ecology : take note. However, do keep in mind that even the most complex model cannot rescue a badly designed study :)
@bjenquist
Brian J Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social
4 years
Check out @ecomodeler analyzing 10+ years of ecology job adds. Demand for programming skills has doubled & steadily increased over time now approaching 50% but 80% of students have no formal training in computing/informatics #ESA2020 #DataScience @BBCS_UA
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Meghna
4 years
Much needed perspective on restoring landscapes. We have to understand the ecology of different systems to plan for restoration, not merely plant trees all around. Must read.
@ForrestFleisch1
Forrest Fleischman
4 years
These days everyone seems to thinks that "planting trees" is an important solution to the climate crisis. They're mostly wrong, and in this paper we explain why. Instead of planting trees, we need to talk about people managing landscapes. 1/x
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Meghna
3 years
We conducted an experiment using insecticide and fungicide to suppress the insect and fungal activity at different distances from the forest edge. We compared treatments to control plots to check whether the seedlings recruitment varied in relation to species traits.
@botanyone
Botany One
3 years
Living on the edge of fragmented forests: distance, insects and fungi impact plant traits Full paper: by @MeghnaSrishti and others from @AnnBot
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Meghna
1 year
Be proud of your work, not just your publications! #phdlife #AcademicChatter #postdocs
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Meghna
4 years
Nice paper on how #forest cover buffers #macroclimate effects on understorey vegetation by modulating the #microclimate . Very relevant to the study of edge effects in #forest fragments...
@PieterDeFrenne
Pieter De Frenne
4 years
NEW STUDY OUT @ScienceMagazine Increased #tree cover reduces below-canopy temperatures, slows local #warming and protects #forest plants against #climatechange . #Plant community changes are highest in forests where tree cover is reduced over time 🌳🌡️☘️
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Meghna
8 months
We need help with identifying herbaceous species from alpine regions in the Western Himalaya. Any suggestions? @IndianBotanists
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Meghna
4 years
Maybe it's time we built a society where all this protection business is not needed. Thank you.
@TheSwaddle
TheSwaddle
4 years
The origins of Raksha Bandhan and popular depictions of the brother-sister relationship stereotype women as damsels who need protection and brothers as their protectors. Anahita Sachdev talks about changing how we celebrate the festival.
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Meghna
1 year
Societal forces of push-pull. As some remove the theory of #evolution from textbooks, others open avenues to disseminate science. Not saying this will make up for lack of good science education in schools, but nice to see newspapers doing this.
@1amnerd
VM
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A new science page at The Hindu
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Meghna
1 year
Excellent. Paving the path to greater ignorance. What next?
@VivekNityananda
Vivek Nityananda
1 year
Evolution removed from textbooks by India's governmental education body. Sad times. And the poor picture choice by India Today demonstrates exactly why more people need to be taught evolution. Alt text for the pic: Statues of apes becoming human
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Meghna
4 years
Watch the trees around you folks :)
@biorxiv_ecology
bioRxiv Ecology
4 years
Using Citizen Science to build baseline data on tropical tree phenology #biorxiv_ecology
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Meghna
2 years
👇A reminder to plant-people in India looking for #postdoc positions...A chance to delve deeper into ecological strategies of tree seedlings. Reach out if you want more details.
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Meghna
2 years
Looking for a #postdoc position? Keen on plants? Excited about #traits and community #ecology . Let's talk...the CaFE lab is hiring. See attached. Please RT. 1/3
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Meghna
2 years
Couldn't agree more. I am always urging my students to write more, write mindfully, and learn to tap to the rhythms of words synced. And yes, that can happen in academic publishing.
@Ishwariya13
Ishwariya Venkatesh
2 years
If I could give one piece of advice to my younger self, it is to start practicing scientific writing early, write often, and embrace (& enjoy) the process because it is the yin to the yang of life in science ☯️ Students, check out this writing contest-
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Meghna
8 months
As a forest ecologist, I enjoyed reading this compilation of the science on how global change may affect the Amazon. The Amazon might not have a 'tipping point.' But it's still in trouble
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Meghna
1 year
Finally, all of this are most detrimental to students and their learning. Students (and postdocs) have to overcome a huge challenges to simply work in field conditions to generate ecological data.
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Meghna
4 years
We are so far from cycle friendly cities. Not just in terms of safety, but pollution being an even bigger issue. I love bicycling, but not at the cost of soaking my lungs in noxious pollutants. One of those discussions that may have many knock-on benefits emerge.
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Meghna
10 months
I've been off Twitter and on to way more interesting things the past month. More on that soon, but first...check out the Community and Functional Ecology (CaFE) lab research collection @ #ATBC2023 . Talks and posters by a bunch of folks (not all of them on Twitter).
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Meghna
3 years
Another well-researched, well-thought, and well-written article by @ShreyaDasgupta . Keep them coming!
@mongabay
Mongabay
3 years
Many tree-planting campaigns are based on flawed science: planting in grasslands & non-forest areas and planting invasive species, @MongabayIndia reports.
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This really hits home with field biology. I have seen the infrastructure and support for field projects elsewhere compared to what we work with in India (plant ecology for sure). No way we can generate data at the same level. This is not an excuse, but a fact.
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Meghna
4 years
Reminds me of the (nearly) monodominant Poeciloneuron indicum stands in central Western Ghats. Why are they that way?
@ForestPlots
ForestPlots
4 years
When one tree rules the Amazon! Analysis in @PlantandSoil led by Prof. Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, explores the rare phenomenon of #monodominance in #Amazonforests @BESForests @Leeds_LEAF @theATBC @BES_Tropical @feliasbio @unemat @SoGLeeds @BiodiversityJ
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Meghna
4 years
Yes!!!!
@ipsawonders
ipsa jain (she/her)
4 years
Excited to have received the grant along with @MeghnaSrishti Looking forward to making cool stuff! Thanks, IBS!
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Meghna
3 years
Happy to share this collaborative work with my co-authors Ghazala Shahabuddin, Rajkamal Goswami, and Tarun Menon.
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Meghna
3 years
@vishuguttal @joelpalpath @DivyaKumar182 @ShilpySharma14 Great article. Totally agree that financial insecurity is a huge, REAL problem that keeps smart and passionate people away from science. Also a reason for disparity in who gets to do science: those who can afford not to get stipends for a year+
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Meghna
7 months
Hi all. The search for the postdoc continue. Do share the word. Indian nationals only, unfortunately! Please apply on the CCMB website via the link in the thread below.
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Meghna
8 months
I am still looking for a #postdoc to join the project. Request folks to please share with their network - need your help to get the word out. Will be extending the deadline for the postdoctoral position. They can email/DM me for details.
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@bahudari @MnshaP Strange that to question what someone does is to be considered 'anti' them. I hear this far too often, especially in politics. Indicates a fundamental flaw in our perspective of how democracy works. Expecting accountability is not a matter of taking sides.
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Meghna
4 years
Super excited in anticipation of making cool zines on lives of trees!! Teaming up with @ipsawonders . #forest #ecology #scicomm
@IndiaBioscience
IndiaBioscience.org
4 years
We are thrilled to announce Aprotim Mazumdar, @KaushikLab , Meghna Krishnadas, Rohit Naniwadekar & @vvrobin +their teams as the 1st IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants #IOG Awardees. Congratulations, we eagerly await the outreach efforts. Stay tuned here to hear more from the awardees.
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3 years
Points that apply generally. Time to consider ecology of the area we live in into plans for land-use and land management. Why Kerala Urgently Needs a Roadmap to Ecological Security via @TheWireScience
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Meghna
3 years
@skinkomaniac Oh, you are an ecologist. 1. Can you 'catch' snakes? 2. Do you ever do any experiments?
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Meghna
2 years
It was a pleasure to conduct this event on "Iconic women scientists of India". Targeted at high school students as part of outreach for Women in Scientific Domain (WiSDom) by @INYAS_INSA .
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@paintedbat @AshokaUniv @Ishikamacaca @ahappypanna @LodhaGenius Nice! @AshokaUniv is indeed doing a great job of ecological exposure. So glad to see you doing this at the school level, which is where we need to start with building an awareness of the science of ecology and evolution.
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Meghna
4 years
Wow. What a sight!
@Chilindrina
Connie Swann
4 years
The largest bat colony in the world is at Bracken Cave near San Antonio, Texas. It’s hard to describe the spectacle of watching 8-10 million #MexicanFreeTailedBats emerging from the cave - making this one of the largest concentration of mammals on Earth. @BatConIntl #Texas #Bats
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Meghna
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I am going to get carpal tunnel syndrome doing all the likes at #ATBC2023 from all the folks I know and all the exciting work I will see. So, here is a giant overarching👍🏽for the days ahead. Cheers to #tropicalecolo , cool science, and student-led work. Thanks to @theATBC
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Meghna
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...while I was 'disappeared', @ESAApplications tweeted about a paper that got accepted there:
@ESAApplications
Ecological Applications
4 years
New in @ESAApplications with #opendata in @datadryad & @ZENODO_ORG : Environment shapes the spatial organization of tree diversity in fragmented forests across a human-modified landscape #biodiversity #fragmentation #WesternGhats #India @MeghnaSrishti
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Meghna
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Always nice to see a friend's work being appreciated. More fun when a namesake 😝Go Meghna!
@labhopping
TheLifeofScience.com
3 years
#365IndianWomxnInSTEM Meghna Agarwala is an ecologist and remote sensing expert at @AshokaUniv exploring dry deciduous forests. She's also involved in forest management policy debates. An interview:
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PhD students are the future of science. We need to ensure the right environment for their growth. We need to listen more and include them in the decisions that affect their lives and careers.
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@pallavabagla @Ashutos61 @nakulparashar No doubt we need more such efforts. But, please change the name. "Life of Science" has been around for 4+ years now. @labhopping and others have already pointed this out. Surely another combination of equally catchy words can be thought?
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Trouble is, science is often seen and taught as a tool towards development, advancement etc. But doing science is to inculcate a way of thinking, cultivate a temper for logic, reason, and evidence. Understand limits to knowledge and gain comfort with uncertainty...
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Meghna
3 years
Look around us. Is this really the time when we spend thousands of crores of public funds on things like the Central Vista redevelopment project?
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Meghna
4 years
Reminder: Two open PhD fellowships in our lab. Deadline: June 20th 2020. More details here: #PhDposition #ecology #biodiversity #forestecology #globalchange
@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
4 years
Are you fascinated by ecological diversity? Then join us! Two open PhD positions in our new lab @ccmb_csir - more here: Please share. #PhDposition #ecology #biodiversity #forestecology #globalchange
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Meghna
4 years
New paper from our work: Edge effects alter the role of fungi and insects in mediating functional composition and diversity of seedling recruits in a fragmented tropical forest
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Meghna
1 year
Calling all plant and soil people! Check out the call for a special issue in the American Journal of Botany #AJB that I will be co-editing with @gauravsk_ and @adri_corrales33 . We look forward to your contributions! Details here:
@adri_corrales33
Adriana Corrales
1 year
I will have the pleasure to be an editor of this special issue with two amazing colleagues @MeghnaSrishti and @gauravsk_ . Reach out if you have questions!
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Add to this a bureaucratic structure and environment that does not 'permit' most kinds of research in Indian ecosystems and the possibilities for questions we can ask shrink rapidly.
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Meghna
3 years
Don't forget to catch this talk!
@CBiologue
CCMB Biologue
3 years
Check out @vishuguttal 's Theoretical Ecology and Evolution lab at @iiscbangalore by clicking on this link He will be giving a very interesting talk on 11th March at 3:00 PM IST as a part of @CBiologue monthly lecture. Tune in!
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2 years
@mnwsth Ha! But poor administration and not-so-great research seem to enjoy fulsome coexistence
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Meghna
4 years
What Kerala can learn from a couple who turned their eight-acre Wayanad property into a forest via @scroll_in
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Meghna
3 years
Yes, this is such a wonderful effort! Please share widely... (I am sure that's happening already with something so good 😀). Big thanks to @IndiaBioscience
@vvrobin
V. V. Robin
3 years
Shout-out to @IndiaBioscience for compiling the first-of-its-kind compendium of funding opportunities for #PhD and #postdoc in India. A fantastic resource indeed!
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Meghna
3 years
The usual attempts at air brushing. The vaccine issue should never have devolved to a centre vs. state narrative, let alone being used fallaciously to justify a colossal failure of planning.
@amitmalviya
Amit Malviya (मोदी का परिवार)
3 years
The States, in their enthusiasm to gain popularity, when things were fine, jumped in and announced free vaccines. But they had neither budgeted for it nor had the expertise to deal with vaccine innovators. Fell flat. Now centre will procure and provide it to States free of cost.
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Meghna
8 months
If you are looking for a #postdoc position, check out DBT RA call. Happy to work on collaborative ideas for community ecology, conceptually matched to questions we tackle in the CaFE lab. Doesn't have to be plants only! DM or email me to discuss. Limited to Indian nationals.
@unescorcb
RCB
8 months
Call for applications under @DBTIndia Research Associateship Program (Call -I) are open for pursuing post-doctoral research in Biotechnology and Life Science at any university/ institutions across #India . For more information, please visit:  @unescorcb
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Meghna
1 year
Digging into plant-soil microbe interactions. Literally. Read this fascinating work by @yyachung
@yyachung
Anny Chung (鍾彥儀)
1 year
New paper accepted @ESAEcology ! Do plant–soil feedbacks promote coexistence in a sagebrush steppe? I dug 600 holes a year for 2 years to find out😂 Thanks to @NSF for funding this experiment as a small grant! #OpenAccess #NSFFunded
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@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
8 months
About time. This is an encouraging development in moving away from typical forest-centric views that prevail. Hope to see appreciation for a diversity of systems often labelled as "degraded", e.g., savannas.
@jayashreenandi
Jayashree Nandi
8 months
Thankfully, the standing committee of Wildlife board had a discussion on disappearing #grasslands . They are neither recorded or protected but support key species. Panel to take call on how to conserve grasslands #biodiversity #greatindianbustard
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@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
3 years
Do try and catch this talk. Liza was my PhD advisor. She is the best!
@CzSam00
Katerina Sam
3 years
Tomorrow after noon (Prague time), Liza Comita will present at our department online. Feel free to join if interested in her talk.
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@MeghnaSrishti
Meghna
4 years
Front-line staff. Can't thank them enough. Many of them do their duties without adequate pay and social securities. Need better workforce policy for them.
@ParveenKaswan
Parveen Kaswan, IFS
4 years
Today is world #Rangers day. A day as a tribute to #forest frontline staff who are working in remote corners for #conservation . Facing poachers, loneliness, mining mafia & diseases. Away from limelight. Do you know #India is considered as deadliest country for forest rangers.
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Meghna
4 years
Opens possibilities for ecological research on plant-herbivore interactions...
@JyothiVadassery
Jyothi Vadassery
4 years
Check out our amazing Metabolomics facility funded entirely by @DBTIndia and available for plant biologists use from India and internationally @NIPGRsocial
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Meghna
6 months
When do we start considering to act on this data? Seriously...
@biaswatchindia
BiasWatchIndia
6 months
"The eight highest-ranked institutions in the India National Institutional Research Framework 2022 rankings had fewer female faculty members than average, with a median of around 10%." Thank you for the feature @dyanilewis !
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Meghna
2 years
@ogaoue @ESA_org Funding also an issue. The travel and stay was too much to raise for many from the global south
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Meghna
10 months
This one I am sorry to miss!
@pritha126
Pritha Dey
11 months
#ATBC2023 Day 1, with an engaging workshop on Nature journaling!! We just sketched, noticing every detail of a leaf, a seed pod etc. for straight two hours :) Pic 1: showing off my sketch of a seed pod
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Meghna
3 years
The dramas on nature's stage: eat (bat) and not be eaten (katydid), stand out to get mates (single katydid) but blend in to stay alive (many katydids). Nice one @_harish_prakash
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Meghna
1 year
Such a pleasure to collaborate with @srijanapiya17 to spread the word about the lively lives of #plants . #scicomm
@srijanapiya17
Dr Srijana Mitra Das
1 year
#Plants give us the foundations of life, from oxygen, food & clean water to joy. But human actions are pushing plants to extinction. Join #TimesEvoke in learning how we can curb #plantloss & celebrating the superpowers of this #species ! #nature #climatechange
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Meghna
1 year
"Profit outstrips Google..."!! This is messed up. I'm feeling more and more guilt at being part of such an extractive and unfair system.
@CaitlinHafferty
Dr Caitlin Hafferty
1 year
'Academics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in academic publishing, which outstrip those made by Apple, Google and Amazon.'
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Meghna
4 years
#BESEdBoard What are the usual criteria for selection? e.g., some number of reviews/years doing review? Publications of the applicant?
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Meghna
4 years
An article I wrote for The Wire on disease ecology:
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Meghna
3 years
Do we have similar information and analysis for India? @PriyankaPulla @MenonBioPhysics @thattai Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage ...
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Meghna
1 year
Changes such these (removing key theories from textbooks) contributes to a climate where this larger goal of education gets dismantled.
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Meghna
4 years
@ForrestFleisch1 @jennifer_pow @shishirbasant @ProfEricColeman @this_is_divya @PKashwan Very helpful and timely synthesis. As a forest ecologist, I love trees, but cringe at the use of tree planting as a magic bullet. It is the system we need to understand, but simplistic reductions seem a common pitfall in policy.
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Meghna
4 years
Reminds me of field days in Nagarahole and Bhadra. Entire stretch of the road, for kilometers, lit up in waves as we drove by. In Bhadra, a grassland of several hectares, looking like a starry sky (maybe prettier). #nature #memories #nostalgia #fieldwork #firefly
@NatGeo
National Geographic
4 years
Forests are darker and quieter due to coronavirus, giving a photographer and researchers the chance to document a special moment
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Meghna
4 years
Front-line workers: the life-blood of all systems, including public health. Words fall short to express our full gratitude to these dedicated people for their unstinting service. Why are we not investing tax-payer money in giving them deserving pay and more secure jobs?
@rohini_mohan
Rohini Mohan
4 years
"I'm at a loss for words to describe their loyalty," says National Health Mission director about #ASHAs working during floods in #Assam + #Covid_19 . There can never be proportionate thanks, but they can sure be paid more than 2000 per month & treated as employees, not volunteers
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Meghna
1 year
That's just one way of thinking. Diversity is as important for a healthy society/state/nation. Let's not paint everything in a West vs East colour. BTW... Who's fighting? Many of us perfectly okay with multilingual state and culture
@IamKishorBhat
Kishor Bhat
1 year
India needs a national language. We can't just keep on fighting over languages. Commonality unifies people. In order for us to completely come out of the clutches of Western thinking it's important to establish all discipline in our own language
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Meghna
8 months
Much enjoyed chatting with @srijanapiya17 about the science that motivates the Community and Functional Ecology lab. Thanks for the interest, for listening and for sharing our fascination for the ecological stories of plants! @ccmb_csir
@timesofindia
The Times Of India
8 months
#TimesEvoke | Nature’s mechanisms ensure rich plant diversity — #climate change is impacting these #nature #plantdiversity #ClimateChange
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Meghna
1 year
Getting tired of words used without basis. Education and knowledge is not about politics. At least for some people. ‘Propaganda’: Minister defends removal of Darwin’s theory of evolution from school textbooks via @scroll_in
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Meghna
4 years
I've just posted a job on , the free job board for scientists, by scientists! @jobRxiv
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Meghna
4 years
Haven't read the paper yet, but the question they examine sounds so cool.
@rlolliffyang
Rachael Olliff-Yang, PhD
4 years
Diverse landscapes make flowering seasons longer! Check out our paper out today in @Ecol_Evol #phenology #pollinators #topography @PepperwoodCA
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Meghna
4 years
This promises to be a useful resource for all interested in parliamentary proceedings. Timely.
@MenonBioPhysics
Gautam Menon
4 years
TCPD ( @TPCD_Ashoka ) bringing clarity to the understanding of Indian politics through data. A great and uniquely Ashoka initiative by @gilkumar and collaborators.
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Meghna
2 years
Writing popular science can be excellent practice for clear and concise academic communication.
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Meghna
4 years
@abi_vanak @venadavenu @stevenlockett @vardhanpatankar @shreyadav @KrishnaAnujan @meenakshi_poti @meenscientist @manishchandi I have a species coexistence joke, but it may face too much competition Just couldn't resist jumping on the bandwagon :)
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Meghna
4 years
@mnwsth Totally agree. But, in doing so, I have faced much acrimony, overt or covert. As an early career scientist, I have been told to first establish myself and not be a 'problem individual'.
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