Gautam Menon
@MenonBioPhysics
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Prof. Physics & Biology | Biophysics, epidemiology, sci-comm, climate change, | Cats | Music | He/Him | Ashoka U | Lancet Comm| My views, not my employers,
Joined September 2018
Starting a thread with the music I like, an eclectic mix of Indian classical, world music, jazz + others. Later additions will come below [@PMenonIFPRI] Alison Brown Quartet's "Under the Five Wire" from Bluegrass Underground ... https://t.co/gqv8hi2fKQ via @YouTube
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Nice short reading: "What Is Geometry?" 1) Axioms (Euclid) 2) Coordinates (Descartes, Fermat) 3) Calculus (Newton, Leibniz) 4) Groups (Klein, Lie) 5) Manifolds (Riemann) 6) Fiber bundles (E. Cartan, Whitney) "A property is geometric, if it does not deal directly with numbers"
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NEW JERSEY: Get to know MIKIE SHERRILL: —Voted to RAISE taxes by $3,700 —Voted to give ILLEGALS taxpayer-funded healthcare —Voted to CUT the child tax credit And Sherrill has NO idea what to do as Governor. 🤯 Vote AGAINST her on Nov. 4th.
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This is excellent!
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay Oka to shortly deliver a lecture on Clean Air, "Climate Justice and We - Together for a Sustainable Future" organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association. Follow this thread for updates.
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Congratulations, Deepa!
#NationalAwardHighlight!🏆 🎉We are very excited and proud to share that Dr Deepa Agashe, Associate Professor @ncbs_bangalore has been awarded the Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar 2025 by the Government of India! 🌟Congratulations Dr Deepa! @NCBS_Bangalore @TIFRScience
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Chemistry writes the story of life. Every cell, every second, it tells it again - powered by molecular design. At the core of this process lies the citric acid cycle, the central hub of metabolism. Here, acetyl-CoA derived from carbohydrates, fats, or proteins enters a precise
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.@FranceskAlbs: "International law is clear, no state may aid or assist another committing international crimes. This is neither charity nor a matter of choice. It is binding upon you. It's a binding obligation and violating it risks complicity. Therefore, states must: Secure a
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A wise man once said "There's https://t.co/XmuvNnGKMl but no https://t.co/tj2PrkVcTz.out". Preventing access is a coward's tool.
data.gov
The home of the U.S. Government's open data
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It's disheartening to see someone influential on social media post such a comment. Vaccinations have saved countless lives and continue to do so.
Parents should take this analysis seriously. I believe there is increasing evidence that we are giving way too many vaccines to very young children. This is spreading in India too and we are seeing a rapid increase in autism in India.
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Karnataka continues to lead India’s digital governance revolution! Nanjangud has become the first City Municipal Council in the country to fully digitise civic data through the innovative ‘Civinc’ app - a major leap towards transparent, efficient, and citizen-centric urban
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Call for Applications – Hackathon on Translating Science into Responsible Innovation! Organized by @AshokaUniv, @IndiaHealthFund, @swissnexNetwork, & @NimsUniversity. Innovations for #AMR, #ClimateScience, #HealthImpact. EOI Deadline: 15 Nov 2025 Apply: https://t.co/L1QzK6UOYu
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We are excited to announce that in Jan 2026, we're hosting a series of dialogues in 4 cities to establish a responsible, inclusive future for AI in health and society. Hosts: @AshokaUniv & @NimsUniversity Partners: @iiit_hyderabad ,@CCAMP_India, @icmr_nirdhds, @gatesfoundation
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"India’s epidemic of shamelessness". "Total erosion of empathy", "a society in free fall" where "decency is seen as weakness" -- not some 'woke' liberal but corporate CEO on LinkedIn saying this. This shud worry us --but if this is who we are, i'm betting it won't.
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It’s not college kids being wild. It’s working professionals, family men, adults who should know better — and don’t care. And the scariest part? They're raising the next generation in this mould.
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devastating speech by the UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs. "...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you" "[in the West Bank] recently [Jewish] settlers abducted a 13 year old girl and her three-year-old brother. They were found
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And let me second this. I would not have replaced my IISc PhD with one from anywhere else. I worked with people who were intellectually brilliant as well as outstanding human beings. I owe them a great debt of gratitude.
My own PhD is a counter example to this. It's been an absolute pleasure to do my PhD from IISc. Couldn't have asked for a better institute or a guide. I have been treated less as a student, and often as a peer, or sometimes even a friend. This is not an uncommon anecdote, as
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While this post by @docyogi1 highlights the terrible situation with the young doctor who died by sui cide, there is another issue subtly hidden away. Doc says “…none of us would return to that system.” There is a ring of truth to it. This is why our govt systems and rural
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An important lecture.
Teaching a Lesson? Academic Freedom and the Indian State: Full text of Professor G.N. Saibaba memorial lecture by S. Muralidhar https://t.co/qriXJFTDZz
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Haaretz continues to do heroic reporting on Israeli violence in an increasingly illiberal political climate. The extremists in Israel cannot stand that one of their country’s most credible outlets is consistently indicting it. Haaretz has already lost partnerships with the
Lynch mobs, arson, animal slaughter: an unprecedented wave of Israeli violence sweeps the West Bank https://t.co/K09qMCrNYy
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An important collaboration.
Coverage in today’s The Hindu on the landmark collaboration between Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), Centre for Brain Research (CBR), IISc Bengaluru, and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) — a global partnership to advance research on the link between diabetes
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No secret models No "premium requests" No rate limits Complete control Your productivity tool shouldn't be your biggest productivity problem.
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The way these news channels vilified an entire industry and esp an innocent woman should have brought an end to the professional lives of these so called journalists. If only the world was a fair place.
Stunning scoop ‘nails’ Rhea’s lie. Team Rhea’s ‘PR stunt’ backfires. Rhea & company can’t keep SSR truth buried. Watch @thenewshour tonight at 9 PM, on @timesnow. | #RheaLieCaughtOut
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What is polluting Delhi's air? Which regions contribute significantly to Delhi's air pollution crisis? What do experts and the data say? To find out, read @shivnarayan01's analysis of data compiled by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. https://t.co/3MCLnifN6e
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this is not true, but i also need people to understand that the underlying message of posts like this is that israel should be allowed to keep killing people indiscriminately
The only country in the Middle East I won’t get arrested for this outfit 🤪 🤍🇮🇱
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