RT @skvdst: Alfried Krupp Fellowships 2026-27 at junior and Senior levels.Generous financial stipend aligned with their academic qualificat….

Being inclusive is the key! .Arguably IIT Bombay was the first ever institute to recognise Queer Support group in campus long back in 2010. The tradition continues….

Fully agree but here’s a point: 1 published paper = ~6 reviews (2 rounds × 3 reviewers). If 1 publishes 30 papers/yr, r they reviewing 180?.Most don’t. That’s the other side of the peer review crisis resulting into low quality review. PS: Thr r further nuances bt not going thr.

The r more such examples. If we want 2 establish Indian Traditional Medicine, we hv 2 subject it to modern & deep sci investigations, not just anecdotes. PS. In our lab, @ran_save is working on 5 diff phytochem, taking clue from Charak Samhita. We r open 2 all possible outcomes.

India’s own win: Reserpine, a breakthrough antihypertensive from Sarpagandha, was first tested & validated by Indian scientists,.Dr. R.N. Chopra, Dr. K.S. Grewal & Dr. S.Z. Siddiqui. But we didn’t patent it. The West took the credit.

Artemisinin isn’t the only win from TCM. Huperzine A, berberine, ephedrine, all started as traditional remedies but only gained value after rigorous isolation, testing, and validation. Ancient clues, modern methods. That’s how science works.

Tu Youyou didn’t win the Nobel just by identifying artemisinin frm ancient texts or anecdotal claims. Her team isolated the compound, identified right extraction protocol, confirmed its mol. structure, & proved efficacy n safety through in vitro & animal studies. That’s science.

Interesting!.LiverDoc said:. An Ayurved Vaidya.A homeopathic practitioner.A physiotherapist.A cosmetologist. r nt “real doctors”!. How did ir become a debate of modern med vs. Ayurved alone?.Or worse, an attack on Hinduism or India whn 3/4 rn’t evn Indian or Hindu in origin?.

RT @skvdst: Call for proposals by @ANRFIndia for R&D projects from the researchers belonging to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe to unde….

RT @DuttShilpee: The last date for applying to a PhD program at SLS, JNU is tomorrow. Do apply if you are interested in cutting-edge, multi….

In the “Doctor” fiasco, we the “Doctorate” degree holders:

Sci Method 101:.1.falsifiable hypothesis .2.Claimant mst prove the claim.3.Reproducibility is 🔑 .4.Controls matter.5.B cautious of Confirmation bias .6.Anecdotes ≠ evidence.7.Correlation ≠ causation.8.Absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence.9.Sci evolves.

Here u can call evidence based practitioners of medicine as “agents of big pharma”, “butcher”, “slow poisoning with high side effects”, “not treating the root cause”, “killing ppl with vax etc.”, without an iota of evidence, and without any public backlash.

Too good @ANRFIndia .Feeling like saying “Bas kar pagle, ab rulayega kya” . Unbelievable! . PS: TBH, I had fantastic experience with my SERB grant admin, Dr. Sukumar Dey, solved every issue promptly.

RT @TheChungLab: Our lab has openings for postdocs and research technicians!. Email eunchung@usc.edu with CV and interests, and for more in….

RT @sayams: IISER Kolkata is starting a new 2-yr MS program in Sustainability Science. For details about the program and career prospects,….

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To self: Don’t relax and procrastinate!.

Attending conferences is so rejuvenating! Other than having great talks, brainstorming, forming new collabs, n good food, 🍷 , & greenery, u meet ur old friends & make some new!!!.PS: I am not good at taking pics, so most of the ppl whom I met, r not in the attached images.

RT @iitbombay: In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from IIT Bombay and collaborators f….