Nothing can be more satisfying in career than doing my favorite #regionalanesthesia 💉 educational event at my Alumni 🏥 (Siddhartha Medical College, (SMC)🇮🇳. Thx 🙏 for the ISA Vijaywada Organizers Sridevi Valluri, FRCA , faculty & delegates for a successful event! 🙏 Ranjith K Sivakumar

#AORA24 Professor Karmakar and Ranjith K Sivakumar starting the day 1 of RA conclave of 🇮🇳 with the master demo on SUIT technique for scanning brachial plexus.. rapm.bmj.com/content/46/12/… 🩺 Hari (హరి 🇮🇳) Kalagara MadanKumar Narayanan Balavenkat Subramanian Vrushali Ponde Dr Prit Anand Singh Jeff Gadsden Dr. Vishal Uppal MBBS, FRCA 🇨🇦🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#AORA24 🇮🇳 AORA India Another successful mega #POCUS event with outstanding faculty & wonderful delegates !! Sree H Praveen Kolli Keerthi Nishank Nooli Layne Bettini Vedhika shanker Dr Shruti Shrey Sridevi Valluri, FRCA EESHWAR MURALI Dr Amit Dikshit ASRA Pain Medicine Mayo Clinic Department of Anesthesiology

Icing on the 🎂 …..tourism in HYD ! Incredible 🇮🇳…. Ramoji Film City🎥 (RFC ) was 🥰🥰 with international faculty! #AORA24 AORA India vincent chan Keerthi Sree H Praveen Kolli Rakesh Sondekoppam Ranjith K Sivakumar Kurt Ruetzler Monica Harbell, MD, FASA Lopa Misra Layne Bettini Sridevi Valluri, FRCA

“I like Star Wars too!” 💔

New paper on emergence, by Achyuth Parola and me. We try to clarify what people might possibly mean when they invoke "emergence." We try to eliminate subjective terms about "novelty," and specify what it would take to have new ontologies at higher levels.

The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine focuses on the discovery of a vital regulatory mechanism used in cells to control gene activity. Genetic information flows from DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA), via a process called transcription, and then on to the cellular machinery

Srinivasa Ramanujan embodies the myth of the self-taught genius. He often said that his equations had been bestowed on him by the gods. More than a century after his premature death, his divine insights are inspiring new results. Jordana Cepelewicz reports: quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-rama…

Roger Penrose on the age-old question: Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? youtu.be/ujvS2K06dg4?fe… via YouTube

Lifetime achievement unlocked: answer a blunt interview question on a topic that matters to billions of people. quantamagazine.org/mathematical-t…

I just finished Peter Godfrey-Smith's wonderful Metazoa. Who knew that hermit crabs tend to their wounds and seek analgesics? PGS takes an evolutionary/comparative approach to consciousness and defends what I would call a noncomputational functionalism to the effect that ... 1/3

Let the data talk: embrace exploratory research, says Balazs Aczel go.nature.com/3BdEFP8

Top 4 things to know about doing science: 1. You need to have someone you can talk to 2. One-on-one discussions are the best 3. Think about discussions as improvisations and use the ‘yes, and’ rule 4. Create a safe space so both of you feel open to saying seemingly silly things

Ranjith K Sivakumar ASRA Pain Medicine ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia

Masterpiece.

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants. Great to see this important study out now in Science Magazine from the lab of Nicholas Turk-Browne Yale University CIFAR science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

Join in 🇭🇰 to learn all about “Ultrasound” in Anesthesia & Pain Medicine ! ISSPS 2025 with Dr Manoj Kumar Karmakar ! 👉 aic.cuhk.edu.hk/issps2025/# November 6-8th, 2025. #regionalanesthesia #Pain #POCUS Ranjith K Sivakumar ASRA Pain Medicine ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia AORA India Samer Narouze,MD,PhD,MMM Eleni Moka

Doris Lessing on how to read a book and how to read the world themarginalian.org/2025/07/17/dor…

Nice review of predictive coding models Predictive coding: a more cognitive process than we thought? doi.org/10.1016/j.tics… #neuroscience