Terminal Sem-Exam Intermediate Sem-No Exam Dear UGC INDIA My life would have been much easier in the past 2.5 years if you had told that all my credibility, competence and opportunities are gonna depend only upon terminal sem marks; rest mean nothing #UGCGuidelines #againstexam

Oh what a country for wildlife. All with a billion people. It is not to do with population, it has more to do with whether people will allow the wildlife to remain or not...toon by Rohan Chakravarty.

I just love this, every time I hear Raghavendra Gadagkar talk about it. #SFS_2021

We had a very engaging week at #SFS_2021. Thanks to all our speakers for accepting the invitation. Our participants enjoyed the experience thoroughly. Fantastic job, team @cogito137! Thanks DSTIndia for the funding and IISER Kolkata for support. scicomm.iiserkol.ac.in/pages/workshop…

#Sherni is that rare film, where you instantly identify with the characters, and you know you've encountered them in in your professional life. My take on it in The Wire Science science.thewire.in/environment/sh…

Thanks a lot Current Conservation @NPanwar05 🥂

What a sweet surprise it was, coming across the Masters' theses of some of the most noteworthy names in the field. vidya athreya Divya Mudappa, Jayashree Ratnam and many other remarkable alumni. It gives me and my peers great inspiration to have your examples in front of us!

Northeast and the W Ghats are our treasure troves of biodiversity. By any metric, they rank high in holding flora and fauna, and in supporting our lives through ecosystem services. They are both subsumed into this 100 km zone...

New preprint! 🙌 An independent exploratory work which revealed an interesting pattern. Across the elevation,the overall trait space of Geometrid moth assemblages showed no difference,with decreasing diversity and increasing turnover! #westernhimalaya #ruffordfoundation #moths

Rosettes in a matrix: Predicting spatial variation in density of a large felid in a forest-production mosaic biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_ecology

Thanks a lot rucha karkarey | ऋचा करकरे for introducing me to this spawning aggregation and helping me to put our thoughts and conversations into words. Nothing would have been possible without you. :)

CORAL RESTORATION OPINION: Coral restoration is a speculative, feel-good science that won’t save our reefs theconversation.com/coral-restorat… #coralreefs #reefrestoration #coralrestoration #climatechange #bleaching #globalwarming #coralbleaching #coralreefecology #marinebiology

Out today in Biology Letters! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… Our #NewPaper documents decade-long behavioural change at a #spawningsite, showing how #fishing disrupts squaretail grouper mating behaviours, causing them to flee w fear, rather than fight w competitors or flirt w mates.

Honoured to be a plenary speaker at Reef Conservation UK this year! Excited to share insights from a decade of studying & conserving fish spawning aggregations in #India "Site-fidelity: place-based ecology and the case of the squaretail groupers" Lancaster Environment Centre LEC Reefs National Geographic Society