"Are we allowed to be unimpressed by Nobel prize winners? Hope so." Professor Duncan Green (duncangreenlse.bsky.social) on Why Nations Fail. wp.me/p3MVmW-3rx

#Survey Alert: Understanding Author's Perception for #Publishing We are trying to understand the author's perception in India for publishing in #journals. We'd be grateful if you can spare your time in responding to the survey. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #Research #India

This is possibly the best combination, put together a “public” library as part of a “public” transport system! You can never go wrong with it. This is wonderful work by everyone involved! #PublicTransport #publiclibraries

When making games is more fun than playing them! #gamedesign #researchtools

Always good to get a fountain pen restored by the makers of the pen themselves! Thanks to Ranga Pena for fixing the 4CS. The Fountain Pen Show seemed to have a greater footfall than last year & it was nice seeing so many folks who were new to #fountainpens #bangalore

The metaphors of artificial intelligence writes Melanie Mitchell Santa Fe Institute | Science science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Dear Tushar Giri Nath IAS by evicting the vendors of church street , you hit not just their business but of shops also. Church street has lost its vibe. Pls follow Street vendors act, restore livelihoods of the poor. AICCTU Karnataka Imp story by Shreyas HS

It has been a while since I posted. We are thrilled to announce Tarkam: Centre for Data-Driven Discourse at IIIT-Bangalore. If you want to talk #data, #standards, #Interoperability or #stories, please reach out. It is a result of a lot of civil society partners coming together.

How can AI help Indian language scicommers? Here is my try which was just an idea two years ago when I spoke at #SJAI meet. This brief podcast is fully AI. A news brief from the newsletter #,Science-Adviser of AAAS was translated machine language (Google Translate was best. 1/n

Did you play #Scidle today? Scidle English #4 2/6 scidle.researchmatters.in 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Lovely to see more agent-based modelling work from India! Do take a look at this piece of work from Gautam Menon and team. We’ve used agent based models in testing and designing public policy, and built a distributed framework in the past with my previous work at Fields of View.

“DREAM MACHINE is suited for readers looking for an introduction the inner workings of AI technology while also contemplating the future of technology unfolding within our present-day...” Archita Mittra reviews work by Laurent Daudet and Appupen locusmag.com/2025/01/dream-…

Looking forward to this, which has a chapter by me on "Exploring the Emergence of Peripheral Centralities in Bengaluru: The Case of Electronics City". The book also key contributions from many others across the globe edited by Nicholas A. Phelps @rkeil & 🤘Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn🤘

Sunday morning on #BMTC is generally different, & I paid for the ticket online which was definitely useful. It would’ve helped if the scanner was with the ticket machine rather than just stickers on the bus. #publictransport #bangalore

Democratising complex system modelling sco.lt/5vCVO4

Our first conversation with Luis M. A. Bettencourt of The University of Chicago, Santa Fe Institute on ideas of "urban scaling", and how this helps us develop an underlying sense of urban living: youtube.com/watch?v=fcmkPp… Some of the themes highlighted in the conversation were...

Hey All! Tomorrow, we have a small quiz programme planned in the Namma Raste event. The quiz, titled Right Anta Heli is a programme that has to do with topics related to BMTC. This is being organised by us, Friends of BMTC & being hosted by stand-up comedian, CoffeeKudithira?

In our second discussion of the Science of Cities series, we explore the Indian urban system w/ Anand Sahasranaman, particularly how scale & geography impact urban properties, and what this tells us about the evolution of the urban fabric of the country. youtube.com/watch?v=yk28ok…

Nice! Looking forward to this thread by Mradula

I finally found a great copy of Fazlul Hasan’s Bangalore through the Centuries; I’ve been looking for a good copy for a while now. Thank you Bookworm Bookstore, Blr! My list of books on Bangalore is almost complete: x.com/bharathmp/stat… #bangalore #booksonbangalore