The first Kaapi with Kuriosity session for 2020 will be held this Sunday, 12 January 2020. icts.res.in/outreach/kaapi… Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru. Time: 1600hrs – 1700hrs #icts #kaapiwithkuriosity #scienceforall #science #scienceoutreach

You can have my dead body but not my obedience: M K Gandhi to British I beg to remain, SIR, Your most obedient servant: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar to British

From Amit Shah suggesting that voters should press the EVM button so hard that the 'current' is felt at Shaheen Bagh, to Govt sponsored anchors making a beeline for Shaheen Bagh, there's nothing in the past 6 years that has rattled them the way the protests in Shaheen Bagh have.

Repeat with me - "I will keep my bloody graphs to myself if I am not an expert." And 'data scientist' or 'physicist' is not an expert on virology/epidemiology.

Delighted colleagues Umakant Rapol, Sunil Nair and collaborators from IISER Pune Physics developed the low-cost ventilator concept into a finished prototype within a few weeks of intense work at IISER Pune. Thanks to ScienceMediaCentre for the nice video. youtu.be/3EjI8wq6A9U

Give physicists a can of worms ... And, they'll put the worms on a petri dish and then track every single one of them. Like their life depends on it. And then reduce them to an "eigenworms". journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

A big black hole just ate a much smaller black hole. Or a neutron star. Maybe. syfy.com/syfywire/a-big… Kamrān as-Salafī reports on the discovery of #GW190814

Running interviews online has its own set of challenges and also opportunities. At the ICTS PhD admission interviews today, this sprightly candidate used the side of his TV cabinet as a blackboard and also had a clever Easter egg (hanging ICTS logo) in the back.

An excellent summary of my Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India interactions with post docs and early career researchers yesterday. Thank you Samatha Mathew Samatha Mathew (She/her)

On July 1 I decided to start reading a paper every day. It's been three weeks and I'm thrilled to announce I've read 2 papers!

We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW190521, observed by LIGO and EGO & the Virgo Collaboration on May 21st 2019: the most massive binary #BlackHoles merger detected yet! Read the full story at ligo.org/detections/GW1…

Deccan Herald does NOT hold back credits : r/DHSavagery

This is happening at IISc. *The* premier research institute in the country.

Probably a good time to announce that in September I will stop being a graduate student and will start as a Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics fellow in Toronto! 🇨🇦 Very very excited for this opportunity, and looking forward to meeting all the great people and doing science! 🥂👊✌️

A welcome event was organised at India in Australia for about 75 Future Research Talent scholars from India, currently being hosted by Australian National University, Canberra. Driven by their passion for research, these young bright minds represent India's top institutes.

A central problem in the interpretation of the scientific literature is that people (both in and outside of science) systematically fail to recognize that peer review is not, and has never been, about validating facts. It is about certifying conformity of approach.

Honestly, this is a pretty terrible reference letter and showcases all the wrong reasons for giving admission to Dr. Sarabhai.

Happy to have been part of what I consider a historic event in ICTS. I got the opportunity to conduct/oversee the thesis defense by our (ICTS) first woman PhD recipient and was delighted to be the first one to address her as Dr. Srashti Goyal. Congratulations Srashti Goyal !!