More than a woman-in-science story, Joan's journey highlights the cost of STEM's obsession with youth. Far too many talented folk cannot afford an uninterrupted decade of BSc-MSc-PhD. We have much to gain by being inclusive. Full version is now up on good ol' LabHopping

I write about the science of sex testing in sport, and why we are biased against athletes like #ImaneKhelif. Science shows as many as 58 variations between male and female, the Madras HC wrote in 2019 in the Arunkumar Sreeja order. But are we reading the science right? #Paris2024

The IITs are being destroyed one step at a time. Union education ministry sending a circular for a private body, Centre for Narendra Modi Studies, and IIT-K director going overboard. New India.

"Some researchers in India have apparently been harassing women for decades... a prominent biologist who handed sexually explicit letters... Fears of repercussions stopped people speaking out, one ecologist who experienced the behaviour told Nature." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Happening next week, Sept 19th. We are joined by Dr. Gili Freedman St Mary's College MD and Aashima Freidog Aashima Be part of the conversation, discuss your experiences, and sketch out achievable solutions together. Emerging Creatives of Science #webinar

Can you spot a Lab Hopper illustrated by the super talented Siddhesh Gautam on the cover of this new IndiaBioscience.org publication 🥳 Don't miss the interview with Sayantan Datta and also essays by Aashima & Nandita J

🚀1: Track numbers 🚀2: Avoid ‘manels’ 🚀3: Partner up 🚀4: Create space for critique Read the story to know how one conference demonstrated the above, the mistakes they made & the way they dealt with it. thelifeofscience.com/2024/10/05/fou…

TLoSers turn Winners 🤓😎

Hi. Meet💡Lab Hopping Lightbulbs, a new newsletter featuring ideas on inclusivity & Indian science. ↪To subscribe, submit your email id in the pink box on our homepage (thelifeofscience.com) 💌Issue 1 mailchi.mp/3447268e8ff2/l…

Thank you for your science and your labour, Rohini. We will miss you sorely💔❤️‍🔥 #RohiniGodbole thelifeofscience.com/2024/02/11/tre…

Here is a copy of the full book: LILAVATI'S DAUGHTERS coedited by Rohini Godbole & Ram Ramaswamy archive.org/details/A0560I… Internet Archives zindabad!

11th Annual Homi Bhabha Memorial #PublicLecture hosted by IISER Pune Physics will be given by Prof. Rama Govindarajan from ICTS this Friday Nov 8, 2024, 5:30 pm, at CV Raman Auditorium on #IISERPune campus Lecture is open to all!! iiserpune.ac.in/events/3857/th…

It has been an honour to write about the indomitable spirit of Rohini Godbole.

On what would have been her birthday, a moving tribute to the phenomenal phenomenologist Rohini Godbole by LabHopping co-founder Aashima (Aashima): thelifeofscience.com/2024/11/12/roh… A 🧵with some golden snippets and lots of memories: #rohinigodbole #tribute #WomenInSTEM

Popular photo app reminds me that 6 years ago Aashima and I were at IIT Kanpur doing some reporting for the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists conference.

Wah, ticketed event. Come listen to me try to talk about the beauty & impact of patterns encountered during Aashima and my lab hopping quest. At IIIT-Bangalore during their #Confluence25 Tickets here: insider.in/confluence25-j…

#NationalScienceDay | "IITs were, and still are, a very, very male-dominated environment," Ravinder Kaur tells Aashima. The sociologist has pioneered initiatives to improve gender equity in the #IIT ecosystem, which has long been a male bastion. frontline.thehindu.com/social-issues/…

Soo. We are springing back to action this month with a special series with STEMtheGap First off, the extended version of Aashima 's convo with Ravinder Kaur whose team has been quietly doing some remarkable analyses of their own institute IIT Delhi. Out tomorrow🥳

In my second piece with STEMtheGap, I write about spatial restraints and gender asymmetries. If you wish to know how the layout of a premises, compound, campus becomes a vessel to a (wo)man' everyday: read :) thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/20/two…

ESSAY | Postcolonial theory has a Hindutva problem, writes Aashima. Ideas meant to challenge colonial power are now being used to justify myth & religion in India, with real costs to science & secularism. frontline.thehindu.com/books/modern-s…