when #China fight for dominance, what does it do? it doubles its investment on #science & #tech and make ~140billion $ #VC fund to fund cutting-edge tech. when #India fight for dominance, what does the nation do?

the rise of #India is not going to happen due to the growth in any, i mean any, sector other than #science, #technology, #education and #health. the rest is pure fantasy.

problems related to #fellowships disbursal delay will be over from next mo, jun2025...... hope this is true...except, this is not the first time we heard this sort of a grandeur declaration from the funding agencies. thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien…

#ANRF #npdf scheme is open. we shall host one in our lab. apply by 15 jun 2025. write to me if interested.

write to me asap if interested. anrfonline.in/ANRF/npdf

#Cricket is the #No1 hyped sports that in #India generates a lot of noise w a frenzy crowd and w an oversize revenue for the board/players which ultimately helps destroy other sports. time to rationalize cricket as a sport and #tax the board on the revenue.

streets in our cities are unsafe w unruly people, chaotic traffic & stray animals unleased. there shd not be any #cows on the street as they belong to the farm and places where they can be kept and taken care of. can we start w #Delhi? CMO Delhi Delhi Government Rekha Gupta

time to stop all scientific #Journals, once & for all. billions of $$/₹₹ of taxpayer money goes to #publishers. there's a much better & free (almost) way to disseminate results of #science - it's called #internet. journals add #ZERO value in knowledge creation & dissemination.

one of the biggest #impediments to the progress of #science, other than the #scientists themselves, are the #academic #journals published by various society & commercial publishers. time to get rid of them all together.

for you - "do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." #bertrandrussell

#India must go a step futher from what NIH announced. mandate #Preprinting, stop paid subsc to all jour (gradually) & work towards a colla, dynamic #peer_review by multiple experts over the present arcane, static sys by 2/3 reviewers w a scoring function. nih.gov/about-nih/nih-…

i'm hardly ~3km from the campus. i walk/bike to work. however, there's no way one can w/o putting own life in danger. this's the best patch in that 3km range w/o cows/cowdung/filth. can we change this? we, the citizens, need to be resp to keep our city clean Delhi CM Municipal Corporation of Delhi

Second episode of Jobs in AI age . binay panda

our sci practice has become the laughing stock around the world for #embellishing, not telling-the-truth, #overestimating our capabilities & for living in #Bollywood. time to inject #realism into our sci. we, the #scientists, must take the lion share of the blame for the debacle.

the just completed #biohackathon and #bioentrepreneurship workshop was real fun. a v selective and a small group made the workshop highly interactive & fullfilling to all. #science

no other nation worships #charlatan #gurus (from all religions) and snake oil salesman like folks in #India do. they sell #pseudoscience, spread fear & superstition in the name of #spirituality #Dharma & #religions . no other sane, modern and prosperous nation even comes close.

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had a great discussion at the Biology Club IISERB of IISER Bhopal. the best slide ever credit @MarkELindsay #georgelucas was a century ahead.