Funny XKCD cartoon on curve-fitting methods and the messages they send.

Colleges (offering general UG/PG degrees) are important part of Higher Education system. But the tragedy, 81 of the top 100 colleges are situated in just three states (Delhi, Tamil Nadu & Kerala). These three states just have 7.87% population (18-23 age group) of India.(1/n)

Nobody believed then. Some believing now.

Congratulations to Prof. Soumitro Banerjee and Prof. Rahul Banerjee for being enlisted in the "World’s Top 2% Scientists" Catalog 2022 (Stanford University, USA & Elsevier BV) Ministry of Education

New constraints of gravitational wave (GW) propagation in inhomogeneous space-times (lensing & source environment) using up-to-date LIGO EGO & the Virgo Collaboration KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory data! arxiv.org/abs/2301.04826 led by Srashti Goyal (ICTS), w/ Aditya (ആദിത്യ) Vijaykumar & @jmezquiagabravo (strong-gr) 1/n

Goyal vs Goliath: 4 people against an experiment of 1200+ Please help 🤕

After a very exciting competition, here we have the newest Physics Plot of the Week! 🥳Congratulations to the winners!🥳 -- Plot from Goyal et al. Srashti Goyal (arxiv.org/abs/2301.04826)

Many thanks to all those who voted for us!

"I believe science should reach everyone and that giving people the tools to think logically and scientifically will benefit society." Find out more about Ajit at #HumansOfLIGO: humansofligo.blogspot.com/2023/02/ajit-k…

Freedom level, 2023 (100 = most free): 🇫🇮FIN: 100 🇳🇴NOR: 100 🇸🇪SWE: 100 🇨🇦CAN: 98 🇯🇵JPN: 96 🇦🇺AUS: 95 🇩🇪GER: 94 🇬🇧GBR: 93 🇫🇷FRA: 89 🇺🇸USA: 83 🇧🇷BRA: 72 🇨🇴COL: 70 🇮🇳IND: 66 🇲🇽MEX: 60 🇲🇾MAS: 53 🇳🇬NGR: 43 🇵🇰PAK: 37 🇹🇷TUR: 32 🇷🇺RUS: 16 🇨🇳CHN: 9 🇸🇦KSA: 8 🇸🇾SYR: 1

One of my highest priorities is to ensure the #Anganwadi system becomes and is known as a high-quality learning system, & each center a high-quality pre-school, through the Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi initiatives: #NITIAayog Member Dr VK Paul economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/p…

So there's a really nice series of schools that ICTS runs for *women* in physics and math. And they have a set of popular talks as part of the school! Here's Pallavi Bhat talking about her research and PhD life takeaways. Hard agree with all of them!

Here's Postdoc takeaways!

The most beautiful equations in Physics and Mathematics. A visual thread 👇

Today might have seen the biggest physics discovery of my lifetime. I don't think people fully grasp the implications of an ambient temperature / pressure superconductor. Here's how it could totally change our lives.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 'India🇮🇳, I reached my destination and you too!' : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳! #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3

Astronomers and students from Christ University Bengaluru make a serendipitous discovery of a rare ringed galaxy while playing with data from the Dark Energy Legacy Survey. Kudos to the team from this small University 👆🏾 And why ka no one taking about this❕ +

Many thanks Pallavi! Not the Dr. that my father wanted, but still very happy to have taken the path of Academia and receive this title :)

Thanks bhaiya!