Celebrating #VanMahotsav2025 Diatoms—nature’s tiny glassmakers, crafting exquisite silica shells. They are the unseen jewels of water, vital to ecosystems & silent indicators of aquatic health. Dr Jitendra Singh Abhay Karandikar Agharkar Research Institute MoEF&CC

🦀 A crab enjoys its meal on a waterfall rock, carefully picking food from a surface rich in environmental biofilm, dominated by diatoms! Nature's tiny grazers feed on even tinier ones. #Diatoms #FreshwaterEcology #CrabLife #BiofilmFeast Shot by MADHAN PARAMASIVAM

Collected diatom samples in South Africa after 12 years! Excited to see what stories these tiny algae will tell about their rivers. We will teach using these samples at NW University #Diatoms #FreshwaterEcology #SouthAfrica #Fieldwork

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 Research Matters! 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟑𝟏 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭! 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘: smart #irrigation cuts #water use, decentralized #snakebite action urged, #machinelearning detects corrosion, #diatoms teach #river #conservation, &

💥Thrilled to share that I’ve received ANRF International Travel Support to attend International Diatom Symposium 2025 at South Africa! Grateful to Anusandhan National Research Foundation for the support. Excited to meet and connect with the pioneers in diatom research! #Diatom #ANRF

Honoured to present my research on diatom evolutionary history and biogeography at 27th #IDS2025, Kruger National Park, South Africa 🇿🇦 Incredible opportunity to share my work and connect with the global diatom community. #Diatoms #ANRF

Proud moment! Yogie and Pratyasha Nayak delivered a lecture at the 27th International Diatom Symposium, South Africa. Great to see young voices from India representing diatom research on the global stage! Thanks to Anusandhan National Research Foundation for funding our work and the participation.

Presented a poster at IDS 2025 on using diatoms in archaeological research, featuring the Keeladi dataset. A collaborative effort with the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department to uncover invisible clues from the past! #IDS2025 #Diatoms #Archaeology #Keeladi #TamilNadu

From our lab, we presented four posters at the diatom conference, and Pratyasha Nayak won the Best Poster Award! 🎉👏 Proud moment for the team! #Diatoms

Congratulations to Vigneshwaran Anbukkarasu on submitting his PhD thesis! His work on #diatoms across the Western Ghats identified key determinants of their distribution and developed indices for water quality monitoring. A big step forward for #freshwater ecology and #biomonitoring in India.

We are looking for a PhD student to join our Evolutionary Ecology lab CSIR-CCMB in January 2026; here are details - sites.google.com/view/jahnavijo…

Dr. Mital Thacker Mital Thacker has been awarded the D.B. Chougule (Burlikar) Gold Medal by University of Pune for the best PhD thesis in Botany. Her work focused on the present and past diatoms of the unique Myristica swamp ecosystems of the Western Ghats with Karthick Balasubramanian at

Out in the field at Ujani Reservoir! Collecting water and diatom samples to understand how this vast ecosystem is changing beneath the surface. #Diatoms #WaterQuality #Ecology

Even the rain can’t wash away curiosity, #fieldwork in full swing! When the #WesternGhats pour, the #diatoms call. MADHAN PARAMASIVAM Aravind Madhyastha

"This August, Yogeshwaran M from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune, participated in the International Diatom Symposium (IDS) held in Skukuza, South Africa. Travel for participation was supported by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) International Travel

I thank Anusandhan National Research Foundation Karthick Balasubramanian and Agharkar Research Institute for the all the support required to be a part of International Diatom Symposium 2025 and shared my research with global community

Our lab at the 3rd Indian Quaternary Congress 😊1 keynote lecture | 2 oral presentations | 4 poster presentations. Great scientific discussions, strong student participation, and an excellent platform to share our Quaternary research using #diatoms

A truly satisfying moment 😊 Our research on #diatoms from the Keladi excavations is now showcased at the Keladi Museum. Great to see science reaching common people and connecting the lab with society 🔬🏛️

Great opportunity to interact with young minds. Thank you Talk To A Scientist Karishma Kaushik, MBBS, MD, PhD, Mom Snehal Kadam, PhD for inviting me for this wonderful session. #diatom #WesternGhats #PhD #research #River #waterfall #stream #evolution #ecology #Science #scicom

Attended Anusandhan National Research Foundation supported seminar-cum-training workshop on “Value-based Approaches Towards Algae & Their Native Ecosystem”. Delivered a talk on “Diatoms as Sentinels of Ecosystems”, highlighting how diatoms capture spatial and temporal environmental changes.