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Presenting the Plenary Speakers of ICCON 2025! A stellar mix of scientists, field experts, policymakers & thought leaders shaping the future of conservation in India and beyond. 🌱🌏 Individual intros coming soon. #ICCON2025 #PlenaryTalks #ConservationScience #PolicyToPractice

Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya hosts unique bird species. Alumnus Sidharth Srinivasan's study reveals seasonal, habitat-specific specializations and rare foraging behaviors National Centre for Biological Sciences CES, IISc The Habitats Trust doi.org/10.1086/735417

#ResearchExplained! Riddhi Deshmukh & team from Dr Krushnamegh Kunte's lab examined butterfly populations in Southeast Asia to reveal how species split and evolve when their populations become geographically separated.🦋 Read here: bit.ly/3SHBNzq ✏️ Christeen Paulson

The Office of Principal Scientific Adviser’s BeST Cluster (under S&T Clusters initiative), is collaborating with Biocon Foundation and National Centre for Biological Sciences for BioWISE, an initiative aimed to help underserved female students from tier 2 and 3 universities across Karnataka, to build a

📢We are now taking mentee applications for the Abroad Admission Mentorship Program (AAMP) 2025-26. If you are interested in a Masters or PhD, our program guides Bahujan students through seminars and 1-on-1 mentoring. Deadline: 22nd June Form: forms.gle/XPDQUvYgyqi5Vz…

Made it to Brisbane for #iccb2025 with a scenic connecting flight from Sydney! See the tweet below for conservation genetics related activities, or if you just would like to catch up!

Proud to support Wildlife Conservation Trust (India) in protecting the Gangetic basin, a lifeline for 500+ million people & the endangered gharial. With Airbus Foundation, we’re supporting with high-res #satellite imagery, to be combined with AI to monitor, track threats & guide action connectedconservation.foundation/projects/prote…

We are delighted to welcome Aniruddha Panda (Aniruddha Panda), who joins TIFR Hyderabad as the newest faculty member. With native mass spectrometry, lipidomics, proteomics & metabolomics, he is exploring how cellular biochemistry governs signalling & how its disruption leads to disease.

A new paper on an issue that has been discussed for more than a century -- how can fundamental biophysical constraints on nutrient transport be overcome to solve one of the most significant challenges associated with the evolution of multicellularity? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In 2019, Nishant Narayanasamy joined Shashi Thutupalli’s lab at National Centre for Biological Sciences. There, a strange guest was waiting: a colony of yeast growing far beyond what anyone expected. 🧵 thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien…

Robin Vijayan spoke about the adverse effects caused by the spread of invasive species in the Shola Sky Islands. The study highlights that invasion supports forest birds but not grassland birds, causing large scale local extinction and range expansions of endemic and endangered

How do lizards talk? Using flashy colours and sexy moves, of course. But why have so many signals - especially when they're costly and attract predators? We explore the how and why in our latest paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #ColSci #Lizards Maria Thaker IISc Bangalore

Prof. Mahesh Sankaran (Ecology & Evolution, National Centre for Biological Sciences) gave a brilliant plenary on Day 3 of #ICCON, exploring forest–grassland mosaics: past, present & future. A fascinating talk on these neglected systems—clear, compelling, and urgently relevant! #Ecology MoEF&CC

Dr. Manoj V. Nair, CCF (WL), Odisha & Director, Nandankanan Biological Park, delivered a powerful plenary at #ICCON on Science for Conservation: A Manager’s Wish List. A WII alumnus, his talk brilliantly bridged science & real-world management. MoEF&CC Wildlife Institute of India National Tiger Conservation Authority

Thrilled to share that I’ve joined TIFR Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor! Deeply grateful to my mentors (esp Shiv Grewal and KN Balaji), colleagues, friends, family & EVERYONE who made this possible. Excited to explore Epigenetics & the 3D Genome with the brilliant minds in India!

📢We are excited to launch the Indica School of Field Ecology and Conservation, generously supported by a grant from the Murty Trust! It aims to provide immersive, field-based training for PhD students, early-career researchers, conservation practitioners, & forest managers.🧵👇

Pwani University Pwani University in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science IISc Bangalore are delighted to offer this workshop for the third year running Wildlife Research & Training Institute Kenya Wildlife Service KMFRI ILRI.org icipe Mpala Research Centre / @mpalarc.bsky.social TURKANA BASIN INSTITUTE ifaw WWF Enrico Di Minin Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki Save the Elephants

Congratulations Dr. Gharpure! Today Gauri successfully defended her thesis "How do insect pollinators fare in different environments?". Way to go reaching the mountaintop Gauri! nicelab.science/2025/07/07/con…

For the millionth time, tigers in Simlipal are NOT melanistic. Melanism is a mutation that makes skin black. Here, you can see it's not quite there. And thus, it's pseudomelanism. Compare this with “black panthers” we see. That is melanism in leopards and jaguars.

New paper: Alien plants interact with land-use change, climate change, and defaunation to reshape ecosystems, often catalyzing the emergence of novel ecosystems Globally, tropics are at the forefront of such transformations Nature Reviews Biodiversity Jens Svenning nature.com/articles/s4435…