A hand held is hand restrained.

My favorite kinds of scientists are 1) Crazy enough to publish a paper where you give ecstasy to octopuses and study their social behavior 2) Detail-oriented enough to specify in the figure that 30 minutes is exactly 1800 seconds cell.com/current-biolog…

An overlooked aspect of becoming a scientist is realizing that you have a particular brand; a unique approach, an attraction to a certain kind of problem and a set of connections that you like to make. Uri calls it finding your internal tuning fork. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nig…

On Sundays as a trainee, to give my brain reprieve from the heavy papers read during the week, I used to relish reading Sydney Brenner’s essays -“ Loose ends”. Chanced upon one today - Jim Watson had given a lecture on “rules to succeed in science”. Here’s Brenner’s take on it 😃

Waiting for a meeting

Observation: There are some who need to raise their knowledge to their level of confidence, some need to raise their confidence to their level of knowledge. Either way, it's a lot of hard work & discomfort in bridging either of these gaps.

Nature, aligned.

Introductory textbooks are right 🎯

"depression is nature’s way of telling us that we are misapplying effort toward goals we are unlikely to achieve. If you work toward something and your efforts aren’t paying off, then it is wise to withdraw and conserve your energy for other activities" robkhenderson.com/p/the-smoke-de…

Good ideas come from having lots of experience. And experience comes from having lots of bad ideas.

Excerpt from my today's talk: "In science, discovery is only the first step, but validation is what makes it real. Without rigorous validation, even the most exciting results are just hypotheses waiting to be tested." #science #workmeet

Profound thought EssentialOilsDirect: will the clothes dry if left outside?

Have you located the selfie booth of the #behaviour2025 conference yet? It's near the registration desk at level 2. People at the venue can visit to click interesting photos! We appreciate Shramana Kar of IISER Kol for designing this beautiful logo, highlighting local art!