Nothing compares to the urge of starting a blog and the subsequent laze in the matter.

Tip: if you can't access a paper for whatever reason, tweet #icanhazpdf together with the title or link. Someone may be able to access the paper and share it with you.

Feeling this more than ever today. A friend and I can't attend Evolution Meetings 2022 despite getting the SSE UDE travel grant because we can't get a #VISA in time from India :/ SSE has been nice enough to let us attend next year instead, but it's still very disappointing...

Dear conference organisers: I promise I will choose a better birth place next time, but in the meantime can we please 1) host conferences at more visa-friendly locations or 2) leave more time between paper decision time and conference so we have enough time to apply for visas?

Just a normal day in IISERM

No other country does breakfast like India. Don’t come at me with your sausage and baked beans. This is not a matter of debate.

The concept of undergraduate summer internships is one I will always reinforce. They allow for exposure to any field of liking and amazing people, nevertheless. Here's our work on the evolution of gene expression noise,led by Nataša Puzović & Julien Y. Dutheil,from my summer of 2020!

"My bacteria didn't grow." Backflip. "My pilot experiment crashed." Backflip. "The pilot crashed." Involuntary backflip.

Gender segregation in Indian science institutes is often the most pronounced in residential spaces – especially in spaces that house students. | Sayantan Datta #ScienceAndGender science.thewire.in/the-sciences/g…

I am a masters student at IISER Mohali working on the Himalayan alpine ecology and TEK. I have built a website to put together my current projects and research interests. amishdua.com Do check it out and feedback is welcome. #Ecology #AcademicTwitter #alpine #Biology

Laaaately, I've been, I've been losing sleep. Dreaming about the things that weeeee could beeeee 🖤

What are the PhDs paying tuition fees for every semester at IISERs ? We don't take any course after 1st yr of coursework, moreover we do TA some semesters. Also PhDs in other institutes pay a one time registration fee. #not_fair HRDGCSIR Academic Chatter™ PhDs of India

Inequalities in passport strengths still is an often forgotten systemic barrier in #academia and #science.

The idea that replication is a 'cardinal rule' or 'cornerstone' of the scientific method follows directly from a methodological falsificationist philosophy of science. Popper (1959) discusses how we increase our confidence in theories that make predictions that withstand >