🚨Exclusive: Modi govt shut down almost 200 district weather advisory units providing crucial services to farmers after NITI Aayog misrepresented their role & sought privatisation of services. Based on internal finance ministry documents #RTI article-14.com/post/farm-weat…

Please RT‼️I'm recruiting a PhD student for a fully funded 4 year position to study how ongoing biodiversity change alters disease risk in plant communities in the Åland archipelago meadow ecosystem. DL 28 Aug jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-D…

As always, I post things late, but I needed some days to recover! I had an amazing time in #Evol2024, meeting so many inspiring people, discussing ideas and learning about science in the beautiful Montreal. Special thanks to epigenomics symposium organisers for the opportunity!

The enormous tragedy set to befall #GreatNicobar is a "legally-sanitised" disaster wrought by bureaucratic sleight-of-hand, executive callousness, and judicial lapses. As Pankaj Sekhsaria writes, it can even make the most valuable wildlife sanctuary disappear. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

This scheme to provide farmers with information about weather patterns, when to sow/ harvest, fertiliser use, pest attacks etc is literally the only time I have seen science being put into direct public use at scale via public investment. Please read

What happens when strongly divergent species form zones of secondary contact? 👉 Hannah Augustijnen last paper with me Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… on alpine #erebia 🦋 using whole genome resequence data for 300 individuals #biodiversitygenomics

I’ve been so engrossed in the moment at #WCH10! Didn’t even manage to tweet about some of the amazing talks presented or the friends & colleagues I met, both new & old. Let’s just say it has been a heart-warming reunion & a helluva conference 🦎 #kuching #WCHerp

Wishing a happy birthday to one of India's brightest minds and a true hero, who has been unjustly imprisoned without a trial for four years now. You’re an inspiration, Umar! #HappyBirthdayUmarKhalid

📢 A fully funded 4y PhD contract at the mncn Postgrado CSIC Madrid under my supervision, starting in early 2025. DM/Email if interested. Pls retweet 🙏

No rest rooms, toilets; CCTVs that don’t work; drunken men on hospital campuses . Female doctors in India's government hospitals have become resigned to working in conditions that compromise their security. I spoke to some of them. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Is there any way friends in France or journalists can get through to Imane Khelif’s lawyers and give them names of Indians who did the same? Many like Anand Ranganathan have deleted their tweets but I’ve saved a whole database including such frauds who go around the world

Our lab is looking to recruit a PhD student in Jan 2025. If you are interested in doing PhD in Evolutionary Biology with us, please get in touch. More details of our research and the application are here: sites.google.com/view/jahnavijo…

These last days in #borneo #sabah have been amaze with sightings of wildlife, exposure to new cultures, time with friends, & the ocean! Highlights are Rafflesia flowers, Nepenthes (!), Megophrys frogs, Proboscis monkeys, a forest varanid lizard, Hawksbill turtles, & Orangutans!

🚀 Massive announcement 🚀 So excited to share that I am joining National Centre for Biological Sciences to start a research program on the neuroscience of action, cognition and timing this September!🧠🔁🏃🏾‍♀️ There are a million feelings & countless people to thank. This will be LONG: Buckle up! 🥁🚂🧵

12/ Finally! Our lab website is live: help me populate the lab with kind and curious people 🫶🏾🙌🏾. More on our research directions & hiring in a few weeks, but feel free to reach out if our lab goals, philosophy, and code of conduct resonate with you. 🌐🖥️ neuroact.in

The Great Nicobar Betrayal is a collection of essays curated by scientist Pankaj Sekhsaria that deconstruct the havoc that awaits this biodiversity hotspot and its Indigenous communities. #BookReview by T. R. Shankar Raman l @[email protected] #Nicobar india.mongabay.com/2024/08/book-r…

Our paper just got covered by nature. We went under cover and contacted a "citation boosting" service. We managed to buy citations that appeared in a Scopus-indexed journal, providing conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk!! nature.com/articles/d4158…

My lab members made this super cool video showcasing snippets of what we do in our BioGeoSys lab! It's so addictive! I can't stop watching it and be proud of all the lab members, past and present SBS, NISER #LabKeBacche #BIOGEOSYS

The World Congress of Herpetology in Borneo was a blast!!! Our symposium on developmental herpetology was a huge success! Many thanks to Tiana Kohlsdorf, Daniel J Paluh and Anne-Claire Fabre for organising it and to all the speakers for their fantastic talks!

Woah! New research shows how vital biodiversity is to thriving humanity: In US counties where bats declined from white-nose syndrome, insect numbers surged, leading to a 31% rise in pesticide use and subsequently *an 8% increase in infant mortality*! #Biodiversity #Conservation