Opinion
Navigating the early-career track as a faculty fellow in the Indian science ecosystem
Karishma S Kaushik returned to India in 2018 as a Ramalingaswami fellow to start her independent research group at Savitribai Phule Pune University. Now, as a fifth-year faculty fellow in the Indian science ecosystem, in this article, she shares specific considerations to enable colleagues in navigating this professional opportunity.
Posted on in Women in Science, Personal Experience & Young Investigators
A glance back as we move forward into 2023
The year 2022 was a time of gravitating towards the familiar and navigating the coexistence of in-person and virtual interactions. For IndiaBioscience, this year was full of new initiatives and collaborations, as well as the opportunity to reach out to diverse digital communities. In this article, Shantala Hari Dass, Executive Director, IndiaBioscience, reflects on what this year has meant for IndiaBioscience.
Transferable skills you gain during your PhD
5 Best Apps for Researchers: Apps that Every Researcher Should Know About
Today, one need not physically visit a library and take down notes on sheaves of paper (which are apt to fly about or clutter one’s workspace!). Various online tools and software applications (apps) have made our lives easier, especially the many helpful apps for researchers.
(This article was first published by Researcher.Life, Cactus Communications.)
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Posted on in Personal Experience, Research, Networking and Collaboration
Public engagement with science in India: Making the whole greater than the sum of its parts
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Fostering curiosity-driven fundamental research in India
Surajit Bhattacharjee, Mudrika Khandelwal, Prashant Kumar & Satyavrata Samavedi
What a science undergrad learnt from a social science collaboration
Ritika Mukherji
Posted on in Policy, Personal Experience, Interdisciplinarity
Six things to keep in mind when submitting your first manuscript
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COVID-19 has exacerbated India’s hidden mental health pandemic
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Juggling research and parenting: Reducing the baby-penalty
Swarna Mathre & Madhumala Sadanandappa
India’s UG-STEM scholars: A demographic dividend waiting to be harnessed
Ritika Mukherji
Posted on in Career Development, Undergraduate, Networking and Collaboration
Looking afresh at GM Crops: The wait has been long enough
Monika Koul & Ashok Bhatnagar
- 2020
An appeal from the future of scientific leadership to the incumbents
Divya S
The role of science and scientists in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic (Part 2)
Kaushik Biswas
The role of science and scientists in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic (Part 1)
Kaushik Biswas
Tackling a mental health crisis during a global pandemic
Debdutta Paul
Research and let research
Gayathri S
- 2019
Speaking up: Ending the culture of silence
Zill-e-Anam
Wake up academia, it's a brand new mental health patient
Debdutta Paul
You don’t have to be ‘crazy’ to be doing a PhD!
Hina Lateef Nizami
Why does science communication excite me?
Kollegala Sharma
Communicating science is communicating excitement
Narmadha Devi
Formal structures of mentorship in universities and research institutions will benefit both science and scientists
Gaiti Hasan
Have we scientists failed our society?
Anindita Bhadra
Improving the quality of doctoral students - is incentivising output the way to go?
Megha & Shambhavi Naik
Science vs pseudoscience: euphoria and illusion
Aravindhan Vivekanandhan
- 2018
Interdisciplinary research: the old and the new normal
Siddharth Jhunjhunwala
Interdisciplinary research: personal memoir of a biochemist
Kausik Chattopadhyay
Interdisciplinarity: How to make it work for you
Gautam I. Menon & Sandhya P. Koushika
The curious case of the missing Indian postdoc
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Idea-plagiarism and precedence: ethics in competitive research
Praveen Chaddah
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Why I choose social media interactions…
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Sucheta Tripathy
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Aditi Bhattacharya
Compulsory Licensing – does it affect the pharma companies?
Athulaprabha Murthi
- 2012
Science in vernacular language: A boon or a bane
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How to choose which research institution or which lab to join?
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To do or not to do a postdoc
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The March Madness
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Setting up the lab: trekking this learning curve like amateurs
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Working with staff
Ron Vale
How/When/Whom to ask for a recommendation letter?
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Keep working with your hands
Ron Vale
One possible plug for the leaky pipeline
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Democracy in our research organizations
L S Shashidhara
Calling all teachers, please help
Shubha Tole
From lab-bench to a desk at India Alliance
Megha Sharma
Postdoctoral Culture
L S Shashidhara
Are we doing enough?
Shubha Tole
Do we always need “big money” for quality research?
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia
What is interdisciplinary science?
L S Shashidhara
When just doing a PhD is not enough
Swetha Suresh
Personalising Rejection
K VijayRaghavan
Over-emphasis on the so-called “Molecular Biology” has stunted Biology
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia
A profession marked by decency and respect
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Hiding in the Open
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Making yourself valuable
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The damaging impact of “impact factor”
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia
University-Institute Interactions: How will it Improve Undergraduate Biology Training in India?
Arunan M C
Holistic science sans impact factor
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Papers - how many should one publish?
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Publishing your research - a trend of higher expectations
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Posted on in Career Development, Personal Experience, Advice
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