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• 10 Women, 10 Questions: Aditi Kothiyal

  

  Aditi Kothiyal, Assistant Teaching Professor, Creative Learning, at IIT Gandhinagar, discusses her passion for understanding how people learn through making things and the role of social robots in education. In this interview, Aditi also shares her experiences and offers advice to young women aspiring to pursue careers in STEM, encouraging them to adapt and grow through diverse interests and roles.

  Posted on Oct 09, 2023 in Other, Personal Experience, Science communication & Education

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• The journey to the state of disequilibrium!

  

  Neetha Balaram is an Assistant Professor at Department of Neurology in Government Medical College, Kozhikode. She is currently the lead for epilepsy subsection including paediatric epilepsy. In this invited article, she shares her experiences of navigating medical research outside her comfort zone as a clinician turned researcher.

  Posted on Dec 26, 2022 in Other, Women in Science, Personal Experience & Young Investigators

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• Speaking up: Ending the culture of silence

  

  In this next article in our series on mental health, Zill-e-Anam discusses the culture of silence that prevents many researchers and students from discussing their mental health issues, thus compounding the problem and delaying treatment for those who need it the most.

  Posted on Nov 05, 2019 in Other & Mental Health

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• YIM goes local, starts with Hyderabad

  

  The first-ever Regional Young Investigators Meeting was held in Hyderabad on 18 - 19 August, 2018. Organized with the motto of "Congregate – Collate – Collaborate", the meeting brought together academicians, industry representatives, start-ups and educators from all over the city for two days jam-packed with seminars, panel discussions and poster presentations, all geared towards enabling the formation of large and small-scale scientific collaborations and networks within the city.

  Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Other & YIM

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• Crossing boundaries: Ethical guidelines in biomedical research

  

  Adherence to high ethical standards is of critical importance when it comes to scientific research performed on human subjects. In this next article in our series on research ethics, we explore the various guidelines that have been put in place to ensure ethical conduct of clinical trials in India and discuss the various challenges involved in enforcing the same.

  Posted on Aug 17, 2018 in Other & Ethics

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• Digital imaging ethics: Where does India stand?

  

  Growing access to high-end imaging facilities and photo-editing software has brought with it increasing allegations of imaging fraud, manipulation and misconduct. In this first article in our new series on research ethics, we explore the causes, consequences and possible solutions to India's growing problems with the ethics of digital imaging.

  Posted on Aug 03, 2018 in Other & Ethics

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• Are we reaching the ‘public’ with our public outreach programs?

  

  Dipyaman Ganguly is an immunologist and currently a senior scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata. In this interview with IndiaBioscience, he talks about how public science outreach efforts in India need to expand beyond already engaged audiences in big cities and towns and make forays into remote geographical locations to reach children and adults who lack previous scientific exposure.

  Posted on Jul 13, 2018 in Other & Outreach

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