Ambika Subash

During my PhD field research in Madhya Pradesh, I traced the widespread use of illegal HTBt cotton seeds, genetically modified to tolerate herbicides. I told @down2earthindia that despite being unapproved in India, these seeds are: 🔹sold through informal, unregulated networks...

@DineshR23328339 Congratulations!

Defended my doctoral thesis and officially made it through! This journey challenged me in every way, and am so proud to have reached this milestone! Hearty thanks to everyone who supported me through this journey! Now my village has a PhD degree 🫠. Here onwards Dr. D!! 😍🌸🧿

The headline should've read, "Poor peasants poison cattle-killing tiger as last resort". Amid govt apathy, the same animals prowl freely & turn into man eaters. Reads like self defence to me, and definitely not poaching.

Villagers near Hyderabad were surveyed by economists so many times that when another economist showed up & asked a question, an irritated villager said, “Is this for a PhD or M.Phil? I will accordingly make the answer long or short.”

Currently 892 hours into automating a 30-second task I do 4 times a year It's gonna be so worth it once I get everything working

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India in talks with Russia, Belarus, Morocco to boost fertiliser imports, sources say reuters.com/world/india/in…

something i learned from my wife, who recently learned how to sew: do not do beginner projects. if what you want to make is difficult to make, you should just try to make it. don't do a slow learning process. don't start with the basics. start with the advanced

Good ethnographies see value in the waiting and "wasting" of time on the field.

The tulips are in bloom in Shanti Path. The buttercup yellow ones deserve special mention!

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Heard the phrase "thermal comfort" thrown around at @Mumbai_Climate Week. What a shallow, bourgeois idea. By its logic, if we ensure sweatshop workers work in air conditioned rooms, they would all be suddenly resilient.

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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

When you can't fix a problem, it's easier to simply see no problem! thehindu.com/news/national/…

#rice #gene_edited Good explanation of the process. Highlights concern over patents, costs, transparency, public trust and future of rice exports @AmbikaSubash

theindiaforum.in/forum/gene-edi… @AmbikaSubash Must read. An article that covers all aspects of gene-edited rice process so far. The need for transparency in oversight regulations is highlighted while also stressing the usefulness of the transformative potential

This could effectively mitigate the patent licensing issue of CRISPR gene-edited crops. Worth the wait to see how it performs. #webview=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">indianexpress.com/article/india/…