Athale Lab: CyCelS 💉💉💉💉🚲🤿⛵

Come visit our #isf2025 booth in #pune 11-12/Jan/2025 on #fergussoncollege grounds. Bacteria 🧫 🦠, microscopy 🔬 & a zine by the multitalent @kale_tanvi, Madhu #theartist and yours truly. You could win a free #zine on #bacteria #antibiotics #biophysics

@sushmadate Can the honb'l court be given a reading list :) Also for the lay public. Might help to have a dialog not a shouting match.

With all respect to the hon'ble court, this is really short sighted thinking. The current perspective of 'development' is still mired in the1980s, where more roads, elevated road, wider roads are thought to be solutions to urban traffic problems. It is 2026 now, and developed cities have long since shifted to building robust, affordable (sometime free) public transport systems beginning with the humble bus system. When this 1980s notion of development comes at the cost of the few remaining green spaces, hills and rivers in the city, the city is doomed to a hotter, drier and parched future. Pune is being developed along the Bengaluru model, the city which has experienced some of the worst flooding as well as the most depleted groundwater table in recent years. Unless your children plan to live abroad, they're facing a tough future. If city planning was done by urban planners with expertise in sustainable planning, and not by the builder lobby and their political backers, if our esteemed judges actually read the Environment Impact studies for projects, citizens would not be forced to become 'activists' 😔

@ameetgsingh @mhemachari @SVYadwadkar @parisarpune @VetalTekdi @SalimAli_Bird @SaxsSathya @Warriormomsin @NITIAayog @nitin_gadkari @Dev_Fadnavis @navalMH धन्यवाद आपल्या कामगिरी बद्दल. आशा करू की हे प्रस्ताव प्रत्यक्षात पण दिसतील. आणि सर्व येणाऱ्या प्रकल्पांकरिता मार्गदर्शी ठरतील.

✅ Update: Ganeshkhind Road Tree-Saving Campaign ✅ In March-April 2026, Parisar & activists basically me and @mhemachari pushed PMC for a better design on Ganeshkhind Road (Phase 2: RBI Office to Shimla Office Chowk). Key moments: • Site visit with HOD Roads Mr. Bankar — he acknowledged shoddy footpaths from Phase 1. • 16 Apr: Met EE Mr. Waghmare & DE Mr. Kumbhar during RTI hearing — clarified Tree Act provisions for alternative design (not route). • 29 Apr: Joint site inspection with PMC engineers, contractor (Nikhil Constructions) & Parisar team. Walked the full stretch, highlighted Metro constraints (stations every ~750m, pillars at 12m from median). Our Proposal (IRC-compliant): • Consistent 12m Motor Carriageway (4 lanes) + 7m slip lanes at flyovers • Rest for NMT: 4.5m+ footpath + 2m cycle track + 2m MUZ • Saves maximum (all 529) trees while ensuring smooth traffic & better pedestrian space Progress: • 30 Apr: EE Mr. Waghmare updated HOD Mr. Bankar — plan found workable. HOD agreed. Proposal submitted. Contractor to revise drawings. Next Ask to PMC: Written acceptance of this alternative design strategy to save trees & build a people-friendly road as per IRC & Court orders. We’re hopeful but vigilant. Will keep pushing till it’s on paper! Will save GK Road Trees. #SaveGaneshkhindTrees #Parisar #SustainablePune #TreeAct #ChaloPMC

३/३ NOAA ने मे १९७४ मध्ये स्वतःची CO2 मोजमापे सुरू केली; आणि तेव्हापासून ही मोजमापे स्क्रिप्सने केलेल्या मोजमापांच्या समांतरपणे सुरू आहेत [थोनिंग, १९८९].

२/३ या मोजमापांची सुरुवात मार्च १९५८ मध्ये 'स्क्रिप्स इन्स्टिट्यूशन ऑफ ओशनोग्राफी'च्या सी. डेव्हिड कीलिंग यांनी, 'नॅशनल ओशनिक अँड ॲटमॉस्फेरिक ॲडमिनिस्ट्रेशन'च्या (NOAA) एका केंद्रावर केली होती [कीलिंग, १९७६].

१/३ हे आलेख हवाई (USA) येथील मौना लोआ वेधशाळेत मोजल्या गेलेल्या कार्बन डायऑक्साइडची मासिक सरासरी दर्शवतात. मौना लोआ येथील कार्बन डायऑक्साइडची (CO2) ही आकडेवारी वातावरणातील CO2 च्या प्रत्यक्ष मोजमापांचा सर्वात दीर्घकालीन विक्रम (नोंद) ठरते.

Planning a PhD in biosciences? Join our Virtual Town Hall on the i3c BRIC-RCB PhD Programme with Arvind K. Sahu, @unescorcb! 📅 May 25 | ⏰ 11:00 AM 🎟️ Register: tinyurl.com/i3c-BRICRCB26 For more information about the i3c BRIC-RCB PhD Programme, visit:  rcb.res.in/i3c/ @MitraSiuli

In praise of new model organisms

This mesmerizing timelapse captures the nonstop motion inside an animal cell. Moving red/orange streaks are the growing ends of microtubules, tiny “highways” that move proteins & other molecules within the cell. 📸: Andy Moore, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus

Raman scattering in Feynman's way... and it's a birthday..

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🎙️ #IBIWebinarSeries Join us for an exciting talk by Dr. @BuvanSR (Northwestern University) 🧠 Vimentin IFs in motion—uncovering cytoskeletal dynamics 📅 15 May 2026 | ⏰ 3–4 PM IST 🔗 Register (Free): indiabioimaging.org/upcoming-events #IndiaBioImaging #Microscopy #Bioimaging

The Bombay company, Karachi

@BDLMuseum matchbox art #colonial #artwork #india

#dhurandhar #mumbai @BDLMuseum

#dhurandhar #mumbai #museum

10/n december 2013 transitioning from prefabs and guest house offices to the main labs

9/n in 2014 the new campus gets ready... Final resting place? More later

7/n from 2013 we started to get serious grants from #d, to take our experiments to another level. Here is the workhorse kf the lab #nikonbt @departmentofbiotechnology

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

STEM Summer Challenge (Activity #2): Injection into a Balloon is a simple yet exciting hands-on activity that helps to explore the elastic properties of a balloon. Take it a step further —can you blow one balloon into another? Explore here: sites.google.com/acads.iiserpun… @IISERPune