Prof.Dr. Somashekhar Nimbalkar,MD,PGDPH,FNNF,FIAP

My favorite words in science “we don’t know, yet” What are yours?

Students need to read books. Entire books. Our society is distracted, unfocused, and in a hurry. A curriculum that rushes through content perpetuates the anxiety of our time. Reading a book (slowly and leisurely) is a countercultural act.

Recently, a popular yet notorious #HealthInsurance company tried to deny my wife’s insurance claim claiming she hasn’t submitted all her documents in original. They closed the claim on this ground in 2 months without informing us. The amount wasn’t too significant (around Rs. 1.10 lakhs) but I decided to take legal route to teach them a lesson. Last week I talked to one of their employees to make them understand what they would be facing. Initially he said they never received the documents but I gave him the speed post tracking details and delivery report, and asked him to check the company’s email on which the same was sent as soon as the documents were received. I told him that I have every single phone call with the company recorded and every single email communication documented. Any denial would lead to trial of every single employee of the insurance company my wife or I have ever interacted with. I clearly told him that being a lawyer I have an agency and bigger appetite for litigation than his company and that I would not just go after the company but also the employees which would adversely affect their livelihood. The next morning one of the employees again called me up and said that they have recovered the documents which was somehow misplaced by their office and that the claim is now under process. To my surprise, the amount was credited within 5 days.

Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door. The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo. A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work. Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.

Almost all cervical cancers are linked to persistent high‑risk HPV, but vaccination offers powerful, long‑term protection, especially when given at 9–14 years. India saw nearly 80,000 cervical cancer deaths in 2022. Protect the girls in your life.#HPVVaccine #CervicalCancer

@PKpanchal09 You're a celebrity in Gujarat cricket. You don't know the struggles common people in the stands go through. Poor state of toilets, free drinking water which got over even before half way stage, a simple water bottle cost us Rs. 200 and don't even talk about entry/exits.

@svembu Brain drain accelerated in the 1960s and even more post 1990. Preventing brain drain needs policy changes which is not possible given the inflexible mess that the society and politics has placed India in. I believe there will be even more brain drain. 1/2

This is why brain drain is costly and we must fight hard to retain the next generation of talent in India.

When you speak to Gemini, your audio is recorded, compressed, sent to a massive data center often in the US/Singapore, processed by 1000s of GPUs, & sent back. If your internet lags for a sec, the translation breaks. Sarvam’s Edge models run entirely on your phone's hardware w/o an internet connection. It is a 294MB micro model that matches the accuracy of Gemini’s multi tb cloud models. Also, it means even a farmer in a dead zone in rural Bihar can have a live, private conversation with a doc in Chennai with zero data costs & zero latency.

Systematic reviews in minutes to hours using artificial intelligence medrxiv.org/content/10.648… (caveat: thinly veiled advertisement for scholara.ai)

Zoho was founded in 1996 The News Minute started in 2014 Strange that it discovered @svembu only in 2026 for a hit job stooping so low that it is passing allegations by an estranged wife in a Matrimonial dispute as gospel truth JUST & JUST BECAUSE GOVT. BACKED ZOHO

Man was doing great, silently built billion dollars company Zoho from a village in Tamilnadu, then got into public space with his statements on culture, language, make in India and suddenly the trouble started. Sridhar Vembu is a perfect example that if you're doing great, keep things private as much as you can. This world is a evil place, can't see you doing great.

I am in Jodhpur for the Maheshwari Global Convention event and I am talking to young entrepreneurs from the community today. I studied in Chennai in a government-aided free Tamil medium school funded by the late Shri Jaigopal Garodia-ji. He was born in poverty in Sujangarh, Rajasthan and never went to school due to poverty. At age 10, he migrated to Kolkata in search of a livelihood, and eventually migrated to Chennai and found business success. He donated all his wealth to his charitable foundation that has funded education generously. A lot of schools in Chennai, particularly schools that poor and lower middle class kids attend, have been funded by him. I owe him a huge debt of gratitude. My goal today is to urge the entrepreneurs to invest in long term patient R&D projects and think of it as the continuation of the educational and social service to the nation that entrepreneurs from Rajasthan are so famous for.

If Google wants you to pay for Gmail storage, do this first. I went from 14.9/15GB to 6GB in one afternoon. I hope this helps you as it has helped me:

Health needs political will. Nationally Standards for stricter working hours, holidays and daily rest and exercise for adults Clean air, water & home cooked food. Walking paths in a five km radius. Light & sound control.

Today @Gut_BMJ publishes my review titled ➡️My first 1000 manuscript rejections. I often meet young researchers who are devastated by a manuscript rejection, but rejections are part of life. Here are some of my most memorable ones 😃: gut.bmj.com/content/early/… @karolinskainst

@BenSManning @metrics52 It is also a job. Most people simply love the job and are willing to make sacrifices. But that does not mean academia should be exploited.

@DrLalanbharti of @Nnfindia1 launches the Quick Reference Guidelines in Neonatology (QRG), an initiative under Presidential Action Plan 2026 along with @iapindia Dr Neelam. They were unveiled by Prof Dr. V. K. Paul & Prof @ashokaiims alongside senior leaders from NNF & IAP.

Doctors are free to leave India but cannot criticize facilities”? So silence is the price of service now? Come do a 36-hour duty. Work with broken equipment. Face violence, understaffing, delayed stipends. Doctors aren’t leaving because they hate India. They’re leaving because the system refuses to listen. Patriotism ≠ gag order. Criticism is not betrayal — it’s feedback from the frontline. J. P. Nadda, stop gaslighting young doctors. Fix the system. Don’t muzzle those holding it together. #DoctorsSpeak #MedicoLivesMatter #HealthcareReality #RightToQuestion #BrainDrain #FixTheSyst

Systematic review asks: What works? Scoping review asks: What exists? Many researchers confuse the two! --------------------------------------- Learn in more detail in this live accredited workshop: 🔗 systematicreview.razia-aliani.com ---------------------------------------- Here's when a scoping review makes sense: — You're exploring an emerging area — You want to identify what research methods people are using — You need to clarify how a concept is being defined — You want to spot where the research gaps are Stick with systematic reviews when: — You have a focused question — You need to inform policy or practice decisions — You want to compare interventions — Critical appraisal matters for your question --- 1/6

The harmful and biased medical advice from social medial influencers, highlighting lack of expertise, and financial conflicts. Many specific examples and recommendations provided @bmj_latest bmj.com/content/391/bm…

@anshulkundaje @tomashelikar Didn’t do research to get cited. But it feels good if it does. Especially those that were rejected by many journals saying it is nothing new. Luckily in India for most jobs no one talks about publications. Allows us to do work without pressure. But more recently the bug has bit.

@tomashelikar I fully agree that the system incentivizes this. But we don't have to play every game the system throws at you. Citations of course matter & are a key part of science. Over optimizing for it or judging oneself & others based on it, is just a terrible way to do science.

Repeat after me. FUCK citation counts. Just do meaningful work that you enjoy, do a great job making it accessible and present it honestly so folks can use it and build on it optimally. That's it.