Ragothaman Yennamalli

A carpenter is working at my house today with two young trainees. Listening to their conversations and observing their work is teaching me a lot about mentoring, teaching skills to trainees, choosing what work to delegate versus what work to do together or do on one's own.

Cuando tengas un mal año, acuérdate de Paco.

SEEKING HELP: PLEASE AMPLIFY: Would love to get in touch with basic science researchers working in India trying to understand molecular etiology of Osteoarthritis (OA) developing therapies OA or working on rehabilitation of OA patients. Would love to gather for brainstorming.

Congratulations to Prof. M Ravikanth, Department of Chemistry Prof. Deepankar Choudhury, Department of Civil Engineering Prof. Ruchi Anand, Department of Chemistry Prof. Debabrata Maiti, Department of Chemistry for having received recommendation for the prestigious J.C. Bose Fellowship from ANRF

You will find an outsizingly larger number of women in jobs related to science communication in India. These roles are also most often temporary and contractual with no clear career path or promotion. A young science communicator once asked me: What if these were made permanent jobs? I would have to say, then the gender demographic would be very different. 🙏

WTF AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp. The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell. What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.