Arpan Banerjee

Happy to see this fantastic study by @partikasiwatch @AkhterAzman finally out. Fontal decline vs temporal consolidation, production decline vs comprehension preservation, language ageing has many sides, revealed in large cohort N=650 humans @DBT_NBRC @DBTIndia @DrJitendraSingh

As part of the International Women’s Day & National Science Day celebrations at BRIC-NBRC, a PhD Valediction Ceremony was held to confer doctoral degrees to: * Uzma Din (Supervisor: Dr. Soumya Iyengar) * Pallavi Singh (Supervisor: Dr. A. G. Roy) * Partika Jain (Supervisor: Dr. Arpan Banerjee) Congratulations to the scholars on this academic milestone. 🎓 @DrJitendraSingh @DBTIndia @BricDbt @rajesh_gokhale @DrSagarSengupta @PsethNbrc @GhoshRoyLab @arpansview @singhpallavi96 @partikasiwatch #NBRC #PhD #WomenInScience

IISc researchers studied the brain's lateral hypothalamic area, which regulates stress, emotional states. Using genetically engineered mouse models, they identified specific LHA neurons that become active during acute stress, directly regulating itch. 🔗: iisc.ac.in/events/how-the…

@neeraj_4a41494e 🤣🤣

Just as AI hallucinates despites its extensive training, sometimes all the energy and effort spend over twenty years fails to produce a decent ‘product’, as in this case.

absolutely

And they didn't clear out the average Indian citizen with whom he was willing to share the pavement, unlike our VIP politicians who demand security so they can harass us

New research from Dr Arpan Banerjee Lab published in JNeurosci 🧠 Study of 558 adults (18–88 yrs; CamCAN dataset) shows how language cognition changes with age: • Production declines while comprehension remains stable or improves • Frontal connections weaken in the brain • Temporal networks stay resilient • Functional connectivity compensates for structural degradation 📄 Read paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… @arpansview @DBTIndia @BricDbt @DrJitendraSingh @rajesh_gokhale @DrSagarSengupta @PsethNbrc @TheAnirbanBasu #Neuroscience #BrainAging #Language

Very sad indeed if this is a real pic, a truly remarkable cricketer

Talented Indians Phds shouldn't need to go to Europe or US for a postdoc if 1) our recruitment committees treat Indian and firang trained fellows equally 2) Funders provide 5 years of uninterrupted fellowship We have reasonably good infrastructure we need to retain our talent

PLOS Biology Human newborns form musical predictions based on rhythmic but not melodic structure journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

This authored article by Nandini Chatterjee Singh (@nanchatter), Head of the Department and Professor of Psychology at Ashoka University, has been featured by Hindustan Times (@htTweets). In the piece, she examines the mental health provisions in India’s latest budget announcement, noting that the mention of mental health and well-being in the 2026 Union Budget as part of core infrastructure signals a paradigm shift. "It positions emotional resilience, cognitive diversity, and well-being not as luxuries, but as essential systems that underpin economic productivity, social cohesion, and democracy," Professor Nandini emphasises. Read More: …hindustantimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.hindus… #AshokaUniversity

We were wondering why our episode on WORMS was so popular? -- this explains everything! @KelsieSmith585 @doug_p @URNeuroscience Exploring the Genetic Dance of Neurons: What Roundworms Reveal About Behavior #URochesterResearch #Worms Watch episode here: youtu.be/eC6bK4HVOTU?si…

First time i saw this issue discussed in parliament, thank you @raghav_chadha! #universalhealthcare #onenationonemedicaltreatment

मुंबई मेट्रो के मजे.... Wtff is LAHORI JEERA Western Express Highway? @varungrover

1/6 JCC‑Lab at UESTC seeks 2 young scientists! Work with Prof. Pedro A. Valdés‑Sosa—h‑index 69 & 18 628 citations—under China’s Int’l Young Scientists Program. #Neurotech (1/6)

India doesn’t fail because of policy or politics. It fails because we don’t trust each other. I see it constantly among founders - control over collaboration. No trust = no scale. Fix trust, and India becomes unstoppable.

Salaried Middle Class is doomed again. For the 1st time in the post-independence era, Personal income tax (PIT) collections surpassed corporate tax (CIT) in FY 2023-24. In FY24-25, PIT collections stood at ~₹11.82 lakh crore, while CIT was ~₹9.86 lakh crore. The top 1% owns 40% of the wealth. Yet earners above ₹10 crore contribute less than 5% to total PIT collections, while the salaried class contributes more than 90%. The middle class & the poor are affected the most due to taxes, suffering under GST and heavy personal taxes. And it shows in data: India’s household savings slipped to a new low for the 3rd consecutive year, falling to 18.1% of GDP in FY24. On the other hand, household debt rose to 6.2% of GDP – almost twice as much as ten years ago. More middle-class Indians are borrowing to meet their everyday needs. If this is not a curse of being middle class, I don't know what it is.

Now a days whn I see any article on India’s research output at global scale, I quickly check if they have talked about %GDP in research/education/healthcare or not. If not, I consider the article as junk. Sorry for being rude but you can’t compare Apples with peanuts.

From Abhinandan Sekhri of NewsLaundry: Yesterday, The Washington Post laid off one-third of its staff. It eliminated every single editor and correspondent in the Middle East. Bureau chiefs, from Cairo to Berlin, were laid off, including India’s bureau chief Pranshu Verma. We’re told over 300 people have lost their jobs. Even by the normal standard of media layoffs that have been documented through Covid, this is a purge. This should be a wake-up call. Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post for $250 million. For context, he’s worth over $240 billion. He paid $500 million for his ‘super-yacht’. He also has a ‘support vessel’ that cost $75 million. He spent $237 million on properties just in Miami. He owns over 420,000 acres of land in the United States. He spent at least $20 million – a pittance, compared to the rest of his spending – on his wedding last year. Under him, Amazon spent $40 million to acquire the rights to Melania, a documentary on Melania Trump. Melania herself will get paid 70 percent of this amount. Amazon also spent $35 million to market it. We’re not even converting these dollar figures to rupees because that’s too many zeros for a single email. But remember this, Jeff Bezos could spend $1 million every single day and only run out of money after 623 years. Yet here’s Washington Post’s purge, just a year and a bit after Bezos famously said, “The advantage I bring to The Post is when they need financial resources, I’m available…I’m the doting parent in that regard.” Billionaires don’t have your backs. We’ve said this for 14 years. It’s why we built a series on media ownership and explained NDTV’s crumble after the Adani takeover. Billionaires want to do one thing – make more money. It takes precedence over everything else, whether in America or India. You don’t have the billions – or the millions either – of a Bezos. That doesn’t mean you don’t have their power. You have even more power. Because there are so many of you, of us. We are all stronger TOGETHER! Thank you for supporting Newslaundry and building the future of journalism. For every bad decision made by a billionaire, we’re able to offer you the alternative. Because we’re stronger together. Forward this email to a friend who could use a wake-up call too. Tell them to subscribe. Gift them a subscription if you have to, or reply to this email with their email ID and we’ll email them for you. We’ve got the power together. In gratitude,

Today in Parliament I highlighted GPU shortage as the biggest constraint in India’s AI ambition. The bottleneck is rising GPU costs & global supply shortage. This could choke India’s data centre expansion and AI advanced model training. India’s current compute pool has 34,000 GPUs, but a very small number compared to global scale required for training advanced models. Today I asked in the parliament, what are the specific targets, timelines & geopolitical engagements in place to secure predictable access to advanced computing resources, in particular GPUs?

Spanish scientists cured pancreatic cancer in mice. Korean scientists reprogrammed stomach cancer cells back to normal cells in mice. Indian pseudoscientists received 44 billion Indian rupees to plan resort holidays in the name of researching alternative medicine.