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as #India embarks on the world's largest election, what shd the incoming govt do to make #India a #science powerhouse? my opinion in today's @the_hindu with 5 specific suggestions, incl 🔼r&d budget, to make this happen & to enable ease of doing science in the country.

a mojor threat to #science in #India comes from the practicing scientists themselves. no one undermines science more than our scientists.

@IndiaExplained @NMenonRao excellent essay on why #India needs originality in #science & #tech to be counted at global stage except quite a bit is devoted to what #thiel thinks of india. a naturalized citizen & a right-wing conservative libertarian venture capitalist that thiel is - he speaks like he shd.

Superb essay by @NMenonRao Please read indianarrative.com/opinion/trump-…

@OdedRechavi abslutely. i keep telling this to folks in #India. all faculty in indian univ/inst (exceptions a v v handful ones w tenure sys) have permanent jobs. there is no need to chase these glam journals. @mbeisen has been telling this for ever but alas, it is falling on deaf ears.

Do we grow wiser as we age? Can we? I spent over 15 years chasing glam journals and wasted a lot of time and energy (and this chase caused a lot of frustration to my team and co-authors). I don’t want to wake up at 70 and realize my life went into convincing a few editors my work was trendy enough. Enough is enough. I'll try to be smarter.

@hyderabaddoctor why #private #medical colleges at all, one may ask? why not increase govt medical colleges + seats w better/improved infra in the existing ones? two sectors, #healthcare and #education, where public expenditure & quality must exceed those provided by the pvt ones.

1.3 crore for a MD Dermatology seat? No wonder there were no takers. Cost of medical education has to come down. This could have a cascading effect on reduction in cost of medical treatment too.

a must watch it is.....#education #business #jobs #employment youtube.com/watch?v=7CsQ9B…

The gold standard for research is that ~3 secret people will implicitly adjudicate truth and gate what science sees the light of day upon reading work the moment it drops (when instead, rigor and quality is substantively determined upon further testing over time). Many will claim the way to fix it is to pay these same people… or expand the pool from which these few people are sourced. Can’t wait for this totally bullshit system of scientific journal peer review to die, even if for orthogonal technological and operational factors

@aiims_jodhpur shameful it is for @aiims_jodhpur. instead, the inst shd celebrate #patientcare, #innovation in medical sci & healthcare.

AIIMS Jodhpur takes immense pride in the outstanding achievements of its alumni in the Civil Services Examination 2025. 🎉 Heartiest congratulations to: Dr. Anuj Agnihotri (MBBS 2017 Batch) – AIR 1 Dr. Deeksha Patkar (MBBS 2013 Batch) – AIR 88 Dr. Purshotam Jhorad (MBBS 2020 Batch) – AIR 691 Dr. Pranjal Bayla (MBBS 2018 Batch) – AIR 890 Your remarkable accomplishments are a source of great pride and inspiration for the entire AIIMS Jodhpur community. Wishing you success in your journey in the civil services. 🇮🇳 #CivilServices2025 #AIIMSJodhpur

@SwarajyaMag the usual story for most assembled system with "made in india" tag in #GEM that we are forced to purchase. abandon #GEM and ensure true #MadeInIndia by giving the real power to #Innovators and #Entrepreneurs.

Look inside a "Made in India" satellite. GPS receiver? Chinese. Optics? European. Thrusters? French. Solar cells? German. Onboard computer? Imported. What's Indian? The bus structure. Sometimes. So, the label is technically accurate but strategically misleading. 🧵👇

@BBTheorist marketing charm offensive triumphs substance. if iisers need to succeed, one of the ingredients is not to be known & popular.....

I was telling a relative of mine (who sent his child to study at KIIT, Bhubaneswar) about the research of my cousin who studies at IISER, Mohali. He immediately said, “No one knows what IISER is. KIIT is better and more popular than IISER.” 🤦🏼‍♂️

@PhilipPanass come out of the nostalgia of old-fashioned lib, we must. most non-usable, plain darn boring & unattractive. need of the hr are cafés with 24/7 free wi-fi & decent sitting space w books in temp that wont burn the skin or freeze the fingers.

A very good article, documenting the conversion of almost all public (and private) libraries into "holding pens for example preparation" among other things.

@rvivek time to move back buddy!

Spent the last 3 months in India. Talked to founders, engineers, executives across multiple cities. Daily life here is ahead of the US in ways I didn't expect. 1/ Payments that actually work Everyone pays with UPI. Street food, auto rides, everything. No cards, no Venmo delays, no "does this place take Apple Pay." It just works. Everywhere. 2/ Quick commerce is real I order groceries and they show up in 10 minutes. Actually 10 minutes. Now when I'm back in the US waiting 45 minutes for delivery, it's annoying. 3/ AI adoption without the hand-wringing In the Bay Area, there's much more discussion around doomsday scenarios with AGI. In India, people just use it - students, business owners, filmmakers. The conversation is "how to embrace it" vs "should I be worried." 4/ An AI ecosystem is being built from scratch Companies like Sarvam are building foundational AI for India. Funds like Activate VC are backing AI-native startups early. This isn't India catching up. It's India building its own version of the AI stack. 5/ The ambition shifted Five years ago, the goal was building a successful Indian company. Now it's building a global company headquartered in India. 6/ GCCs are everywhere India used to be viewed as an "offshore" setup. That's completely changed. GCCs (global capability centers) are strong engineering and R&D centers by global companies. Name a global company and they likely have a presence here - Amazon, Salesforce, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. That said, infrastructure has gaps, regulation is complex, but the slope matters more than current state. Very bullish on India and it would do a lot of good for the US to partner much more with India.

@ShekharGupta @BrownKhaleesi #poor_judgement my foot. a total #fraud he is, sold #snakeoil to a lot of gullible folks.

'Deepak Chopra told Epstein to “bring your girls”. Here’s their entire email exchange' Stela Dey @BrownKhaleesi writes theprint.in/opinion/pov/de…

all of #India is #gravel. what point is it to have #roadbikes

@MitsuiMasashi wish they checked the meaning before naming!! any non-indian sounding names will be cool - thought they must had and #Japanese was the winner!! tbh, there're many english names in #Japan that are v v weird & at wrong places too..

驚きのブランド名「YAKUZA」。インドに実在する電動バイクと電気自動車を作る新興メーカー・ヤクザは、「ブランドとして不屈の精神と勤勉さを体現している」とのこと。いやいや、そのネーミングセンスはおかしいでしょ。

to all #Indian #engineering colleges, especially the #IITs, and our #medical colleges. nature.com/articles/d4158…

@seethroughit2 @RichardDawkins is that really you? why were you there in the first place?

This that who I think it is?

Announcing "AI@IISER Pune" a 1-day event for people who are NOT AI/ML specialists, but would like to figure out how AI is used in research. Hybrid (In-Person + Zoom Webinar). Anyone can attend. Registration free but mandatory. To register: sites.google.com/acads.iiserpun… Limited Seats.

@joshiamitabhevo @KesariDhwaj never met anyone during my ~20yrs stay in 3 continents who was not proud of his/her/their nation. loving one's nation is not peculiar to one nation but a universal exp. those spewing nationalism through their shrill voice in tv & writings are ignorant at least, imbeciles at most.

@KesariDhwaj Well, the biochemist is quite prolific on all kinds of topics on social media but I am yet to see even a glimmer of cogency in his takes. Not a particularly great biochemist either, by the way.

He's challenging a PhD in biochemistry from Cambridge for writing a paper with cogent arguments?

@Georg_Pazderski not just in #Deutschland, everywhere. till then, in #India, we will enjoy watching the movies on #Japanese civic sense.

Ich wünsche mir nur ein ganz klein wenig von der japanischen Höflichkeit in Deutschland. Aber das wird vermutlich nur ein Wunschtraum bleiben.

half of our roads are filled with free roaming cows, filth and the rest by illegally parked vehicles. where's the space to walk? @gupta_rekha @MCD_Delhi @goenka_univer purchase land to park your buses & don't enchroach public footpaths? btw, you are not the only one to do this!