Jacob John

My wife (Ria) went to AIIMS. I went to IIT Delhi. We watched 'Hello Bachhon' on Netflix this weekend. One kid in the show breaks down walls in his village to sell bricks so he can afford coaching fees. A girl hides her textbooks because her parents want her married off. Throughout the show, Ria and I realized that we never had to fight for any of that. We had access to coaching. Good coaching. Neither of us ever worried about whether we'd get to prepare. The IIT-AIIMS crowd loves talking about the grind. # of hours of self-study per day, the pressure, and sleepless nights. I've done it too. But that grind starts after you already have access. Most of us skipped the actual hard part and don't even know it because the people who are capable but can't afford access are invisible. They're not in your coaching batch. They're not in your college. You never compete against them because they never got the chance to show up. We credit hard work more than it deserves. Sometimes the biggest advantage was just being born in the right city to the right family. 'Hello Bachhon' made this truth hard to ignore. Great watch.

@cspramesh @IndiGo6E @IndiGo6E is a disaster. I think the @DGCAIndia and @CCI_India should take some responsibility for the situation. The arrogance is unmistakable.

The @IndiGo6E customer service and BluChip has to be the worst ever in the airline industry. Complete lack of integrity, and stonewalling to the core. If you ever have an alternative airline to fly (unfortunate about the duopoly in India now), please fly the alternative.

@MoHFW_INDIA @gavi

India's Health Ministry launched a voluntary free single-dose Gardasil HPV program for 14-year-old girls (Feb 2026), via Gavi partnership (which includes Gates Foundation support). Cervical cancer causes ~42k deaths/year in India; vaccine targets HPV 16/18 (80%+ of cases) 1/3

Excellent news. #HPVvaccine is used in over 80countries, is safe & effective & will help to eventually eliminate #cervicalcancer in India. Introduction of new vaccines by @MoHFW_INDIA is guided by NTAGI, a scientific expert group. @WHO @ICMRDELHI @DBTIndia @uicc

The move by the govt to introduce free HPV vaccination for girls in India is a strident strike for science when the world is latching on to perilous anti-vax sentiment. But given India’s dark history with HPV vaccines, caution, monitoring adverse events, treating them will be key

RFK Jr's "37x" claim distorts unrelated trial events vs. teen cancer risk. Benefits outweigh risks per major reviews. @grok Fact check me please. @mohfw let's keep this voluntary but let every child get the opportunity to avoid this deadly disease. Too many have died already

Gardasil: 500M+ doses globally: safe, mild side effects (pain, fainting) common; no causal link to deaths. Trials/VAERS: deaths match background rates not vaccine-related). Efficacy: 80-90% reduction in cervical cancer per real-world studies (Sweden/US data). 2/3

Note to self: do not use the #group_booking option on @IndiGo6E again. Fares are higher, web check-in is not available and support is non-existent. Why does this even exist?

thehindu.com/sci-tech/healt… India needs to vaccinate its people against Typhoid-for free-now!It also won’t automatically get herd immunity by sharing waters with its vaccinated neighbors. #TakeOnTyphoid @jebujohn @WHO @sebingab @yogeshjain_CG @MoHFW_INDIA @GKangInd @iapindia @svembu

@OffCMCVellore @GKangInd

nature.com/articles/s4159… Rotavac vaccine, rolled out in 2016, shows 54% real-world effectiveness against severe rotavirus diarrhea in kids under 5. Reduced rotavirus positivity by >50% in infants/toddlers, with indirect benefits for older children.

This is AI doing what it should and I wish I found this earlier... All those rejected papers now have a new lease of life.. formatmypaper.com

@Rainmaker1973 microtome?

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you see this?

Low-dose Nivolumab and Lenalidomide in Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lym... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. @MathewsVikram @udaypkulkarni @drdatari

This story features colleagues and friends who seek to do the best they can for as much patients as possible. Funding agencies supporting them in this mission help develop evidence that can be widely shared. bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

Congratulations @OffCMCVellore on retaining #NIRF ranking as 3rd best Medical College in India. @dpradhanbjp Benchmarks help but staying true to the call to "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister" will define who we really are meant to be. Three cheers to the Silver & Blue

@JioCare Looks like they need me to disband my family plan first and then migrate @TRAI @Airtel_Presence. If you can't help, @airtelindia can you at least let people go...

@jebujohn Hey, we will be glad to have you as a part of Jio family. Please DM the number to be ported/contact number, your full name, state, PIN code and connection type (Postpaid/Prepaid) for further assistance – Shafaq twitter.com/messages/compo…

@Airtel_Presence @airtelindia why does it take four days to get sms working? You call centres sound like bsnl used 15 years back when I moved to you guys. @reliancejio anyways to port a connection when sms does not work?

@JioCare I have three numbers on the plan and would like to shift all three together. Will DM. Bye @Airtel_Presence

@Airtel_Presence That means I stay without something as basic as sms services for 4 days. @UPI_NPCI needs sms for next to everything.

@jebujohn Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused to you. We request you to kindly share your concerned Airtel number via DM so that we can help you further. Thanks, Muzamil twitter.com/messages/compo…