Shalini Sharma 🇮🇳

A thread of threads! On Water Journalist Roundtable (7-9 Nov'24) on *water crisis & SDGs* @IISERPune with @MuseumWaters @ihedelft @SMC_IISERPune and a whole lot of journalists collectives, start ups, platforms, freelancers and established media in India. #AQUAMUSE

Five questions on ChatGPT use 500 ml of water. Bengaluru has 31 data centres guzzling water to do such tasks. And neither the water board, pollution control board nor the IT department can quantify their water use. Read the full report by @kavashivani. thenewsminute.com/karnataka/in-b…

@nimishdubey @madversity Please read my reply carefully. I didn't say the sentiment was absent. Post lost it's intended meaning because of length, repetitions of negative assumption which might not be there in the first place. Anyways, it was feedback, not your criticism.

@nutshal @madversity As for the sentiment not being there in the first place, it unfortunately is very much there. Else would not have bothered making it.

A word of advice for those “feeling bad” at seeing this photograph because “he is having to work like this at the age of seventy-plus while people who are not half as good as him are sitting in posh studios earning huge salaries”: I have known Prannoy Roy for a long time as a viewer. I have worked with him too. This is him. This is the way he had chosen to work. Let him. He has earned the right. He could have chosen to sit in a posh studio and earn a large salary if he wanted to. He chose to work like this instead. Don’t feel bad or sad for him. He has never wanted sympathy. Watch him and his content at @DeKoderAI and @dekoderhindi. That’s all he wants. I don’t think he worries too much another what others are earning and where they are sitting. This is what he has chosen to do. Don’t feel bad for him. Thank him for being out there in the field. Not many are. Proud of you, sir. As always.

@nimishdubey @madversity Nopes it doesn't, despite the sentiment. That's why others are suggesting so. Post is too long with don't feel bad, sad repeated multiple times reinforcing an audience assumption that may or may not be there at the first place.

@nutshal @madversity Er...isn't that EXACTLY what the post does. NDTV is not even mentioned, nor is its acquisition.

🚨 Kerala has become the first state in India to provide FREE education up to the graduation level for arts and science students.

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The lopsided balance of power between capital and labour: the workers have no ability to refuse to wear the cameras which are training systems which will eventually replace the workers themselves

Stumbled into a conversation between @amitvarma & @Ram_Guha, only to bump into Shekhar Pathak—last met in 2016, Pithoragarh (WHS talks). Left amazed: How fast he thinks. How fast he speaks. How fast he walks uphill. I came as a distant listener. Left walking my own memory trail.

Fascinating archive on Indian Census Data -- graphics, comics and interactives! Do check out.

Applications for India-based Gates Foundation AI Fellows—a 12-month, full-time fellowship that embeds emerging AI talent into our Indian health, agriculture, and developments work to prototype scalable, responsible AI solutions—are open until April 13: tinyurl.com/2ewz92zw

IISER Pune के सबसे खूबसूरत गिफ्ट में यह भी शामिल हैं। अब यह मेरी अगली रिपोर्टर डायरी के रुप में काम आ रही है। #डायरी #पेन ♥️ @IISERPune @careiiserpune @JamwalNidhi @nutshal

🚨 Japan placed stone warnings along its coastline centuries ago. In 2011, the ocean proved them right. Scattered along Japan's coast are hundreds of ancient markers known as tsunami stones. Some are over 600 years old. They carry one message: do not build below this point. 🔹Aneyoshi obeyed and survived 2011 🔹Some stones are over 600 years old 🔹Hundreds placed along Japan's coast 🔹Over 20,000 killed in the 2011 tsunami 🔹Towns below the markers were destroyed One stone in Aneyoshi reads "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point." The village obeyed. When the 2011 tsunami hit, the water stopped just below the stone. Aneyoshi survived. Surrounding towns that built below the markers lost over 20,000 people. A Tohoku University professor said "It takes about three generations for people to forget." Survivors carved warnings into stone because they knew memory fades. Civilisation after civilisation did the same thing thousands of years earlier. If the Japanese stones proved deadly accurate after 600 years, why do we assume the older warnings are just myths?

Thanks @sahanagee and @SciJournIndia for your mentoring support!!

First my scicomm project student @IISERPune → our @BritishCouncil fellowship → Now: one of a handful admitted to Columbia’s dual MS in Computational Sciences & Journalism. Super proud of you @prarabdh2804🔥 Congrats! Now go show them what a storyteller with code can do!

@StockNitin92698 Yes, we can explore. Please email me

@nutshal Can I get internship for the same?

We are looking for a Research Assistant (Chattisgarh) to work with us on pollution, climate change and communities. The job adv link: iiserpune.ac.in/opportunities/… Do help spread the word

@razasayss Please email. (shalini at iiserpune dot ac dot in)

@nutshal Hi, there's this science popularization thing i do going around schools. I call it project Sci-kalam. I'm based in C.G's capital Raipur. Scientist by profession, works for me? If not i can refer this to a full time teacher... please lmk more details, canot see in site for Care

One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran. I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation.

Do join us at the Aquamuse Retrospective @IISERPune marking the vital theme of Gender and Water for all. Ft. a panel, an interactive exhibition and a concert To reflect, connect & reimagine our collective relationship through the powerful lens of art, storytelling & community.

“He’s never held a rifle, never dodged a shell But he’s real good at sending other boys to hell”