Prasanna NS / ಪ್ರಸನ್ನ ಆಡುವಳ್ಳಿ

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"If you dont have PhD from abroad, you can't get shortlisted for a job in India top institutes...." New Normal in Indian STEM.

Congratulations!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥳🥳 @rhuthuparna on receiving the Society for Tropical Ecology Student Research Grant 2023. #Didymocarpus 🌿 @vinita_gowda @iiserbhopal @soctropecol

#ಅರಿಕೊಂಬನ್ ಎಂಬ ಆನೆಗೆ ಏನಾಗಿದೆ ಏನಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ ? @Vijaykarnataka ವಿಜಯ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ #ಜೀವಯಾನ ಅಂಕಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಸನ್ನ ಆಡುವಳ್ಳಿ ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿರುವ ಲೇಖನ‌, ನಮ್ಮ ಮೂಡಿಗೆರೆಯ ಕೃಷ್ಣೇಗೌಡರ ಆನೆಯನ್ನು ನೆನಪಿಗೆ ತರುತ್ತೆ... @Sudarshanvk2 @RajeevaVK @kolgarkeerthi

@minivets @vinita_gowda @TrEE_Lab Thank you!

@vinita_gowda @paduvalli @TrEE_Lab congratulations Dr. Prasanna and you too Vinita! This is fantastic!

Congratulations Dr. Prasanna @paduvalli Yay 🎉🥳🥂 @TrEE_Lab #gesneriaceae #weRBotanists

OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for @HarvardMuseum. None of the objects in here look like glass. Readers, they're all glass.

ನವಿಲು - ಮಂಗಟ್ಟೆ ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಕಾಣಸಿಗುತ್ತಿವೆ ಎನ್ನಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆಯಲ್ಲ, ಅದು ನಮ್ಮ ಕಲ್ಪನೆಯೋ ನಿಜವೋ? ಚಿರತೆಗಳು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಕಾಣಸಿಗುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಅವುಗಳ ಆವಾಸ ನಾಶದಿಂದಲೋ, ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಬೇರೇನಾದರೂ ಕಾರಣ ಇದೆಯೋ? ಸಂಶೋಧಕ-ಲೇಖಕ @paduvalli ಜೊತೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಮಾತುಕತೆ... #ಇಜ್ಞಾನದಲ್ಲಿಈಜ್ಞಾನ @kollegala ejnana.com/question-and-a…

Check out our new paper on how changing environment affects bird nest construction #Anthropocene 🐦 @paduvalli @saaaakeeeet @naturalistotaku @TrEE_Lab link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A 🧵 Life amidst debris: a story on what is behind the plastic you see in bird's nest and why every urban disturbance is an opportunity to learn more about the plants and animals around us. link.springer.com/article/10.100… When new institutes are setup such as the @iisersystem , the ..

Great piece about the colonial war against ponds, swamps and wetlands - and the disastrous long term consequences. Must read. placesjournal.org/article/ponds-…

#wildedibleplants Golden Himalayan Raspberry Rubus ellipticus Sm. #family - #rosaceae Juicy & ripe, wild golden raspberry from the Shivalik Himalayas. A prickly climbing shrub native to Indian Subcontinent & China. #raspberry #edibles #wildfruit #himalayanplants #flora #botany

Growing up poor left me isolated in academia—until I began to share my story science.org/content/articl…

Happy Earth Day ! Wishing all to strive to stay Green and Blue. 🌎 Botanical gardens and life on earth thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Botanical gardens and life on earth thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…

How to effectively 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐓 frontline healthcare professionals - alive and dead, the scientific community, vaccinologists and immunologists in India in one go? Learn from the masters themselves, the Indian Council for Medical Research, the supposed "apex scientific body" in India. A 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲, which the ICMR has published in 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐎𝐖𝐍 low-class journal, the IJMR, based on weak assumptions, extremely poorly designed methods, replete with confounders & confirmation biases is out now. journals.lww.com/ijmr/Abstract/… In the study, featuring 19 authors- of which only 𝐓𝐖𝐎 are 'scientists' from India, both in the field of biotechnology, along with 17 other 'scientists' none from India, and no clinicians or epidemiologists, a staggering discovery was made. The death rate due to Covid which was reportedly 5-8 fold lower in India compared to "West" was due to "health promoting" food items rich in turmeric and other spices such as steamed savory rice cake (a.k.a the idli), red kidney beans (a.k.a rajma) and Indian tea (a.k.a chai). The reason for more death rate from Covid in the West? Red meat, dairy products and processed foods - based on cherry picked "key' food components across four countries. It seems, the Indian diet suppressed cytokine storm and various inflammatory pathways in those affected by Covid-19 preventing death and organ injury but with foreign countries, death rate was high because their diets were designed to kill. The scientists then go on a wild imaginary ride trying to fit their biased narrative based on weak assumptions from lab studies on cells and rats. The best part? They used datasets of severe Covid patients with high fatality and data sets from Indian patients without deaths without vaccination status! Lower Covid-19 death in India 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 due to the Great Indian Kitchen featuring, very conveniently, "vegetarian" dishes, but due to UNDERREPORTING. See here ⬇️ COVID-19 may have killed nearly 3 million in India, far more than official counts show. New analysis bolsters idea that country’s seemingly low death rate was misleading. science.org/content/articl… and here⬇️ Why India's real Covid toll may never be known. More than 4.7 million people in India - nearly 10 times higher than official records suggest - are thought to have died because of Covid-19, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report. bbc.com/news/world-asi… And the countless other lives that were saved? Due to effective protocols in place including masks, a massive vaccination drive and effective public health communication. See here⬇️ Covid vaccine: India saved over 3.4 million lives under nationwide vaccine campaign livemint.com/news/india/cov… As far as the study goes, I think this special group of scientists have rented out their brains and so-called health reporters in India have lost the ability of critical thinking.

1/n: Last year, I assigned a meme-making assignment to my evo bio course students. One suggestion was from @Torsay who recommended a .gif making assignment. So, @raxitdaves and I took the cue! We asked our 181 registered students (phew!!) to make a course-related .gif. #evobio

The India that was

Just had a paper rejected. Generally fair feedback, respect the decision. But one reviewer rejected because ‘you clearly misinterpreted Croft et at (2015) work which shows you lack understanding of the theoretical complexities in this area’ 😬

Between fruits, flowers and nectar: The extraordinary diet of the frog... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…