Dr. Pranavi A R

Something I wrote a while ago. Feels like a fever dream. firstpost.com/living/a-pande…

@thesapphirebook Congratulations, and wishing you the best of luck with the uni admin!

@AdrianoAguzzi Well, if I were an applicant, I'd more likely feel discouraged by that post than anything else. I've seen several instances of PIs on twitter addressing this exact problem in a far more educational and productive way which helps both parties, without punching down.

I'm about as anti-AI as someone can get, especially in writing; but as others have pointed out, there could be several factors at play in situations like these, besides the most bad-faith interpretation as was done here. 1. Applicants from the global south: Former commonwealth

@AdrianoAguzzi ..them or not is completely your prerogative. Everyone understands that it's not possible to be completely "fair" to all applicants, and that having filters, however biased they may be, is unavoidable.

@AdrianoAguzzi ..may initially sound overwrought and "fake" to an outsider, but it is simply understood to be the norm here. Why not extend this understanding to a random, faceless student who, at the end of the day, is just trying to navigate the system in whatever way they can? To interview

understand why someone else might (in specific instances like this) - no, i didn't use ChatGPT to write this, and you'll have to pry my em-dashes and adjectives from my cold dead hands. TL;DR: try putting yourself in other (especially disadvantaged) people's shoes for a second.

Disclaimers (because now one can't just Say Things om twitter): - this doesn't mean I endorse students not researching the lab they're applying to and copy-pasting generic AI-generated emails to all - how i personally feel about AI in writing does not prevent me from trying to

That's one way to start a paper..

Bi-yearly Aaron Swartsz' Guerilla Open Access manifesto repost, read it, it's less than a page, put copies of it in every university and library everywhere. archive.org/details/Gueril…

Love this! Looking forward to more such spotlights on *strange* model organisms!

It's so incredibly soothing to read old papers in this font! This one's from 1974. Is it also the print --> scan pipeline that contributes to the tiny imperfections in the letters?

The peer-reviewed version of expansion in situ genome sequencing is now out in Science! The news is bittersweet – when we first revealed this last September, I never guessed it would be my final paper in academia, but a lot has changed. A few parting thoughts:

@drmichaellevin Thanks for sharing! However, I remember reading a while ago that many of the "plants respond well to X kind of music" (not necessarily from Bose) beliefs were debunked since they couldn't be reliably reproduced?

Walter Cannon: “life is whatever can be anesthetized” J. C. Bose: hold my drink, while I anesthetize metals and such. "Response in the living and non-living" by Bose, Jagadis Chandra archive.org/details/respon… ecologise.in/2018/11/13/j-c… "He once invited Sir Michael Foster, a veteran physiologist at Cambridge, to witness the electrical response of a poisoned piece of tin (as written by Patrick Geddes in archive.org/details/lifean…): “Come now, Bose, (said Foster) what is the novelty in this curve? We have known it for at least the last half-century.” “What do you think it is?” asked Bose. “Why, a curve of muscle response, of course.” “Pardon me; it is the response of metallic tin.” “What!” said Foster, jumping up. “Tin! Did you say tin?”