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Lab Hopping editor Sayantan Datta shares their journey as a queer-trans person in STEM highlighting the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in science.

Seven eventful years since its first edition, the India Science Festival serves as a great case study to examine and advocate for science communicators’ participation in such events.

The special edition calendar embraces uncertainty as it expresses our difficult yet undying love for science. Support the project by buying one now!

Encounters with an ‘invasive’ tree prompted an urban ecologist to reflect on the labels of “foreign” and “alien”, and her experiences as a descendant of refugees and a migrant in a new city.

The term ‘women in science’ has been mentioned so often in recent years that it has become a buzzword—something people feel obligated to brush past while discussing science and technology, but one that often feels rather empty.

Any meeting focused on Nobel laureates is bound to suffer representation issues, however the organisers of the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting manage to set some positive examples. Perhaps their contemporaries in India could take some leaves out of their book.

The fifth edition of TLoS's yearly desktop calendar has been launched. It features 48 Indian women, transgender and non-binary persons working in various fields of science.

Amrita Sarkar and Aparna Banerjee set out to demand for transgender-affirmative public-health system in India, and in the process, discovered themselves.

Members of the Indian academic ecosystem rise in support of NCERT's teacher-training manual on transgender-sensitive school education.

What does it mean to be a transgender person in medicine? A researcher in community medicine and a transgender woman, Aqsa Shaikh tells her story through this comix.