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On to the next dimension with Urbasi. S5. Ep1 Podcast
On our first episode of our ‘womxn in physics’ podcast series, Aashima talks to quantum technology scientist Urbasi Sinha from Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore.
July 24th 2020
Deepti and her mutant fruit flies
A facility manager by day and an artist by night, Deepti Trivedi has over the years become a critical part of the research community at BLiSC, Bengaluru.
July 14th 2020
Assimilating the art in science
TLoS art director Ipsa Jain caught up with comix artist Arghya Manna to discuss what makes SciArt distinct from #SciArt, the deeply personal process of creating, and where it stands in India today.
July 8th 2020
Lying on the forest floor, looking for orchids
On World Environment Day 2020, conservation ecologist Jis Sebastian reminisces about her time in the Western Ghats, studying the fantastically diverse orchids and what climate change has in store for them.
June 5th 2020
Drawing to coax new scientific questions
Late into her PhD, biologist Ipsa Jain realised that she did not want to spend her life in a lab. Was it okay then to change her mind and embrace visual arts — something which never failed to make her happy?
March 25th 2020
Good teachers need to go way beyond textbooks
Looking back at EpiSTEME, a conference on science education, held at TIFR-HBCSE in January 2020.
March 9th 2020
Infosys Science Awards- Women winners say they are more than personal
For this year’s Infosys Science Prize winners, Manjula Reddy and Sunita Sarawagi, this recognition as women in science, is of universal significance.
February 24th 2020
Being a Lesbian Trans Woman of Science in India
“Post and during the transition, I have definitely faced much discrimination and bigotry in the academic world,” says A. Mani, a mathematician
October 3rd 2019
An Agroforestry Scientist’s Notes on Kodagu and Climate Change
At the backdrop of the 2019 Kodagu floods, Switzerland-based agroforestry researcher Maike Nesper, talks about working with small coffee farmers to find sustainable ways of growing coffee.
September 18th 2019
The case for open science
A tour through an open science laboratory in Switzerland where scientists are realising the hacker culture
August 28th 2019