Reportage
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Infographic: Collecting and testing Indian health indicators on a large scale
What are India’s health indicators? This infographic shows how scientists are answering this question.
March 17th 2020
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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
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The Problem With India’s National Science Day
Why we need to change our ways of celebrating modern science this National Science Day.
February 28th 2020
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A New Kind of Quantum Information Conference Is Coming to Chennai
In 2018, a quantum information workshop in Brazil came closer than most to the ideal of a truly diverse scientific conference. The team behind it is trying to recreate the same experience in Chennai.
December 21st 2019
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On mental health in academia: From the editors’ desk
Our editorial letter on the “Labhopping for Mental Health” series that ran on our blog through October, 2019.
November 18th 2019
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Against a Science of Sacrifice
This reportage suggests that science academia in India is structured to put research scholars at risk of deteriorating mental health.
November 1st 2019
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Café Mythbusting: The neuroscience of mental health disorders
At a café in Kolkata, a gang of PhD dropouts talks about the neuroscience of mental health with their psychiatrist-friend.
October 28th 2019
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STEMming the tide of mental health crises
Two neuroscientists and a sociologist reflect on mental health experiences of people in science. What is it about the environment in STEM labs that might increase the risk for anxiety and depression?
October 2nd 2019
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Physicists meet to talk gender equity (and some physics)
At the first of its kind scientific conference, Indian physicists start to agree that something must be done about the gender gap
October 1st 2019
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The case for open science
A tour through an open science laboratory in Switzerland where scientists are realising the hacker culture
August 28th 2019