Voices
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Two Years in IISc, and Learning to Doubt Everyone & Everything
From my two years of being in academia, I’ve come to understand that this insecurity has a name, ‘imposter syndrome’, and it does not stop or get any better along the journey.
September 28th 2019
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Notes and memories from the Sundarban Delta
To mark July 26 as International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystems an interdisciplinary researcher shares her heart-wrenching story from the Sundarbans.
July 30th 2019
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How teaching an ‘open course’ can open doors
Finishing a PhD is fulfilling, but also a tense time because of the uncertainties of the future. This young ecologist found her footing thanks to an opportunity to teach an ‘open course’ at a new university.
July 23rd 2019
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How happy is the scientific workforce in India?
Moved by a growing sense of unrest within the academic workforce, and a simultaneous explosion of articles discussing stress in academia in the western world, researcher Laasya Samhita investigates the scenario in India.
July 9th 2019
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The case of the unpaid internship
Shruti Muralidhar pens down the case for paying all interns – in academia and elsewhere.
June 25th 2019
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Two Herpetologists Tell Us Why We Need A Week for Turtles
No major lab, institute or organisation in India currently works dedicatedly on freshwater turtle and tortoise research, so these two independent turtle biologists started a one-of-a-kind citizen science project to fill this lacuna and share their love for these animals.
May 27th 2019
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Highlights of my first year as an independent researcher
While talking about moving back to India and starting an independent lab, this physician-scientist quips, “I am happy to have survived!”
May 20th 2019
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4 Reasons Some Women Hate Feminism (And What They’re Missing)
How often do we hear women scientists themselves say ‘I’m not a feminist’? Many of us have walked those shoes ourselves. Here, Ginny Brown talks about her definition of feminism & how she got there.
May 14th 2019
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Adding women to Wikipedia: One article at a time
Reflections on the Wikipedia Edit-a-thons on Women’s Histories held at IIIT-Bangalore
April 29th 2019
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We asked students about their women role models in science – Watch video!
We asked some students and teachers about their women rolemodels in science.
April 16th 2019