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With our report titled ‘Against Science of Sacrifice’ by Riddhi Dastidar, we have come to the end of ‘Labhopping for Mental Health’ series that ran through October. A product of our collaboration with 11 …
TRIGGER WARNING: This report discusses student suicides and mental health issues such as depression. In case you need support/relief, here’s a list of resources you can go through.
When mice are killed for an experiment, lab-notes …
TRIGGER WARNING: This narrative discusses forms of emotional abuse, professional harassment, mental health issues and suicides. In case you need support/relief, here’s a list of resources you can go through.
Argha Manna illustrates the genetic basis for …
By Siuli Mitra with inputs by Hina Lateef Nizami
They say when you are an adult, you show up, no matter what. I did show up. At my laboratory, ten days after I lost a parent, and I showed up …
2019 is a year of many millennial wonders. It is the year where finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman blames millennials’ dependence on Ola/Uber for the crisis in the automobile sector. It is also the year where millennials are …
I am a leading researcher in rough sets, a senior elected member of the International Rough Set Society, and among the few lesbian trans women in academia (I identify as a woman and my pronouns are she/hers/her). …
When TheLifeOfScience.com approached us about an article for a series on mental health, I realised that we were in a unique position. Perhaps because of our lab’s scientific interest …
By Laasya Samhita
‘It’s different’. How often has one of us found ourselves proclaiming this while talking to non-academics about our daily work? It can be hard to explain aspects of academic life to an outsider: ‘No, my experiment hasn’t …
Hands-on training. Real research experience. Practical learning with experiments. A rose is a rose is a rose. An internship by any other name is still an internship. Call it what you will, but students these days are expected to go …
By Bornika Roy
Manidipa believes she’s living the dream – she has a supportive home and great scientific freedom at the Kusuma School of Biosciences at IIT-Delhi. Having trained as a chemist, she became interested in studying the structural biology …
