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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
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
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
From teacher to administrator: A founder-principal’s perspective
The founder-principal of a women’s college in Delhi shares her journey of self-discovery, career choices, and all that went behind starting a college for the applied sciences.
May 6th 2019
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
Finding my foothold in academia
Anindita writes about her long-drawn struggle to get a permanent faculty position at IISER Kolkata.
April 23rd 2019
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
Excerpts from our first published study!
A study describing some findings about gender equality in Indian science from our labhopping journey
April 8th 2019
Building detectors at CERN—a Q&A with Archana Sharma
Mrinal Shah interviews physicist Archana Sharma, who has built detectors used at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN about her life in science
April 1st 2019
Women in science don’t want freebies, but a level playing field
Quick fixes may address person-specific issues, but long-term reliance on these quick-fixes will keep reinforcing the gender bias, undermining the massive amount of effort that women scientists put in.
March 25th 2019