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Tag: science communication

On anticipation and the history of science

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In mid-2012, shortly after physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe had announced the discovery […]

January 10, 2022 Scicomm, Science

Tek Fog and science

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If you haven’t read The Wire‘s Tek Fog investigation, do so right away – not just because it’s necessary […]

January 6, 2022 Analysis, Science

A false union in science journalism

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At what point does a journalist become a stenographer? Most people would say it’s when the journalist stops […]

December 28, 2021 Scicomm, Science

The omicron variant and scicomm

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Somewhere between the middle of India’s second major COVID-19 outbreak in March-May this year and today, a lot […]

December 9, 2021 Scicomm, Science

On AWSAR, Saransh, etc.

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The Indian National Young Academy of Sciences has announced a “thesis competition for PhD students” called ‘Saranash’. A […]

September 16, 2021 Scicomm

The problem with rooting for science

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The idea that trusting in science involves a lot of faith, instead of reason, is lost on most […]

July 28, 2021 Analysis, Scicomm

Scicommers as knowledge producers

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Reading the latest edition of Raghavendra Gadagkar’s column in The Wire Science, ‘More Fun Than Fun’, about how […]

July 5, 2021 Scicomm

On the lab-leak hypothesis

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One problem with the debate over the novel coronavirus’s “lab leak” origin hypothesis is a problem I’m starting […]

June 5, 2021 Analysis, Scicomm, Science

The Wire Science is hiring

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Location: Bengaluru or New Delhi The Wire Science is looking for a sub-editor to conceptualise, edit and produce […]

January 12, 2021 Scicomm

The passive is political

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If Saruman is the stupid shit people say, I have often found Grima Wormtongue is the use of […]

September 30, 2020 Culture, Op-eds

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