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Tag: women in STEM

The Bhatnagar Prizes are courting irrelevance

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On September 27, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced the winners of the Shanti Swarup […]

September 29, 2021 Science

The Nobel intent

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You’ve probably tired of this but I can’t. The Nobel Prize folks just sent out a newsletter ahead […]

March 5, 2020 Science

Social media and science communication

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The following article was originally intended for an Indian publication but I withdrew from the commission because I […]

December 30, 2019 Op-eds, Scicomm

Two sides of the road and the gutter next to it

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I have a mid-October deadline for an essay so obviously when I started reading up on the topic […]

October 3, 2019 Culture, Op-eds

Limitations of the Finkbeiner test

This post was republished on The Wire on January 8, 2018. The Finkbeiner test, named for science writer Ann […]

January 7, 2018 Life notes, Scicomm

Why do we cover the Nobel Prize announcements?

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The Nobel Prizes are too big to fail. Even if they’ve become beset by a host of problems, […]

October 2, 2017 Scicomm

Some thoughts on the Mack/Dorigo Twitter exchange, and Zivkovic, Feyerabend, etc.

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Aspirants flock to role models. The ‘underlying human’ must not jeopardise their conversation by being a dick.

May 30, 2017 Scicomm
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