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Fantastic to see the Gruber Neuroscience prize given to scientists who have made outstanding fundamental discoveries with worms and flies! Congratulations Cori Bargmann.

🎙️ Episode 1 of our latest podcast- Gender in/of Science is out now! Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0_fA… @DeepaAgashe Archives at NCBS

Gita had some interesting questions which I attempted to answer as honestly as possible - do listen

Science Magazine - A broader view of misinformation reveals potential for intervention sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazin…

Science Magazine - Supersharers of fake news on Twitter sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazin…

Science Magazine - Pharmacological modulation of septins restores calcium homeostasis and is neuroprotective in models of Alzheimer’s disease sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazin… A way to restore Ca2+ homeostasis in neurons - important finding for many other neurodegenerative disorders

🌟 NEW! We are super excited to announce our collaboration with Tinkle Magazine to bring you an inspiring series of comics featuring brilliant women scientists from our institute! 👩‍🔬 The first comic features Dr. Deepti Trivedi, who heads the Drosophila facility at NCBS.

Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists

(1/4)#PhDone !🎓 Congratulations Dr Nandashree! 🧵See thread to know more about Nandashree's work on understanding mechanisms of neuronal calcium signalling and their role in Drosophila larval development. 👇 Nandashree FlyCalcium (1/4)

Current Science announces Fellowship for science writing. For details see currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/127/01…

Science must protect thinking time in a world of instant communication nature.com/articles/d4158…

Study on braiding Indigenous and Western knowledge collapses amid acrimony | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl… Makes for interesting reading - suggests that scientists find it difficult to listen to views coming from alternate streams.

Thanks to Nirmalya Kajuri, I got a chance to review at the expenditures of DSTIndia in the previous financial year (2023-2024). This is a thread of what I have learnt, or found interesting. E&O are all mine. The actual doc: indiabudget.gov.in/doc/eb/sbe89.p… (1/n)

Sexual harassment in science: biologists in India speak out nature.com/articles/d4158… An unsurprising but nevertheless sad state of affairs. The power imbalance is too great and lack of support from the system - both social and administrative does not help.

‘We should know our own history’: India’s plan to teach traditional science sparks hope and concerns | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl… Needs to be thought through very carefully.

A proud moment presenting my research at SFN 2024 #sfn2024. Thanks to my mentor Bhavana Muralidharan, DSTIndia for travel award, iBRIC-inStem and Department of Biotechnology . Huge thanks to Prof. Gaiti Hasan FlyCalcium and my family for continuous support and encouragement throughout my journey.

Congratulatory postcard from Salim Ali (Birdman of India) to Obaid Siddiqi (Biologist) on the award of Padma Bhushan to the latter in 1984.

Happy and excited to share that our paper has been published and now available online! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jn… Our study demonstrates the presence of subtle phenotypes in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from young-onset Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.

#ResearchExplained! A recent study from Prof. FlyCalcium's lab at NCBS investigated PLA2G6-associated Parkinson’s disease using patient-derived iPSC's. Read Here:bit.ly/3GtTD6v Renjitha Gopurappilly Thasneem Rahmath Musthafa (She/Her) National Centre for Biological Sciences ✏️ Mrunal Kulkarni