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What does an typical week of a “healthy academic life” look like? #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academia

A beautiful linguistic perspective on silent vs voiced consonants! #linguistics

As a PhD student, all I focused on was getting a PhD. As a PhD supervisor, I focus on training students on the long-term process that leads to getting a PhD. Here's some examples🧵

Spatial metaphors in vernacular languages in India are really interesting! #linguistics #culture

‘Beyond Bahus’ goes into the colourful world of Indian TV dramas, revealing an unexpected side to Hindi soaps, and what they mean to the women who watch them. The film drops on 13th August, 2023 on YouTube. #BeyondBahus

#JaaneBhiDoYaaro continues to stand tall as one of the funniest, smartest satires. Its relevance makes it a cult classic. With benchmark performances, story and screenplay, raising a toast to this brilliant piece of cinema on its 40th anniv 🌟 #KundanShah What's your fav scene?

We are hiring students for the PhD program in our amazing Marketing department at IIM Udaipur! Join us for a webinar on 24th Jan at 5pm IST to know more about our department’s research ecosystem. Register here: lnkd.in/gHSHRvaE #PhD #india #iim #marketing

Our paper on brand-name #linguistics just got published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology! This paper shows that plural (vs. singular) brand names are better as they connote a sense of cohesiveness (entitativity). doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1… #researchpaper #publication #branding

No other institute in India can beat the warmth and vibe of MICA! Happy Birthday MICA! #MICADay #ProudMICAn

Just launched! Our film ‘The Sociologist’s Wife’ is now available on YouTube. It tells the story of 3 wives married to eminent British sociologists youtu.be/Xy-ZBDpBA4w

IIMs and historically-minded research? Two new PhD theses coming from IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore study phenomena over nearly a century, especially on entrepreneurship. Was lucky to be on both their dissertation committees. Brief thread on what we learn from them (1/7)

Recently, a student asked me why they have to learn trigonometry which doesn’t have real life applicability. My response wasn’t convincing. Here is Stanford alumni, Hamza Alsamrae, a math major, who responds as it should be…

Are you tired of answering “is this generalizable” questions when you present research on India/ specific states? I suggest try this 👇

Søren Kierkegaard, go for a walk

Devanagari is an extremely elegant script. But this was never explained to us in school. A thread on the awesomeness that is devanagari. Let's start with the things that my teachers did *not* teach me in school:

Fantastic summary of the most effective learning techniques based on research study findings: