I am a person doing Science In India, I feel disenfranchised when
• KVPY is discontinued.
• CSIR NET is not conducted in 2021.
• My Scholarship doesn’t arrive.
• GST messes my research grant.
• Our difficulties are packaged as resilience and cost-efficiency.
#Enough
!
I have adopted this E-mail signature to highlight the plight of Ph.D. Scholars across India.
Plan to keep it until there is an announcement from
@IndiaDST
Urge other stake-holders to go creative with their signatures.
@mnwsth
made 37,000₹ as JRF last year, I am doing a PhD in US this year.
Students here can afford rent, owning a car, and then saving some after looking after some wants. They can afford to get married/start a family.
I couldn’t imagine doing these as a JRF.
@sarayupani
Reservation affects at every level, X may have missed IIT Bombay, Y may have missed ferguson college Pune or Z may have missed BJ medical college.
Your example is cherry picked, to show the most extreme demand supply mismatch in the country.
So a canteen staff at our institute won 22L and an Audi Car in Dream11,
And now everyone wants to drop astrophysics and develop algorithms to win in such contests. 🤦♂️
I am appalled that even in 2024(Election year!), we cant pay all our PhD scholars in time.
This is totally unacceptable, and students should be compensated for the dealy.
CSIR NET 2022 Exam experience.
I appeared for the CSIR-NET 2022 yesterday and faced several problems that really calls into question the competence of NTA. Thread 🧵
IIT’s have disallowed students, who have got admission through JAM, to apply for SPOT Admissions in M. Sc course.
This will lead students with worse ranks get better seats than those with better ranks.
Pls. Help
@PMOIndia
@narendramodi
@DrRPNishank
Update: Pleased to inform you that
@PrinSciAdvGoI
has taken note of my points and is looking into the issue ✌️
Hoping for a speedy decision and adequate hike now.
Dear University,
Taking offline exams and risking the life of the students,
And then moving the next semester online is a shitty idea.
For
1) All the COVID damage can be done will be done in exams itself.
2)Zoom Lec. Then is gimmick
#StudentsLivesMatters
#GujaratUniversity
@gareebscientist
This has been active for a while now atleast 1 year, in Uttarakhand with regular updates.
Great to see it rolling out at other places.
@sudhirmehtapune
@ANI
Sir,
One of student from IIT Patna, is fundraising for a prosthetic limb, after a personal tragedy.
Would really appreciate if you can provide some assistance.
Astrology is not a science. It should be criminalised in the country.
Being Manglik or not is immaterial in determining wedding.
Universities shouldn’t have Astrology department to begin with, that’s worse than Quackery.
While dealing with a Bail plea of a Rape Accused, the
#AllahabadHighCourt
has directed the HOD (Astrology Department), Lucknow Varsity to decide whether alleged rape Victim girl is mangali by examining her Kundali.
The accused earlier refused to marry her for being a mangalik.
@RemaNagarajan
All IIT, IIM messes serve Non-Veg food. If an institute has multiple messes then a few of them are pure veg to cater to this students.
Also 4 major states have a majoritarian vegetarian population.
It’s part and parcel of Indian inclusive democracy.
UPDATE
just came to know from
@PriyankaGreensp
that
@AmdavadAMC
has started a massive campaign to contain this.
Thank you. Together we will make a cleaner and Hygienic Ahmedabad.
Never give up !!
I applied and have been rejected for this program 6 times ! Started applying during my first year of . In 2016.
Today, I am working in the extreme gravity group at
@montanastate
in GW physics !
Great opportunity to participate in the development of
#gravitationalwave
#instrumentscience
through LIGO-India Project! In the
@LIGO
-
@Caltech
SURF program, selected students will get a chance to work on summer research projects at the Caltech campus or at LIGO Observatory sites
Visited Delhi and am stunned by the
@OfficialDMRC
Delhi Metro.
Clean as an airport, all modern amenities, seamless ticketing,Air Conditioned Platforms and trains and attention to detail 👌🏻👌🏻
Ride is smooth as butter. Thread 🧵
Found this amazing children’s picture book on
@LIGO
and Gravitational waves in Marathi !
Would love to translate it to Gujarati, if someone can connect me with the authors.
@LIGOIndia
@vishuguttal
This is extremely inadequate as
1. Ministry is not releasing additional funds for this, so either fees will increase or fund cuts to accommodate this.
2. Inflation from 2018-2022 was 24.5 % while the hike is only 19% effectively a pay cut.
Thank you
@shaktisinhgohil
🙏 for promptly acting on my representation and raising important issue of PhD Fellowship hike and student welfare.
🤞🏻 for 23rd March, Rajya Sabha Session.
@SeamusBlackley
My parents both fully vaccinated, got COVID(Moderate symptoms) during the second wave in India.
It was the time when delta variant got rampant.
@kalt_mozart
@monikahalan
No they are not. It’s a myth.
US dollar left the gold standard in 1970’s, no other currency guarantees it.
Many keep a sovereign forex reserve but they are usually currencies backed by nothing backing other currencies.
This scene from
#RocketBoys
means so much to me.
@PRLAhmedabad
is where, I attended awesome colloquial, taught me to dream big, and gave me access to amazing Science.
To commemorate the day we gave ourself the Constitution
#RepublicDay
Don’t forget Article 51 A (h). It’s unique of its kind.
Dedicate this day to develop your spirit of inquiry and reform.
We at St. Xavier’s College are organising a unique webinar on Physics, which is being organised by the students entirely.
I will be speaking on Special Relativity Tommorow.
Time : 4:00 PM
Link :-
Why are good and educated candidates loosing elections in India ?
Atishi Marlena Oxford Graduate credited for her pivotal role in Delhi enducational reforms from
@AamAadmiParty
finished 3rd today. (1/n)
@abhijit_MLab
This is such a nice attitude, that too given the environment.
However, I have also seen people in peerage take such people for granted and even expect them to do things as if it’s their right rather than being grateful.
Of all the campuses, I have been part of the most dishonest, intellectually insecure and egoist campus was of IIT.
I have seen worst of people, morally speaking in that campus. People who would take any route to achieve what they want.
JNCASR, Bangalore
@jncasr
has one of the youngest exhibit teams with . And PhD students leading the charge.
Their diverse expertise in Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences make it well worth a visit. (4/n)
The sorry state of Indian Science!
A driver gets a higher pay (with annual increments) than a highly Qualified/specialized PhD student at IUCAA Pune.
PhDs deserve a better stipend linked to the pay commission.
This is the worst decision by the government.
KVPY was a beacon of hope, for students interested in sciences that there is a way. It motivated them to do better.
So apparently KVPY scholarships are being scrapped over language barriers, and admission to research institutes like IISc are to be only through JEE/NEET. While I am all for language inclusivity, and the optimal solution would be to increase the languages served in KVPY (1/n)
Imagine being a full grown man and being excited by cooking.
Not war.
Not conquest.
No. You get adrenaline from making an omelette.
Fucking nerd.
Chefs are worms.
OMG WHAT IF THE MEATS OVER DONE OMG 😮
Who cares.
Hardly getting knocked out is it.
Congratulating Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhury on receiving 2022 Chandrasekhar Prize of the Division of Plasma Physics, Asia Pacific Physical Societies.
Plugging my photo with him at
@ARIESNainital
during
#ATSOA2022
Dearest University,
If you say only the Essential final year exams are being taken,
Then why is PG Sem-2 exams being conducted ? How is it different from UG Sem -2 ?
Why conduct them offline in Ahmedabad ?
#StudentLivesMatter
#GujaratUniversity
@ShashiTharoor
@IndiaDST
Thank you so much
@ShashiTharoor
Ji for raising this important issue.
We research scholars across the country are in dire need of hike, in fellowship and raised our demands at multiple fora without results.
This is tremendous !!
Had begun my science journey just around the time chatter for
@LIGOIndia
had begun.
Will be ready by the time I complete my Ph.D. 🤞🏻
We should pay our Scholars more, give them better accommodation, and some assurance of career security to attract them.
Otherwise, we stand to lose great science, not because people are not interested but because they can't survive.
How I was discriminated by peers at a National Research institute in Astrophysics for my dietary preference. (thread 🧵)
This is a story of passive and active aggression I faced at a research institute due to my diet. (1/n)
McDonald's McAloo Tikki burger price has increased at 12% CAGR in last 5 years!
Very interesting analysis from Kotak on price inflation of common consumer staples and discretionary products.
*MAJOR IRREGULARITIES IN ADMISSIONS TO IITs IN PRETEXT OF COVID-19* [Thread]
Admissions to . Courses are conducted through the JAM exam which was organised by IIT- Kanpur this year. (1/10)
The National Center for cellular sciences have demonstrated that they are backbone for a lot of biological sciences in the country.
You can see Cancer cells, learn about their work and see some art made on petri-dishes.
This is one of the most dynamic team in the expo. (2/n)
On occasion of Ramanujan’s Birthday Prof. NN Roghelia delivers a lecture on how Ramanujan relied on intuition and observation rather than Mathematical Rigour and also guides students how an observant person may deduce a problem faster compared to Traditional Mathematics.