PhD scholar @atree_org; Bird migration|Movement ecology|Harriers
Bengaluru, India
Joined October 2016
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Arjun Kannan retweeted
If anyone chooses public transport in Bengaluru, punish them with fare hikes of up to 71% in Metro & 67% in BMTC buses.
Relocate bus shelters away from convenient locations, delay Metro projects & insist on end-to-end double-decker flyovers. Is this how Bengaluru plans to encourage public transport? @CMofKarnataka
Arjun Kannan retweeted
More than hawkers, uneven, broken and missing slabs, along with footpath riders riding on pavements, are the major obstacles for pedestrians.
Wonder why none of the officials spotted this during the recent footpath reclamation drive 👇
Arjun Kannan retweeted
Kerala’s #JanShatabdi gets modern LHB coaches, but passengers aren’t impressed. Uncomfortable 90-degree seats, complaints over toilet design and recurring delays are making the journey a struggle @GMSRailway @NewIndianXpress
newindianexpress.com/states/…
Arjun Kannan retweeted
BJP has discovered the greatest governance model in history.
If something improves: Modi ji did it.
If something goes wrong: State Govt did it.
If BJP also runs the state: Previous Govt did it.
If BJP has ruled there for years: 70 years of Congress created the problem.
If Congress can't be blamed: Global conditions did it.
With this logic you can remain in power for 50 years without being responsible for a single failure🥲
Arjun Kannan retweeted
Indian Female researchers (<55yo) interested in doing a postdoc with me - I would love to co-write a grant proposal with you! Check eligibility and write to me at ashankar<at>tifrh.res.in if you're interested in what we do!
@TIFRH_buzz
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Arjun Kannan retweeted
Things at IIT Jodhpur have gotten completely out of hand. Our Director is running this campus like a dictatorship, threatening anyone who speaks up, and silencing us online. Please read and share
thread 1/10
@iitjodhpur @PMOIndia @RajCMO @EduMinOfIndia
#IIT #education #dictator
Arjun Kannan retweeted
Passenger next to my seat spent the whole 8 hour train journey eating and throwing all the leftovers under the seat. Dustbin was right outside. Later, when everyone was trying to sleep, he started playing videos loudly.
Wanted to teach him a lesson in civic sense, but I stopped myself because getting home safely is more important than teaching a random stranger morality. I have a family, goals, and plans for the future. You need to be practical. You can't change the whole country. If you confront these people, they won't learn or acknowledge their mistake. Instead, they'll start a fight and can turn violent.
Mumbai local train incident is one example. Man asked someone to close the door because of the rain and ended up losing his life to a person carrying a knife.
Reality is, civic sense can only be taught where people are willing to listen, in a moral society. Smartest choice is to stay invisible, earn more and build a life where you move up the economic ladder so you and your family can have safer spaces to avoid such people.
Arjun Kannan retweeted
Meet Vedant Shrivastava, Nisarga Adhikary, and Sarthak Sidhant ,they exposed CBSE in every possible way :
17 years old Vedant Shrivastava :
> Applied for the CBSE re-evaluation process
> Got a different Physics answer sheet
> Posted it on X
> Got labelled "Pakistani" by the BJP IT cell
> Brought CBSE to its knees and proved them wrong
19 years old Nisarga Adhikary :
> Bro hacked the CBSE website
> Reported the vulnerability to them
> But they didn't take any action
> Then bro posted it on X
> Showed everyone that it could be hacked
18 years old Sarthak Sidhant :
> Bro exposed a CBSE tender
> Took it to X
> Wrote a detailed thread
> Explained how the CBSE OSM tender conditions allegedly favoured COEMPT
> And today came on the media
> Exposed them with facts
These three boys are doing what whole media failed to do, all of them took x to expose CBSE .
Arjun Kannan retweeted
Ramdev:If there is a price rise,people should work more to fight the price hike & help the govt
Reporter:But Baba you said petrol will be at Rs 40 if Modi comes to Power
Ramdev:Yes,I said it earlier,won't say it now? Kya kar lega?puch ukhadega?
Fraud got triggered!
Arjun Kannan retweeted
🧵I built something for every Keralite who's tired of forgotten promises. A thread:
Introducing an open-source Kerala Government Manifesto Tracker — a tool that monitors 1,300+ promises and policies from the UDF Manifesto. (1/4)
🔗 keralam-govt-tracker.pages.d…
Arjun Kannan retweeted
@GBAChiefComm @GBA_office Illegal construction on govt property by govt contractor on Ali Asker Road.Huge pillars at edge of footpath, no set back. Please intervene Uphold GBA Rules @DKShivakumar
Arjun Kannan retweeted
National Board for Wildlife approved projects within fragile habitats at higher rate after 2014 than before, write former forest officer Prakriti Srivastava & former Board member @prernabindra
≥90% approval rate/year after 2014
1st of 2-part series
article-14.com/post/defying-…
Arjun Kannan retweeted
#RameshPisharody, mature and spot-on replies 👏 Pisharody is definitely one of the best candidates put forward by Congress in this election, and clearly the best available choice to retain Palakkad 💖
@PisharodyRamesh
Arjun Kannan retweeted
I am excited to hire a PhD candidate at #iiserpune to work on savannas! Please share widely among relevant circles!
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Arjun Kannan retweeted
BENGALURU ALREADY FACES THE CRISIS — DATA CENTRES DRINKING CITY DRY! 🔥
31 of Karnataka's 32 Data Centres are right here in Bengaluru. Whitefield alone has 120 MW running.
Another 10 Facilities in Pipeline. Capacity set to DOUBLE by 2030 thanks to Tax Sops and AI Gold Rush.
THE NUMBERS WILL SHOCK YOU
• 𝟏 𝐌𝐖 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝟔𝟖,𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐘 just for Cooling (Deloitte study)
• 𝟐𝟎 𝐌𝐖 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲? 𝟏.𝟒 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 — Equal To Water Needs Of 𝟐𝟕,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬
• 𝟐𝟔 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐖 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 (hydrologist Shashank Palur)
• Whitefield’s Current Load = ~𝟖.𝟐 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲
Bengaluru already has a 775 MLD shortfall. 14,000 govt borewells drying up. Quarter of Cauvery water lost.
Residents in Whitefield, Electronics City & Sadaramangala? 10–12 tankers a day at ₹2,000–4,000 each in summer.
Tech Billionaires Power ChatGPT & Global Cloud from Our Backyard While Locals Beg For Drinking Water.
Some firms are switching to air-cooling (saving 70%, like Datasamudra’s 5 MW unit saves 4 lakh litres/day).
Experts scream: Use treated wastewater, not groundwater!
But Policy Prioritises "EASE OF DOING BUSINESS" Over Survival.
This Is Not Progress. This Is Eco-suicide.
#DataCenters #PMModiInIsrael #WomenEmpowerment #Israel
Arjun Kannan retweeted
India lost 18 times more forest than it gained between 2015–2019 &
Global Forest Watch proves India's rapidly depleting forest cover (essential to soak poisonous carbon),
YET
Govt to allow profiteering plantations within forests
to finish the rest
- thehindu.com/news/national/i…
Arjun Kannan retweeted
Two business school professors from the University of Technology in Sydney have sounded the alarm on the declining quality of academic literature in a new publication titled “The junkification of research”.
Drawing parallels to the “enshittification” of online platforms, they argue that similar forces are now overwhelming scholarly publishing. The key drivers are threefold: 1) relentless “publish or perish” pressures in academia, 2) scientific publisher’s incentive to publish more to make more money, and 3) AI making paper production faster and easier. Taken together, they say, these drivers are a recipe for disaster. The authors call for a shift to not-for-profit models of scientific publishing and better evaluation systems.
I strongly doubt either is going to happen.
The problem is of course not new, and you all know that I have been drawing attention to this trend for more than a decade. It is interesting to see, however, that the awareness for the issue is increasing.
Paper: Rhodes, C., & Linnenluecke, M. K., “The junkification of research” Organization (2025).
