Feminist science media project since 2016 • Voices from the margins • Tweets by @nandita_j @queersprings @aashimafreidog Our book Lab Hopping (Penguin Books)

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Launching the Labhopping 2026 Calendar that Celebrates Science in all its Glorious Mess. Get your calender today! #calender #science #Labhopping @labhopping biopatrika.com/science-socie… via @biopatrika
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Yes @nandita_j @labhopping this was in 2008 but still resonates - but we have not got there yet ☹️ @IUPAPwomen @IUPAP_physics @asi_wgge #genderinstem @GIPWG1
Prajval recounts sociologist Gita Sen’s comment on intonation. What we want, she says, is not “She is an astronomer?” (😳) Nor “She is an astronomer!” (🥳) But “She is an astronomer.” (🤷🏾‍♀️ )
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"The forest is the best place to raise a child." In this 2015 interview on @SanctuaryAsia Sonali Ghosh emphasised that India's captive breeding needed a complete revamp, and that with basic facilities, women forest officers can thrive.
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This needs to be read more widely. We do a disservice to ourselves by not critiquing the legacy of powerful people. By @m_ogada, a prominent Kenyan voice on conservation, about #JaneGoodall
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Latest study published in Nature shows that gender gap in maths starts early, right from the first year of school! I share my thoughts on what needs to change in how we define and teach maths in early education. nature.com/articles/d41586-0… Thanks @labhopping for the shoutout!
A new big data analysis from France shows that the ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges during the very 1st year of school. Not to miss @meghnanc's call to broaden what counts as being "good" at maths, so that girls can succeed on their own terms. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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In addition to this, I know a number of specific situations where women in STEM went to extents to suppress the limelight - out of humility - but an unnecessary humility that she has been guilted into by male colleagues disgruntled abt not being equally celebrated.
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I think that is true of anyone in the limelight (reminded of Rush's song Living in the Limelight), but women in higher positions in STEM are often called upon to do more work since there aren't enough of them to be on committees, give WiS talks etc.
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In general, women get asked to be on too many committees, to have better representation, and this affects even those who are not in the limelight; and I am sure it gets even more so for those in the limelight.
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I think that is true of anyone in the limelight (reminded of Rush's song Living in the Limelight), but women in higher positions in STEM are often called upon to do more work since there aren't enough of them to be on committees, give WiS talks etc.
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Heart is happy to find out about this event that took place in March - a 3-day particle physics conference to remember Rohini Godbole. Such a powerful and meaningful way to celebrate a woman scientist. She would be pleased. indico.global/event/8300/tim…
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Found two more asteroids! 21575 Padmanabhan, named after Cosmologist Hamsa Padmanabhan, and ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_… & 25636 Vaishnav, named after Semiconductor scientist Hetal Vaishnav ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_…
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5th Dr. Bibha Chowdhuri Memorial Lecture Prof. Sharada Srinivasan, Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru. "A Journey in Archaeometallurgy” Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 14.30 hrs. youtube.com/live/7ePYATD9RvQ…
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Another defamation case in the works? Ok. Will not apologize. Will not delete. But will apologise and delete if: 1) Institution of national repute will put out a public statement that they will ensure all patients - from all wakes of life will be treated with evidence-based scientific medicine without prejudice and not Ayurvedic quackery. If the patient wants Ayurvedic quackery then the doctors must counsel them on cons of the treatment because there are no pros. The final decision can be with the patient after a wholesome discussion. 2) Call back this patient with bipolar (see last video l) who received toxic ayurvedic products as part of bipolar mania treatment and provide actual guidelines based medical care. 3) Ayurveda practitioners who prescribed the set of herbals to the bipolar patient must show evidence for their treatment from classical as well as modern medical literature, mechanism of action, dosing studies, safety profile of each herbal and multi herbal combinations in this group of patients. The amount of abuses and harassment that alumni of NIMHANS showered on my Instagram was quite a lot. They were all worried about the "name" of their institute getting tarnished...NOT A SINGLE DOCTOR from NIMHANS reached out or responded asking how the patient was or about the atrocity committed against the patient. Not one. Patients do not go to NIMHANS for Ayurvedic treatment. If real doctors don't stand up for their patients, then who will? I know doctors who work in NIMHANS and such government run institutes are held hostage and scared. But I am not, because I am only concerned about patients and their family. And their right to healthcare. I vehemently stand against integrative quackery. And every doctor should too, if they have an iota of conscience and humanism left for their patients, past-present-and future.
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Please do attend a very enlivening and enriching discussion on the research underway with @STEMthegapindia this Friday. We'll have a sprawling website with deets soon, but come with your doubts and ideas for now, and renew your sense of STEM :) Register: bit.ly/humaniities
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Here's my attempt to recreate something from the past: Indian Scientists/Faculty on Twitter, could you please share your stories from the beginning of your lab that would give an appreciation and realistic picture for aspiring researchers? Please RT.
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📊Going to be discussing what it was like to work on my 2022 story about funding delays in science with undergraduates interested in science communication. scroll.in/article/1025619/th… Re-reading it, it still makes me super uneasy. In your experience, are things better 3 yrs later?
10%I think so
90%I don't think so
20 votes • Final results
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If nothing else, Women’s Days give me and #LabHoppingBook photo-ops with women leading research institutes. This time was extra special because I learnt that Dr Radha was already a genuine fan of the book🥰 Left - Annapurni Subramaniam Right - Radha Rangarajan #Notatallhumblebrag
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In my second piece with @STEMthegapindia, I write about spatial restraints and gender asymmetries. If you wish to know how the layout of a premises, compound, campus becomes a vessel to a (wo)man' everyday: read :) thelifeofscience.com/2025/03…
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Very interesting and important work
A glimpse into how space, layout and infrastructure in an engineering institute produces different experiences for its male and female students. Next up in our #HumanIITies series with @raunaqsa of @STEMthegapindia thelifeofscience.com/2025/03…
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