Novel initiative by DST to encourage science communication by students
DST is set to launch an initiative to encourage and equip PhD scholars and post-doctoral fellows with skills to communicate science with lay people. It is planning to hand out…
Category: Science communication
Now, CCMB students undertake outreach programmes
Twelve PhD students of CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, have started a new initiative of interacting with undergraduate and post-graduate students belonging to different colleges in the city…
Indian scientific community should act now to stop the journal paper translation centres
Starting centres employing thousands to translate into Indian languages the papers published in “predatory” journals is singularly aimed at gaining legitimacy for a fraudulent practice. Keeping the predatory journal industry in…
Aniket Sule, the scientist who torpedoed Satyapal Singh’s grand plan for evolution
“The petition addressed to Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satyapal Singh to retract his statement that the theory of evolution was ‘scientifically wrong’ was signed by nearly…
Three science academies denounce Satyapal Singh’s statement on evolution
In a first in recent times, three science academies in India have taken a stand and issued a statement denouncing Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satyapal Singh’s statement…
At last, there’s a welcome push back by the Indian scientific community
Since 2014, starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there have been many instances when members of the ruling party at the centre have aired absurd statements that would never stand…
Astrology workshop at IISc stands cancelled
The pushback against the two-day astrology workshop to be held at IISc on November 25 and 26, 2017 was swift and massive that less than 12 hours after social media…
Alas, astrology workshop to be held at IISc in November
It was not a question of whether but when a scientific institution would hold a conference, meeting or workshop on astrology, or permit such a meeting or workshop to be…
