Rekha Bhar

interdisciplinary scientific research

[Rekha Bhar @BharRekha]

@BhatiaRohit10 No, but I added my surname because in research paper you need your last name as well. Name not updated on certificates because that will give new certificate with duplicate written on it as per sources. So what I did is kept the Notary certificate stating that i changed my name.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

“We can’t even make toast,” they laughed—an actress and a politician couple on TV show.
Ah, the struggles of the privileged!
When basic life skills like cooking are considered optional,
one wonders how deeply they truly understand the “pain of the people”.

[Manoj Arora @manoj_216]

Our R&D expenditure (as a % of GDP) has been coming down consistently for the last 15 years.
And we expect that we would be a developed nation soon.
Being positive is good, but being realistic is better.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

This is the LARGEST elephant 🐘 in the room which unfortunately very few talk about. Somhw our science leadership shy away frm demanding money.
With constraints, 🇮🇳 scientists will still continue to publish good papers, but translation needs brute force of money behind it.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Your purpose as a scientist is to make discoveries and gift them to humanity. And those discoveries and that knowledge stays with humanity long after you are gone.”

- Carolyn Bertozzi on the scientist's purpose in our podcast episode

Listen here: https://t.co/MzlJrlz9zD

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

It’s been a week that an old person, recently introduced, sending me religious WA forwards every morning.
From yesterday, I hv started sending him one research paper every evening.
He gives me what he loves, I gracefully accept, and gift back what I value.
Hisaab barabar.

[Hasan Rajpoot @Hasan_4300]

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[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

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[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

When did the taste of the scientific community changed from liking simple elegant experiments to preferring complicated and expensive experiments?

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

Two accused have confessed to their role in the question paper leak in #NEET, an official of the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police said on Sunday.

Central Govt said that there was no paper leak.

Who is right in this “#DoubleEngine”?

[Rekha Bhar @BharRekha]

@rishikagupta__ Horrible

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

Hypocrisy of high income white countries

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

Perfectly written.
We also shd stop
1. Gift hampers as registration kit
2. Long speaker intro mentioning the awards that they got in the pre-school “go as you like” competition.

[Dr. Noble K Kurian 🇮🇳 @DrNobleKKurian]

Most needed decision.. Thank you @AAI_Official

[Dr. Noble K Kurian 🇮🇳 @DrNobleKKurian]

Serious issue. Paper mills should be closed..

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

I have not rechecked their plots and figures but if it’s true, it’s really really worrisome.
However, I will not be surprised if this is indeed the trend. We are putting numbers (read quantity) on the pedestal at every stage, starting from PhD.

[Shekhar Mande @shekhar_mande]

Giving State Universities (where I work myself) equitable R&D funding is a great idea (if they can put their act together), but let's not demonize IIT's for "monopolized funding". Not only IITs but National labs, IISc, TIFR deserve to be supported equally https://t.co/YhKqQoukXW

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

Quite thoughtful!
As I always tell my team members:
If the person who joined the PhD and finished it are the same, it's a poor PhD, even if it produces high-impact papers.

[Rekha Bhar @BharRekha]

@kshatresh Yes, exactly

[Rekha Bhar @BharRekha]

@DrNobleKKurian HR don’t count experience out of academia, if applying for academic positions. Recently happened to me.