Divyesha Pathak

Just another curious soul.

Pursuing MTech in Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University

[Sridhar Sivasubbu @sridharsivasubb]

Very sad to hear that Craig Venter passed away. He was legendary in so many ways!!

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Long before women were even expected to enter engineering, Belthur Ranganayakamma quietly changed the rulebook.

After losing her father at just 14, continuing school seemed impossible.
But she refused to give up.

Cycling 6 km daily and supported by teachers who believed in her, she pursued engineering and, in 1965, graduated from the National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru as the first female engineer from Mysore University.

She later joined the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), contributing to India’s UAV and aerospace research, with work linked to global studies including NASA research.

From a determined teenager to a pioneer in India’s aerospace sector, her journey opened doors for generations of women in STEM.

This Women’s Day, celebrate the women who dared to break barriers, and scroll down to discover Belthur’s incredible journey.

#WomensDay #WomenInSTEM #InspiringIndia #internationalwomensday

[Belthur Ranganayakamma, Women’s Day, International Women’s Day, Mysuru First Female Engineer, Women in STEM India]

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

Very sorry to see such state of affairs! @CSIR_IND @IndiaDST In the comments section of this tweet, not only PhD scholars but PIs are lamenting on non-disbursement of funds. Urge both bodies to take immediate steps to restore our faith in them.

[Shilpy Sharma @ShilpySharma14]

The salary for my JRF @MuskanOsley employed for the CSIR project (37/1751/23-EMRII) is due from January 2024. UC/SoE submitted in April 2024. Not a single penny has been released. Please help as she might have to quit @CSIR_IND @HRDG_CSIR @shekhar_mande @DrJitendraSingh

[CA Paaras Gangwal @ThetaVegaCap]

Salary 7 CR

Income Tax 3 CR

Business Revenue 20 crore

Income Tax 50-80L

Agriculture Revenue 40 CR

Income Tax 00000

Political party revenue 7,000 crore

Income Tax 00000

IPL revenue 12,000 crore

Income Tax 00000

And they ask when is India’s brain drain going to stop!

#incometax #india

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

Informative and illuminating ✨

[Sridhar Sivasubbu @sridharsivasubb]

Join me and my fellow researchers as we recount how the tiny zebrafish from India became biology’s most loved model organism. ⁦@Nature⁩ ⁦@NatureInd⁩ ⁦@IGIBSocial⁩ ⁦@CSIR_IND⁩ ⁦@NCBS_Bangalore⁩ ⁦@ccmb_csir⁩ https://t.co/mtjjc6Pls5

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

@RohanKhadilkarr That's very thoughtful of you, Sir. Not every PhD supervisor is open to take this step. And thank you for sharing the tip!

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

@mkjolly15 @ictstifr @NCBStheory @DynamicsLiving @areejitsamal @amitn_biolphy @SupreetSaini13 @bsreenath84 @rbc_dsai_iitm @rajatdesikan @meghna_verma28 @vishuguttal @IndiaBioscience Thanks for the information, Sir.

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

@mkjolly15 @BE_IISc @iiscbangalore @biopatrika @SMBMathOnco @rakeshthejoy @CancerSysBio @physics_living @Rice_BIOE @BSBEIITK1 @IndiaBioscience Congratulations Sir!!

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

A nice heads up to the new tool Chroma by @generate_biomed

[Fay Lin, PhD @xiaofei_lin]

New in AI and protein design: @generate_biomed presents, Chroma, a generative AI model that creates novel proteins not previously found in nature with experimental validation in the lab. The code will be made open-source.

My latest article for @GENbio:
https://t.co/IPf3nbaz1u

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

The effects of 'Publish or Perish'. Inserting read.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs.

And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM.

A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates.

It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the authors!

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Main outcomes:

1️⃣ In 2022 the number of articles is 47% higher than in 2016. The amount of writing, reviewing and editing workload per scientist is increased enormously.

2️⃣ “Special issues” is a strategy for publishing lots of papers with reduced review time. This is possible due to the “publish or perish” pressure and clearly benefits the publishers.

3️⃣ The publishing time varies widely!
MDPI = 37 days. Frontiers = 72 days. Elsevier = 134 days. Springer = 157 days. Nature = 185 days.

4️⃣ The article rejection rates do not seem to correlate with publisher growth. However, rejection rates decline with increased use of special issue publishing.

5️⃣ Certain for-profit gold-open-access publishers create an increasing number of special issues, with uniquely reduced turnaround times, and in specific cases, high impact inflation and reduced rejection rates.

6️⃣ The authors suggest a new metric - Impact Inflation, which is reflected in self-citation within the same journal. For example, MDPI has a high impact inflation due to excessive self-citation compared to other publishers.

Conclusions and my opinion:

- Scientists have to spend a lot more time on reviewing and writing than before (on average).

- The more papers are published, the more the quality is compromised.

- Scientific progress has become partially bound to the business models of publishers and their revenue (a sad reality today).

- There is a huge lack of transparency. Much of these data had to be ‘web-scraped’ from numerous sources in order to get a full picture. We clearly need regulators to mandate open access to publisher’s statistics.

- Reduce the number of special issues! Those typically have low standards.

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Science, publishing and funding make a trio that is very hard to disentangle.

However, research quality is controlled by the community.

This is why preprint + community review can make a big difference.

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

@mbuanand @Jmondal_tifrh @rcollepardo @ranjithpa @CG_Martini @alexholehouse @Lauren_L_Porter @tiwarylab What is the timing?

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

An eye opener.

[Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD @Roy_Lab_Thinks]

True that.
https://t.co/jUiWSICVnL

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

✌🏼

[Karsten Suhre @ksuhre]

Finally: #Microsoft @Office listened ... no more gene name to date conversions in #Excel.

Go to File > Options > Data

and deselect "Convert continuous letters and numbers to a date".

https://t.co/IuPTH1GAdq

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

Teachers' Day Thoughts

In ancient times, teachers were the custodians of knowledge, and access to that treasure was impossible without them. However, with the advent of the printing press, knowledge became more democratized. (1/7)

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

@payeldas1011 Interested Mam. Please let me know the steps to be taken further.

[Divyesha Pathak @DivyeshaPathak]

Sounds like a bacteria based vaccine against cancer.
Genius strategy!
https://t.co/f9NhVcHotF