Anuradha Goswami

Assistant Research Professor,
University of Notre Dame, USA.
Research focus: Antimicrobial resistance, Environmental quality & treatment.
Proud CAT momma 🐾

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Must watch this: why Turks love animals more than anyone. Caring for these innocents is a step closer to purify your soul...
I wish one day the entire world turns like them
https://t.co/aMyIGbSqn7

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

The latest preprint highlights how integrating sewer overflow monitoring with genomic bypass detection could uncover antibiotic resistance signals that traditional surveillance methods often miss. #AMR #Water #Wastewater https://t.co/kMtvJTGz16

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

High-impact papers are crucial in academia.
Like it or not.

As a PhD student, you quickly learn that such papers are cool. They make advisors happy. Everyone admires you.

During a postdoc, high-IF papers are not just cool. They are mandatory for a PI job. They give you awards and interviews.

During the tenure track, they often become your ticket to a permanent position. Many young PIs are fighting to get their papers published in Nature/Science/Cell. It’s like getting a micro-Nobel prize. Many feel relaxed only when they publish in Nature (their tenure is finally safe!).

But:

Because such papers require a lot of time (often years), you live in constant uncertainty.

You HOPE you will get it. You spend evenings at work, you look for stronger results, and you’re battling through a battalion of failed experiments.

Then you submit it…

Then:

Stage 1. Editors reject 9/10 papers. Yours might be among them.

Stage 2. The paper goes to reviewers but they are brutal. For some reason (and you know why!) they just don’t want to see your paper in Nature. Many papers get rejected in the first round.

Stage 3. If reviewers can’t come up with reasons to kick you out immediately, they will request a lot of new experiments and changes to your work. Obviously, that will take months (if not years). Of course, some reviewers are great and genuinely help improve your work. But they are not as common as you might hope.

Stage 4. After addressing all problems and submitting it again, you will likely see some reviewers still resisting. They can simply reject your paper because they didn’t like how you addressed their requests. Or they will find new flaws and will get you to do another round of revision. (If you’re lucky, they will accept the paper.)

Stage 5. If reviewers are divided between “accept” and “reject”, the editors may send your paper to additional reviewers. That will start another cycle of hell with a likely negative outcome.

Stage 6. If you are rejected, congratulations - you’ve just wasted months on nothing. But because you need that paper, you resubmit it to another high-IF journal, and it all starts with Stage 1.

So, it’s like gambling.

You gamble your career on this publication.

During those 6–24 months of fighting with reviewers and editors, someone else may publish the same work. Then you’re screwed.

Or your paper is likely not accepted in any high-IF journal. After loosing a year or more on trying to push it through, you will have to publish it in a low-IF journal.

Is it a healthy game?

No. You get exhausted. Anxiety skyrockets.

But unfortunately that’s how academia works. I’ve been through this myself. Most of my colleagues have the same experience. We definitely despise it.

And the worst part of it?
We’ve started to see it as completely normal.

[NIH @NIH]

BREAKING NEWS❗

NIH establishes nation's first dedicated organoid development center to reduce reliance on animal modeling. https://t.co/8JP6jGUyzS

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Sign petition below to stop the Unlawful Relocation of Sterilized & Vaccinated Dogs from Delhi Civic Centre
https://t.co/HzietLxumj
#SaveDelhiNCRDogs

[IndianFirst @indianfirst8877]

Sc order .. Radd karo !
Municipalities ko .. punish karo !

International media pls cover hate against dog in India
@CNNnews18 @ThePrintIndia @nytimes @AJEnglish @euronews @BBC @business @SkyNews @FoxNews @MSNBC

#SaveDogs
#savestraydogsdelhi
#SaveDelhi
#savedelhincrdogs2025

[Kamna Pandey 🌱 @PandeyKamna]

@narendramodi @BJP4India

#nodogsnovote
#nodognovote
#SaveDelhiNCRDogs
#savedelhincrdogs2025
#savedelhidogs2025

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Supporting @NIH's decision to no longer fund animal-only research. Aligns with scientific evidence demonstrating limitations of animal models & the power of human-based #NAMs to drive impactful biomedical innovation. #ScienceForHumans
https://t.co/x1RgjW502a

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: The International Animal Coalition is calling on FIFA to demand Morocco stop killing dogs for the World Cup. Sign here: https://t.co/a6J22nZoUS

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

I am so proud of you. Congratulations!! 🎉

[Bharat Mishra, PhD @Bharat26oct]

Thrilled to announce, I'll be joining the University of Notre Dame as Assist. Professor of Practice in Bioinformatics in @NDBios from Jan 2025! Very Grateful to @SMukhtarlab @plant_planet_CU @UAB_BDS @lizworthey @AnuGoswami_PhD and others. Go Irish! ☘️ #Bioinfo #ND #NewChapter

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Excited moments for a mentor when students' hard work is appreciated. Proud of my mentee, Arlo, for winning the Innovator in Science Award 🏆.
His research on the selective pressure of metals in #AMR selection in bacteria was recognized. #Science #UABCORD #UABBiology

[Environmental Science & Technology Journals @EnvSciTech]

In this ACS ES&T Water study, a research team at @UQ_News shows the potency of microporous polyethylene tube (MPT) samplers as efficient tools for monitoring #PFAS in #WWTPs.

Read the full text here 👉 https://t.co/9gQdxXtSF8

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Our study @admiraladkins on scientific evidence of environmental injustice in the Superfund site at Birmingham was selected for #ASM #DiversityandInclusion collection. The site claimed long back by @EPA is yet to be included in the US national priority list.

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Accolades to Isabella Parkhurst: Received best student presentation award at 101st Annual Alabama Academy of Sciences @AlabamaScience. She discussed the study for her @HonorsUAB thesis on method development to track #AMR in the environment. Feel proud #mentor today. @UABBiology

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Find our recent preprint on insights into future changes in marine ecosystems due to human-induced CO2 emissions.

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Marine phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria rapidly adapt to future pCO2 conditions in experimental co-cultures https://t.co/E78aRtWt0o #bioRxiv

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Wastewater treatment plants, an “escape gate” for ESCAPE pathogens
https://t.co/d4vdCXRJ1r

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Demonstrating #PFAS transformation and evidence of synergy between molecular design and degradation technology toward sustainable management of fluorochemicals

[Jinyong Liu @jinyong_liu]

Check our paper in @NatureWaterJnl - particularly the oxidative pathways identified in the UV-sulfite system: https://t.co/5LthOEoZBe https://t.co/94k7vlRLqS Further work is definitely needed to explore more on the "advanced reduction process"😀

[Sarah Jeanne Adkins, DO, PhD @admiraladkins]

summarized our most recent paper with newspaper black out poetry

https://t.co/1C4TwCRihG

[Anil Kumar @AnilKumar_NII]

Plants have pain too. Be empathetic to nature.
https://t.co/xYDOBEVjpJ
https://t.co/l9oH51ViB2

[Anuradha Goswami @EnvRes_AMR]

Find our @admiraladkins, recently published article on the impact of heavy metals on soil bacterial community and #AMR prevalence at Superfund sites, Birmingham, AL USA @ASMicrobiology @PostdocVoice #pollution #EnvironmentalJustice https://t.co/xeXOkHjION

[ASLM @ASLM_News]

At the consultative #AMR meeting under the @FlemingFund Regional Grant, heads of African professional regulatory councils share opinions and guidance on how AMR Surveillance Expert qualification can be recognised as additional qualification.