Mustafa Motiwalla

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@vidur_sa1 @pRATik12rc @MayuriRege @BioRad @patankar_lab @cbm2577 @ShilpySharma14 And then Indian academics (including me at one time) complain how our local companies are not good enough.

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@vidur_sa1 @pRATik12rc @MayuriRege @BioRad @patankar_lab @cbm2577 @ShilpySharma14 Buying products from a foreign brand, and then servicing them by some Indian Jugaad company, seems a good way to save some money in the short term… but in the long term you are subsidising the foreign company and blocking innovation by Indian companies

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@pRATik12rc @MayuriRege @BioRad @patankar_lab @cbm2577 @ShilpySharma14 How often does the gel cassette holder break??

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@MayuriRege @BioRad @patankar_lab @cbm2577 @ShilpySharma14 Yet most labs continue towing a line to these companies. As a researcher I have seen the blind faith academics have on these companies and have seen the poor service by these companies. Check the prices they offer in international markets and what they charge in India.

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@MayuriRege @ShilpySharma14 @BioRad @patankar_lab @cbm2577 We decided to make magnetic stirrers ourselves. If not successful commercially, at least we can provide to our lab and labs of our sister companies.

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@MayuriRege @ShilpySharma14 @BioRad @patankar_lab @cbm2577 Tried opening it. So what did we do. Did we write to Remi and ask them why it was not checked? NO. I don’t believe that would solve the problem as it was a policy decision that was dictating the course of replies from them.

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@Arch_eee Well, we do have one hobbit around to help us.

[Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek 🇱🇧 ☭ @RorschachProdu1]

Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.

Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

If you use our systems, this would never happen. Check out https://t.co/KAfoU4fwkD

[PipetteJockey @pipette_jockey]

Stay humble my friends, you're never too experienced to perform retrophoresis 😐

[aabha nagral @aabha_nagral]

This was our first paper implicating Giloy (Tinospora cordifolia) a commonly used Ayurvedic herb in India in causing autoimmune like liver injury. Giloy was widely consumed during Covid as immune booster https://t.co/ekoqOKN0ya

[Lakshmi Ranganathan @LakshmiRangana9]

Lane discipline in Western express highway #mumbaitraffic

[Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ @netshrink]

I am not as concerned about the lack of Indian scientists nominated for Nobel as I am of Indian scientists lack of interest in solving Indian problems
Manual scavenging for eg.
It's just ivory tower science if it fails to impact the lives of citizens at the bottom of the ladder

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@AbbakkaHypatia Use a steel soap

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@cynical_ujval Truly heartbreaking. I always think of the great times when I pass by Rang Bhavan.

[Mustafa Motiwalla @a_fat_sum]

@BDUTT @gauravsabnis Whataboutery everywhere.