Katha Sanyal

🔬Doctoral candidate @ Leibniz HKI | Learning, unlearning & evolving 🧠 ↔️🦠| Sharing my science, my chaos & everything in between 🐦

[Katha Sanyal @aamaarkatha]

Hello X 👋 It's been a while. I am settling in my new role as a Doctoral Researcher @LeibnizHKI 🇩🇪 | TIM.

I am switching to Bluesky for all Academic posts but ofcourse X will be there to reach out to my community ❤️

Here's a couple of links you wanna look at:

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Heard from some, "Impregnate the shoes" and genuinely had to pause for a full system reboot 😭 Living abroad is basically a series of moments where language confuses you in the most unexpected ways.

Impregnating Shoes 👟 https://t.co/kxZhseWyw5

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I thought a bus was just a bus… until I experienced one in Germany.

This piece isn’t about buses. It’s about what a system says about the people it serves.

Read here 🚌
https://t.co/bTwKORebqH

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🖼 👉 ChatGPT

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April in Germany humbled my wardrobe… and my expectations.

Wrote about the chaos, the layers, and the lessons April taught me.
🌞 ❄️ 🌧 🌂

Read the full blog ↓ https://t.co/iHbLkQ2J0x

[藤井亮輔 🦒 Ryosuke Fujii (Ryo) @Ryo_epidemiol]

Nature Human Behaviour から "How to design effective scientific figures" というコメンタリーが出ました🎉参考になれば幸いです！！

https://t.co/vT9EmcjOj7

@NatureHumBehav

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Attended Microverse Early Career Scientist Award !

Congratulations to @heinze_beatrix and @hari_rs_ for receiving this year's award ! Both are doing outstanding work to connect the microbes in this universe 🦠🌌

Bluesky post from today 👉https://t.co/hHGQJZOKNH

[Katha Sanyal @aamaarkatha]

Hello X 👋 It's been a while. I am settling in my new role as a Doctoral Researcher @LeibnizHKI 🇩🇪 | TIM.

I am switching to Bluesky for all Academic posts but ofcourse X will be there to reach out to my community ❤️

Here's a couple of links you wanna look at:

[Katha Sanyal @aamaarkatha]

Bluesky profile: https://t.co/s8tU64u8kq

Intro: https://t.co/R5fNDkZnug

Dirk Haller's colloquium: https://t.co/VfkA0pBGem

See you on Bluesky 🦋

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and far more dangerous 💣Beneath the violence, it questions identity, masculinity, and the lie of consumerism 🧠And that twist? 🎭 It changes everything.

Dark. Sharp. Unforgettable.

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Is it just me or are short films some of the best creations to exist? Their ability to deliver powerful messages in under 20 minutes is unmatched. I’m starting this thread to recommend short films that left a lasting impact on me. 🎬✨

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4️⃣Fight Club
It starts with insomnia😵‍💫a man trapped in a life that looks perfect but feels empty. Corporate routine, IKEA dreams, silent frustration🛋️Then enters Tyler Durden 🔥chaos, confidence, freedom.
A few punches in a parking lot 👊 turn into something far bigger…

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@ShivNadarUniv @Ishwariya13 ... headless worms- revealing sophisticated light processing and hierarchy in sensory control.
From NCERT biology basics to cutting-edge experiments, seeing how these worms sense and react to light, even without eyes is truly captivating! #CMMDR2026

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GOOD MORNING X !
Time for me to bring back my live tweets and this time it's from CMMDR'26 @ShivNadarUniv
After a quick registration and heartfelt breakfast we are all set for Day 1 ! 12 of us from @Ishwariya13's lab are presenting everyday. See you !

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@ShivNadarUniv @Ishwariya13 Akash Gulyani on fascinating light-sensing behavior in planaria 🪱✨
His group has shown planarians use two distinct light-sensing networks: a classical ocular system and a body-wide extraocular photosensory array that can drive coordinated movement even in....

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@ShivNadarUniv @Ishwariya13 🫀🧬 Daniel A. Gorelick's humor all throughout kept us hooked from the opening slide, seamlessly guiding us through the discovery of a non-genomic T–GPRC6A–PAK1 axis in heart development. Interestingly, testosterone does not impact initial heart patterning, but likely affects ...

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...while local injuries regenerate independently—highlighting injury-scale–dependent regeneration mechanisms.

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Aaron Johnson at #CMMDR2026 presented elegant work on systemic coordination of muscle regeneration in zebrafish 🐟🧬
Large- vs small-scale muscle injuries trigger distinct regenerative programs. Large injuries induce epidermal Hb-EGF, essential for systemic repair...