Aritra Chakraborty

Ph.D. '23-'28 @AshokaUniv | JRS 20'-23' @TIFRScience

[BEE_Ashoka @BEE_Ashoka]

What an incredible Day 1 at #BEE_2025! 🌿
From how animals weigh their choices and plant adaptations to termite farming and the surprising social lives of Jungle Babblers (who do not babble!) — we learnt so much today!
Thanks to our amazing speakers for their insightful talks!✨

[BEE_Ashoka @BEE_Ashoka]

We’re thrilled to announce the Behavior, Ecology and Evolution (BEE) Symposium at Ashoka University, happening on 26–27 April 2025!

Join us for engaging talks and discussions on ecology, evolution, and animal behavior.

#StayTuned for the schedule and exciting updates!
#BEE_2025

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

Anonymous Question

"My relationship with my supervisor is extremely difficult. She treats me differently from others & makes it obvious that she's disappointed in me. She complains about me to my colleagues and I've lost love for my research and I’m constantly anxious. Advice?"

[Cathy Marks Krpan @CathyMarksKrpan]

Just because a student does not raise their hand, does not mean that they are not thinking deeply about the content. We need to broaden what we mean by engagement in our classrooms/schools. This will invite/value more students in the learning process.

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

Interesting opportunity alert!🚨

[Debasis Das Lab @DDlab_tifr]

We are hiring postdoctoral fellows at @DDlab_tifr at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, @TIFRScience to work on an exciting project! For more details, check the poster below 👇🏼
Please RT.
#AcademicTwitter #postdocs #neuroscience

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

@NahamSec @PentesterLab 🅿️

[Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc @JasonKPargin]

Hey, kids, here's the secret of the adult world:

Most of us don't actually know why we're doing what we're doing day to day. We fell into careers by accident/circumstance, we adopted the beliefs of the peer group we stumbled into. We're mostly just kind of going with the flow.

[P Surat @PSurat22]

So 2021 papers are not accessible via Scihub in India. Can't go back to the phase where we had to beg from friends in ivy league places. For writing research paper, especially reviews, one goes through hundreds of papers. Blocking access to #openscience is blocking science itself

[Mi-ToC @MiToC6]

P. falciparum and Epstein Barr virus, two notorious thugs, try to infiltrate the blood-brain barrier. To know what happens next, tune in to this week’s journal club at Mi-ToC.📢

Register at: https://t.co/OA78X09ELP
Article link: https://t.co/dUUF9UQ5fr

[Bhavya Rajasree Bhaskar @Bhav_ya81]

Our first paper is out! 🤩
α-synuclein plays a central
role in Parkinson's disease. We show that monomeric α-synuclein directly regulates individual exocytotic release events by modulating fusion pore dynamics.
@TIFRScience @PNASNews
https://t.co/x2OWlaT5Kx

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

@chandrikadeb7 @Pepper_Content Wow! Congratulations!👏🏼

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

@DivineOps Nope. Only the famous ones.

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

@highdeepak A short attention span does not always correlate to a lack of dedication.

[glycopreprint @glycopreprint]

Cooperative multivalent receptor binding promotes exposure of the SARS-CoV-2 fusion machinery core https://t.co/vRdgcZeAgA #glycotime

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

@ehadzah_ @DThompsonDev Oh cool! I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

@highdeepak That was still an insult to dogecoin!😂

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

News & Views: Molecular crosslinks known as disulfides stabilize the 3D structures of many proteins, and sometimes regulate protein function. A Nature paper reports that another type of regulatory protein crosslink has been discovered. https://t.co/p3DRMal75f

[Aritra Chakraborty @confu_sius]

@highdeepak Yep. Waiting eagerly for it.