The latest work by @akashyadav_phy , @darth_kaneki et al titled "Heterogeneous nucleation in a multiplex adaptive network" has been published in @PhysRevE .
Read it here : https://t.co/7GxyrZyaiH
This video is from a march organised by our students within the IISER Pune campus in support of the LGBTQ community. Please note that there were no religious or anti-national slogans at the march. The term azadi was used in the context of freedom from prejudice against the LGBTQ community. This is an annual peaceful event by our student community to create awareness and promote inclusivity.
Growing obsession with citations among PhD students, and worrying about who else is churning out a higher number of papers is an undesirable trend. What students should worry about, mostly, is the quality of scientific advance they are producing and whether they are deriving pleasure out of their research. Everything else is noise.
The impact of a new work on a field is often not immediately obvious. Publishing with small teams, just students + supervisors does not usually attract a lot of citations very quickly. Working in a field which has a small community implies commensurately fewer citations. Working from a developing nation and not being able to travel often to reach out to the global community reduces visibility and citations. Not being able to publish open access reduces citations. In other words, you could have written a wonderful paper - providing fundamental new insights - but still have received fewer citations because any or all of the above factors were in play.
For students, stop worrying about the noise, invest in and enjoy the science.
For faculty sitting in hiring, promotion and recognition committees (that is us!)l), read into the work and try to judge quality, rather than focussing on metrics alone. We should be able to discriminate between excellence and sub-par by reading and understanding the manuscripts of those we are judging; we should also be cognizant of the boundary conditions in which those contributions have come.
Perhaps our inability to do so, and our blind reliance on metrics alone, has in turn created this environment where many #PhD students are more worried about numbers rather than the quality and content of their scientific output and the happiness of discovering new knowledge.
A Palette of Love and Rain II
written by: Qazi
@darth_kaneki
"It's over, I can't do it anymore," he said,
the words came crashing over my head.
there was a storm https://t.co/KKRK1HEnQF
This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology.
The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong.
The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies.
Let me explain:
In today's lecture in my nonlinear dynamics and chaos course, I tried to give intuition for where chaos comes from. It's caused by repeated stretching and folding of phase space.
i want to write movies i want to take pictures i want to write articles i want to make music i want to write plays i want to compose scores i want to make art