Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா.

Bibliophile | Biologist | Trying to find sense, aided by music and coffee. Book/band suggestions will be deeply appreciated. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

Submissions open till June 2026
Special Issue on “ecological and evolutionary thinking in cancer”
Very happy to be working with Jason Somarelli @DukeU and Norman Johnson @UMassAmherst to bring this out.

https://t.co/9GGzBRQKUF
#evomed #ecoevo #cancer

RT and submit! 🤓
@ISEMPH

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

When you have batted 50 overs to save a test match, you are perfectly entitled to seek a cherished landmark. And it is good to see that everyone is in the batters' camp on this one. I have no issue with Stokes wanting to go off but I hope young Harry Brook, when he has a quiet moment to himself, will be a bit disappointed with what he did.

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

Congratulations to all the authors!
Such an exhaustive set of experiments and stats. 🙏🏾🔥

[Sudipta Tung @sudiptatung]

1/ Glad to share this work, recently published in @JEvBio! Big congratulations to Chandrakanth (@DrosAlien) on his first first-author paper!
https://t.co/Yd9OEnVtOq

[Sutirth Dey @SutirthDey]

Announcing the 9th Edition of the online "Biostatistics: A User's Perspective" course. This will be an intuitive understanding of the useful bits, without getting bogged down by the gory maths.
https://t.co/Mk8vXVcVQN
Please consider spreading the word. Thanks!

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

I feel very seen by this. 🥲

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Sometimes I believe that all aspects of our Govt have taken a vow to make our lives as difficult as possible, even when they don't have to, so that we remain dependent on them & have no expectations

This allows them to earn our gratefulness when they do their barest minimum.

[Shraddha Karve @ShraddhaKB]

Highly recommended!

[Sutirth Dey @SutirthDey]

I am offering a 3-credit, 30-hour course on introductory evolutionary biology on the NPTEL platform. NPTEL courses are free for anyone, anywhere in the world, but require registrations, which is open as of now.

https://t.co/lDL70KzR43

Kindly spread the word.

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

@AdhesionLab @COoLLabSR @odorobjects Can’t believe I’m not in Pune for this! 🥲

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

“Authorship allows claim to the benefits of citation and it is through citation, not scholarship, that the standing of authorsis enhanced. Scholarship is irrelevant to ranking.” https://t.co/9XvCuic0rX

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

@AdhesionLab @IISERPune This is so beautiful, Nag! What a fantastic idea. ❤️

[Mohit Kumar Jolly @mkjolly15]

Applications open for 6-week undergraduate summer training program 2025 at Param Hansa Center for Computational Oncology, @iiscbangalore.

Deadline: Jan 31, 2025.
https://t.co/gDuV35EyhJ

@biopatrika @IndiaBioscience @DynamicsLiving @SMBMathOnco @BE_IISc @cphms_aic @rakeshthejoy

[orinam.net 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @chennaipride]

"It's not just that you have to risk getting your heart broken, in order to live a full, rich life. It's really that you will get it broken by having a rich, full life.: Jim Parsons reflects in https://t.co/WxJhfhKspu [from 2022, must-watch]

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

India according to Indians

[Shraddha Karve @ShraddhaKB]

Open position for a research assistant. AMR & experimental evolution. Looking for someone with a strong interest in microbial & molecular evolution. Knowledge of handling microbes will be a plus! Please RT
@SutirthDey @sudiptatung @DeepaAgashe @joshiamitabhevo @yashraj_chavhan

[Mohit Kumar Jolly @mkjolly15]

Glad to share work led by @TheAviatorFrame @BE_IISc on the emergent dynamics of 4-node mutual inhibition network, with implications in decoding Th1/Th2/Th17/T-reg cell differentiation.
https://t.co/IhF3TXayNi

@Nature_NPJ @SMBdevBio @IndiaBioscience @DevBioClub @Systems_Immunol

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

Great going, @AkshayMalwade!
Onward and forward. 🌸

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Experimental evolution of Drosophila without its microbiome https://t.co/Wf1LKcvMZz #biorxiv_evobio

[Shaan @Falana_dikana]

The value of ART.

"Your silence is their tranquility". Mic drop.

[Vinay Kumar @bahudari]

A much needed explainer of life without Aadhar featuring @jackerhack helped my mom understand why I'm Adhaarless.

This is the kind of stuff that makes it worth buying a newspaper @DeccanHerald Pls maintain these high standards instead of succumbing to political advertorials.

[Vibishan B | விபீஷண் பா. @requiemonloop]

@AkshayMalwade @unmixablemix
Well well. That figures. 💁🏾‍♂️🥸

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.

A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.

The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.

Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.

A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.

You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!

These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.

If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.