Sharat SA

professional houseplant // materials researcher
MS @iisermohali, PhD @UTAustin
bsky (notsosharat)

[Sharat SA @sharatscrolling]

folks you can follow me on bsky at https://t.co/ntlWS4momr

[Sharat SA @sharatscrolling]

gentle reminder to all my twitter mutuals, #blueskysocial is now open for public!

[Ulugbek S. Kamilov @prof_kamilov]

A PhD teaches you independent thinking, mostly because your supervisor has stopped replying.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Hang it in the Louvre!

[N. Ram @nramind]

In this insightful article published in The Hindu (August 20, 2026), Vasudevan Mukunth puts his finger on the “leadership problem” affecting various Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERS). The author warns that given the cumulative effects of flagging leadership, of the institutions “becoming less autonomous and less collegial,” we should brace for “more warning signs, including concentration of authority and an increasingly risk-averse institutional culture” — none of them “conducive to good science or a good education.”

[Amitabh Joshi @joshiamitabhevo]

@ProfAnilKumarT1 One Science paper says nothing - good or bad - about an institute or a perceived leadership problem. This is a classic case of 'argument by one dramatic irrelevant example', unfortunately not uncommon in India.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

We’re a fairly interdisciplinary lab. In our meetings, every1 must ask at least 1 question. Interestingly, the toughest Qs often come from those newest to the field.

I realized, longer we work in an area, the more we mistake familiarity with jargons for knowledge.

[Ulugbek S. Kamilov @prof_kamilov]

I knew my friendship with another researcher was serious when we started sharing Overleaf links.

[Donald Mitchell @DonaldPMitchell]

IBM transistor. Conductors 15 atoms thick.

[DSTIndia @IndiaDST]

INSPIRE- SHE scheme is not scrapped. It is being redesigned currently. Hence, there has been a delay in announcing the call.

@DrJitendraSingh @PrinSciAdvGoI @waghmare16 @DBTIndia @CSIR_IND @moesgoi

[Sharat SA @sharatscrolling]

just found out my grandfather got married at 32 aint no one bothering me about settling down anymore

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Don't do it man.
Its not worth it 🙈!

[Ulugbek S. Kamilov @prof_kamilov]

A PhD is when your supervisor gradually becomes convinced that you know what you’re doing, and you gradually become convinced that neither of you does.

[Gatikrushna Mishra @Gatikrushna03]

Concerning🧵 #DST #InspireSHE #IISER

After stopping KVPY, @IndiaDST has silently discontinued INSPIRE-SHE scholarship for BS and MS students. This is a nightmare for fundamental science in India. Students were uncertain about this until a certain student from IISc filed RTI. 1/n

[rly cool girl @hikingshawty]

if God wanted us to drive he would have given us wheels

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Mark Twain would be so amused that today we use the term Gilded Age as just a neutral descriptor for that era. Twain used it as a critique or even insult. That this isn't the golden age but rather the gilded age with just a veneer of gold.

[Muhammad Sajeer P, PhD @Sajeerp_]

Astonishing view of @iiscbangalore campus on the right, and rest of Bangalore on the left.

The contrast in greenary is huge!.

Those red dots on rights are the Gulmohar plants on campus ❤️

[anna @folkloretears]

eu ainda não esqueci o que essa nariguda fez com a zendaya

[Vikash Mittal, PhD @quantumsapien]

One in every 3 faculty posts vacant in top technical institutes https://t.co/w9wSt5lSu2

I have a hard time understanding these statistics. On one hand, I know so many people who have been looking for a faculty position for a year, and on the other hand, this.

[How I Write Clips @PerellClips]

Academics write for each other, not for people.

Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."

"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?

It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Can’t believe I coded by hand for 15 years.

15 years of memorizing syntax, Vim, Stack Overflow, broken builds, cursed dependencies, merge conflicts, and “one last bug before sleep.”

All of that just to end up typing “fix this” into a chat box and watching an agent do crimes.