Shipra Sinha

Assistant Professor | Law | Ph.D. scholar at NLU, Jodhpur | Research areas: Constitutional Law, International Environmental Law, Private International Law |

[Shipra Sinha @shipra0611]

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[Suprvirat @MostlyKohli]

IIT Bombay Director resigned but this convo will shook the education system 🚨

Girl student - Sir, you don't even know how much pressure is on a student

Shireesh Kedare - Okay, should we make cheating legal for you guys? So that you don't take pressure? We are asked to design papers for students who have the brains to study. For students who came into IIT through 80 percentile. Just because some of you students came through 30 percentile, we can't make the paper that much easy for other students.

Girl student - You are still being shameless sir. This was all your fault

Shireesh Kedare - I am resigning because there was some of my fault. But each one of you children who has ever done cheating should leave this IIT now. I will also ask the watchman to resign just because he couldn't check someone's pant for a mobile phone. All the parents around the world should also resign from their parental duties if they can't raise a studious child. That student feared them, not us. Your parents should be ashamed to send you to IITs when you are not even capable of passing a single exam of IIT.

Sir literally cooked this girl student. He resigned but he made sure to show the world how bad this education system is. Respect +++

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Details here in this report :

'Creamy Layer' Must Be Excluded From Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes For Reservations : Supreme Court

https://t.co/x7pcsfMv0R

[Shipra Sinha @shipra0611]

@berry_pranay Thank you ☺️

[Shipra Sinha @shipra0611]

What a week! Presented my paper “Zero Waste Horizons: Navigating the role of Indian Municipalities in Sustainable Urban Transformationin light of Mission LiFE” at 21st IUCN AEL Colloquium at GNLU!
#iucn #environmentallaw

[Shipra Sinha @shipra0611]

Beginning with the 21st IUCN AEL Colloquium at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
It is always a pleasure to be part of something amazing like it.
@IUCN @gnluofficial

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@ThePhDPlace International Environmental Law

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@HassanCSCR @CSCR_pk Okay! Thank you for the information. We can continue with the same via email. Please send a message to me and I will send you my email.

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@lawvironment Yes sure 👍🏽

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

The Supreme Court on Friday (September 1) pronounced a judgment recognizing the rights of children born out of invalid marriages in their parents share in Hindu joint family property.

Read more: https://t.co/gAszgyN9k7
#SupremeCourt

[Shipra Sinha @shipra0611]

While people don’t realise the significance of positive discrimination, here’s an attempt by the Delhi High Court to explain it.

#delhihighcourt #genderpositivelaws

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

"Gender-specific laws not meant to be "anti-opposite gender" but rather serve the purpose of addressing unique issues faced by a particular gender"
#delhihighcourt

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The students won't cheat in exams if they value their learning more than we value their grades. 🧠

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985.

[CILDialogues @CilDialogues]

Three climate-related advisory opinions have been sought at international and regional courts. The strong climate movement, backed and fought for by youth and civil society, and shaped by law-making efforts, provides hope https://t.co/jzTtgTGKH4 #AOLETSGO #ICJAO4CLIMATE

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

There's no shame in not knowing things! It's Okay to say "I don't know"

The only shame is to pretend that we know everything.

[Shipra Sinha @shipra0611]

Writing a paper is academia today is extensively exhausting not because of our willpower but because of external pressure from institutions.
Creativity is not born in captivity, it needs freedom. Freedom to think and innovate!

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Not able to produce “favorable results” in the lab? You are a “loser”.

Stay in the shadows of those who can bring cool data to the Big Prof.

Sounds familiar? It's not only about this case at Stanford.

It's about academic culture in general:

- Keep pushing for metrics. Quantity over quality. Look for flashy conclusions.

- Skyrocket your profile. Build your research enterprise. Outcompete everyone in your field.

Isn’t it how academia works today? 🤨

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Albert Einstein remarked: “An academic career, in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts, creates a danger of intellectual superficiality”. 

Peter Higgs said he could NOT replicate his discovery in today’s academic climate: “Not enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964”.

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Wonder about the results of this “culture”?

1. Thousands of FAKE research articles are published. 30% of all scientific articles may be fake products of paper mills. There is even a special lengthy page on Wiki called “Replication crisis”.

2. Life-draining tenure requirements that fuel the rat race. Why? To ensure the university ranking and recognition is going up.

3. Most PhDs don’t see themselves in science anymore. In many places, you are not required to be creative and knowledgable. Instead, you should demonstrate you can win a race.

Everyone knows it but few things change.

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I am happy that Stanford showed courage and carried out investigation. It is an excellent example of HOW to react to manipulated papers and unhealthy lab dynamic.

It's just another reminder that:

We should STOP focusing on taking “professional selfies”.

We should STOP trading our passion for glory.

Focus on science instead

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

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[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Observing that women cannot be forced to choose between their right to education and right to exercise reproductive autonomy, the Delhi High Court has granted relief to a female candidate seeking relaxation of her attendance for completing Master of Education (MEd) course after having been denied maternity leave.
Read more: https://t.co/eymtzEovAR
#DelhiHighCourt #MaternalLeave

[Shipra Sinha @shipra0611]

We debate on bringing UCC to a country so diverse yet we forget that entire domain of torts is still relying on the common English legal principles. Isn’t it the right time yet for codification? Does this mean we are still a British colony or just lazy?!
#Tort

[Mint @livemint]

#Opinion | "Punitive damages, fundamental to legal structures across many developed and developing nations alike, serve as a formidable deterrent against wrongdoings," @bibekdebroy, @adityasinha004 & Bikashita Choudhury write.

https://t.co/pMXQ2mXiMR