Siddharth

PhD scholar in Immunology with @ugur_milas at @Kamu_lab @Wue_SI |@IISERPune BS-MS Graduate|

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

In this case - we learn that there is more heterogeneity in the neural progenitor population than we previously imagined. Wow. Big deal. Why did we ever have a notion that only one identical population would give rise to such a complex organ?

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

We always start with ridiculous assumptions about biological systems and when these assumptions are falsified, we don't look back and question why we had these assumptions in the frist place.

[Nathaniel David @NathanielEDavid]

Spoiler alert: you have two brains. The front of your brain and the back of your brain were never the same organ. They start as two different cells, in two different places, and they have been separate lineages for something like 550 million years.

https://t.co/IgkMlsJPGl

[Ranit Kedmi @KedmiRanit]

Mind blowing! - Functional chimeric mRNAs encode proteins in mammalian immunity | Nature https://t.co/aBtoTebRbh

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@docakx D) for those who did not have a deficiency and still believe it worked for them.

[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.”

[Kartikeya Bhatotia @bhatoti]

Indian theoretical physicist Deepak Dhar recently won the 2026 Dirac Medal. When asked about India’s science ecosystem…

[The New York Times @nytimes]

India’s education minister stepped down on Saturday, in a major victory for a student protest movement that has challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi. https://t.co/iM3ckRsvGo

[Upasana DasAdhikari @UpasanaDA]

Metabolism is emerging as the language cells use to make decisions.

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@3DiMMUNE Chronic infection responses are tightly regulated to be hypofunctional. It is indeed an evolutionary strategy to prevent severe immunopathology.

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@france2000Mars @BBCNews Shut up

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@A1an_M @BBCNews

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@Muffle71 @BBCNews

[Jonathan Kipnis 🟦 @jonykipnis]

Papers like this are why science remains endlessly exciting. This one made me feel the same wonder I felt at 15 when I first discovered science. || Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions | Science https://t.co/Rl3AlgF982

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@BlaBlu6969 @theliverdoc This is not semi incremental, pancreatic cancers have the reputation of being "undruggable". They are mostly immunologically cold so checkpoint inhibitor therapy doesn't work well on them either. With these constraints, comes a drug, that doubles the survival? it's groundbreaking

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Eosinophils drive intestinal remodelling and innate defence in reproduction

https://t.co/B3OHj3UR38

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was 25 when she figured out that the Universe is mostly made of hydrogen - a million times more abundant than anything else.

Henry Norris Russell (the top astronomer of the day) said it couldn't be right and asked her to add a disclaimer to her paper. Four years later he published the exact same result.

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@Dazzafrazz @martinmbauer ...then why is it that consciousness evolved at all?

[Siddharth @sid_ereal]

@Dazzafrazz @martinmbauer I don't think the purpose of this article by Dawkins was to claim that AI is conscious, but rather to emphasize how difficult it is to objectively quantify consciousness and non-consciousness. Evolutionary, he says, if a system can evolve this level of cognition-like workings....

[nature @Nature]

More than two-thirds of the public believe at least one false or unproven health claim — such as the idea that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism

https://t.co/JJkitEexQL

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years.

"Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."