TV Venkateswaran

Science communicator, science writer, research on history of science

[TV Venkateswaran @TVVen]

How past decade #genetics is reshaping our understanding @IiserMohali @IndiaBioscience @IndSciComm @SciComm_India @gsaipsn

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#TheEighthColumn | Over the past two decades, molecular biology has undergone a profound shift. Non-coding DNA is now recognised as a major regulator of gene expression, writes @TVVen

Read more: https://t.co/U0HxVZKUL8

#DarkGeome #Gene #DNA #Science #EclipsedHorizons

[Sudhakaran @SudhakaranPrab]

the central idea of my book, Eclipsed Horizons: the ~98% of our genome long dismissed as "junk" is not evolutionary debris but a dark genome — a reservoir of latent potential that may shape how we adapt, and how we might one day live beyond Earth.
@TVVen does a beautiful job of it in @TheFederal_News , framing the science through the Mahābhārata — a genuinely inventive way to make the ideas land for a wide readership. grateful for the care he's taken. first of two parts.
https://t.co/cEJAnnxFTG
#DarkGenome #EclipsedHorizons #Genomics #HumanGen

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#TheEighthColumn | Technical preparations, the rigorous process of human-rating systems, 'erratic fund flows' and 'inadequate recruitment of scientists and engineers' have each taken their toll as ISRO chairman V Narayanan announced a delay of Gaganyaan's first uncrewed mission, writes @TVVen.

Read more: https://t.co/zfXTQ2kkrA

#ISRO #Gaganyaan #SpaceMission

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#TheEighthColumn | Technical preparations, the rigorous process of human-rating systems, 'erratic fund flows' and 'inadequate recruitment of scientists and engineers' have each taken their toll as ISRO chairman V Narayanan announced a delay of Gaganyaan's first uncrewed mission, writes @TVVen.

#ISRO #Gaganyaan #SpaceMission
https://t.co/zfXTQ2kkrA

[TV Venkateswaran @TVVen]

The #Gaganyaan @isro is delayed once again. Human rating of space systems takes time. Crucial tests ongoing @IiserMohali @scicommsci @IndSciComm @SciComm_India @gsaipsn

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#TheEighthColumn | Technical preparations, the rigorous process of human-rating systems, 'erratic fund flows' and 'inadequate recruitment of scientists and engineers' have each taken their toll as ISRO chairman V Narayanan announced a delay of Gaganyaan's first uncrewed mission, writes @TVVen.

Read more: https://t.co/zfXTQ2kkrA

#ISRO #Gaganyaan #SpaceMission

[TV Venkateswaran @TVVen]

வீரியமான வலிமையான சூரிய சீற்றம் விரைவில் நிகழும் - விஞ்ஞானிகள் கணிப்பு.
https://t.co/vCgTcaaKET #solarflare @IiserMohali @scicommsci @IndSciComm @gsaipsn

[DPS @ IISER Mohali @DPS_IISERM]

Heartiest Congratulations to Prof. Sudeshna Sinha of @DPS_IISERM for getting the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award, 2026.

@IiserMohali @EduMinOfIndia

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

@TVVen details how the Vikram lander's little hop revealed a hidden secret in the top few centimetres of regolith — a fine powder which partly makes up the lunar soil.

Read the full article: https://t.co/kqxqt94e55

#LunarMission #Vikran #Chandrayaan3 #ISRO #Research #Science

[IISER Mohali @IiserMohali]

An article by our Visiting Faculty, Dr. T. V. Venkateswaran, in BBC Tamil examines how insights gained from a new Chandrayaan-3 experiment could support the development of future lunar settlements.

[TV Venkateswaran @TVVen]

நிலவில் தளம் அமைப்பதில் உள்ள சவாலுக்கு #chandrayaan @isro சந்திரயான்-3 கண்டுபிடிப்பு தரும் புதிய தீர்வு @IiserMohali @IndiaScienceTV @SciComm_India @scicommsci @gsaipsn
https://t.co/rfICkzKetJ

[Amitabh Joshi @joshiamitabhevo]

A basic course on evolutionary biology by one of India's best Evolutionary Biologists and a great teacher.

[TV Venkateswaran @TVVen]

How the Chandrayaan-3’s little ‘hop’ changed our insight into building lunar habitats #isro #Chandrayaan @IiserMohali @gsaipsn @SciComm_India @IndiaScienceTV

https://t.co/lno0r9AKPp

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

@TVVen breaks down how while strong El Niño episodes are associated with drought, crop stress, and disruptions in rainfall patterns worldwide - India's monsoon story is not written solely by the Pacific phenomenon.

Read the full article: https://t.co/1ggQTonOPJ

#ElNino #Weather #ClimateChange #Rainfall #Monsoon

[TV Venkateswaran @TVVen]

'Once in a blue moon'... but not in every cultural and calendrical tradition #blue #moon @gsaipsn
@IiserMohali @SciComm_India
https://t.co/Ylvhsud1IP

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#TheEighthColumn | Before assuming disaster, it helps to understand what exactly El Niño is, what it is not, and why India's fate does not depend on this Pacific event alone - writes @TVVen.

#ElNino #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster

https://t.co/QNbvVkgpb7

[TV Venkateswaran @TVVen]

Are we headed #elnino event what's the current status @gsaipsn @IiserMohali @SciComm_India @IndiaBioscience

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#TheEighthColumn | India watches the phenomenon closely as in many El Niño years, less moisture reaches the Indian subcontinent. However, India's monsoon story is not written solely by the Pacific phenomenon, writes @TVVen.

Read more: https://t.co/1ggQTonOPJ

#ElNino #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #India #Weather

[Raghunath Mashelkar @rameshmashelkar]

Breaking news!

Dr Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya has been elected as FRS, Fellow of Royal Society, one of the highest global hours that a scientist can receive.
@royalsociety

With her father Bharat Ratna Prof Swaminathan also being elected as FRS, this is the first daughter-father FRS duo from India.

Also she is the second Indian woman scientist being elected in 365 years history of Royal Society, the first being Prof Gagandeep Kang.

Very proud moment for Indian Science & indeed for us Indians.

Heartiest congratulations dear Soumya!

@PMOIndia @DrJitendraSingh @PrinSciAdvOff @CSIR_IND @ICMRDELHI @IndiaDST @DBTIndia @PuneIntCentre

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#Opinion | David Attenborough's 'A Life On Our Planet' moves and inspires, but its vague blame on 'humanity' shields the corporations and systems behind ecological collapse - writes @TVVen.

#DavidAttenborough #Environmentalism #ClimateChange

https://t.co/mTahKdpajI

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

#Opinion | Attenborough’s neo-Malthusian position is a well-worn path. It has plagued the environmental movement for decades. It shifts blame away from the powerful and onto ordinary people, especially poor women in the Global South, writes @TVVen.

Read more: https://t.co/9A1pcAiImT

#DavidAttenborough #GlobalSouth #ClimateChange #Environmentalism #Capitalism #Netflix

[The Federal @TheFederal_News]

At a conference in Ujjain earlier this month, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan asked why the centre of global timekeeping should not be shifted from Greenwich to Ujjain - in this second of a two-part series, @TVVen looks back at the evolution of the concept of 'standard time' in India and beyond: https://t.co/i5iPpVIX5d

#Time #Mahakal #MadrasTime #Science #GMT #Ujjain