Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬

First Gen Scientist, Scientist @ndtlindia Alumni of @univienna, @ugent, @uwaterloo, #DRDE, Army BRAT 🇮🇳tweets and views are my own. @drparticles.bsky.social

[Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬 @varoonsingh]

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[Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬 @varoonsingh]

🚨 Research Opportunity Alert 🚨

NDTL is recruiting 03 junior research fellows (JRFs).

💰 ₹37,000/month + HRA
📍 New Delhi
🧪 Chemistry | Biochemistry | Biotechnology | Pharmacology | Forensic Science | M.Pharm
✅ NET/GATE or equivalent national-level qualification

[Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬 @varoonsingh]

Work with advanced analytical technologies and contribute to cutting-edge anti-doping research.
#JRF #ResearchJobs #NET #GATE #ScienceJobs

[Saurabh Tripathi @Saurabh_Pinch]

Salary kitni hai???
इससे सटीक जवाब ना सुना होगा😂😆

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

India haven't lost a game batting first. New Zealand haven't lost a game chasing. It is already set up so well.

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

Pay:
• 30% Income Tax
• 18% GST on car insurance
• Around 60% tax on fuel
• Toll tax
• Road tax on your vehicle

After paying all this, you still wait for 1 hour on highway, for some corrupt politicians with thousands of criminal cases.

VIP culture is destroying India.

[Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬 @varoonsingh]

@kamleshksingh Competence is problem that many people aren’t getting selected despite having good publications and amazing research background.

If you want job in india you have to satisfy the ego of the committee taking your interview, they value incompetence, submissive nature.

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

To understand why we aren't aatmanirbhar in sci-tech even as China races with the American giants.

[Shubh @kadaipaneeeer]

In 2006, my brother was doing his PhD.
Topic: Bovine AIDS.
Institute: a university in Mathura.
Coursework: HSADL, Bhopal, India’s top animal disease lab.

Then bird flu happened.

Suddenly, HSADL became the lab.
And suddenly, my brother was told to drop 1.5 years of research and switch topics.

Not because science demanded it.
Because the system did.

The deal was simple:
Change your topic, or lose your stipend.

He called me and said,
“I love my research. I don’t want to work on what babus want.”

For once, I didn’t give gyaan.
I gave him an exit.

“Apply outside India. Let’s see if anyone values your work.”

He applied to 8 universities.
7 in Australia, 1 in Europe.

Within hours, 7 offers came back.
5 with full scholarships and stipends.

The 8th replied three days later.
The professor was at a conference.
That’s it. That was the delay.

Why?

Because his CV was ridiculously good:
•17 international publications
•1 book
•54 national publications
•103 reviews

He went to Europe.
Finished his PhD.
Got a Post-Doc in Texas.
Applied for a Green Card.
Got it in 2 months.
Citizenship the moment he was eligible.

Still, he wanted to come back.

Because India is home & hope dies slowly.

In 2011, he applied for a professor’s job at JNKVV, Jabalpur.
Salary: ₹40,000/month.

They asked for hard copies of all publications.

I still remember packing a full carton of his papers and couriering it.

Then, on July 8, we got a letter dated July 6.

Interview: July 10. In person.

Bring:

•NOC from his current university
•Character certificate
•Hard copies again

Because “what if interviewers want to see?”

I called them.

“How does someone fly from Europe in two days?”

Answer:

“Interviews are till 12th. He must come.”

That was the moment we stopped trying.

India wasn’t rejecting him.
India was humiliating him.

Later, when he sent his HSADL work to Elsevier, the journal did a routine verification.

HSADL replied saying:

•He left without due process
•His stipend wasn’t settled
•His address was false

We sent:

•No Dues Certificate
•Formal relieving letter
•Proof that the address was the same as his passport
•Proof that our parents still live there

Didn’t matter.
Publication rejected.

That’s the system.

We happily talk about reservations. But we quietly harass competence.

And before someone says, “Things have changed under Modi” no, they haven’t.

I tried in 2023.
Same hard copies.
Same physical interviews.

I now work as a visiting professor with an IIT. Online.

My reimbursement request has been pending since August 2023.

The professor in charge says,
“I get 100 mails a day. I don’t check all.”

Fair enough.

This country doesn’t lack talent. It lacks respect for it.

And the smartest people don’t leave India for money. They leave to save their dignity

[Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬 @varoonsingh]

Paid Internship: NDTL New Delhi invites applications for 6-month paid #Internships (Jan–Jun 2026)
🎓 PG Final Semester: https://t.co/UY2C1YYRpM
💰 ₹20,000/month
🔬 LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS, IRMS, HPLC
📅 Last Date: 07-01-2026
🖥 Apply: https://t.co/lQLQPI1gsT
#AntiDoping #WADA

[Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬 @varoonsingh]

This is not a complain but just an observation. We encourage people to walk, but the infrastructure is not supportive. The most neglected people in this country are those who walk on the roads rather than those who drive on the road. #MCD #SwachhBharat @PMOIndia

[LCGC International @LC_GC]

The “matrix effect” is one of the sticky details that can make the use of LC for quantitative purposes challenging, even though it is conceptually quite straightforward. Revisit this topic in an article Dwight Stoll wrote for our March issue: https://t.co/j3TBWwIlLs

[The PCC - Funding Anti-Doping Science @PCCantidoping]

Authors created & validated a high-throughput method to screen for 30 steroid esters & a confirmatory method for 26 targets using dried blood spots. This may be an efficient, sensitive & automated way to distinguish between endogenous & synthetic steroids.
https://t.co/A3FT9ZhkH7

[NFSU Goa Campus @NFSU_Goa]

NFSU Goa conducted a two-day online expert webinar on 11–12 December 2025, covering Anti-Dope Forensics, Drug Abuse in Sports, Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics, and Dope Testing in Humans. The Sessions were led by experts from the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), New Delhi — Mr. Awanish Upadhyay, Scientist ‘C’, and Dr. Varoon Singh, Scientist ‘B’. The event saw active participation from students and faculty across NFSU campuses, enhancing awareness of forensic applications in sports and anti-doping science.

[Varoon Singh 👨‍🔬 @varoonsingh]

NDTL Invites Applications from final-semester PG students for a 6-month training program in Dope testing.
🎓 Eligibility: https://t.co/vAfNUNfTUJ./M.Pharm
🗓 Apply by 20 Dec 2025
➡️ https://t.co/69ywoOP3ck
Seats: 10

#NDTL #ForensicScience #Biochemistry #DrugTesting #LCMS #GCMS

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Strongly condemn @Suhelseth for humiliating the British in the British Parliament !!!

Thin end of the wedge if darkies are allowed to talk down to the living embodiment of Britannic majesty!

[Chris Hsiung 熊 @hsiung_chris]

My lab is recruiting postdoc candidates interested in CRISPR synthetic biology and functional genomics approaches to study and engineer tissue injury responses! https://t.co/5ESgJ1FxFV

[Rohit Bhatia @BhatiaRohit10]

All goverment science award should carry cash + Grant compnent. The cash component should be very attractive say like 10 or 20 lakh and no string attached grant of 1 cr. No use of giving just certificate.....

[Sanjeev Varshney @skvdst]

Doctoral Fellowship from @ResearchUGent for candidates from Global South to pursue PhD
€2,550 pm for 24 months
additional travel budget €8,000
In sandwich structure at Ghent University and in candidate’s home country.
Details at https://t.co/8HTWMyUcX7
Apply by 17th Feb 2026

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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