Publishing tips: How not to fall for a predatory journal
In this new blog series called ‘Publishing tips’, we bring expert advice to help researchers navigate the academic landscape better. Read more
Speak up if you experience intolerance, racism in your lab
Last month, anti-Asian graffiti was painted in residences on the campus of my PhD alma mater, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, and Asian students’ work was vandalized with racist slogans. That same week brought allegations that a leading astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, had used racist language towards trainees, among other bullying. (The astrophysicist has defended her behaviour, and says her comments were distorted and taken out of context; see news story and her explanation to Nature.) … Read more
Raising a voice against anti-science
Which of these sounds the most preposterous? (The last one questioning Darwin’s theory, by the way, was delivered yesterday by a minister in India’s Union cabinet.) … Read more
How haldi and litchi cooked up a storm
[Reproduced with permission from Hindu Business Line, column ‘Science and Sensibility’. Published: 1 March 2017] … Read more
India deadliest country for environment journalists: RSF
Doesn’t look like great times to be an environment journalist in India. Read more
Patent fiasco
This week seems to be the ‘patent fiasco’ week for India. Read more
Race defense
University of Connecticut Health Center researcher Dipak Das found guilty of fabrication and falsification of data has raised the ‘Indian therefore harassed’ card heard so many times in the past in western scientific circles. Read more