Swastika Issar
@IssarSwastika
Evolutionary biologist | TIFR Postdoctoral Fellow @NCBS_Bangalore | PhD @CamZoology @stjohnscam #WOCinSTEM
Our paper on the #seasonal correlates of #behaviour, physiology and #lifehistory in wild populations of #buryingbeetles is out now in @Ecol_Evol! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…
It’s TIIIiiiiiIIImmEee 🎶 We are back for the 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨ Register to our free online course on Evolutionary Biology, focused on supporting the dreams of Global South students hoping to build their careers in the field, here: forms.gle/RW4onGhoZaw12J…
Pint of Science, the global science festival- hugely popular across Europe & beyond, has finally arrived in India! 🍻🧬 Catch NCBS researchers @IssarSwastika @jobinvarughese @nishantnaraya15 sharing their cool science stories at Bengaluru's favourite hangout spots! Know more👇
Pint of Science is just a week away! Bengaluru is getting ready to welcome guests to exciting soirées showcasing cutting-edge science 🧫🧬🔭 with the relaxed ambience of afterwork hangout spots ☕🍵🍹🍺 Check out the mind blowing themes 🤯 that are guaranteed to fascinate you🎉
Death is a ubiquitous driver of global ecosystems and supports a captivating diversity of living organisms. Looking forward to talking about how death begets life @pintofscienceIN next week! 🪲🍸 #scienceisforeveryone #Pint25 pintofscience.in/event-details/…
Pint of Science is just a week away! Bengaluru is getting ready to welcome guests to exciting soirées showcasing cutting-edge science 🧫🧬🔭 with the relaxed ambience of afterwork hangout spots ☕🍵🍹🍺 Check out the mind blowing themes 🤯 that are guaranteed to fascinate you🎉
📢We are excited to launch the Indica School of Field Ecology and Conservation, generously supported by a grant from the Murty Trust! It aims to provide immersive, field-based training for PhD students, early-career researchers, conservation practitioners, & forest managers.🧵👇
Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that Lisa DeBruine and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/introd…
Finding out whether gravity – and therefore space-time itself – is quantum in nature has long been thought impossible. But innovative new ideas might be about to help answer this crucial question newscientist.com/article/mg2663…
New #SORTEEjournalclub post alert! Tara A. Pelletier & Camilo Andrés Calderón Acevedo discuss the opportunities & challenges associated with using open-sourced genetic data for large-scale biogeography research. sortee.org/blog/2025/03/1…
If you're still looking for inspiration on how to dye your #Easter Eggs, I would love to draw your attention to our updated chart of #dinosaur egg colors! 🦕🦖🐣🥚🟠🔵
Looking for grants to fund your next exciting ecological project? Take a look at our BES grants! We’re here to support young researchers with innovative ideas and projects that might not receive funding elsewhere. If you have an ecological research project, we’ve got the…
Ane Liv Berthelsen & @rebeccas_chen emphasise the pre-publication error correction potential of open data in our latest #SORTEEjournal club post: 🔗 sortee.org/blog/2025/01/2…
Axolotls rack up tens of millions of views on YouTube and TikTok and star in video games. How did the gelatinous species of salamander rise from Mexico’s canals to become a worldwide celebrity? econ.st/3DnEaTn
Online now: Keystone niche individuals: some are more unequal than others dlvr.it/TGXXVG
In our latest #SORTEEjournalclub blog post, authors @Direnzolab, Ephraim M. Hanks and @aveamphibious present a step-by-step guide to understanding complex models using data simulations, including how to use simulations effectively. 🔗 sortee.org/blog/2024/11/2…
The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster— For almost all of human history, food was scarce for nearly everyone. The reason for this perpetual scarcity was that whenever food production increased, it did not lead to…
In their 2022 @EcographyJourna paper, Palacio et al. suggest an 8-step protocol to make trait-based ecology more standardized and reproducible. Learn more about this roadmap in our latest blog post by authors @stefanomammola1 & @facupalacio12 🔗sortee.org/blog/2024/11/0…
Latest work from our group @Esoftbio @NCBS_Bangalore, led by Sree @padmanabh97, is out today in @NatureComms! In colab with @DeepaAgashe @c_kurzthaler we report that the physical confinement acts as a selective pressure on bacterial growth in 3D! [1/16] tinyurl.com/mvbdm3ue