Gautam Menon
@MenonBioPhysics
Prof. Physics & Biology | Biophysics, epidemiology, sci-comm, climate change, | Cats | Music | He/Him | Ashoka U | Lancet Comm| My views, not my employers,
Starting a thread with the music I like, an eclectic mix of Indian classical, world music, jazz + others. Later additions will come below [@PMenonIFPRI] Alison Brown Quartet's "Under the Five Wire" from Bluegrass Underground ... youtu.be/fUvLgx-3Rbc via @YouTube
Yes, it's very believable that the UN packed up truckloads of food and medicine only to let it sit there while people starve. We should instead take the word of a government where one minister just spoke openly about "wiping out" Gaza and said "we don't need to be concerned with…
The food, medicine and aid are IN Gaza. The @UN won’t distribute it. Hundreds of truckloads are sitting there. The trucks are loaded. Demand they deliver. Yesterday, Hamas again rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel accepted. Where’s your unequivocal condemnation?
When two Fields Medalists, Terence Tao & Hugo Copin, declare a book a “must-read,” it is undoubtedly a masterpiece. @davidbessis, a leading mathematician, invested two decades of his life to distill profound wisdom into this work, which I describe as a “scheme of mathematization”
On the practical reality of teaching mathematics- Math itself is simple but the mental action that allow us to make sense of it are subtle and counterintuitive. These actions are invisible. We can’t simply imitate what others do.
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It sounds inconceivable. But it’s the truth. Israel is taking deliberate, coordinated action to destroy the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Explicit statements by Israeli officials, combined with a consistent policy of destructive attacks…
From stealthy stalkers to elusive climbers — big and small cats share India’s wild spaces, each perfectly tuned to their habitat. This poster by Naitik Patel captures their diversity and the landscapes they call home. #WildCatsOfIndia @moefcc @wii_india @ntca_india @IBCA_official…
Absolutely fascinating paper! Some of the best examples of learning from evolution comes from non-human GWAS. A missense mutation (discovered previously via a GWAS) in FREP1 encoding a mosquito gut protein provides near complete resistance to malarial parasite infection. The…
Mangroves are natures own disaster manager. Just 13 seconds to understand how it protects us from Tsunami, Cyclones & storms. Today is #MangrovesDay.
This is a pretty comprehensive set of guidelines from SC to stop #studentsuicides I only hope education institutions implement this in the true spirit and not just so lip sympathy to these actions required by SC hindustantimes.com/india-news/sci…
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Prof Sulochana Gadgil, renowned for her pioneering work on the Indian monsoon. She also played a key role in setting up the Centre for Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences at IISc, and served as its Chair from 1989-1996. connect.iisc.ac.in/2019/10/a-life…
Sanjay Hegde is unfailingly polite.
Your desk your choice. In the common canteen, all food must be allowed and no insistence on only vegetarian on the table.
NEW ESSAY: "Dispatches from India" A year ago I was living in New Delhi, India 🇮🇳. I traveled across 10 states and 30 cities+villages writing for The Economist, including a cover story on the economy Since then I’ve been chewing on how to capture what I learned It still…
All those who speak Bengali are not Bangladeshi. You cannot detain all Bengali speakers on suspicion of being Bangladeshi. To detain someone on suspicion of being a foreigner, you need an order from a tribunal. You cannot just round up people like cattle, just because the home…
Which language does Bangladeshi speaks?
Cool idea!
A simple ingestible pill innovation for monitoring inflammation of the gut cell.com/device/fulltex…
Even the NYT .. !
Even @nytimes admits it: Gazans Are Dying of Starvation nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…
This is an extremely unfair and unprovoked insult on houseplants.
Some men have the life skills of a houseplant. Seriously what were their parents teaching them at home? Nothing.
Indo-French Postdoctoral Research Programme for Women in Science (PROWIS-I) by @IFCPAR Should be holding a PhD degree & have employment. Should not have availed any PDF in France in last 5 years Details at cefipra.org/Docs/PROWIS-I-… Apply by 23rd September 2025
A nice set of lectures from Sutirth.
youtube.com/playlist?list=… The first two weeks' videos are now out for my Evolutionary Biology course. Comments are welcome.
Important point
I think a lot of people know that meat eaters are subjected to violence in India but do not think through why this is the case even when meat eaters form a majority in most states and only a minority by a slim margin in the rest. +
The first Landau-Lifshitz I owned!
Yes, it happens to be the case that the classic 'The Classical Theory of Fields' by Landau and Lifshitz is publicly available on the Internet Archive, and if I were you, I'd go and check it out.
To put this in context, the terrible 1929 Hebron Massacre, one of the worst tragedies suffered by the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine, resulted in 69 innocent deaths. It has been the subject of many books and studies, and is still constantly referenced. Now around double…
The killing in Gaza continues Yesterday, July 21, the Israeli military killed 134 people, 85 of whom were waiting for humanitarian aid. ישראל ממשיכה את ההרג בעזה. אתמול, 21.7, הצבא הישראלי הרג 134 בני אדם - מתוכם 85 בעת שחיכו לסיוע הומניטרי