K. VijayRaghavan
@kvijayraghavan
Developmental Biologist. Tweeting here in my personal capacity.
Meet Prof. Michael Desai from Harvard University - a scientist studying how evolution leaves its fingerprints on DNA. He’s coming to Bengaluru to talk about genomes, natural selection, and the future of synthetic biology. 27 July | 4 pm | @JNPlanetarium bit.ly/KwK_Jul2025
Another sixer from @Eric_Betzig and collaborators. A summary of MOSAIC (Multimodal Optical Scope with Adaptive Imaging Correction) is provided below, highlighting how adaptive optics and light-sheet laser scanning microscopy have been taken to a new level. Read also Betzig's…
1/ Better late than never, here’s a long thread of threads summarizing our MOSAIC preprint. If you’re curious about the process by which a new microscope is conceived and brought into the world, this is the thread for you. If you’ve come for eye candy, there’s plenty of that too…
Thank you to the Maxwell-Hanrahan Foundation for this Award, and to the anonymous person who nominated me and dropped this award, unexpected, in my lap. Only five of these awards are made each year from among nominations from around the globe.
(2/2) ...entering energy-conserving states such as torpor and hibernation. This prestigious award includes $100,000 in funding support for Anusha’s ongoing and future research. Many congratulations to her on this recognition. @nushiamme
56 years ago this day... July 20, 1969 - 'Men Walk On Moon' NYT (from July 21, 1969) - entire front page devoted to the moon landing coverage - see below. #Apollo11
Congratulations to Dr. Anjana for this nice article on early onset type 2 diabetes in "The Lancet". To read the article online, click here: thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Three of the greatest, yet the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The power of collaboration is highly nonlinear, but only if the collaborators are chosen wisely for what each uniquely brings to the collective effort, and only if they pursue the same goal of absolute…
1968 Summertime by Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Armstrong. Summertime is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin. #EllaFitzgerald…
I am happy to see that #NIRF is introducing negative marking in this year’s institutional rankings for retracted or unethical research practices. This is an important step towards improving research integrity in our academic ecosystem. I have written about the need for this in…
Making Quantum Connections at @ictstifr and Burma Burma with Ashoke Sen, Sumathi Rao, Deepak Dhar, Spenta Wadia, Rajesh Gopakumar, @kvijayraghavan, Gautam Mandal, Subhro Bhattacharjee, Abhishek Dhar, Sthitadhi Roy, and many other colleagues and students!
This was a popular level talk with three parts: History of black holes Penrose diagrams Black hole information loss paradox
youtu.be/i4qO3dchBQE?si…