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Over at FiftyTwo , Chinmay Tumbe has a fantastic article titled Kamla , revisiting the history of IIM-Ahmedabad and correcting it to reflect...

Meredith Wadman in Science [following up on her explosive report from six weeks ago]: 11 June 2018: Leading Salk scientist resigns [his p...

From this explosive, deeply reported story in Science [which should be applauded, I think, for not paywalling the story]: In reports stre...

These days, Current Science features only guest editorials by invited contributors, and it's great to see my IISc colleagues being feat...

Resonance , the "journal of science education" published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, had something 'special' in its...

Christian Catalini, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Patrick Gaulé in Vox.eu : Cheaper flights and scientific collaboration Noah Smith in Noahpin...

If you are going to use mice in your research, there are all these federal requirements that have to be complied with. [...] And yet, when i...

Math with Bad Drawings: What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession? (cartoon) Tim Harford: Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st ce...

Becky Ferreirain Motherboard : How a Victorian Astronomer Fought the Gender Pay Gap, and Won : ... [One] of the most interesting fights [Ma...

In her Slate article -- The Real Real Genius -- she says, "Thirty years ago, I helped inspire the lead female character in the classi...

Anant Bhan has a link-filled post over at British Medical Journal Blogs : Given the high number of women entering medicine—a status report ...

Maki Naro in Popular Science : The trouble with Nobel Prizes -- They're not magic medals of blamelessness. So don't write to me sa...

Gayatri Jayaraman has a must-read article on The Secret Sexism of Indian Science . Lots of Bhatnagar Award winning scientists speak out. S...

"... [Yes], I made those remarks – which were inexcusable – but I made them in a totally jocular, ironic way. There was some polite app...

A high-caliber scientist has some unscientific notions about women scientists . Who knew? A couple of links on the Nobel laureate's tho...

NYTimes has yet another story on how some college or the other is doing such a great job of attracting, and retaining, women in its comput...

S. Rukmini in has an interesting report in The Hindu -- ‘Quotas for education helped SCs, but boys alone reaped the benefit’ -- summarizin...

Toni Schmader, Jessica Whitehead, and Vicki H. Wysocki: A Linguistic Comparison of Letters of Recommendation for Male and Female Chemistry a...

Veenu Sandhu in The Business Standard : Sexual harassment at work: Tell and suffer . "A woman's ordeal only worsens after she prote...

Curt Rice in The Guardian : Don't be fooled by the closing gender gap in science PhDs . [The researchers] found that historically men h...