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

Two stories about recent director-level appointments. Check out a pretty nice piece in The Telegraph by Basant Kumar Mohanty -- A 10-minut...

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

Anjali Vaidya at India BioScience : Unaddressed demands remain after research fellowship hike . Uses several quotes from IISc students and f...

The most depressing thing you will read this month. Kendall Powell in Nature (April 2015): The future of the postdoc . "There is a gro...

Prem Panicker at Smoke Signals : RIP Jayakanthan . Sriram V. at Madras Heritage and Carnatic Music : A Chola Gift to Chennai .

Susannah Locke in Vox.com : 15 ways to tell if that science news story is hogwash The excellent chart ... offers " A Rough Guide to S...

Jill Neimark in Aeon : The Retraction War . "Scientists seek demigod status, journals want blockbuster results, and retractions are on ...

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

I was alerted about this early last week by someone with an interest in a faculty job at an IIT; since then the situation has really got out...

Oops . Drexel University is investigating a law professor who thought she was sending her class a link to an article on writing legal brief...

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

Before we plunge in : This issue is not just restricted to TIFR or the IITs. It turns out that the process of selecting leaders at many othe...

What you see below is a slightly edited version of an e-mail addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with "Expressing Concern over P...

Michael Gordin in Aeon : Absolute English . "How did science come to speak only English?" Noah Berlatsky in Pacific Standard : Wh...