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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · May 8

Meet the panellists! Here's your last chance to register for this discussion with @stemthegap about their fascinating work looking at their institute through a sociological lens.
👋🏾Let us know you are interested at bit.ly/humaniities
9 May, 2025 at 4PM

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · May 5

⌛️To close out the mini-series where we 'gazed' at the IITs through a humanities & social sciences lens, we are hosting a live online discussion with the folk at @STEMthegapindia
Yes, it's free to attend!
✍🏾Register at www.bit.ly/humaniities to receive an invite.

Two campuses within one: Gendered infrastructure at IIT Delhi

Reposted by Lab Hopping Science Media

Prajval Shastri ಪ್ರಜ್ವಲ್ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಿ پرجول شاستری @prajvalshastri.bsky.social · Apr 19

Now physicists at Karlsruhe have sharpened our understanding of HOW light - at least a million times lighter than the familiar electron! (2/3) @thehindu.com @hindustan-times.bsky.social

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 21

⛹🏿‍♀️"the built environment of the institute nudges women to keep to academic practices, even as it lets the men flit between academics, recreation, and sports."
The latest in our #HumanIITies series
thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/20/t...

A glimpse into how space, layout and infrastructure in an engineering institute produces different experiences for its male and female students…

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 20

A glimpse into how space, layout and infrastructure in an engineering institute produces different experiences for its male and female students. Part of our #HumanIITies series. thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/20/t...

Universal Lessons from the Life of Joan Birman

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 14

What do Fields Medallists Maryam Mirzakhani and Vaughan Jones have in common? Joan Birman!
On International Day of Mathematics, better known as #PiDay here's a replug of our story about this hidden figure in maths, who will turn 98 years old this year❣️
thelifeofscience.com/2024/06/08/j...

What do two field medalists have in common? Their research is linked to Joan Birman, a 97-year-old American mathematician.

The IIT’s supernumerary scheme

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 13

7 years since launch, the supernumerary scheme to boost % of women at IITs remains understudied & misunderstood. STEMtheGap at IIT Delhi has analysed the scheme's working & the experiences of women in an IIT campus in its wake. An explainer. #HumanIITies
thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/12/i...

A recap of the much-acclaimed supernumerary seats scheme which was introduced in the IITs to boost gender ratios, and an examination of its impact.

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 12

We've all heard about the supernumerary scheme at the IITs, but how successful has it actually been, what is its origin story & where to from here? @STEMthegapindia answers these with 1st hand examples from IIT Delhi. #HumanIITies thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/12/i...

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Representative share of women should be made mandatory in decision-making bodies related to strategy resource allocation, talent management, and career progression across organisations in the science sector." - Soumya Swaminathan in a #IWD2025 @htTweets opinion piece.

The tempered radicalism of Ravinder Kaur

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 7

”Constantly, I’ve been trying to do things at IIT Delhi without rejecting the institution as such.”
LabHopping’s month-long special series #HumanIITies kicks off with this interview of sociologist Ravinder Kaur by Aashima Dogra. Do read.
thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...

An interview with Ravinder Kaur, IIT Delhi Emerita Professor of Sociology

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 5

First up, an interview with Ravinder Kaur whose sociological work at IIT Delhi has directly shaped at least one national policy and should inspire our other STEM institutes to take similar cold, hard looks at themselves 👀 #HumanIITies thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay2025 but too impatient to wait... All this month, we have for you enlightening & introspective stories that view IITs in a way we rarely get to. #HumanIITies a special series in collab with the folk at
STEMtheGap.

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Mar 5

First up, an interview with Ravinder Kaur whose sociological work at IIT Delhi has directly shaped at least one national policy and should inspire our other STEM institutes to take similar cold, hard looks at themselves 👀 #HumanIITies
thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Feb 11

It's the International Day for Women & Girls in Science!
Wish we had a calendar to share with you. But hey, the 5th issue of💡Lightbulbs, our new newsletter, is out soon. Subscribe for monthly short, snappy updates from Indian STEM in your inbox✨
🔗http://eepurl.com/dsDZJb

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Feb 10

A little bit about what we will be doing as part of this programme with Mangalore Heritage Group as collaborators. We will share more with time🙂

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Feb 7

Nothing if not consistent 🙃

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Feb 7

🍾Excited to announce that we are one of the winners of Archives at NCBS's Program for the Archiving of Science and Technology (PAST) 2025-26, which is dedicated to documenting under-represented and marginalised histories in STEM in India.

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚨Of the 139 Padma awards announced last week, 7 went to scientist/engineers.
Vinod Dham
Ajay V Bhatt
Ashutosh Sharma
Chetan E Chitnis
MD Srinivas
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Surinder Kumar Vasal
As usual, no info offered abt their contributions🤷‍♂️

Bushra’s biomarkers for prostate cancer

Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Nov 21

🏆Cancer biologist Bushra Ateeq has won the 2026 TWAS Award in Medical & Health Sciences (shared with Ester Sabino of Brazil). Other Indians to win are mech engineer Suman Chakraborty & physicist Satishchandra Ogale.
More on Bushra's work here: thelifeofscience.com/2018/08/02/b...

A researcher at IIT-Kanpur is looking for early biomarkers to treat prostate cancer…

The high-energetic wisdom of Rohini Godbole

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Nov 14

💌 Did you know we have a new newsletter & it's called Lab Hopping Lightbulbs? If you want the lowdown on the coolest/hottest/juiciest tidbits from Indian science 👀 + a letter from one of our editors in your inbox every month, then you need to subscribe! bit.ly/lightbulbs-s...

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Nov 14

Congratulations to the winners of #InfosysPrize2024
Extra nice to see women win Maths & Physics!

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Lab Hopping Science Media @labhopping.bsky.social · Nov 13

“In some sense, we were all hoping to find evidence for (a physics) beyond Standard Model physics at the Large Hadron Collider or otherwise.”
On the science of Rohini Godbole, plus some more.
thelifeofscience.com/2024/11/12/r...

The beloved phenomenologist leaves a large intellectual legacy that the Indian science community can continue to be proud of.