You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad A weird thing happened in scientific publishing during COVID. And it hasn’t gone away. Publications went up 30-50%. And responses to requests to review went down 30-50%. I know the actual statistic…

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

Modelling a potential zoonotic spillover event of H5N1 influenza Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a prominent candidate for a future human pandemic arising from a zoonotic spillover event. Its best-known strain is H5N1, with South- or South-East Asia a l...

Our work, using BharatSim, on "Modelling a potential zoonotic spillover event of H5N1 influenza" is now available on medarxiv.

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Such a wonderful piece by Nithyanand Rao on Kyasanur Forest disease, really an object lesson in One Health

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In breakthrough, scientists find pressure sensor in fat tissue Discover how Nobel laureate Ardem Patapoutian's research on PIEZO channels revolutionizes our understanding of human biology.

As the view has changed, researchers have confronted newer — and according to Menon “harder” — questions. These include “measuring forces in a cellular context that is realistic, and figuring out how these forces produce signals that cells can interpret.”
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Pollution Regulation in India Recent reports on capacity constraints faced by the state pollution control boards have revealed serious systemic issues—problematic board structure and composition, lack of competence in the boards’ ...

REPLUG: In EPW, Shibani Ghosh draws on an in-depth review of India’s pollution control boards to examine why these front-line regulators have struggled to curb air & water pollution. Recent amendments to the Water and Air Acts are designed to facilitate ease of doing business. bit.ly/4fWvnFR

‘HMPV Is Common, Most Will Recover On Their Own’ Much of the reporting on concerns around HMPV virus happens only because the combination of the words ‘China’ and ‘virus’ attracts inordinate attention, says Gautam Menon professor at Ashoka...

"I think much of the reporting on #HMPV is sheer hype, and happens only because the combination of words “China” and “virus” attracts inordinate attention"

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Your father was my Director at IMSc, Chennai, for more than a decade. I was (am) very fond of him - met him just 3 days ago in Chennai airport, actually. He is an exceptional mathematician and a fine human being.

BharatSim: An agent-based modelling framework for India BharatSim is an open-source agent-based modelling framework for the Indian population. It can simulate populations at multiple scales, from small communities to states. BharatSim uses a synthetic popu...

Our long paper on BharatSim, our agent-based model framework for India, describing the details of the model, the code and multiple examples, is now out in PLoS Comp Bio.

#PLOSCompBio: BharatSim: An agent-based modelling framework for India
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Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria A personal essay on regime change in Syria.

Once they were my captors. Now they rule Syria
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My first BlueSky post. Where I am right now.