‼️Discount alert! Science up your & your loved ones' new year with this 2026 desktop calendar which foregrounds the fuzzy, messy and blurry parts of science. 🛒 amzn.in/d/dGf3lxp

This 2026 Desktop Calendar is a one-of-a-kind, boundary-busting, binary-breaking science-art collaboration that invites people to explore the grey zones of the scientific enterprise—those spaces where categories blur, definitions unravel, and curiosity thrives.

2025 math olympiads were something else. Why? 1️⃣India win big at IMO🏅🏅🏅🥈🥈🥉 2️⃣India win big at EGMO🥈🥈🥉🥉 3️⃣AI models win big at IMO🏅🏅 I spoke with Mohan R & Ajaykumar K about the past & future of these competitions. azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/faculty-pers...

The future of the Olympiads is diverse

Mohan R and Ajaykumar K reflect on the evolution of the mathematical olympiads, and caution the community from forgetting its original goals.

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The latest (and 10th!) issue of our newsletter is out, and this month our Editor Aashima brings you up to speed on the justified indignation over IIT Kharagpur's "Campus Mothers" initiative, a book review, and a few more juicy tidbits. 💡Subscribe here bit.ly/lightbulbs-s...

📺The recording of last week's discussion is now available to view. Thanks for following this series! Hope to be back with more soon... youtu.be/kx3lcJZu2jM

STEM & the Humanities at IITs: A Live Discussion

YouTube video by TheLifeofScience TLoS

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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

⌛️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.

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

⛹🏿‍♀️"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...

Two campuses within one: Gendered infrastructure at IIT Delhi

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

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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...

Universal Lessons from the Life of Joan Birman

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

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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...

The IIT’s supernumerary scheme

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.

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"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.

”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...

The tempered radicalism of Ravinder Kaur

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

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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.

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

🍾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.

🚨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🤷‍♂️

🏆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...

💌 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...

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

On what would have been high energy physicist Rohini Godbole's 72nd birthday, we publish this tribute to her, featuring details of her scientific work⚛️recollections of her collaborators💭friends and admirers❤️‍🩹