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@cosmobasu

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she/her. Theoretical cosmologist. DST-INSPIRE Faculty @IIScBangalore . PhD from @UnigeNEWS (2020). Mentor @ProjEduAccess . Film buff @gangsofcinepur on Instagram.

Bengaluru, India
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Basundhara Ghosh
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🚨 New arXiv preprint alert! We test the consistency between SDSS and DESI BAO datasets by reconstructing the Hubble and deceleration parameters in a model-independent way using Gaussian Processes, and find some curious results.
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This is such a skewed take. I paid taxes during my PhD in Switzerland and was considered an employee of the university. Any “apprenticeship” in your twenties should enable you to earn enough to afford a decent family life. Passion shouldn’t be the only motivation for academia.
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Manu Awasthi
2 months
Please remember that PhD stipends are not salaries. They were never intended to be. In essence, PhDs are paid apprenticeships. You get paid a stipend while you learn the tools of the trade, the trade in this case being research, and how to do it. That said, there is
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
From the archives - a letter from Paul Dirac to my dad when he was a PhD scholar at IIT Kanpur (1982). Dad had written to him asking for an article, which he kindly sent all the way from Florida. #ThrowbackThursdays
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Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
The state of academia in some universities in 2023 is that you get ₹300 only for teaching a class as a temporary lecturer, amounting to ₹4800 per month. This, after an MSc with NET or PhD. This, after years of education and hard work. I have no words.
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Basundhara Ghosh
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As a physicist, the easiest Japanese character you can learn is the one written as h bar c (を).
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7 months
Galileo did what?!
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
The campus looks straight out of a fantasy film in the winter sun nowadays ☀️ @iiscbangalore
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Today on arXiv:
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Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
Happy to announce that I have received a DAAD fellowship (Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists) for a short-term visit to the Zentrum Für Astronomie at Heidelberg University this year, where I will be continuing my collaboration with Prof. Bjoern Malte Schaefer.
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Basundhara Ghosh
7 months
I often hear people say they never liked physics: they either found it too dull or too difficult. I think loving physics requires a good teacher at school, to begin with. And in UG, one just needs to learn to appreciate the Maxwell's equations. After that, there's no going back.
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Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
Since the topic has come up, here are some of my top "failures": 1. Didn't qualify IIT JEE 2. Didn't get into any good college in West Bengal after 12th 3. Dropped out of BSc in the 2nd year and started afresh in a new place - it wasn't working out, academically and otherwise
@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
My cv of failure would be too long lol. And if I were to count every rejection mail I have got since PhD applications, I would need to write a book instead 🥲
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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@shasvathi Hi this is the admin of @gangsofcinepur . Update: The cafe has taken prompt legal action against the employee.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
6 months
Sliding into DM has a new meaning y'all 😅
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
What do you do on the days when you feel overwhelmed by how much there is to read and learn and work on in your field, and you somehow don't seem to have the mental capacity for any of it?
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
9 months
The ratio of male to female faculty members in some of the top Indian institutes is sad as well as absurd. Happened to see the list of faculty members in the Physics Department of @iiserkol , and the ratio is 31:1. One woman, and 31 men.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
7 months
Courtesy: Peter Coles
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
By age 30, you should figure out a way to preserve your inner child-like curiosity about the world around you, that has undergone a gradual declination over the years through a competitive and mechanical education system.
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Basundhara Ghosh
6 months
Anyone else who sometimes feels like going for another PhD in a field very very different from their current domain because there's so much they have missed on by specialising in a very specific area? No? Just me? Okay never mind 🥲
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Basundhara Ghosh
4 months
It is unfortunate that they are glorifying something of the level of a school project to a major scientific achievement. This is extremely basic.
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Abhay Karandikar
4 months
For more technical audience, here is the sun light transportation principle.
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Sitting with a co-author and submitting a manuscript together is a different level of bonding.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
Are there any non-academic job prospects in India for a person who has a PhD in theoretical physics but doesn't want to get into data science?
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Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
Hello from sunny Heidelberg ☀️ I am now actively looking for assistant professor positions in Physics in Indian universities and institutes, and would appreciate some heads up about positions if you have any. My specialisation is in theoretical cosmology/astrophysics.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
The saying that people don't get into academia for money has been normalised to the extent that it's been accepted as a universal truth: one needs to be so passionate about academics that they shouldn't care about a high standard of living. But why? And for how long?
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
Happy new year everyone 💐 Here's remembering Satyendra Nath Bose on his 130th birthday with a stamp issued in his honour on his birth centenary in 1994.
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Bangalore bars need to make new playlists beyond 2010s music. I'm so done with Cheap Thrills, Shape of You and Girls Like You. You'd be sitting there drinking and having a déjà vu of mistakes you made 6 years ago, just because of the music.
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Basundhara Ghosh
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Kudos to Atharv from IITK for speaking about this mental harassment publicly. So many students in elite institutions must be suffering in silence, and it’s heartbreaking that the authorities often turn a deaf ear. You shouldn’t be a supervisor if you don’t have empathy. Period.
@NeuroRaghav
Raghav Dev
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Reminded me of my horrific experience at @IITKanpur But this is at @BSBEIITK1 with awesome people like @abandopa as HoD!!! 1/n
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Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
Prof. David Tong at @ictstifr yesterday in a room packed with young audiences. He talked about quark confinement, vacuum fluctuations and the Navier-Stokes equation, and the possibility of addressing these things with similar toolkits.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
I'm a theoretical physicist in a film: I scribble incoherent math on the blackboard, I have zero fashion sense, my hair is in a permanent state of dishevel and I accidentally create a portal to another dimension by writing some new kind of black hole metric on the wall.
@DrRubidium
Raychelle Burks
2 years
I'm a chemist in a film: No matter my area of expertise, I will make brightly colored solutions. If I'm not the villain, I'm the anti-hero. Before credits, I will sequence some alien genome and orchestrate a catastrophic explosion. AT THE SAME TIME. In a tank top.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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Coming back to the place I did my Masters from after almost a decade and the security guards recognising me is just so heartwarming 😭❤️
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@cosmobasu
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2 months
Who called it colour charge and not gluon mein rang bhare?
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@mnwsth If we continue being satisfied with being in the top 1% with 37k + hra for 50-70 hrs per week of work, then that’s how it is going to be in India for a long time to come.
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Virtual interactions via Twitter, Instagram and email with your favorite personalities are cool, but autographed mementos used to be something else.
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
In big cities like Bangalore, even if someone you know is visiting, you don't have to meet them because.. traffic and distance. If you're in Europe and a friend visits, they expect you to come and see them in a different country because it's probably just an hour away.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
My cv of failure would be too long lol. And if I were to count every rejection mail I have got since PhD applications, I would need to write a book instead 🥲
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I received my first rejection email for my second postdoc application. As a celebration, I updated my cv of failure
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Basundhara Ghosh
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Indian students who write ‘freshman’ and ‘sophomore’ in their LinkedIn bio are virtually NRIs.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
The only thing harder to find than dark matter is the cross sign for closing an ad on a website.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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Physicists when they need to work with a probability distribution
@mishu_2432
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can we all just agree to be normal?
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
7 months
Keeping unnecessary lines commented out in LaTeX instead of deleting them is the equivalent of storing smartphone boxes instead of throwing them out, thinking that you might need them at some point in life.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
It's going to be a busy two months, with the Astronomical Society of India Meet happening here at IISc, and I am also travelling to give seminar talks at three IITs subsequently :) Can be a bit tiring but very much looking forward.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
7 months
Thinking that you'd only do science when you chose to do science is so inaccurate because you also need to be a good writer (for papers), speaker (for talks), artist/graphic designer (for slides/posters), and so on. We often don't acknowledge enough the soft skills we pick up.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
5 months
Bengaluru people have lost the only weapon they had in asserting the supremacy of their city over others - pleasant weather.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Hello to all the new people here today :) Quick intro about me: I am on Twitter to ramble about academia, and to get reminded each day how beautiful the world of science is. I'm occasionally funny, sometimes confused and a lot of the times frustrated. Hope you enjoy my company.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
7 months
So many old friends who aren't in regular contact anymore but when you get to know how far they have come in life and doing so great in their career, academic or otherwise, it fills your heart with joy and pride. It's a very warm feeling :')
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 months
Family whatsapp groups be like good morning with a motivational quote followed by an islamophobic forward
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
The twinkle in their eyes and the sheer enthusiasm with which people talk about their research (even if it's beyond my understanding) is one of the things I live for.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Shoutout to Masters students whose concise and lucidly written theses often help us researchers find a convenient starting point for reading about some topic for the first time. Even if you are not publishing at this stage, you are doing useful work. Be proud.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Super excited to dive in to this new addition to my collection. Nothing more fulfilling than going back to the fundamentals from time to time. @DD_Baumann
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
5 months
As someone who hasn't had any exposure to machine learning techniques so far and is very curious about it, I came across the Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy course by @AstroVivi et al., freely available online. It's looks quite fun so far. Will keep you updated.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
7 months
It was a very pleasant couple of days at Palakkad. The permanent IIT campus is still under construction, and is going to be surrounded by a lot of natural beauty. The faculty members extended a warm hospitality. Special thanks to Prof. Projjwal Banerjee for hosting me.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
I counted an extra zero in the fellowship amount by mistake and thought this is a lucrative opportunity, my bad.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
At the CMS detector at LHC Point 5, five years ago on this day. Where would we be without engineers!
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
One of the best things about being in academia is how you get a kick from learning the simplest of techniques, even if it's just figuring out how to make a certain kind of plot in Mathematica.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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4. Appeared for NET exam twice, didn't clear 5. Got tons of rejection emails for PhD applications abroad 6. Got papers rejected by journals multiple times 7. Got a few postdoc rejections before I made it to IISc 8. Not relevant anymore but scored 30% in maths in school once
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Just noticed that the first paper I worked on for my PhD has 50 citations already 🥰
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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I hope @thirdwaveindia takes proper action. This is beyond unacceptable.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
5 months
What I feel the most from @skdh 's new video about the downside of academia is that one has to yield to a nomadic lifestyle, that too indefinitely, hopping from one postdoc to another. In my early 20s, that's the life I craved for. Now I want to have a house of my own and a cat.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
29 days
My tweet has successfully reached senior Japanese physicists 🙇🏻‍♀️
@Hal_Tasaki
Hal Tasaki
29 days
I have been daily writing "を" for almost 60 years and "h ba" for almost 40 years, but I never realized this! From today, it will never be as before when I write "を."
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
Mistook this title for a new Christopher Nolan release for a sec
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I have realised over time that review articles are my best friend when I feel lost.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
This particular image in every cosmology talk ever...
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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Academics are expected to be fast learners, but sometimes we pressurise ourselves to learn things too fast, in the hope of getting quick outputs. The publishing race makes us forget that one reason that we got into research in the first place, is that we believed in patience.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
6 months
Missed it this year because I was out of town, but Bengaluru people (kids and adults alike) just win my heart every time with their love for science.
@samshyamanur
Samarth
6 months
this city is like no other over one lakh people visited the open day at @iiscbangalore today
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
7 months
Who called it "objectification" and not \begin{itemize} ?
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
5 months
So the 3 Body Problem series begins with physicists killing themselves okay not very encouraging
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
This was fun!
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Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
Super-psyched to be delivering my first outreach talk ever at the Open Day this Saturday. Hop in if you're around, and for a plethora of events at the institute in general. Also happy belated National Science Day to everyone! 🥰
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Basundhara Ghosh
6 months
Spent the last couple of days with some calculations for a friend's research paper in photonics, a topic which I haven't studied beyond my Masters. It was a rewarding experience that reminded me that academics are capable of donning many hats. Maybe we don't appreciate it enough.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
Post a picture of some landscape from a place where you’ve been, where the main requirement is that you NOT appear in it. Just a picture, no description.
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Basundhara Ghosh
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We at @iiscbangalore are carrying out the arrangements for the Astronomical Society of India Meet on full swing! Looking forward to a very vibrant atmosphere in the next few days. @asipoec
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Basundhara Ghosh
4 months
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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Basundhara Ghosh
1 year
@Jitender1729 The correct term would be homemaker, because it can apply to men as well :)
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 months
These people of power who are playing with the lives of lakhs of students deserve a special place in hell. #NEET #UGCNET
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Basundhara Ghosh
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"What are you working on?" - I'm working on myself (studying Cosmology by @DD_Baumann )
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Research and mental health issues - still a better love story than Twilight.
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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My bicycle got stolen. Bye-cycle 🥺
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
I was at this cafe in Kochi where they have listed egg-based dishes under "reproductive cell"???
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Basundhara Ghosh
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If you're an Indian who has studied/worked abroad you must have heard your peers talk about how they took a break after high school or UG and went for volunteer work in a foreign country. As a young student few years ago, it was a very alien concept to me. (1/n)
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
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Would highly recommend anybody having a career in the education sector to watch The Teachers' Lounge. So compelling and unsettling, with a very unpredictable turn of events. (My second German-language film this month, and both so good.)
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@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
Firstly if you're applying to the US/Canada/UK, prepare well for the English language tests. Often you also have to arrange for your own scholarships. That's not so much the case for European countries where the PhD positions come with the salary. (1/n)
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@cosmobasu Could you please share your path towards doing a PhD abroad? What could be the things one should keep in mind while applying? I think that would be helpful for young PhD aspirants like me.
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So you want to tell me that in 3 Body Problem, the aliens don't arrive until 400 years and everyone is panicking, and irl we're already having an unprecedented rise in temperatures and water shortages and people are going about their business like the planet isn't ending.
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
On the way to 1000 followers on Twitter. - researcher who hardly gets any citations
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
With eminent cosmologists Rashid Sunyaev and Richard Bond, on this day four years ago, at ICTS Bengaluru. Always inspiring to interact with the people who shaped our current understanding of Cosmology.
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Basundhara Ghosh
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Interestingly, when women do get recruited (either at faculty, postdoc or PhD student level), I have heard men say that it's because females get preferred due to lack of representation. If that's true, then where is the representation? Quite funny actually.
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Basundhara Ghosh
9 months
The ratio of male to female faculty members in some of the top Indian institutes is sad as well as absurd. Happened to see the list of faculty members in the Physics Department of @iiserkol , and the ratio is 31:1. One woman, and 31 men.
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self-explanatory
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Basundhara Ghosh
8 months
Looking forward to attending this talk today at @ictstifr . David Tong's lecture notes have played a huge part in whatever understanding of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics I have today.
@ictstifr
ICTS
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Calling all the science enthusiasts in Bengaluru! Brace yourselves for an unforgettable experience as you get the chance to interact with none other than the legendary theoretical physicist David Tong LIVE! 20 Dec @ 4 PM @ictstifr campus Register now
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Basundhara Ghosh
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The 2024 urge to chuck away your smartphones and go back to old Nokia phones but then what about UPI payments, food deliveries and cab bookings 😞
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
Going back to the office after a month tomorrow. Have been working from my hometown in July, and missed my workplace. Sometimes it's good to change places so that you appreciate better what you have.
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
I love brown people eye-contacting in foreign lands. No idea where the other person is from, but just a slight eye contact that says "yo brown energy" 🤙🏽
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
In Europe people casually converse about linguistic diversity. Even my Iranian friends and I had fun comparing Persian and Urdu/Bengali words. If only people would do this in India, where they are rather interested in establishing the superiority of one language over another.
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Basundhara Ghosh
5 months
Coaching institutes are absolute scammers in this country.
@katyayani13
Katyayani Sanjay Bhatia
5 months
A new low in advertisements @fiitjee . You are posting the picture of a child saying that she performed badly because she left your institute! I have blurred the picture because I don't believe in this disgusting way of claiming your superiority by belittling a girl child.
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I don't understand why some universities and institutes still require you to send your application form and documents by post after submitting them online. Not the digital India we envisioned?
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Basundhara Ghosh
6 months
This is so well-written. A very fulfilling read.
@Kaju_Nut
Nirmalya Kajuri
6 months
In early twentieth century, physics was undergoing its greatest revolution. The top universities of Europe were at the frontiers. But a physicist far away from the action came up with one of the biggest breakthroughs. My article on hundred years of Bose’s famous discovery of
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Is signing off with "Best" an academic thing only? I haven't seen non-academics do it 😂 I picked it up from profs during my PhD and have stuck to it since.
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Basundhara Ghosh
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Never considered the implications of biosensors and bioelectronics on cosmological number counts. Seems like a promising research topic.
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Basundhara Ghosh
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I don't ask "me and who" anymore, I just ask "me where" (who is going to give me a job).
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Basundhara Ghosh
2 years
@FinitePhysicist All 3, or all 3 factorial = 6? Because that's important.
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Basundhara Ghosh
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Understanding Coding machine learning machine learning algorithms algorithms
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2 years
One thing that makes me really really happy is to see group of women in STEM academic meets casually talking science.
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Basundhara Ghosh
6 months
And then you read some more and find out that your research idea has already been addressed in the 1900s
@mccormick_ted
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a good way to get research ideas is to read until something bothers you
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