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Manu Awasthi

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2 months

Just thought of doing a random comparison, of a top rated Chinese University (Tsinghua) and top rated Indian University (IISc). I am not picking on any institution, but trying to make a comparison. Generally, the top performing institutions are the best funded ones. At least

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Do you want your PhD students to be better writers? Great! Don't write their papers for them.

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If you are a senior PhD student and are depending on your advisor (all the time) to tell you what to do next, you are doing it wrong. It's always better to go to them with a list of options and then use them as sounding board to weigh the pros and cons of each.

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PhD programs:

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"Zuckerberg is a college dropout. Look how successful he has been." is the reason why you should study statistics.

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1 year

The Research and Development Office, @AshokaUniv maintains a public database of grants & fellowships that India based researchers can apply for. Please share widely. cc: @MenonBioPhysics , @AnuragAgrawalMD , @kvijayraghavan

Ashoka_Grant_Database

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Researchers in India: We need the government to make it easier to do research. Government of India: hold my beer

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Custom Duty for Lab Chemicals raised to 150% from 10%. A chemical that was costing 54,000/- is now 1,29,000/-. How to run experimental chemistry Labs? @PrinSciAdvGoI @serbonline @IndiaDST

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2 years

In academia, you can do good administration, or you can do good research. But never simultaneously.

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3 years

As a grad student, I used to wonder : how busy can people be that they reply to an email after 2 weeks? Now I know.

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11 months

You can create lasting impact by rigorously teaching large cohorts of UG students than publishing research papers that no one will end up reading.

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What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?

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3 years

PhD students while walking past advisor's office

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1 year

Courses that should be required for *all* undergraduates in India: 1) Climate Change 2) Constitution of India 3) Personal Finance 101 4) Writing emails 101 Others?

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2 years

Reading your PhD dissertation after a decade

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4 years

To all potential PhD applicants : you don't need to be at a ranked school / program to do good research. A good advisor and a collaborative research group is many order of magnitudes better for personal and professional growth than being with the opposite at a top program.

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SoPs for grad school application

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3 years

@OdedRechavi International Journal of Everything Submittable Under the Sun. I - JESUS for short.

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2 years

Live visuals of an advisor reading the first draft of a PhD student led paper

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PhD student, the day after defending their thesis

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3 years

PI: Let's try this experiment. PhD student: But why? It doesn't make a lot of sense. Postdoc:

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3 years

Paper वेपर सब लिखें, Paper पढ़े ना कोय। सब मिल paper कम लिखें तो, बहुतही बढ़िया होय।

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UG students after hearing research talks

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Real - time movements of a PhD student when the advisor asks for updates

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3 years

May all your experiments done in 2022 be reproducible.

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1 year

Train your PhD students to solve problems. Not just write papers. Papers are a by-product of scientific research endeavours. Not the final goal. Paper are just the means of telling the world how you solved a problem.

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Manu Awasthi

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2 years

Paper लिख लिख जग मुआ, Professor भया न कोय। जो UG course पढ़ावे प्यार से, वही असल professor होए।

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2 years

When your lab mate is publishing like crazy, and you are still waiting for your first paper to get accepted

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PSA: Your PhD dissertation is *your* PhD dissertation, not your advisor's.

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2 years

PhD student सब बढ़िया चाहें UG train करे न कोय। UG बढ़िया से पढ़ा देयो तो PhD student की कमी कभी न होय।

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First year PhD student

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Academic papers

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4 months

In India, we get so much further ahead if we could incentivise our students to stay back and do their research *in India*. We have such a large and talented student pool that we don't even need to import students - although having a large diverse set of people from around the

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Attracting the best students from around the world -> grad schools -> academia -> research -> venture capital -> technology development -> large unified market.

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Indian EdTech was neither Ed nor Tech. Now it’s not Indian either.

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🚨Breaking Boundaries: High profits, growing demand drive Indian edtechs into study-abroad segment By @MansiVjourno via @moneycontrolcom

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CSIR Funded PhD students

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Advisor attending PhD student progress update presentations

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PhD student, giving an incorrect explanation to an audience question after the talk. Advisor, sitting in the audience:

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Manu Awasthi

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6 months

. @DheerajSanghi has dropped a lot of truth bombs in this thread. My experience is not as vast as Prof. Sanghi's, but what he says has been my experience as well.

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2 years

The biggest contribution that one can make in the higher education ecosystem in India today is helping rigorously train a large number of UG students.

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3 years

So, this recently happened. Thanks @Huawei , especially my collaborators and cheerleaders at @HuaweiIndia , who have been instrumental in helping us do so many things!

Ashoka University’s Researcher Manu Awasthi receives the prestigious Huawei OlympusMons Recognition...

Manu Awasthi, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ashoka University, has received the prestigious Huawei OlympusMons recognition. Awasthi’s research […]

www.ashoka.edu.in

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Them: How middle class are you? Me: Very. Them: No no. फिर भी। कितना? Me:

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PhD student, after getting their first paper accepted after multiple rejections

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1 year

I accidentally closed my browser and lost all the tabs that I had open for the past 6 months. Now I know what a fresh start feels like.

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Graduating from a PhD program in 4 years

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2 years

I was recently told that someone as a PI published 40 papers in an academic year. If I am ever in that position (which I am certain will never happen) I would be happy to just remember the titles of those papers. Which in itself would be an award worthy contribution.

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Grad students whose stipends are not keeping up with inflation

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Manu Awasthi

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1 year

Excellent customer service, @TheKenWeb .

Manu Awasthi

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1 year

Well, @TheKenWeb , as a paying customer, I'd very much like an explanation. I happily pay for good, original *non-plagiarised* content. Which is what I thought I was doing. Till today. Mistakes happen. I hope it was a one time indiscretion. And if it was that, it should be

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I judge institutions based on the way they maintain their toilets.

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"we propose novel methods which modify the previously proposed methods in very subtle but interesting ways"

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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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@mnwsth 37k is peanuts when considering cuties with higher COL. Not to forget that many scholars get married and also start a family while in PhD. Would you say 37k is enough for them as well?

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3 years

A Guide to Procuring Equipment in Indian Academia: Volume 1

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2 years

Advisors to PhD students on well plotted graphs

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Full Professors on Twitter: Academics should not be judged based on the number of papers they publish. It's the quality of the contributions that matter. Same full Professors in tenure letters: the candidate hasn't published enough papers, yet. I'd suggest to wait and watch. 🤷🏽

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Writing the first paragraph of the first draft of your new paper

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Indian academic institutions' faculty recruitment drives

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Manu Awasthi

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1 year

. @jncasr has a semester long "internship" program where they are *charging the interns* INR 5000, one time. Interns won't be provided accomodation, and they have to get their own health insurance. Gives Byju's business practices a run for their money.

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PhD student to advisor on coming across a new research method

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3 years

You, looking at your undocumented code 6 months after writing it:

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Early career researchers, trying to raise money for research

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My college summer break: चलो, नानी के घर चलते हैं। My students' summer break: I am doing 2 simultaneous internships and then finishing the summer with a backpacking trip through Europe.

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PhD student: What are we going to do about that half written paper from 2 years ago? Advisor:

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Virtue signalling for today. (For a cause that I believe in, FWIW)

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"I have 5 post-doc openings in my group" Everyone:

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PhD students after getting their paper reviews

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Advisor, when the PhD student comes up with path breaking results

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2 years

PSA: It's ok to do a PhD without aspiring for an academic position.

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3 years

If you are looking for academic careers in India in 2022, please remember this : it is absolutely possible to have a fulfilling and productive career outside of the IIX systems. More so now than 10 years ago, and I foresee many more exciting opportunities in the next decade.

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Manu Awasthi

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1 year

This morning, Spotify, threw up a song called "चार bottle Vodka" into my running playlist from someone called Yo Yo Honey Singh. It is filled with extremely unlikely claims about alcohol consumption. This is a clarification🧵, academic review style

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3 years

Super excited and extremely humbled to announce that I have decided to carry on doing the same job that I had last week.

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Manu Awasthi

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People vastly underestimate the money, time, effort and expertise required to create a lasting academic institution. Especially in India, where higher education is tightly regulated.

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A business school by Nikhil Kamath would disrupt IIMs, ISB etc.

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You: How's it going? New PI, setting up their lab:

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Bhai, एक paper publish होते होते 2 - 3 साल लग जाते हैं। 5th year PhD student:

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PhD candidate: I will publish 5 A* papers in my final year! Advisor:

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Advisor: This paper is very badly written. If you submit it as is, it will get rejected. PhD student: How do you know? Advisor?

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Many thanks to @qualcomm_in / @Qualcomm for the Qualcomm Faculty Award! Honoured and humbled.

Qualcomm India

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Celebrating the brilliance that drives innovation. Qualcomm congratulates the recipients of the 2024 Qualcomm Faculty Awards in India. Looking forward to collaborating with the university faculty members as we shape the future of technology and inspire young minds across the

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Irrespective of who you are, if you show up 20 mins late to a meeting, the first thing you should do is apologize.

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3 years

One day I hope to understand Indian academia's fascination with the number 35. Today is not that day though.

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Man, you put out *one* meme that PhD students (and advisors) can relate to, and all of sudden you feel the pressure to produce more content for the 100 new followers.

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Paper वेपर सब लिखे Details देय न कोय। Repeatability guarantee करे जो प्राणी वही असल researcher होय।

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Reviewer # 2 on your paper

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Reading your uncommented code, 6 months later

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No one got a worthwhile PhD without working hard. Irrespective of how smart they were.

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Advisor to PhD students while discussing experimental data

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In the previous (2023-2024) budget @IndiaDST was allocated INR 7831 Cr but only utilized INR 4892 Cr. No wonder their budgets aren't being increased. We should complain about the GoI not increasing R&D budgets, but we should complain louder about inefficiencies of these

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3 years

If you are a PhD student, you are working towards earning *your* PhD degree. You are best served if you use your advisor as an advisor, and not as a task master. A significant part of the success of your PhD program lies with you. #JanhitMainJaari

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Manu Awasthi

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This is my personal pet peeve. The idea of replicating the architectural aesthetics of the west (where overall temperatures are low the countries are energy rich) in buildings of North India where it’s summer for 6 months of the year is a terrible, terrible idea.

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Begging Indian architects to stop putting glass facades on every building in a country with near 50°C heatwaves.

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Every once in a while, I get students that are so fantastic in all respects that I want to write a thank you note to their parents.

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New PI: I'll get these large equipment purchases completed in a month, and start experiments in 5 weeks. Battle hardened PIs:

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PhD student in India after getting a paper accepted at a conference happening in the US

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Bhai, PhD defence hai kal mera. 50 doston ke liye snacks order ker raha hoon. Bhai:

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Acceptable salutations for academics at various stages of their career: Assistant Prof: Prof Associate Prof: Prof Professor: Prof Professor (HAG): Prof Let's not create unnecessary class systems by using different salutations for what are largely similar jobs. #JanhitMainJaari

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PhD student after a paper reject: I should have read the paper more carefully before submitting it. Advisor: