@DivsBu

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Check out this article by Kaustubh Rau, one of the authors of @ithinkbiology, where he shares the experience of developing an accessible integrated #Biology textbook set in the Indian context in this @IndiaBioscience article! 🔗indiabioscience.org/columns/… via @IndiaBioscience

Writing a modern biology textbook for the Indian classroom: the experience with iThink Biology

In December 2021, Azim Premji University inaugurated a free online textbook, called iThink Biology. In this article, a faculty at the University and an author of the textbook shares the thoughts that...

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Priya is a star! And nimish is one in the making;) This paper is special because it's a nice work coming out of nimish's undergrad thesis. Part of this was also done during the pandemic...with several discussions over zoom!!
Krishnapriya Tamma@priya_tamma13 Dec 2022
Our paper exploring ants, arachnids, and mimicry is out! Collaboration with @DivsBu and Nimish. @azimpremjiuniv academic.oup.com/beheco/adva…

An arachnid’s guide to being an ant: morphological and behavioral mimicry in ant-mimicking spiders

Mimicry provides a textbook example of adaptation by natural selection. Ant-like resemblance is observed in 13 spider families despite spiders having a dis

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Our paper exploring ants, arachnids, and mimicry is out! Collaboration with @DivsBu and Nimish. @azimpremjiuniv academic.oup.com/beheco/adva…

An arachnid’s guide to being an ant: morphological and behavioral mimicry in ant-mimicking spiders

Mimicry provides a textbook example of adaptation by natural selection. Ant-like resemblance is observed in 13 spider families despite spiders having a dis

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(2/6) Starting Day 2 is a plenary by Hema Somanathan @somanathan_hema from @BEElab_iisertvm @tvmiiser who will talk about bees beyond twilight 🐝🌛 (7:00 - 8:00 GMT)
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(4/6) An arachnid's guide to being an ant: next up at #ABL2022, we have Nimish Subramaniam from @azimpremjiuniv presenting their research on morphological and behavioural mimicry in ant-mimicking spiders 🕷️ (8:30 - 8:50 GMT)
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💡'A Burst of Science', a mini-podcast series in Hindi and Kannada 👩‍🔬Shweta Ramdas @shramdas 👩‍🔬Divya Uma @divsbu @BioTicks
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@azimpremjiuniv welcomes you to #RiversofLife, a festival to celebrate rivers across India, from 1-16 November. We especially invite students from high school and colleges across Bangalore to visit. Principals and teachers - fill this form bit.ly/3MqzyMS. Please reshare!
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I learnt cool things about human evolution while reading for this podcast... Thanks to many car rides with Shweta Ramdas! @shramdas
Biology@Azim Premji University@BioTicks16 Oct 2022
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...and Hindi youtube.com/watch?v=9nTs5Buo… (2/2)

Episode 10. इस साल के नोबेल किसको मिला ?और क्यों?कंकाल और डीएनए की...

इस साल के नोबेल किसको मिला ?और क्यों?कंकाल और डीएनए की कहानी Sour...

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Curious about last week's Nobel announcement about ancient DNA? In their latest episode, our faculty members break down the Nobel Prize in Physiology in Kannada youtube.com/watch?v=ZISXd8hn… ...(1/2)
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An undergrad student & I were curious about how local communities in Eastern Himalayas were perceiving & responding to climate change. We learned so much; we compiled some of those learnings into a review. @BioTicks Preprint here -researchsquare.com/article/r… #ClimateCrisis

Local climate change perceptions and adaptation strategies across the Central and Eastern Himalayas...

The Himalayas and the communities that depend on them are highly vulnerable to climate change. Understanding perceptions of climate change among these communities, and the adaptations they undertake...

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Replying to @nandita_j @DivsBu @shramdas
You can listen to the other episodes too In Kannada: youtube.com/channel/UCSv8tj7… In Hindi: youtube.com/channel/UCZZ3PZj… If you like it, & you have ideas on how we can get this out there, do hit us up. Thanks 🌼

ಒಂದು ಚಿಟಿಕೆ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (A Burst of Science!)

ಒಂದು ಚಿಟಿಕೆ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಅಜೀಂ ಪ್ರೇಮ್‌ಜಿ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ, ಜೀವಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ ಅಧ್ಯಾಪಕರು- ಶ್ವೇತಾ ಮತ್ತು ದಿವ್ಯಾ. (A glimpse of science in three minutes. A new episode every Sunday. By Azim Premji University Biology...

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Road widening kills. #roadkills
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A short snappy science snippet by Shweta and I in Hindi and Kannada. We are having a lot of fun doing this. Hope you enjoy listening to it!!
Biology@Azim Premji University@BioTicks11 Aug 2022
Our members @DivsBU and @shramdas present A Burst of Science! (एक चुटकी विज्ञान/ ಒಂದು ಚಿಟಿಕೆ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ), snappy 2-minute summaries of fascinating stories in biology and health, in Kannada (anchor.fm/apu-biology) & Hindi (anchor.fm/shweta-ramdas). Episodes out every Thursday.
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Replying to @nandita_j @HandsOnPhysics @azimpremjiuniv
Caught up with @sravUpp to talk about a special textbook she co-created. Also featuring @shramdas @Antara_DasKumar & Beena DB who chime in with their own takes on where textbooks fit in in 21st century biology education. azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/… #ScicommAPU
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Join us for an exciting journey in Biology education!
iThink Biology@ithinkbiology24 May 2022
Are you a PhD or Master's interested in UG Biology Education? We've got an opening indiabioscience.org/orgs/azi… @azimpremjiuniv, working on a innovative new textbook ithinkbiology.in. Please share the news widely!! @IndiaBioscience @VoicesofIndAcad @HBCSE_TIFR @CoESMEIISERPUN1

Biology Education Research Fellow

Azim Premji University invites applications for a Biology Education Research Fellow. The position open is in the School of Arts and Science of the University. Azim Premji University exists to make...

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Happy to be sharing our thoughts on teaching biology at the undergrad level with Prof. Shashidhara, a platform to share the outcome of our experiences: ithinkbiology.in, please join us on friday at 3 pm, link: youtube.com/watch?v=UE_6DqUr… #biologyeducation @ithinkbiology
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Also thanks @SpidersATSea John for sharing such beautiful ant mimic picture!!
Krishnapriya Tamma@priya_tamma3 Nov 2021
Very interesting work from @DivsBu & Nimish on morphological and behavioral mimicry in ant-mimicking spiders. What does it take for a spider to mimic an ant? @BioTicks @venadavenu
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Be mesmerized by green #hydra found by students @BioTicks near the @azimpremjiuniv campus. Nearby ponds have so much life, can't imagine how van Leeuwenhoek felt the first time he spotted 'animalcules'
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Happy that this paper is finally out. We did the experiments when there was no science labs at Azim Premji University. But we managed thanks to hejasvi, Saurabh, Tejas and Hema! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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1/n : Web architecture, dynamics and silk investment in the social spider St... sciencedirect.com/science/ar… - check out our new paper on web building in social spiders with my wonderful collaborators @BeleyurThejasvi @DivsBu @somanathan_hema @Saurabh09299 – at Bengaluru South, India
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