Gokul Rajan
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engrams, genes, photons, danionella etc.
https://gokulrajan.xyz/
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Bold questions. Thoughtful reasoning. Smart tools. That's what it celebrates!
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you're can't do any real science if you are not comfortable with feeling stupid. if you are doing science (at any level), you should absolutely read this ~17 years old piece -- the importance of "absolute stupidity" in science.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research
I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school...
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/121/11/1771/30038/The-importance-of-stupidity-in-scientific-research
3 months ago
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Der Weg zur Hƶllen sey mit lauter gutem Vorsatz gepflastert.
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imho: skills are overrated; motivation is underrated. 1) with motivation, new skills come fast. 2) without it, skills mean nothing.
3 months ago
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two very different hunters i'm playing with: drosera and hippocampus.
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Peer-review and peer-fund pilot projects on
@researchhubf.bsky.social
! I just funded: NeuroSC: Leveraging Pretrained Single-Cell Models for Brain Cell Classification on ResearchHub.
www.researchhub.com/fund/4262/ne...
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NeuroSC: Leveraging Pretrained Single-Cell Models for Bra...
NeuroSC: Leveraging Pretrained Single-Cell Models for Brain Ce...
https://www.researchhub.com/fund/4262/neurosc-leveraging-pretrained-single-cell-models-for-brain-cell-classification?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social_share
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New leaves, new tentacles, more hunting. š±
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Turns out that I had some research tokens on
@researchhubf.bsky.social
-- earned from my past publications(!!) -- that I could use to fund new research proposals submitted by others. I just did exactly that. Why have you not? Be the change you want to see.
www.researchhub.com/fund/4261/ef...
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Effects of psilocybin and related compounds on neuroprote...
Effects of psilocybin and related compounds on neuroprotection...
https://www.researchhub.com/fund/4261/effects-of-psilocybin-and-related-compounds-on-neuroprotection-in-human-stroke?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social_share
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TIL: when I see the electric scooters in the sea or streams, it's not the app glitching!
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Not kidding -- just read a paper where the person who made the discovery was thanked in the acknowledgements. How do I know? Because he was literally thanked as The discoverer! Welcome to science, where credit goes to the cool dude with the mic.
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When a paper cites everything around the key prior work but specifically skips the actual prior work that directly addressed their claim, it tells me more about the authors than the topic.
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when you select for "sexiness" and overlook rigor, science becomes clickbait. this arsenic life paper wasnāt just a one-off fluke -- it is a symptom of what happens when journals and funders chase headlines.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Fifteen years later, Science retracts āarsenic lifeā paper despite study authorsā protests
Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others
https://www.science.org/content/article/fifteen-years-later-science-retracts-arsenic-life-paper-despite-study-authors
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Just found out that my first-ever trainee -- a bachelorās student from Sorbonne during my PhD -- is now doing a PhD in Neuroscience. Not taking any credit, but it still feels really good. :)
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Bold questions. Thoughtful reasoning. Smart tools. That's what it celebrates!
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Ever wonder if individuals can make a difference -- or if we must wait for institutions to catch up? Sometimes, itās worth trying the former. The Danionella Prize: a tiny, personal gesture to reward curiosity, from India and Myanmar.
danionellaprize.xyz
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The Danionella Prize
https://danionellaprize.xyz/
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A beautiful carnivore just entered our plant collection! š±
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Most people donāt lack values -- they just lack the courage to live them when itās inconvenient to them. Integrity isnāt measured by what you say you care about -- itās what you do when no one else speaks up.
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what?!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A biocompatible Lossen rearrangement in Escherichia coli - Nature Chemistry
Biocompatible chemistry merges chemo-catalytic reactions with cellular metabolism for sustainable small-molecule synthesis. Now a biocompatible Lossen rearrangement has been demonstrated to control ba...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01845-5
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why is this called gold open access? is it because it is fixed at the price of 146.6 gm of gold?
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Good ideas can cross continents in seconds but take years to cross an office desk.
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In my weekly scan-every-journal marathon, last week I enjoyed reading this paper. Insightful work on 50,000 years of Indiaās genetic history and caste endogamy. I suspect colonial disruptions further amplified these disease burdens.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation
A genomic study of 2,762 individuals from India offers important insights into the genomic diversity and evolutionary history of the subcontinent and highlights the extensive genetic variation, gene f...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00462-3
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"America has done what no other country on earth could do." Indeed, and for many decades now. Interfering in international geopolitics that is none of their business.
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Indeed. I was fortunate to attend Dr. KK Rao's Genetic Engineering course and lab work at IIT Bombay before he retired.
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neural bloom.
openprocessing.org/sketch/2659017
(returning to processing after a really long time)
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neural bloom - Gokul Rajan - OpenProcessing
powered by neuronal voxel recording
https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2659017
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@ardemp.bskyverified.social
on how to science:
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@anumukherjee.bsky.social
and I made an interesting observation of how this geocentric clock stands right opp to the bell tower in Venice where Galileo would demo his telescope and later spend last decade of his life in house arrest for using this scope to support the Copernican heliocentric view
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few things that are always mind blowing about this: > the humbling vastness of the cosmos > the almost eerie similarity between brain cell networks and galaxy superclusters > and as
@3blue1brown.com
says, the sheer fact that we can even measure this
youtube.com/shorts/C8baN...
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Zooming out by powers of 10
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
https://youtube.com/shorts/C8baNzpnZ7o?si=6CRb6oxwZaM5myJw
8 months ago
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more reasons to have international scientific meetings in Europe and the global south. more accessible to a truly international audience. ahttps://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250320-french-scientist-denied-us-entry-over-text-messages-criticising-trump
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'Deplorable': French scientist denied US entry over text messages criticising Trump
French officials have expressed their dismay after a French scientist was denied entry into the United States because immigration officers found text messages containing a "personal opinion" about the...
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250320-french-scientist-denied-us-entry-over-text-messages-criticising-trump
8 months ago
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can you see the universe's high energy past? with cosmo-meter, i can try.
github.com/gklrajan/cos...
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GitHub - gklrajan/cosmometer
Contribute to gklrajan/cosmometer development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/gklrajan/cosmometer
9 months ago
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How ironic is it that we got an open-source, free-to-use AI from a Hedge Fund and a closed, 200 USD per month AI from a Non-Profit?
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