The ear's organ of Corti as a model system of how developmental instructions coordinate across spatial scales so that tissues are sculpted reproducibly 📷 @prakash-patterns.bsky.social et al @tifr.res.in in @plosbiology.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

A 19-page article in the National Geographic that covers the work of @uramakri.bsky.social @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @tifr.res.in on black tigers, mutation load and corridors for tiger migration. Important story and impactful work. 👏🏾 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Glimpses from the recently held theatre showcase by Nilanjan P. Choudhury & team organised by @cbmncbs.bsky.social @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @tifr.res.in @rpadinjat.bsky.social youtu.be/yxCqBRZp5d0

In this #JournalClub 🚨 Bansal and Mazumder discuss a study that investigated the interplay between three-dimensional genome structure and mutational load in cancer. @tifr.res.in#JournalClub📖⬇️

We can adapt and cope with the stress. But prolonged stress can affect the brain, changing how one feels, think, and even remember. This Sunday, Prof. Vidita Vaidya (@viditavaidya.bsky.social) shall discuss how chronic stress can set the stage for decline in brain functions. #neuroskyence

📢 Inviting participation to the Neuroscience Research Symposium #Manotsava @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social themed Emerging biology of neuropsychiatric disorders. www.ncbs.res.in/cbm/neurosci... Register by September 07, 2025- tinyurl.com/3ycccubv 1/2

Shouvik Chatterjee's group at @tifr.res.in has found that stretching of Mn₃Sn thin films unlocks surprising new magnetic & electronic properties. A simple directional strain transforms its spin arrangement—turning symmetry into functionality. Read more here: www.tifr.res.in/~scicomm/spo...

1/n The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (@tifr.res.in) welcomed 75 new GS 2025 students in the PhD and Integrated MSc-PhD programmes offered at the Colaba campus and the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. @shubhatole.bsky.social

Announcing the Institute Colloquium, a new scientific lecture series to foster dialogue across disciplines within the TIFR academic community. 📍TIFR Mumbai #InstituteColloquium #ScienceAtTIFR #AcademicLife #TIFRScience

TIFR is proud to celebrate Prof. Rajamani Vijayaraghavan as the inaugural recipient of the #Pancharatnam Prize for Excellence in Quantum Science and Technology, instituted by the Government of Karnataka. #TIFRScience #QuantumComputing #QuantumIndia2025 #PancharatnamPrize #IndianScience #DRDO #TCS

Congratulations to Dr. Smitaroopa Kahali for defending her #PhD in Chemical Sciences at @TIFRScience! Working with Prof. Ankona Datta, she developed fluorescent sensors to track ions in living cells. Read her work: orcid.org/0009-0004-50... #WomenInSTEM

The Mega Science Vision–2035 report in High Energy Physics (HEP), with @tifr.res.in as the Nodal Scientific Institute, was released on 31 July 2025 by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. #MegaScienceVision2035 #HEP #HighEnergyPhysics

Congratulations to Dr. Maneesha Narayanan for a successful #PhDdefense at the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Sciences, @tifr.res.in! Working with Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya, she explored the hidden powers of β-Ga₂O₃—an unsung hero among wide-bandgap semiconductors. 🧵👇 #WomenInSTEM

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Sen for a successful #PhDdefense at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, @tifr.res.in! Sumit uncovered how mTOR shapes microscopic surface patterns—microridges—on epithelial cells using zebrafish embryos. Read the pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵👇

India’s growing success at Int'l science & math Olympiads reflects years of consistent groundwork by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education with steadfast support from the Department of Atomic Energy. We are deeply grateful to the Government of India & our Hon’ble PM for powering this journey!

TIFR's Wednesday Colloquium steps into an exciting new chapter with Prof. Manoj Puravankara taking over as coordinator! Looking forward to a season of carefully curated, thought-provoking talks that spark ideas and conversations around science. #TIFR #WednesdayColloquium

This was a brilliant public talk @tifr.res.in by Nobel laureate Prof. Brian Schmidt. It was informative, simple to understand for people outside the field, funny & inspiring. You can watch a recording here. youtube.com/watch?v=awik...

From the Big Bang to black holes and dark energy—discover the epic story of our Universe with Nobel laureate Prof. Brian Schmidt! 🗓 June 5, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM 📍 Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR, Mumbai Free & open to all (Photo ID required) #TIFRScience #PublicLecture #ScienceForAll

Join us for TIFR's inaugural Art & Archives Colloquium for a rare glimpse into the formative years of the TIFR art collection by Mortimer Chatterjee. Open to all who register by sending an email to [email protected] . #ArtatTIFR

What is life? Find out from Nobel laureate Paul Nurse as he explores 5 big ideas in biology! Join us for a public lecture at the Homi Bhabha Auditorium on May 30, 2025 (Friday). Open to all (photo ID required) #TIFRScience #PublicLecture #ScienceForAll #NobelLaureate

Siva Athreya, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and Ashoke Sen, three senior faculty members at ICTS, have been awarded the prestigious 2025 INSA Distinguished Lecture Fellowship. More details on the INSA website: insaindia.res.in/scroll_news_...

Can we turn CO₂ into something useful and make clean chemicals at the same time? TIFR researchers Payal Allawadhi & Deepa Khushalani have built a distinctive electrolyzer that does just that—producing formate and hydrogen peroxide in a redox reaction, using the same electrolyte!

Congratulations to Dr. Debojyoti Roy on a successful #PhDdefense at the Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai! His research shines new light—literally—on chemical reactions inside organic nanocages. 🧵👇 #TIFRScience #ChemistryInIndia

Dr. Neha Sangwan has been awarded the 2025 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award by the IEEE Information Theory Society (@ieee_itsoc) for her work on secure communication in adversarial networks. Official @IEEEAwards citation here: www.itsoc.org/news/2025-th... 🧵👇

#PhDefense Souvik Kundu has successfully defended his PhD thesis at @tifr.res.in! His research focused on spin-1 frustrated magnets and their behavior when arranged in a unique lattice structure, the ‘kagome’ lattice. Here's a glimpse into his work. 🧵👇

🔵 We're officially verified on Bluesky! TIFR's Bluesky account is now @tifr.res.in, verified via our domain. Follow us here for updates in science, research, and campus life! (Previously: @tifrscience.bsky.social) #TIFR #Bluesky #ScienceCommunication

Dr. Kunika Gupta has officially defended her #PhD at @tifrscience.bsky.social! Under the supervision of Prof. Ankona Datta, she developed fluorescent sensors that light up in the presence of copper ions in cells and living organisms. 🧵👇 #TIFRScience #PhDefense #DCS_TIFR #Sensors

How do bacteria outsmart stress & resist antibiotics? Dr. Amitesh Anand (@amiteshanand.bsky.social) discusses how 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 adapt when key energy pathways are blocked + why this matters for the future of antimicrobial therapies. Read more: bit.ly/combatting-AMR #TIFRScience #AMR #Microbiology

Big news in physics! The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to over 13,500 scientists across ATLAS, CMS, ALICE & LHCb at CERN's LHC — including TIFR's Department of High Energy Physics. @cmsexperiment.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social #BreakthroughPrize #TIFR

#AwardAlert: Anirban Chakraborty (NCRA) wins the Prof. S. Naranan Memorial Research Scholarship 2024 for his paper, Modelling the Star-Formation Activity and Ionizing Properties of High-Redshift Galaxies, co-authored with Tirthankar Roy Choudhury! 🧵👇

Join us in congratulating Unmesh Ghorai on successfully defending his PhD thesis at TIFR! 🥳 His research journey has taken us deep into the quantum landscape of twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG) — a system where a little twist leads to big surprises. 🧵 #PhDDefense

Last Sunday’s #ChaiAndWhy featured @wormlockholmes.bsky.social, who introduced us to the mighty C. elegans—a tiny transparent worm that’s powered research behind 4 Nobel Prizes! How can just 302 neurons teach us so much about life? Through curiosity-driven science. #ScienceForAll #Neuroscience

LIVE from TIFR: Prof. Ashoke Sen on why particles might not be particles at all. What if electrons are just vibrations of a string? Why haven’t we seen the string? Because it’s tiny—like, 10⁻⁴³ cm tiny. Gravity, dimensions, black holes, phases of reality—this is string theory.

Excited for today's public talk at TIFR but can't attend in person? 🔗 Join us live at 5 PM: tinyurl.com/AshokeSen-TIFR #TIFR #PublicLecture #StringTheory #AshokeSen

The deadline for applying to the LIDS PhD program at TIFR via the GATE channel has been extended! See STCS admissions page for more details: tcs.tifr.res.in/web/admissions

What connects Salvador Dalí’s surreal art to cutting-edge physics? Join us as Prof. Michelangelo Mangano (@cern.bsky.social) explores the interplay between the visible and invisible in fundamental physics & art. 📅 April 9, 2025 |🕠 5:30 PM 📍 TIFR (Colaba campus) 🔗 Live webcast available!

Join us for an exciting public talk by Prof. Ashoke Sen, one of the most influential theoretical physicists of our time, as he unravels the fascinating ways string theory manifests across physics. 📅 April 7, 2025 🕔 5:00 PM 📍 Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR, Colaba Open to all. Carry a photo ID.

Congratulations to @poonamchandra.bsky.social & Sanjay Sane (@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social) on their election as INSA Fellows. Their outstanding contributions to radio astronomy & insect flight biology, respectively, continue to push scientific frontiers. More details: insaindia.res.in/recent-elect...

Prof. P.C. Agrawal has received the ASI Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award (2024) at the 43rd ASI Meeting, Rourkela! A pioneer in X-ray astronomy in India, he led AstroSat and LAXPC, and played a key role in major telescopes. 👏 Congratulations, Prof. Agrawal!

Day 1 of #YAM2025 at TIFR, Mumbai! From pulsars to protoplanetary discs, young astronomers showcased cutting-edge research across 4 sessions yesterday! Standout talks on black hole accretion, dark matter searches, and exoplanet formation. Conference details here: sites.google.com/view/yam2025...

Interested in joining the PhD program in Learning, Information and Data Sciences at TIFR, Mumbai? GATE-based applications are open now. Last date: 31 March 2025. See STCS admissions page for more details: tcs.tifr.res.in/web/admissions

Calling women students in Math! The School of Mathematics at TIFR (Mumbai) is organising Vigyan Vidushi 2025, an enriching 2-week summer school in Mathematics for women. Applications close on March 31! Check eligibility at mathweb.tifr.res.in/vigyanvidushi

1/3 Did you know heating a liquid can sometimes turn it into a solid? @TIFRScience researchers just observed this rare effect, inverse melting, in a superconductor! The image below shows raw vortex motion—blurred when liquid, sharp when solid. 🧵👇

1/5 Congratulations to Aritra Gon on successfully defending his PhD at TIFR! His research sheds light on how the cosmic microwave background (CMB) carries clues about the universe’s large-scale structure. #PhDDefense

Bidirectional movement: In simulations with motor teams, Kinesin never gets a chance against dynein for movement. Catch-bonded dynein inactivates it and gives Kinesin a chance to move. Motor regulatory proteins can also bias movement. Roop Mallik, IIT-Bombay #MSS2025 by @tifrscience.bsky.social

Cholesterol binding to GPCR occurs thru CRAC motifs & is imp for endocytosis, function. GPCR signalling differs when it in endosomes v/s plasma membrane. Amitabha Chattopadhyay, CCMB #MSS2025 @tifrscience.bsky.social

Congratulations to Pranshu Gaba (@pranshugaba.bsky.social) for winning the ICLA 2025 Best Student Paper Award for the paper, "Recognizing Numbers." Pranshu is a graduate student at the School of Technology & Computer Science (STCS), TIFR, Mumbai. #Mathematics #ComputerScience #TIFR #Logic #STEM

Join us for a Public Lecture by Prof. John Cryan on "Gut Feelings" as he dissects the links between gut health and the brain. See you at 4 pm today at TIFR, Mumbai. We have a "Gut feeling" that you should attend!

Dr. Shubha Tole (@shubhatole.bsky.social), faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at TIFR's Mumbai Campus, is the new President-Elect of the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO)! Watch her inspiring @bbcnewsmarathi interview: youtu.be/Y50lV-OAdNQ

Calling all women in CS/EE/ECE/Maths/Stats! The School of Technology & Computer Science (STCS) at TIFR, Mumbai, is organising Vigyan Vidushi 2025, a 2-week summer school in Computer Science for women. Check eligibility at 🔗 www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~stcs-vv-25/ #WomenInSTEM #VigyanVidushi #TIFR