IndSciComm podcasts IndSciComm

Here is a 35 min podcast if you want to know more about who we are.

We are a trio. We owe our childhood to growing up in different Indian cities – on a staple of books, street-food, music and of course, science. We met during our undergraduate years at Acharya Narendra Dev College, in the University of Delhi. We went on to do different things after completing our Bachelors degrees’ in Biomedical Science.

We are passionate about science in its various forms and beyond our immediate research interests. We hope to enthuse people with our fondness as we experienced from a family member, a teacher or a scientist.

Our belief is that stripping of science from the constructed notions of a scientist (bookish, nerdy, lab-coat wearing and loner) will go a long way to get the general public interested. This is hence an attempt to open a dialogue on scientific issues… be it an interesting article from a research group or an engrossing talk or podcast and or even a conversation at the intersection of science and society.

Comments and suggestions are welcome here or on twitter @IndSciComm. Our views are personal and do not reflect those of our employers past or present.

Here is our first ever Shoot the Shit episode – we talk about Smart watches, the now-defunct company Pebble and Shruti’s father’s new love – Alexa, Amazon’s personal assistant.

Listen to our new podcast where we talk about our favourite Nobel and IgNobel science – all with a dash of nerd-ery, geekiness and lots of science jokes!

We talk to Parshati Patel who is an Astronomer turned Science Communicator and currently works as an Education and Outreach Program co-ordinator at Western University in London, Ontario in Canada. Parshati talks to us about visualising and understanding how planets form.

In this edition of our mini-podcast series, we talk to Vaishali Rawat who is a writer and conservation advocate at Wildlife Conservation Society in India. She is also Sanctuary Asia Magazine’s Young Naturalist of the year for 2017. She talks to us about the importance of ecology, wildlife conservation and geography in our everyday lives.

References:


Wildlife Conservation Society India – http://www.wcsindia.org/
Prerna Singh Bindra – http://prernabindra.com/
Tiger Link – http://ranthambhorefoundation.org/tiger-link/
http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/people/earth-heroes/10742-vaishali-rawat.html

Devayani Khare is a Geomorphologist who talks to us about Citizen Science and all the different ways in which normal everyday people can get involved in doing science.

Links –


Devayani on Twitter – https://twitter.com/Geo_Sophist
Devayani’s posts on the Travel Scope blog – http://travelscopeindia.com/blog/?author=2
India Biodiversity Portal – http://indiabiodiversity.org/
Article on Citizen science projects in India – https://indiabioscience.org/columns/indian-scenario/how-citizen-science-is-helping-solve-indias-environmental-challenges
Seasonwatch – run by the NCBS
Zooniverse – an archive of citizen science projects
Eyewire – Reconstructing neurons in 3D