IndSciComm podcasts

IndSciComm is a science communication collective founded and run by Abhishek Chari and Shruti Muralidhar. Our goal is to communicate science in a clear and concise manner to the Indian public at large. We also help Indian and Indian origin scientists communicate their research and interests. This is our podcast feed. To know more about us and our work visit https://indscicomm.blog

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A Soupçon of Scicomm with Manan Gupta on Evolution and Niche construction

Manan Gupta talks to us about how reading Richard Dawkins helped him change his interests, how subject boundaries are artificially created and his current graduate work on Evolution and Niche construction. Tune in! Links: Manan’s Google Scholar Nandini’s work on Asian Elephants Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker JNCASR’s Evolutionary Biology Unit Further reading on Niche construction Background sounds from the BBC Sound effects archive Copyright 2018 BBC Episode music from the Free Music Archive. Spr...

Apr 26, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Reema Jayakar on the Universality of human emotions

Can you feel somebody else’s emotions? Pain, frustration, relief and even happiness? Humans might be one of the very few species that can do this with remarkable fidelity! Reema Jayakar explains how understanding this universality of emotions was a turning point for her as a neuropsychologist. Links: Reema on Twitter

Apr 12, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Vijay Ramesh on using history to study ecology

Vijay Ramesh talks to us about why its important to learn from the past so that we can effectively predict our future – not just for global warming, but also for bird migrations! Links: Vijay Ramesh on Twitter Vijay Ramesh’s website National Geographic’s interactive article on bird migrations in the Americas...

Apr 05, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Anusha Shankar on hummingbirds and energy budgets

Hummingbirds are some of the tiniest birds with one of the highest metabolism rates ever found in the animal kingdom. Listen to Anusha Shankar explain how they manage to sleep at night and not die of starvation! Links: Anusha’s website Anusha’s twitter Anusha is a National Geographic Explorer ! End music – “Hawaiian Winter” from Hooksounds...

Mar 29, 20180

Shoot the Shit – 2

Listen to our first ever yearly round-up of what we do for work, in our free time, our favourite shows and our scientific, nerdy and geeky pet peeves.

Mar 27, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Arnab Dasgupta on Cosmology

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of Starship IndSciComm. Its continuing mission – to explore strange new science. To seek out new scientists and new explanations. To boldly go where no one has gone before. Links: Six Easy Pieces Feynman’s lectures LIGO , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO Baryonic asymmetry Beauty factory Quark Antimatter (from NASA Science News ) Higgs Boson General Relativity...

Mar 27, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Deeptha Vasudevan on Zebrafish and Neurogenesis

Deeptha thinks Zebrafish are the coolest fish in the world. Probably even the coolest animal ever? Do you know why? Listen! Links: Zebrafish are native to the Himalayan region! The Dorsky Lab at the University of Utah General introduction to Zebrafish and studying their brain – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZDwo20hl1E Zebrafish embryogenesis – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ6vkDr_Dec...

Mar 27, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Shrinivasan Raghuraman on cone snails that hunt

Shrinivasan Raghuraman studies some really shy animals. But they hunt, taser, harpoon and even suck blood! Want to learn more? Press Play! Related links – Shrini’s work on cone snail toxins and other cellular profiling Baldomero “Toto” Olivera’s laboratory A hunting cone snail A net hunting cone snail Vampire snails Artist: All Free Sound Effects Song: Telephone Ring Pick Up Download/Stream: https://audiograb.com/UcwwPO9I...

Mar 27, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Chintan Sheth on Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Chintan Sheth can fly to any spot on the planet, whenever he wants. In fact, he can even fly to Mars if he so wishes! He can do this with a click and a scroll. He wants to tell you that you can too! Listen to him talk about his work! Links – Chintan on Twitter Global Explorer Chintan’s writing in The Wire Chintan’s work featured in The Indian Express...

Mar 27, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Devayani Khare on Citizen Science

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-hel...

Mar 27, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Vaishali Rawat on the importance of Geography

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://ranthambhorefounda...

Mar 27, 20180

A Soupçon of SciComm with Parshati Patel on planet formation

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.

Mar 27, 2018•8 sec

The Curious Case of Dr.Nobel and Mr.IgNobel

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!

Oct 25, 20170

Shoot the Shit – 1

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.

Mar 27, 20170

About us

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 inter...

Feb 27, 20170

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