Tag Archives: K VijayRaghavan
Why not increase ISRO’s budget?
This post is in response to a question on Reddit about why the Indian government won’t increase ISRO’s space budget. There’s a good analogy in India’s research budget. As a share of the GDP, the national expenditure on R&D has … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Space, Indian Space Research Organisation, K VijayRaghavan, public outreach, Reddit, Sundar Sarukkai
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On the PSA’s new COVID-19 advisory
The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India, K. VijayRaghavan, has issued a new advisory emphasising the roles of “masks, distance, sanitation and ventilation” to end the country’s COVID-19 epidemic. Over the last few weeks, … Continue reading
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Tagged airborne transmission, behavioural economics, COVID-19 advisory, K VijayRaghavan, principal scientific advisor, vaccination centres, ventilation
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Preference for OA research by income group
Two researchers from Rwanda performed a “systematic computational analysis of the biomedical literature” and concluded in their paper that: … papers with authors based in sub-Saharan Africa, papers with authors based in low income countries, and papers resulting from international collaboration are … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelica, article processing charge, arXiv, bronze OA, coalition S, GDP per capita, gold OA, green OA, hybrid OA, income groups, K VijayRaghavan, Latin America, Open Access, Plan S, PLoS ONE, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank
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The March for Science, ed. 2018
K. VijayRaghavan, India’s new principal scientific advisor to the Government of India, has brought a lot of hope with him into the role as a result of his illustrious career as a biologist and former secretaryship with the Department of … Continue reading
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Tagged Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science and Technology, Economic Survey, gross expenditure on research and development, K VijayRaghavan, March for Science, pseudoscience, Sundar Sarukkai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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English as the currency of science’s practice
K. VijayRaghavan, the secretary of India’s Department of Biotechnology, has written a good piece in Hindustan Times about how India must shed its “intellectual colonialism” to excel at science and tech – particularly by shedding its obsession with the English language. … Continue reading
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Tagged English language, intellectual colonialism, K VijayRaghavan, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Nayodya Vidyalaya, scientific publishing
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