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commemoration

Eight years

On June 1 last year, I wrote: Today, I complete seven years
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democracy

Retrospective: The Wire Science in 2019

At the start of 2019, The Wire Science decided to focus more
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cynicism

The gaudy-hued beast

When you wake up in the morning to news of four people
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Chandrayaan 2

Firstpost's selfish journalism

I’m sure you’ve heard of the concept of false balance,
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chemical engineering

Diversifying into other beats

I delivered my annual talk AMA at the NCBS science writing workshop
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140 characters

The blog and the social media

Because The Wire had signed up to be some kind of A-listed
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mainstream media

Some empathy for Treebeard's privilege

There’s a line from The Two Towers (2002) that’s really
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conflict of interest

Talking scicomm at NCBS – II

I was invited to speak to the students of the annual science
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Bt brinjal

GM crops, etc.

There’s been a flurry of stories in my inbox since India’
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If Nautilus is so good, why is it doing so bad?

From Undark – Award-winning Nautilus enters rough waters For all the good news
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2016

The metaphorical transparency of responsible media

Featured image credit: dryfish/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. I’d written
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blackholes

The nomenclature of uncertainty

The headline of a Nature article published on December 9 reads ‘LIGO
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