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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್

@vishuguttal.bsky.social
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Professor, Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc.

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We’re thrilled to welcome Raghavendra Gadagkar from @iiscbangalore for our next CASCB Summer Seminar Series talk! 🐝 Join us at 12:00 to explore how nutrition shapes caste and social roles in a primitively eusocial wasp. 📍ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
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Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de
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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 22/05/2025
NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Pranav Minasandra @pminasandra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I just got word that this federal transportation grant was terminated today, despite us removing the word "climate" from the title. The moral of the story? Obeying orders doesn't keep you safe with this administration.
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Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena @emergencediep.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📐Excited to have Vishwesha Guttal @vishuguttal.bsky.social (Professor from IISC, Bangalore) tomorrow 11am for our weekly DIEP seminar! Vishwesha will discuss the role of stochasticity in biogical systems such as animals 🐼 Interested? You can register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Since we've moved platforms, I thought I'd make a new explainer thread for our (Aamir Sadiq, @vishuguttal.bsky.social, Rohini Balakrishnan, and I) recent paper on tree crickets. Meet Oecanthus henryi. Like in many cricket species, O. henryi males call to attract mates. #science #evobio 🌍 🧬
Picture of male Oecanthus henryiPicture of male Oecanthus henryi
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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Lab group pictures, which somehow did not upload!
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Our lab went for a little field trip retreat. Semi-arid rocky landscapes are absolutely amazing!
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I’m certainly not a superwoman but it’s so exciting to be featured in a comic that I grew up reading 🥳 😇 @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social #TinkleMagazine
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National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#NewComicAlert! We are back with another inspiring comic with Tinkle Magazine featuring cognitive and behavioural neuroscientist Dr Abhilasha Joshi! 🧠 🐀 Happy reading! Download your free copy here: bit.ly/ncbsxtinklec... @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social #sciencecomics #womenscientists
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.
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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This hasn't gotten much attention—but new National Science Foundation grants have dropped by almost half since Trump took office, an analysis by @davidimiller.bsky.social shows. www.science.org/content/arti... (Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)
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NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office
The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 01/04/2025
🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram
Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
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PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Science & the innovation economy are under threat. "We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated." Read & share ... 👇
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Vidita Vaidya @viditavaidya.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Bombay in spring from the @tifrscience.bsky.social campus - the fleeting window of time before summer descend in full blazing glory!
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Follow-up #substack post (5 min read) on the consequences of yesterday's ad-hoc termination by HHS of virus research spanning antiviral therapeutics, vaccines, immunology and more. Bottom-line: a bad decision for science and policy. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/on-the-mis...
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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Some very cool work by @arshed.bsky.social and @vishuguttal.bsky.social!
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
ನಬೀಲ್ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರರು ಸ್ಟೋಕಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಸಮಯ ಸರಣಿಯ ದತ್ತಾಂಶದಿಂದ ಸೈದ್ಧಾಂತಿಕ ಪರಿಸರ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನದ ಮಾದರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವ ವಿಧಾನವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತಪಡಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಈ ದತ್ತಾಂಶ-ಚಾಲಿತ ವಿಧಾನವು ಪರಿಸರ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತಗಳ ಪ್ರಾಯೋಗಿಕ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಜ್ಞಾತ ತತ್ವಗಳನ್ನು ಕಂಡುಹಿಡಿಯಲು ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಮುದ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಈಗಲೇ ಓದಿ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the AMS Math Programs page remains unavailable. We have put together a new application site, applications now due April 4. We will make expedited decisions. Travel awards available. bit.ly/phageschool2... Please share. The Summer School is on!
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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hello World! After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :) We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The ASN Early Career Investigator Awards recognize outstanding work by 4 researchers who have received their doctorates in the past 3 years. Recipients include: Ashwini Ramesh directory.natsci.msu.edu/directory/Pr... 3/N
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Directory | College of Natural Science | Michigan State University
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Hey folks, its time to celebrate some outstanding scientists & science. The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social gives out a variety of awards each year. It is my great privilege to announce this year’s slate of awards. These will also be announced in the next ASN newsletter. 1/N
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”
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NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.
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Saskya van Nouhuys @saskyavn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Open Day 2025 at IISc! CES was packed with members of the public, student groups and neighbors exploring ecology and Evolution, and the PoCo Eco lab activities were great!
crowd doing insect puzzles and looking at LepidopteraCrowd playing an interactive game about pollination and seed dispersalGroup photo of PoCoEco labCrowd playing an educational computer game about parasitoid wasp venom
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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
See here for the paper itself: bsky.app/profile/asn-...
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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
amnat.org/an/newpapers... Nice to see Tahirah Williams' fantastic layperson summary of our ( @vishuguttal.bsky.social and I) Synthesis work on demographic stochasticity and eco-evolutionary dynamics out on the @asn-amnat.bsky.social webpage! #evolsky #evolution #mathsky #physky #philbio 🧪🧬🌏
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How Randomness Can Flip Evolution: New Study Uncovers Surprising Role of Population Noise
<p>Read about &ldquo;Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics for Finite Populations and the Noise-Induced Reversal of Selection&rdquo; by Ananda Shikhara Bhat and Vishwesha Guttal (Jan&nbsp;2025)</p><br/>
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Trajan Hammonds @starlord37.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n
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Viraj Torsekar | विराज तोरसेकर @virajtorsekar.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Excited to announce our symposium on the 'maintenance of trait variation under sexual selection' as a part of the Behaviour 2025 conference scheduled August 25-30 in Kolkata, India. Send in your abstracts! 1/2
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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
T2 was solving some division problems. Every time I explained some steps, she would crosscheck with T1 and believed me only after T1 confirmed. Not once, every time! My ego is now bruised 🤣.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@asn-amnat.bsky.social has an open call for proposals for a symposium in the Virtual Evolution meeting. It would be especially nice to get proposals that go against current US political trends: on climate, education, underrepresented voices, etc. give someone a lift up.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So today, of all days, I want to share a brief note of thanks to the international group of folks who joined our team because they believe in the mission and the power of collaboration and imagination and discovery.
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A new paper from CES colleague Umesh Srinivasan's lab at CES @iiscbangalore -- led by former UG student @AkshayBirdwatch -- on social networks in mixed-species flocks.
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Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/01/2025
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
These fast-moving and chaotic efforts to dismantle government - our government - will come with consequences. Government is not a website built for clicks. But if DOGE and others turn it into one, we will certainly be far worse off. /🧵
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 31/01/2025
Want to hire someone to build a highway? Feed a military base? Conduct cancer research? Develop a new fighter jet? Forget about it! Why would they trust you to pay up if a president can just cancel your contract or refuse to pay up at any time for no other reason than they just don't like it? 🧵
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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A new paper from CES colleague Umesh Srinivasan's lab at CES @iiscbangalore -- led by former UG student @AkshayBirdwatch -- on social networks in mixed-species flocks.
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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Prof Irfan Rashid from the Department of Botany, Kashmir University -- who is visiting our lab at CES @iiscbangalore as an INSA visiting scientist -- gave an insightful talk on plant invasions in Kashmir Himalayas.
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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Vivek Hari Sridhar @vivekhsridhar.bsky.social, a postdoc from Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, soon a faculty at the University of Washington Seatle, gave an excellent talk at CES @iiscbangalore on integrating neuronal behaviour to the individual to the collective animal motion!
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