Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್

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...

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

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/...

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.

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 ⚛️🔭

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🚨 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)

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone

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)

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.

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...

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.

📐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...

Picture of male Oecanthus henryi

Picture of male Oecanthus henryi

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 🌍 🧬

Lab group pictures, which somehow did not upload!

Our lab went for a little field trip retreat. Semi-arid rocky landscapes are absolutely amazing!

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

#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

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.

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

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)

Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.

🚀 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

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...

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 ... 👇

Bombay in spring from the @tifrscience.bsky.social campus - the fleeting window of time before summer descend in full blazing glory!

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

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.

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

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graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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.

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...

Some very cool work by @arshed.bsky.social and @vishuguttal.bsky.social!

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/...

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.

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Please share. The Summer School is on!

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

Congratulations Thejasvi!!!