Vikram Iyer

Worked on this project last year. Glad to see it see the light of day :')

Delighted to announce that I shall be joining IISER Mohali for a PhD in the Department of Biological Sciences. Hope to do lots of exciting and useful science in ecology and evolutionary biology.

I am especially grateful to Arun Ravi, Akshay Bharadwaj, Dhrubojyoti Patra, and Balaji Chattopadhyay for their feedback, and Devapriya Chattopadhyay for introductions.

We match each accepted marine species to its synonyms and calculate metrics of synonymization, with some very strong results with interesting implications! Do check out the manuscript for more.

Species synonyms depict changing but taxon-independent taxonomic praxis What constitutes a single species is ultimately arbitrary, resulting in idiosyncrasies in taxonomic praxis determining species counts. One consequence of this arbitrariness is taxonomic synonymization...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here is something that a friend, mentee, and junior of mine from @IISERPune had been working on for the past year or so.

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Something that might be of interest:

Over the past two years, I have been blogging about the flora of India on Instagram, with each post being one plant from India's flora. Just recently crossed 600 species :D

www.instagram.com/thefloraofin...