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Researchers at @tifr.res.in show that subsystem resetting—occasionally tweaking just a small part—can macroscopically steer the collective behavior of many-body systems.

Published in Physical Review Letters.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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What does boiling water have in common with the laws of the Universe?

Join #CambridgePhysicist David Tong at @TIFRScience as he unpacks renormalisation—a revolutionary idea in physics—with a pot of boiling water.

🗓️ Jan 7 | 5:30 PM
📍TIFR, Colaba

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January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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#PhDdefense Congratulations to Amal Mathew (@amalmathewkkt.bsky.social) on successfully defending his PhD at TIFR, Mumbai, under the guidance of Sandhya P. Koushika (@wormlockholmes.bsky.social), uncovering how neurons sort & transport molecular cargo with precision.

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October 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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From the Big Bang to black holes and dark energy—discover the epic story of our Universe with Nobel laureate Prof. Brian Schmidt!

🗓 June 5, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM
📍 Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR, Mumbai
Free & open to all (Photo ID required)
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June 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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#AwardAlert Prof. Anjana Badrinarayanan (@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social) and Prof. Sabyasachi Mukherjee (TIFR, Mumbai) have been awarded the Infosys Prize 2025 in Life Sciences and Mathematical Sciences, respectively.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Bibha Chowdhuri- physicist, & pioneering cosmic ray researcher from India.
After her PhD at The University of Manchester under PMS Blackett, she worked as a scientist @TIFRScience, Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad & the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. Read more: shorturl.at/ESp46
March 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Today marks the 116th birth anniversary of Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, who was born #OnThisDay in 1909. A visionary physicist, institution-builder, and founding director of TIFR, he laid the foundations of modern scientific research in India.

#HomiBhabha #FoundersDay #TIFRScience
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Dr. Kunika Gupta has officially defended her #PhD at
@tifrscience.bsky.social! Under the supervision of Prof. Ankona Datta, she developed fluorescent sensors that light up in the presence of copper ions in cells and living organisms. 🧵👇

#TIFRScience #PhDefense #DCS_TIFR #Sensors
April 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Announcing the Institute Colloquium, a new scientific lecture series to foster dialogue across disciplines within the TIFR academic community.

📍TIFR Mumbai

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August 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A digital cartoon book, 'Tuning Mental Frameworks' by TIFR faculty, Deepa Chari & Vandana Nanal, was recently released.

It explores themes of gender bias, imposter syndrome & implicit bias, encouraging reflection & dialogue on creating equitable, inclusive spaces in science.

#Booksky #TIFRScience
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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1/3 Did you know heating a liquid can sometimes turn it into a solid? @TIFRScience researchers just observed this rare effect, inverse melting, in a superconductor! The image below shows raw vortex motion—blurred when liquid, sharp when solid. 🧵👇
March 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Sleep is required for memory consolidation in fed flies. Sleep-dependent & independent memories are via different circuits. Ethanol fed flies sleep better but drives a switch to sleep-independent memory consolidation. Switch via a neuropeptide. Nitin Chouhan @TIFRScience #EMBOneuropeptides
December 7, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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1/ @tifr.res.in welcomed the #GS2026 batch of 67 students into its PhD & Integrated MSc-PhD programmes across the Colaba campus and #HBCSE. The orientation day gave them a glimpse of what lies ahead—labs, lectures, art, accelerators and more!
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August 20, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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TIFR is proud to celebrate Prof. Rajamani Vijayaraghavan as the inaugural recipient of the #Pancharatnam Prize for Excellence in Quantum Science and Technology, instituted by the Government of Karnataka.

#TIFRScience #QuantumComputing #QuantumIndia2025 #PancharatnamPrize #IndianScience #DRDO #TCS
August 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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How do bacteria outsmart stress & resist antibiotics? Dr. Amitesh Anand (@amiteshanand.bsky.social) discusses how 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 adapt when key energy pathways are blocked + why this matters for the future of antimicrobial therapies.
Read more: bit.ly/combatting-AMR
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April 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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4/ From serendipity to solid science, Kunika’s journey lights the way for new sensors in cell biology.

Paper: doi.org/10.1039/d3cc...

#WomenInSTEM #MetalBiology #TIFRScience #PhDefense
An activity-based fluorescent sensor with a penta-coordinate N-donor binding site detects Cu ions in living systems
An activity-based sensor afforded a 63 times fluorescence-enhancement with Cu2+/Cu+ ions and could image Cu2+/Cu+ in living cells and in a multicellular organism. The sensor functioned only in the pre...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Prof. Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas traced the cellular circuitry of development, disease, and context-dependent communication in biology, bridging fly genetics to cancer research at today’s #TIFR public lecture.

#TIFRScience #Notch
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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#AwardAlert Prof. Anish Ghosh & Prof. Mythily Ramaswamy from #TIFRScience have been elected as INSA Fellows for 2026.

Their pioneering work in number theory, dynamics & control theory continues to advance mathematical sciences.

More: tifr.res.in/~scicomm/awa...
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Congratulations to Dr. Smitaroopa Kahali for defending her #PhD in Chemical Sciences at @TIFRScience! Working with Prof. Ankona Datta, she developed fluorescent sensors to track ions in living cells.

Read her work: orcid.org/0009-0004-50... #WomenInSTEM
August 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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4/ Currently a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego's Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (@HDSIUCSD), Neha continues to advance research in information theory.

Read more about her work here: sites.google.com/view/nehasan...

#InformationTheory #CyberSecurity #IEEE #Byzantine #TIFRScience
May 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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A privilege and honor to work on this with @viditavaidya.bsky.social and late Dr.Ashok Vaidya - dedicating this to his inspiring mentorship and memory. Collaboration: TIFRScience- ViditaVaidya lab, and KHS-MRC, Dr. Lal Hingorani, Kowshik Kukkemane, Utkarsha Ghai UllasKolthur
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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What lies beyond the Standard Model?
Join Prof. Matthias Neubert (@mainzuniversity.bsky.social) for the 6th D.P. Roy Memorial Lecture — “Landscapes of Fundamental Physics”.

🗓 Oct 13, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM | 📍 TIFR, Mumbai

More details: theory.tifr.res.in/DPRML

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October 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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#AwardAlert Dr. Amitesh Anand (faculty, DBS, @tifr.res.in) has been selected as an INSA Associate Fellow in Molecular & Cell Biology, and Dr. Shilpi Jain (faculty, DHEP, @tifr.res.in) has been selected as an INSA Young Associate in Physics.

Read more: tifr.link/cuqcam

#TIFRScience #INSA #IAF #IYA
June 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Anusha Shankar (@tifrhyderabad.bsky.social) delivered a Popular Lecture at @TIFRScience on the occasion of Founder's Day, exploring how tiny birds master light & energy to thrive in changing environments.

This year marks Dr. Homi J. Bhabha’s 116th birth anniversary (October 30).

#FoundersDay
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Read the full coverage on the TIFR Science Communication website: www.tifr.res.in/~scicomm/spo...

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Subsystem Resetting: TIFR researchers discover a new route to control phase transitions in complex systems
Researchers in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, have discovered that instead of manipulating every component or modifying interactions in...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM