The AXL-Golgi story... has two parts, both of which are now published. 1) AXL receptor tyrosine kinase regulates Golgi organization and function via an adhesion-Arf1 signaling axis in breast and lung cancer cell lines tinyurl.com/AXLGolgi1 @BiologyOpen 2) Differential AXL expression and Arf1 regulation control stiffness-dependent Golgi organization in breast cancer cells tinyurl.com/AXLGolgi2 @J_Cell_Sci Together, they make for a comprehensive story identifying the role of AXL in controlling Golgi organization and its regulation by mechanosensory cues (matrix stiffness). Work started as a simple screen by Prachi to pick AXL as a gene of interest, taken forward by @ArnavSaha19 and @Tush96rkhane. Supported ably by many others. It's also nice to be able to use data from Vibhas's @SVibha1 studies in this paper, as she identified the adhesion-Golgi connection many years ago. Congratulations to all involved in this study, which was challenging and exciting in equal measure.

US–India TRUST Fellowship 2026–27 opens at IIT Madras: Check complete details here timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.” — Hubert Reeves

Breaking News: David Hockney, the English artist whose colorful paintings restored the human form to art, defying the abstract schools of the mid-20th century, died at 88. nyti.ms/3S4k0Fx

🔔🔔 First Paper Alert🔔🔔 Our first paper from the #sudarshanlab. This #ToolsandResources article in @J_Cell_Sci establishes the repertoire of TTLLs beyond their canonical substrates, #microtubules 😊 Read more: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.264734 @DBT_inStem, @institut_curie

*Very Long Post: In Jaspal Rana today, I lost a hero - not an athlete, not a coach, not a friend. I lost a hero. Growing up, we used to read about Jaspal Rana in the papers for his achievements, especially after his heroics in 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima. Those days, some of his classmates (all older than me) from Ramjas School, RK Puram, used to stay in our society. He would often come with his other friends in a white Maruti Jypsy car to visit his friends to our society. I met him for the first time in late 90s, when we would be winding up our cricket matches and switched to tennis ball cricket in the evening. He would carry always have a baseball bat in the car and would ask us ‘2-4 balls mujhe bhi khilaao.’ We would not hesitate even though we had realised after a few days that he wanted to just hit them as far as possible. Then, with his friends, he would take us for a drive in that white Gypsy - that was the first time I realised a car could do such manoeuvres. Jaspal Rana had become a huge figure back then, someone who would win India its first Olympic medal in shooting, and I was happy to share these timeless moments with him. And then, he was gone. Years later, I met him in 2010 and I narrated him the stories of all those days, and he was so happy to go back in time. My profession allowed me to follow him as an athlete and then as a coach, and there were times when people would say things about him, used athletes as bait to ridicule him. I never liked it. After all, he was my hero. To change an existing order, there comes a man, who disrupts the arrangement for good. Jaspal Rana was that disruptor. At the Paris Olympics in 2024, he was with Manu Bhaker as her coach. He didn’t have an accreditation because the authorities chose not to. He would stay in a rented accommodation, cook his own food and would get tickets to the venue when Manu and his other shooters were competing. Never the one to mince words, unapologetic, a disruptor and my Hero. The picture below is from the Paris Olympics when @realmanubhaker had already won two bronze and we were heading out of the venue in a golf cart. So satisfied these two seemed, and I noticed an ever-lasting relation between a coach and his ward. One of the most lasting images for me from those Games.

So happy to announce my debut novel… after publishing over 50 non-fiction books, this novel feels special. Expected out by October this year from @WestlandBooks

Honoring Madhav Gadgil, the pioneering Indian ecologist whose work advanced biodiversity conservation, citizen science, and indigenous rights. His work helped shape modern ecological research and people-centered environmental policy in India and beyond: ow.ly/Jroe50ZbgGB

Rest in peace, Jaspal - you will always be remembered with deep affection, respect and gratitude.

Chromosome Stability 2026 in Kerala, India, registration is open now at conference.iisertvm.ac.in/cs… @tvmiiser @jncasr @bose_institute @IndiaDST

A quick summary of the lab's research interests and outcomes, presented by Radhika and Vaishnavi from the lab for @kiranshaw yesterday. The hope was to capture a flavour of the questions our lab and several other labs presenting are working on at @IISERPune.

The wonderful @bbclysedoucet wins the Women's Prize for Non-fiction! Here is my @guardian review of her winning book: theguardian.com/books/2025/o…

It was an honour to be hosted by Director Sunil Bhagwatji at @IISERPune and share my perspective on research innovation & entrepreneurship. My message: taking ideas from lab to market requires start ups to scale. Industry linkages r vital to help startups to scale.

In a recent conversation with @knowtimetofly, historian and Infosys Prize 2023 laureate @JahnaviPhalkey discusses why science is more than facts and formulas. From the history of nuclear physics in India to the role of public spaces like Science Gallery Bengaluru (@SciGalleryBlr), she talks about why context matters and how science connects with the world around us. Enjoy the full conversation. #infosysprize #jahnaviphalkey #historyofscience #scienceeducation #scientificresearch #researchindia #publicengagement #indianscience #STEM youtube.com/watch?v=rCmZnemP…

Beautifully put. "What died in Chennai wasn’t simply a director but a cartography: a way of locating Tamil cinema in the Tamil earth. Before him, the village existed in Tamil film as a painted flat, a studio pastoral through which stars in unsoiled veshtis strolled toward the interval. After him – after a single film in 1977 – the village became the screen’s native country, and the studio became the exile."

Not something you see everyday

Thoughtful talk and conversation by @kiranshaw at @IISERPune . Paraphrasing, the need for not just being able to generate ideas that will create new startups but most importantly be able to scale them for their impact to be real.

A different kind of AURORA-B

End of an era thehindu.com/entertainment/m…