@quantumpranav

Space/Science Historian | Astrophysicist | DPhil Student @UniOfOxford | Formerly @unicc_ict @S20_India @insa_academy | Adj @RRI_Bangalore |

 New Delhi, India
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Joined March 2010
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The wait ends here! Our book #EssentialAstrophysics is here! It feels so good to hold a copy. Thank you @CRCPress @tandfonline @shantanu_basu Order your copy here: routledge.com/Essential-Astr…
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'Why Nehru’s idea of scientific temper failed in India' Pranav Sharma, historian of science at University of Oxford, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/nehru-sc…

Why Nehru’s idea of scientific temper failed in India

Calls to restore scientific temper by ministerial exhortation only confirm that science is something the government hands down, which is exactly the mistake that brought us here.

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It's very rare to find gems like #Mahishasurmardini by #BirenKrishnaBhadra. Nothing more beautiful than listening to it on the record player! Feeling so blessed! #Delhi #MorningMusings
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"The program (@isro) was germinated, conceptualized, and evolved by the scientists." -Prof Kasturirangan on the origins of 🇮🇳🇨🇵 partnership in space. Read more about 🇮🇳🇨🇵 scientific history at hos.ifindia.in #Space #History #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav @cnes @ifiofficiel – at New Delhi, India
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Congratulations 🎊 Thank you @kris_sg for your generosity in supporting science, technology and research, innovation in India.
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The machines have not risen to our standard. We are lowering the standard to meet them. Superintelligence will not arrive. It will be declared by people who have forgotten what the word meant. My piece in @ThePrintIndia: theprint.in/opinion/ai-is-no…

AI is not intelligent. We have just lowered the bar

The machines have not risen to our standard. We are lowering the standard to meet them. Each essay is marked for fluency instead of understanding.

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'AI is not intelligent. We have just lowered the bar' Pranav Sharma, historian of science, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/ai-is-no…

AI is not intelligent. We have just lowered the bar

The machines have not risen to our standard. We are lowering the standard to meet them. Each essay is marked for fluency instead of understanding.

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First of many reading days at the @bodleianlibs!
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 6
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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@ThePrintIndiaSep 29
'What happens when a university burns in war? Science is difficult to rebuild' As a Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, read #ThePrintOpinion by Pranav Sharma @quantumpranav, historian of science. theprint.in/opinion/what-hap…

What happens when a university burns in war? Science is difficult to rebuild

When Karazin University in Kharkiv fell silent in the spring of 2022, what was lost was not a database. It was a living epistemic community—something more intangible that takes centuries to build.

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Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences was struck in Kyiv. Buildings can be rebuilt. The seminar culture and supervisory lineages inside them cannot. A scientific community does not regenerate; it goes extinct. theprint.in/opinion/what-hap… @ThePrintIndia

What happens when a university burns in war? Science is difficult to rebuild

When Karazin University in Kharkiv fell silent in the spring of 2022, what was lost was not a database. It was a living epistemic community—something more intangible that takes centuries to build.

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Scholars At Risk@ScholarsAtRiskSep 28
Today, Russian strikes hit #Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences. Military forces must not target #highered or scientific infrastructure – civilian facilities. SAR condemns such attacks for the death and injuries caused and for the research stifled.ow.ly/WzfY50ZSs9a

Fire, Smoke and Desperation After a Strike in the Heart of Kyiv

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

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European Space Agency
@esaSep 21
ESA and ISRO are extending and broadening their cooperation for another five years, opening new opportunities to work together on space weather, exploration and space sustainability. 🇮🇳 🔗 esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_n…
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@scroll_inSep 22
You cannot be absent for the substance of a life and then expect to be present in its accounting. I have a life, a good one. It has almost none of the people I once knew as indispensable. scroll.in/article/1095841/wh… Pranav Sharma writes.
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भारत के पास अब एक पीढ़ी के भीतर बड़े पैमाने पर गरीबी और भीषण भुखमरी को पूरी तरह खत्म करने की तकनीकी क्षमता है. लेकिन क्या वह ऐसा करना चाहता है?
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भारत के पास भूखमरी को खत्म करने की टेक्नोलॉजी अभी मौजूद है, सवाल जनता की इच्छाशक्ति का है विज्ञान के इतिहासकार प्रणव शर्मा @quantumpranav लिखते हैं #ThePrintOpinion hindi.theprint.in/opinion/in…

भारत के पास भूखमरी को खत्म करने की टेक्नोलॉजी अभी मौजूद है, सवाल जनता की इच्छाशक्ति का है

भारत के पास अब एक पीढ़ी के भीतर बड़े पैमाने पर गरीबी और भीषण भुखमरी को पूरी तरह खत्म करने की तकनीकी क्षमता है. लेकिन क्या वह ऐसा करना चाहता है?

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Do feminists ever retire? Gloria Steinem died fighting last century’s battles My article theprint.in/opinion/gloria-s…

Do feminists ever retire? Gloria Steinem died fighting last century’s battles

Rights can be taken away by hostile governments and courts. The political grammar that women have learned to fight with can’t be taken away by anybody. That is Gloria Steinem’s true legacy.

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That gap between capacity and obligation has a specific name in our moment: hunger. What remains scarce is the decision to aim the assembled capacity at that end rather than another. Many thanks to @txprasanna and @RamaNewDelhi
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@ThePrintIndiaSep 20
'India has the technology to end extreme hunger now. It’s a question of public will' Pranav Sharma @quantumpranav, a historian of science, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/india-te…

India has the technology to end extreme hunger now. It’s a question of public will

India now has the technical capacity to actually eliminate mass poverty and extreme hunger within a generation. Does it want to?

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My essay in @scroll_in on friendship, life, and the absurd in between.
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In your 20s, everyone you meet seems like a permanent friend. At 33, you stop blaming distance and geography and start doing an audit. I lost friends because I was short-tempered, too much, too loud in the room, too insistent. scroll.in/article/1095841/wh… Pranav Sharma writes.
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My essay in @scroll_in: friendship was never a permanent claim on someone, only a present you keep renewing. We lose people to time, to distance, to politics, to our own failures of nerve and attention. None of that is failure. It's just what it costs to have loved anyone at all. Many thanks to @tajmahalfoxtrot and Divya Aslesha! scroll.in/article/1095841/wh…

Why do the forever friends of our 20s become strangers in our 30s?

Friendship is a shared present that lasts as long as two people occupy the same stretch of time together.

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The hungry are not waiting on an invention. They are waiting on a decision. Only subjects who have internalised the idea that feeding the hungry is what their sovereignty was for can compel the state to do it, converting a technical capacity into a political obligation and refusing every account of national achievement that leaves it out.
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@ThePrintIndiaSep 20
'India has the technology to end extreme hunger now. It’s a question of public will' Pranav Sharma @quantumpranav, a historian of science, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/india-te…

India has the technology to end extreme hunger now. It’s a question of public will

India now has the technical capacity to actually eliminate mass poverty and extreme hunger within a generation. Does it want to?

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LIGO India@LIGOIndiaSep 18
💥 Chandra Public Lecture | A Special LVK Event 💥 "LIGO: Quantum Sensing Meets Astrophysics" How do we detect the faint ripples in spacetime caused by some of the most powerful events in the Universe? And how can quantum sensing push the limits of what we can measure? 🌀
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeSep 19
In 1987, the supernova SN 1987A exploded emitting 10 million billion neutrinos – the most elusive particles in the universe – in a gigantic burst. On Earth, physics laureate Masatoshi Koshiba and his team detected 12 of these neutrinos in a giant detector.
Portrait of Masatoshi Koshiba wearing a tweed blazer sitting in front of a grey curtain background.

ALT Portrait of Masatoshi Koshiba wearing a tweed blazer sitting in front of a grey curtain background.

Image of the Red Rectangle Nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, featuring a bright central star surrounded by concentric rings of red and orange dust against a starry background.

ALT Image of the Red Rectangle Nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, featuring a bright central star surrounded by concentric rings of red and orange dust against a starry background.

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Yashwant Gupta@yash_gupta_62Sep 13
A different perspective on India - China relationships, covering an interesting range of topics in science, including astronomy (and pulsar timing in particular!) -- courtesy Subir Sarkar! 👍 theprint.in/opinion/science-…

Science can be the bridge between India and China that diplomacy could not build

New Delhi and Beijing don’t have to trust one another’s geopolitical ambitions. But can their scientists trust each other’s empirical data?

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