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Shalini Urs

Doing Interdisciplinary Science: from Complex Systems to Computational Biology to Climate Change—Fireside Chat with Gautam Menon

This episode of InfoFire is in conversation with Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Biology and Dean of Research and heads the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS) at Ashoka University, who believes that climate change is a settled science and requires an interdisciplinary approach to mitigate its worst consequences. This will involve cutting-edge research into ecological shifts, monitoring local environments, socio-economic issues connected to climate change, sustainable lifestyles, and the development of effective teaching and awareness tools.

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Shalini Urs

Venture Capital in the US and India: Synergistic Investing—Fireside Chat with Venture Capitalist Sid Mookerji

Listen to Sid Mookerji, Founder and Managing Partner of Silicon Road Ventures, Atlanta, USA, in this episode of InfoFire. A successful entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, Mookerji shares his perspectives on “Venture Capital in the US and India: Synergistic Investing.” Here we chat about a range of issues: Sid’s journey from an entrepreneur to a venture capitalist; the nexus between businesses, VCs, government, and academia; why and how technology and innovation fuel the VC landscape; the India story; and what constitutes a healthy ecosystem for VC, amongst others.

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Jenna Hartel

A Video Series that REALLY Teaches How to Write (While Honoring All Voices)

At my YouTube channel, INFIDEOS, I recently published a video series, Writing-Up Research as Thematic Narrative. It contains 14 short episodes on authoring qualitative or ethnographic research. The series addresses the complexity of social scientific narratives, which are multi-perspective and multivocal. While all the examples of writing in the collection are drawn from Information Science, these fundamental techniques easily transfer to other disciplines.

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Shalini Urs

Deciphering the Genetic Heritage of the People of India: Fireside Chat with Partha Majumder

We are expected (and frequently required) to use socially-visible population labels—whether they are referred to as races, ethnicities, nationalities, or others. However, these labels significantly impact science and society during heightened sectarian tensions worldwide, including in India. A nuanced and scientific understanding of identity and ethnicity matters. Genetic research is closely interlinked with group taxonomies and has profound and unexpected impacts on existing categories of belonging and differences.

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Shalini Urs

The Changing Information Industry Landscape: Through an Internet Entrepreneur’s Lens—Fireside Chat With Ajit Balakrishnan

In this episode of InfoFire, our guest Ajit Balakrishnan—founder, chairman, and CEO of Rediff.com and an internet industry pioneer in India—chats about technological advancements and social change from a historical perspective before going on to share his enthusiasm about metaverse and optimism about the democratizing impact of technology.

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Shalini Urs

Building Socio-technical resilience in software development: experiences from The Motivating Jenny Project (Fireside chat with Helen Sharp)

Software systems are not isolated but socio-technical systems (STS) that are components of broader systems with a human, social or organizational purpose. Socio-technical systems are large-scale systems that include but are not limited to software and hardware but also people, processes, and organizational policies.

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