Blog | Shiv Issar, Ph.D.

About the Blog
I post brief research notes, teaching reflections, and updates, essentially using this as an open journal. Expect occasional fieldwork snapshots, reading lists, and news about publications and talks. All opinions here are my own (unless specified otherwise).

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Second Post

What started as a satirical post on LinkedIn concerning the ban of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India ended up leading to an interesting interview for C&EN Magazine. I was asked for my comments on the new court verdict to block Sci-Hub in India. The C&EN piece features a truncated set of responses, here are my responses to the interview questions in their entirety (written while I was still an employee at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY, and a few weeks away from moving to India): ...

First Post

This is a sample blog post to confirm that my deploy script works. Apparently it does. It also seems like naming all my posts by their number might be a good idea, even if it seems reductive. It takes the pressure off naming them entirely.