🎓 Big day at the @genomicstartu : our colleague @KaiTatte is defending her PhD— agnst @AnnaSapfo. Defenses are high-pressure, but she’s handling it with courage and focus. Rooting for you, Kai—make us proud! 💪 🇪🇪 #PhDDefense @unitartu @researchestonia #AcademicTwitter #popgen

Representing @genomicstartu on Day 3 of #EESHuman, @EMBO @EMBLEvents. Presented my work on pop-specific haplotype fingerprint, while @JRodrigo_F abt biases in #aDNA imputation for selection inference. Great science & new perspectives on human past! 🧬 #HumanEvolution @unitartu

Very entertaining & insightful talk by @maitbb on Day 2 of #EESHuman, @EMBO @EMBLEvents "Reconstructing human past"! Fascinating look into how #ancientHumanDNA from chewed birch bark tar is revealing the origins of the first settlers of #Estonia . 🧬🇪🇪 @genomicstartu @unitartu

India Converted Half of Asia Without an Army. One of the largest cultural expansions in history was carried out almost entirely by merchants waiting for the monsoon wind to change. Over roughly a thousand years India gave much of Asia its religions, its epics, its scripts and its ideas of kingship, using convoys timed to the monsoon's twice-yearly reversal rather than armies. Buddhism set aside caste and the food laws that made travel among strangers difficult, and it moved east in the holds of merchant ships until, by one count, China had thirty thousand monasteries and close to two million monks. The courts of Southeast Asia adopted Sanskrit, Indian law and Indian statecraft by choice, judging it the best system on offer to a king who wanted to look legitimate at home and abroad. The former Thai capital Ayutthaya took its name from Ayodhya, the city of Rama. Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument on earth, is a working diagram of the Indian cosmos, its moat standing for the ocean that surrounds Mount Meru. The era's other great power took a different route. China's Confucian order required a foreign ruler to acknowledge the emperor as his superior before exchange could happen, tribute, not trade. The ports of the region answered to Chinese demand while its temples, script and kingship were Indian-influenced. It wasn't wholly peaceful. The Indianised kingdoms fought each other readily enough. What the pattern lacked, for the better part of a thousand years, was an Indian conqueror. I've written up the full story, with sources and further reading. Link to essay in the comments below.

THE BOYS FINALLY DID IT!!!!!! 🏆🥹 - Defeated the Chinese pair at home and won the China Masters for the first time ever! WHAT A MOMENT!!! 🇮🇳❤️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

For much of India, Isro’s mission in the wee hours of September 4 was just another rocket launch. But for the space agency, it was a bigger moment. Here’s why. 🧵

This is a really huge achievement, congratulations to the team #ISRO

आसमान में उड़ान, या बोलें कोई जुबान। हर शख्स के दिल में है धड़कता हिंदुस्तान! ✈️🇮🇳 स्वतंत्रता दिवस की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं। जय हिंद!🇮🇳🇮🇳🫡 #UnityInDiversity #independencedayindia #स्वतंत्रतादिवस #JaiHind #HarGharTiranga #ProudIndian। #15august @highlight #india

The findings suggest that the rise of agriculture triggered linguistic diversity, before these languages were lost go.nature.com/45jNxy7

A new analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes. The findings also reveal that local environments greatly shape how birds communicate around the world. Learn more: scim.ag/4wYoVXE

Genetic trade-offs in fertility and longevity explain the maintenance of disease-associated alleles in humans | Nature Ecology & Evolution nature.com/articles/s41559-0…

Young football champs return home after conquering Europe. Minerva Academy won 2 chamionships, Helsinki Cup, Finland and Gothia Cup, Sweden. With Gen Z building rockets and Gen Alpha excelling at sports, India is in safe hands 🇮🇳

🚨 Kabeer Chillar, an IIT Bombay Computer Science student, who secured a perfect 300/300 in JEE Main 2026, earning AIR 1, followed by AIR 2 in JEE Advanced with an incredible 329/360. He won a gold medal for India at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) 2026. 🏅 👏

Another Golden Sweep by India as our Chemistry team bags 4 Gold medals securing Rank #1 (jointly with China, Vietnam, and Individual Participant (Russia)) at the 58th International Chemistry Olympiad, Uzbekistan (icho2026.uz). 1/5

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐏.𝐕 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐮 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 (𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟓𝟎) 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 🔥🔥🔥 STUNS reigning three-time World Champion Akane Yamaguchi 21-17, 21-17 in Final. #JapanOpen2026

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀 Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability. History is made. 🇮🇳 #Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

Ambassador @ashishifs and DG MFA Ms Kristi Karelsohn welcomed Hon’ble Minister of Commerce and Industry of India @PiyushGoyal upon his arrival in Estonia for an official visit. Hon’ble Minister will hold bilateral meetings, will address the business leaders and interact with Indian community in Estonia. @MEAIndia @MFAestonia @DoC_GoI @IndianDiplomacy @PIB_India @mygovindia