Rohini Subrahmanyam is a science writer at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She also does freelance science journalism, mostly covering life sciences and health. She loves writing about weird creatures on our planet, with occasional forays into climate science and physics. She has a PhD in biology from NCBS and postdoctoral experience in developmental biology from Harvard University. After her postdoc, she transitioned into science writing, with bylines in Scientific American, New Scientist, Science News, Knowable, Nautilus, LiveScience, The Scientist, The Hindu, and others.