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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

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Neuroscience, behaviour, computation, etc | ভাষা, immigration, সাম্য, history Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jan 31

Tomorrow, I’m starting as a CNRS postdoctoral researcher at @neuropsi.bsky.social working in the team of Tihana Jovanic on neural circuits and behaviour, using larval Drosophila as a model.

Excited!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 22d

Yes!

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 22d

I had always wanted to post this clip from a weird movie on my first trip to the USA, so now that I am here for the first time in my life, here it is!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 29

আমি তো ভীতু, বেশি জ্ঞানও নেই, থাকিও বিদেশে, আর “পলিটিকাল স্টেটমেন্ট” দেওয়ায় বারণ আছে, কিন্তু সত্যি বলছি, এই এক দশক পৃথিবীর এত জায়গায় এত লোক দেখলাম, কিন্তু মায় বাঙালির মত আত্মঘাতী, আত্মবিদ্বেষী, অন্ধ গাধাস্বগাধা জাতি দেখিনি, তা সে সীমান্তের এপারে হোক বা ওপার।

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 26

People of the USA, what scam is it that to save 30 minutes on a somewhat faster Amtrak Acela train from Washington DC to New York City, one has to pay four times as much as the North East Regional or Vermonter train? Vande Yuktrashtra?

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 25

I have not taken the RER B for 2 weeks now but have been commuting with the bus of my workplace. Not screaming, crying, shaking, throwing up nowadays. What is this new energy?!

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 25

The successor to Cardinal Richelieu, the Prime Minister of the French Kingdom, was known to feel cold and appreciate Indian Chinese food.

He was Chilly Mazarin.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 24

Also, the sky was dark in a Paris way, and I’m guessing it’s aerosol spraying from the little bit of water on the roads, and not smoke as it is almost smoke-like.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 24

Getting bits & pieces back from a dream I saw last night. Involved attending a Giorgio Parisi lecture in Paris, & on the bus back with cool air on my face, watching cars on rainy roads speed by, spraying aerosol while humidity forces a bead of sweat to form slowly on my forearm.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 23

*to a year ago.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Is there any French university that is *not* under administrative strain, thus delaying things even more so than usual, due to cyberattacks a few months to a few ago?

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 22

If any journal wants you to upload the figures of your academic paper separately from the text AND the figure legends separately from the paper, and that’s how you upload on bioRxiv, may the Lord of the Flies have mercy on you if we ever meet.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 22

Syed Mujtaba Ali was probably the last Bengali litterateur who lived in, knew of, and was appreciated by Bengalis across modern borders. Born in what is now Assam (Sylhet), lived in Kolkata, Kabul, Cairo, and Dhaka - in British India, Indian Republic, East Pakistan, & Bangladesh.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 22

I would love to read a book, Alok Rai Hindi Nationalism style, focusing on Bengal and on Bengalis, talking about their relationship to Hindustani, be it Hindi (India) or Urdu (Pakistan). Would be an interesting book.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 22

Given my recent interests, it is crazy how dopamine is only called the 'pleasure molecule' in popular media, while it has such substantial effects on movement. Even Parkinson's Disease implicates issues in dopamine (substantia nigra). Why didn't I think more of this before?

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 21

If we start to explore corruption in France, we’ll need to get to the elevator and graphic design mafias first.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is the worst waste disposal bin design I’ve seen (this one’s on Avenue d’Italie). Completely malfunctioning with the slightest of wind. Wonder who came up with it!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 19

125th birthday of Ligne 1 (and hence of Paris Métro) today!

Here’s the newly inaugurated plaque at Porte Maillot.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 19

Apparently Paris’s first place that claims to serve Indian Chinese, and it didn’t disappoint! The Chicken Manchurian was really good!

Shera, Paris 17e.

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 18

Wait, the RER C is also not working?! I was supposed to go to Issy from Paris 13.

They completely cut off Massy-Palaiseau from Paris? Because they had to hold the Olympics last summer ? Amazing!

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 17

What is exactly 'inclusive' in having a satellite meeting of NeurIPS in ... Copenhagen (EurIPS) again? Please tell me about how visas for the Schengen Area via the Kingdom of Denmark are easier to obtain than visas for the United States of America?

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 17

Instagram unironically helping solve doomscrolling by forcing one to pause with “ad breaks” while scrolling if you choose to have non-personalised ads and also don’t want to pay 7.99€ a month.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you didn't hate cars on Indian roads enough yet, here's all the more reason to.
indianexpress.com/article/citi...

Fauja Singh, who defied age on marathon track, dies in road accident at 114

Jalandhar’s elder’s routine of farm walks, daal-based laddu packed with dry fruits, and home-churned curd was his daily formula for strength and vitality

indianexpress.com

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 14

a young boy is sitting in a carriage with the words vive la france written above him

ALT: a young boy is sitting in a carriage with the words vive la france written above him

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy national day to the French Republic, and happy last day before the RER B starts going bonkers for 2 months and essentially cuts off the Saclay plateau from Paris, asking people to ... postpone their work ... for 2 months.

Amazing productivity expectations.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · Jul 13

Heart skipped a beat when I saw a 'correction' on a beautiful and famous paper - Dung beetles use the Milky Way for orientation - 12 years after its appearance, but it's just a reporting error of units, which does not change the conclusions. Thank the Milky Way!