Pratik Chakrabarti
@pratik-hstm.bsky.social
Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
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Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Savitri Sahni inaugurating Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 1949. Birbal Sahni, the leading Indian paleobotanist, had passed away that year. The collection included Sahni's own Gondwana fossils, as well as those of others like Alex Du Toit of South Africa
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Savitri Sahni inaugurating Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 1949. Birbal Sahni, the leading Indian paleobotanist, had passed away that year. The collection included Sahni's own Gondwana fossils, as well as those of others like Alex Du Toit of South Africa
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Some history of science jobs to share.
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Some history of science jobs to share.
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Somehow, the bottle of rum sits very nicely on our kitchen counter. I have no idea why.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Somehow, the bottle of rum sits very nicely on our kitchen counter. I have no idea why.
History is not the past, it is the study of the past.
Animals don’t have epidemics. They have epizootics.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
History is not the past, it is the study of the past.
The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
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articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History | Isis: Vol 116, No 4
Abstract Deep history is at the forefront of a contemporary reorientation of Australian history. It is at once an academic methodology, a period of the ancient past, and an embodied, living history of...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
Isis | Vol 116, No 4
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
Reposted by Pratik Chakrabarti
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
Isis | Vol 116, No 4
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
Delighted to get a copy of Unearthing Collections published by UCL Press. I wrote the Afterward "Re-earthing the Past"
uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth...
uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth...
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Delighted to get a copy of Unearthing Collections published by UCL Press. I wrote the Afterward "Re-earthing the Past"
uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth...
uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth...
Snippets from our amazing inaugural graduate conference in the history of science, technology, and medicine. Organized entirely by UH Graduate students, particularly Katie Truax and Muthuvel Deivendran, these were two intense days of stimulating discussions, camaraderie, and fun
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Snippets from our amazing inaugural graduate conference in the history of science, technology, and medicine. Organized entirely by UH Graduate students, particularly Katie Truax and Muthuvel Deivendran, these were two intense days of stimulating discussions, camaraderie, and fun
I sometimes wonder why earthosphere is not a word. It nicely and at times necessarily fixes the fact of earth being round and embracing in a single inseparable word.
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I sometimes wonder why earthosphere is not a word. It nicely and at times necessarily fixes the fact of earth being round and embracing in a single inseparable word.
Reading Michael Cook’s A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, I wonder what the reaction would be if a Muslim scholar wrote a similar history of Christianity. None of the praises are by Muslim scholars. I value this diversity, but imagine it reversed…
A History of the Muslim World
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era
press.princeton.edu
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reading Michael Cook’s A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, I wonder what the reaction would be if a Muslim scholar wrote a similar history of Christianity. None of the praises are by Muslim scholars. I value this diversity, but imagine it reversed…
This just popped up on my phone. Can't believe it's been 5 years since Inscriptions of Nature was published.
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This just popped up on my phone. Can't believe it's been 5 years since Inscriptions of Nature was published.
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This is also why, as academics, we need to get better at asking for fees for freelance work - podcasts, public talks, festival events, “just picking your brain for this tv programme”- not b/c we need the money (though many do!) but b/c others do, and if we work for free, we undermine *their* living.
My last post was about how my work is currently featured in 3 of the biggest magazines around but I can only do my film work thanks to the generosity and patience of my husband who earns a stable wage and I also have a pub job. Money is a CONSTANT stress despite what might look like me 'succeeding'.
I literally never made an actual living as a writer & the reason I got to go at it as long as I did was mainly because of B. Also, tons of side hustles too.
I’ve been exhausted since 2010, lol
I’ve been exhausted since 2010, lol
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is also why, as academics, we need to get better at asking for fees for freelance work - podcasts, public talks, festival events, “just picking your brain for this tv programme”- not b/c we need the money (though many do!) but b/c others do, and if we work for free, we undermine *their* living.
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Obituary is best served cold.
Named in a similar (morbid) spirit as the Corpse Reviver and Death in the Afternoon, this New Orleans drink is best served very cold. nyti.ms/4oGQGjc
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Obituary is best served cold.
Going to an art school, I have realized so much of our current ideas in the Humanities also circulate in the arts. We are asked to think of time as not linear, of space that is not mappable, of entanglements in rhizomes. I guess this is what is called a paradigm.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Going to an art school, I have realized so much of our current ideas in the Humanities also circulate in the arts. We are asked to think of time as not linear, of space that is not mappable, of entanglements in rhizomes. I guess this is what is called a paradigm.
Obituary is best served cold.
Named in a similar (morbid) spirit as the Corpse Reviver and Death in the Afternoon, this New Orleans drink is best served very cold. nyti.ms/4oGQGjc
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Obituary is best served cold.
Preparing for two back-to-back lectures I am giving to my graduate class tomorrow on "Social History and the Question of Agency" and "The Anthropocene and Environmental History". I feel dead.
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Preparing for two back-to-back lectures I am giving to my graduate class tomorrow on "Social History and the Question of Agency" and "The Anthropocene and Environmental History". I feel dead.
Ok, i admit. I have just used the word "trope" to a grad student in feedback. Please forgive me.
October 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ok, i admit. I have just used the word "trope" to a grad student in feedback. Please forgive me.
When this world is too much for you.
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When this world is too much for you.
During Covid, social media felt like a refuge. Now it feels like a cauldron of despair.
October 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
During Covid, social media felt like a refuge. Now it feels like a cauldron of despair.
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Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
I joineda crash course in mixmedia art. First week's task, a self-portrait in collage with your everyday items. This is what I came up with. Honest opinion will be appreciated although I am bracing myself already!
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I joineda crash course in mixmedia art. First week's task, a self-portrait in collage with your everyday items. This is what I came up with. Honest opinion will be appreciated although I am bracing myself already!
An evening to celebrate. Nandini's birthday but she doesn't want her photo here, so you guys are stuck with me
October 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
An evening to celebrate. Nandini's birthday but she doesn't want her photo here, so you guys are stuck with me