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Animesh Chatterjee

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Historian of technology and the environment | Former MSCA postdoctoral fellow (Weathering Colonial Calcutta) www.weatheringcultures.com Founder of Research Notes Studio Helping researchers write, fund and reimagine their work. www.researchnotesstudio.com

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 29/08/2024
The author of “Round-About Notes in India” in the 6 July 1877 edition of the Indian Charivari has probably the best segue into the main argument of his article: “If you look at a map of India you will perceive it comes down to a point, which reminds me that I should do the same.”
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 09/02/2026
The extended deadline for #ICOHTEC2026 is fast approaching. Submit your abstracts before 28 February. See: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr for more details. #histtech #histstm #envhist #envhum
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 03/02/2026
After a decade in academia, including a PhD and 2 postdocs, I have returned to the corporate world of consulting. I’ll still be writing and publishing material from my academic research projects, and also keeping Research Notes Studio going, but the academic career is, sadly, over.
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53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting @icohtec2026.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This conference invites reflections on how the history of technology intersects with evolving methodologies, theories, pedagogies, and other branches of historical study to highlight the importance of understanding technology's past in addressing contemporary challenges: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr
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ICOHTEC 2026 – 53rd Annual Meeting – International Congress of the History of Technology · Alexandroupolis, Greece
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53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting @icohtec2026.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
ICOHTEC 2026: Museums, material & intangible cultural heritage, and public engagement. In collaboration with the Ethnological Museum of Thrace, we especially welcome proposals exploring material and intangible culture, museum practices, and public history. Check out our CfP: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr
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ICOHTEC 2026 – 53rd Annual Meeting – International Congress of the History of Technology · Alexandroupolis, Greece
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 16/01/2026
The deadline to submit an abstract/proposal for #ICOHTEC2026 has been extended to 28 February 2026. Please see icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr for more details. #histtech #histstm #envhist #envhum #museum #museumstudies #heritagestudies
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ICOHTEC 2026 – 53rd Annual Meeting – International Congress of the History of Technology · Alexandroupolis, Greece
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 27/12/2025
Happy to see my interview in the latest ICOHTEC newsletter! We talked about electricity in colonial Calcutta, the thinking behind www.researchnotesstudio.com and what’s coming at #ICOHTEC2026 Please see icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr and @icohtec2026.bsky.social for #ICOHTEC2026 #histtech #histstm #envhum
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 24/12/2025
#histtech #histstm #envhum #envhist
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53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting @icohtec2026.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Abstract submission is now open for ICOHTEC 2026: The online submission platform is live. Please submit your conference abstract via the submission portal: abstractsicohtec.com For conference information and updates, visit the official website: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 17/12/2025
Submissions of abstracts and proposals for ICOHTEC 2026 are now open. Please see icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr for the CfP and other details, and submit your abstracts. Deadline: 31 January 2026 #histstm #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #histsci
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ICOHTEC 2026 – 53rd Annual Meeting – International Congress of the History of Technology · Alexandroupolis, Greece
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 10/12/2025
The ICOHTEC Annual Conference 2026 in Alexandroupolis, Greece now has a website: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr Please have a look at the CfP and other details, and submit your abstracts. Submissions open on 15 December 2025. Deadline: 31 January 2026 #histstm #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #histsci
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 27/11/2025
There are hills on the road, and then there are hills we carry within. This week’s Precious Cargo essay is about learning to climb both. open.substack.com/pub/precious...
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There is always a hill somewhere
There are hills on the road, and then there are hills we carry within.This week’s Precious Cargo essay is about learning to climb both.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 26/11/2025
ICOHTEC 2026: Call for Proposals is now open! The next Annual Meeting will take place 8–11 October 2026 at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), in collaboration with the Lab of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace. Thread: 1/4 #histtech
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 21/11/2025
I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing. If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 17/11/2025
I’m very excited to share this: Research Notes Studio is now live www.researchnotesstudio.com. What started as a handful of research favours slowly grew into something larger. And somewhere between grant deadlines, and the strange luck of academic life, this little studio took shape. #envhum
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Research Notes Studio | Enhance Your Research Now
Research Notes Studio offers editing, research support, and grant proposal services to enhance academic writing and scholarship. Improve your research today.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 14/11/2025
New Precious Cargo essay. It’s about cycling while getting slapped by the wind, falling over at 6km/hr, and realising my son is having the time of his life while I question all my choices. open.substack.com/pub/electric... #cycling #cargobike
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 10/11/2025
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The weight of a sleeping child
On cycling, trust, and the art of carrying what matters
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 01/11/2025
My son fell asleep somewhere between the lake and the roundabout, and the world seemed to soften. A new Precious Cargo essay on cycling, trust, and the art of carrying what matters. Read here: electricpunkah.substack.com/p/the-weight...
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 27/10/2025
November reading list
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 24/10/2025
I’ve started writing about my cycling adventures with my son. It’s a blog/journal with essays on movement, writing, and the art of keeping upright, called “Precious Cargo: A dad and his cargo bike trying to keep their balance”. And here’s the first post. electricpunkah.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 23/10/2025
A few months ago, in order to stay in touch with academic research while I found my footing, I started helping former colleagues and some students with small research and editing tasks. These side projects reminded me how much I enjoy dealing with complex ideas.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 01/07/2025
Last weekend, I celebrated the first birthday (of many) of the best thing I’ve bought with my money!
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 01/07/2025
With another round of postdoc applications going nowhere, I think it’s time to start seriously exploring a more stable, long-term path outside academia. I’d appreciate any guidance from historians/academics who’ve moved into another career. #altac #academictwitter
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 08/06/2025
To those who’ve left academia: How did you find the motivation to finish your writing — papers, chapters, lingering commitments — once you knew it wouldn’t help your academic career anymore? I’m struggling with this and would really value hearing how you navigated it. #postac #leavingacademia
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 25/05/2025
Woke up this morning with a sense of grief as an academic/research career seems more out of reach every day. It’s a grief for ideas left unexplored, for questions now gathering dust in closed notebooks, for the imagined futures built in archives and at conferences that may never come to pass.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 14/05/2025
Now that I have a bit more time to actually write for pleasure, I welcome you to Weathering Wednesdays, a blog that uses bits from my #weathering research @greenhouseuis.net to talk deeply about the weather, memory, metaphor, and emotions. www.weatheringcultures.com/weathering-w...
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Weathering Wednesdays — Weathering Cultures
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 09/05/2025
Hot off the press! My article on the relations between class, consumption and transitions to electric supply and technologies in late-19th and early 20th century Calcutta, published in the special issue “Affects of Energy Transition”. #histtech #histstm www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...
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Everyday Interpretations of Transitions to Electricity in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1875-1940s
This paper explores some of the ways in which a range of elite and non-elite individuals and social groups in late-nineteenth and early twentieth cetury colonial Calcutta mapped their conceptions of e...
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 27/04/2025
Behind the bus stop glass - RHS Garden Bridgewater, 27 April 2025.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 08/04/2025
Now that I actually have a bit more time to read, write and reflect on my academic work, I will be starting a blog/newsletter called “Weathering Wednesdays” (a weekly letter about time, weather, seasons, and what gets left behind) on my project website www.weatheringcultures.com . #envhum #envhist
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Weathering Cultures
Discover insights into colonial Calcutta's weather interactions through scholarly narratives and public storytelling.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 04/04/2025
I've got a new website showcasing my @erc.europa.eu Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral project @greenhouseuis.net . The website will be updated as and when more research and writings are published. www.weatheringcultures.com
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Weathering Cultures
Discover insights into colonial Calcutta's weather interactions through scholarly narratives and public storytelling.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 25/03/2025
In 2 days my time as an MSCA fellow @greenhouseuis.net @unistavanger.bsky.social comes to an end. Outside of research, publications, submissions etc in the last 2 years, I’ve met some great people passionate about #envhum and #envhist. I’ve learnt much from them and can’t thank them enough.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 13/03/2025
One last Hafrsfjord sunset before our big move to the UK tomorrow morning. Thanks to everyone at @greenhouseuis.net for being so supportive over the past 2 years.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 07/03/2025
After yesterday’s chaos of Barnehage pickup and drop, and packing and shipping boxes for our big move back to the UK, there’s nothing better than spending a quiet morning in the new @unistavanger.bsky.social cafe to gather my thoughts and energy.
Picture of the new cafe at the University of Stavanger, with a cup of hot chocolate in the foreground.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 05/03/2025
Making little contributions to big discussions in Technology & Culture. #envhist #envhum #histtech #histstm
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 21/02/2025
My review of Diana J. Montaño’s @djmontano.bsky.social “Electrifying Mexico” is out now on @isisjournal.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #histtech #histstm
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Diana J. Montaño. Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City. 392 pp., notes, bibl., index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9781477328255. Cl...
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 13/02/2025
Got some really in-depth feedback on my book proposal and introduction for “Weathering Colonial Calcutta” at the @greenhouseuis.net WiP session this afternoon. Time to rewrite and think about pitching this to publishers.
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 31/01/2025
Going through some notes to write the introduction to my book, and I’m shocked “Weathering Colonial Calcutta” wasn’t my first choice of title for the project. I’m glad it’s what I eventually ended up with. #weathering #envhum #envhist
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This looks incredible. Thought of British author and psychotherapist Ruth Allen (initially trained as geologist of Himalayan mountain building.) Also: "beginning with visual lightning talks, where participants introduced themselves and their research... using a single image or text" #Weathering
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 13/01/2025
My weathering research could use a bit of “Van Gogh and the Seasons”! @princetonupress.bsky.social #envhum #envhist #arthistory
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 13/01/2025
Excited to share a report on the #weatheringworkshop @greenhouseuis.net. Read the full report here: www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhist #envhum #histstm
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Histories of Weathering and Weathering in History
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities hosted a workshop on “Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering: Histories, Temporalities, and Spaces”, 10-11 December 2024
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 10/01/2025
Ticking things off the to-do list. Just need to finish the book Introduction before the whole thing gets discussed in @greenhouseuis.net works-in-progress seminar in February. #envhum #envhist #histstm
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 31/12/2024
The final event of the year was the MSCA Workshop “Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering”, on 10-11 December, organized by @electricpunkah.bsky.social and @melinabuns.bsky.social.
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Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Visiting the @greenhouseuis.net library today to immerse in the collection of environmental humanities books
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 12/12/2024
After 2 days of being on a high of discussions in #weatheringworkshop and the excitement of amazing collaborative possibilities that lie ahead, the reality of #academicprecarity hits hard today. I want to continue doing what I love, but might not even be in academia in a couple of months’ time.
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Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Very much enjoyed the #weatheringworkshop at the Greenhouse @ University of Stavanger. Great conversations with interdisciplinary group interested in material cultures of weather #envhum
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Lotta Leiwo @lottaleiwo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I was extremely happy to be part of this #WeatheringWorkshop @greenhouseuis.net! Thank you for organizing it @electricpunkah.bsky.social & @melinabuns.bsky.social!
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 11/12/2024
Two wonderful days of discussing weather(ing), affect and material cultures. Lots to think and do in the coming days. #weatheringworkshop @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me @rhiggitt.bsky.social @melinabuns.bsky.social #envhum #envhist
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 11/12/2024
Writing on chalkboards is tough, but there was no better way to gather all the thoughts and ideas that have emerged from all the discussions at the #weatheringworkshop @greenhouseuis.net #envhum #envhist
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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 10/12/2024
#weatheringworkshop @greenhouseuis.net @unistavanger.bsky.social has begun. Interesting discussions already emerging in the visual lighting talks.
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I am heading to @electricpunkah.bsky.social's workshop on Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering and this will have to feature somewhere in our discussions!
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