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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 · 26/11/2025

Submissions open: 15 December 2025 Deadline: 31 January 2026 Official conference website: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr Email address: icohtec2026@gmail.com #envhist #histtech #histstm #envhum

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 27/04/2025

Behind the bus stop glass - RHS Garden Bridgewater, 27 April 2025.

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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 · 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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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 · 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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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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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 02/11/2024

The key to mindful living is to submit your articles, manuscripts and proposals! 😄

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 22/10/2024

Planned the details of the “Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering” workshop earlier today with @melinabuns.bsky.social. Looking forward to some exciting discussions in December! #envhum #envhist #materialcultures #weathering #histstm

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 24/09/2024

Waving the @greenhouseuis.bsky.social flag at the inauguration of the Centre for Anthropocene History at KTH Stockholm!

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 17/09/2024

I’m thinking about playing sounds of dial up modems in the background as eduroam struggles this morning.

Picture showing a system downloading macOS Sequoia. The bar says “81.3 MB of 14.48 GB - About 22 hours remaining”

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 07/08/2024

Charlotte Wrigley of @greenhouseuis.bsky.social speaking on Storytelling Materiality through Permafrost #anest #envhum

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 07/08/2024

And the #anest Storytelling for Environmental Futures conference is underway @unistavanger.bsky.social with a session on Storytelling in the Classroom #envhum

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 15/07/2024

I wonder if I can use “suffering from perspiration and a want of enthusiasm for work” as a valid reason for booking a long summer holiday. (Image from The Graphic, 1 August 1891) #envhist #envhum

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 05/07/2024

A different kind of weathering: Illustration accompanying a Bengali poem on the environmental carnage a man's (Bhishmalochan Sharma's) bad singing can cause. From "Sandesh" (1915), a monthly Bengali magazine for young readers. #envhist #envhum

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 28/06/2024

Cool your horses! “Bombay Tram-Horse Wearing Horse-Cap” - Beast and Man in India, John Lockwood Kipling (1891)

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 26/06/2024

Punkah coolies perhaps evoked the most complaints from their employers as compared to other domestic servants. Not only did they share the same spaces where their masters & mistresses were expected to sleep, work, talk or conduct private business, they were most criticised for falling asleep. [7/n]

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 26/06/2024

A thread for the #heatwave 31 May 1893, Benares: A punkah coolie died after being kicked by a soldier, Private Rigby, of the West Yorkshire Regiment. On 18 June 1893, The Joint Magistrate of Benares charged Private Rigby under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code for causing simple hurt. [1/n]

A well-dressed white man kicking an Indian servant who is on his knees, with a punkah rope hanging above both.

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 20/06/2024

Hot off the press! My contribution to an article on perspectives of history of technology, featuring several amazing scholars - Jethron Ayumbah Akallah, Nelson Arellano-Escudero, Sławomir Łotysz, Saara Matala, Min Fanxiang, Stefan Poser, Hugh R. Slotten, and Magdalena Zdrodowska. #histtech #envhist

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 05/06/2024

CfP - “Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering: Histories, Temporalities, and Spaces”. 10-11 December 2024 at Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities (UiS), Stavanger, Norway. Please circulate and/or get in touch if this is of interest! @greenhouseuis.bsky.social @unistavanger.bsky.social

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 30/05/2024

The warm weather today is making me wish I had one of these on my desk #histtech #histstm

Advertisement showing a table fan from the early 1900s. Caption says “The new ‘A.P.’ Fan as desk or table fan”.

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 14/05/2024

One week to go for an ICOHTEC lecture by yours truly! #histtech #histstm

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 27/04/2024

Reading this weekend. Books that are easy and fun to read must be damn hard to write. #histmed #histsci #histemotions

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 26/04/2024

Amazing books like these make me want to dive deeper into the art of translation. #translation #literature

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 25/04/2024

Less than a month to go for an ICOHTEC lecture by yours truly! @greenhouseuis.bsky.social

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 23/04/2024

Super Farmer Rancho started off nice and peacefully, but the bloodshed that followed is off the charts! @greenhouseuis.bsky.social games night with @danielbowman.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 18/03/2024

Glad to be a part of this and excited to hear about all the amazing research

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 06/03/2024

There’s something I love so much about overcast days in spring/summer. It might be the fact that it’s still bright but the lack of direct sunlight means that all phases of the day feel the same. It could be 8am or 5pm

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 08/02/2024

Almost missed the bus to work this morning

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 22/01/2024

Love the feeling of coming back to the office after more than a month and finding beautiful books like these waiting to be read.

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