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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 · 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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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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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

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

We welcome works spanning the local to the planetary, from archives and classrooms to museums and public spaces. We especially welcome contributions from graduate students and early career scholars, with opportunities for lightning talks, mentorship, and book workshops. Thread: 3/4 #envhum

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 26/11/2025

We warmly invite submissions from scholars who engage with technological history in all branches of historical study. The theme “Engaging the History of Technology” asks how the field can speak to new methods, pedagogies and public practices to help us navigate today’s challenges. Thread: 2/4

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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

Research Notes Studio is a place for the work I love: helping people refine their writing, strengthen their arguments, and craft proposals that have a real chance in a tough academic landscape. If you’re working on something that needs a clearer shape, I’d love to help. #academicwriting #histstm

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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 · 15/11/2025

😄 we want it to truly mean “all weather”

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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

Must be all that experience from photographing birds 😄

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 24/10/2025

I wonder if you too face the challenge of constant negotiations with the little ones while also trying to save your breath for cycling? 😄

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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

The website is still under construction, but the work is already taking shape. If you know someone who might need help refining their research or writing, I’d be truly grateful if you could share or spread the word. #academicwriting #researchsupport

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 23/10/2025

I’ve learnt how to bring critical thinking and good writing together from some of the best scholars in the history of science, medicine and technology, and environmental humanities, and I can’t thank them enough. #histstm #envhum #envhist

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 23/10/2025

From annotated bibliographies to book chapter edits and grant proposals, Research Notes Studio is about making ideas sharper, arguments clearer, and writing more confident.

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 23/10/2025

Those side gigs have now become Research Notes Studio, a little consultancy offering research, writing and editorial support to academics, students, and organisations. It’s a space where my love for research and writing meets a desire to help others communicate their work with confidence.

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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

This Wednesday, thoughts on waiting for the rain, a diary entry from rain-drenched colonial Calcutta, and books that remind us that weather is never just weather.

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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 · 28/04/2025

It’s a photo, just to be clear 😄

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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

I’ve also sent out the proposal for the book “Weathering Colonial Calcutta”, which will hopefully find a home with a publisher soon. Finally, there are still plans for doing something with the discussions of #weatheringworkshop that we hosted last December.

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 25/03/2025

There’s still a lot to explore about Weathering Colonial Calcutta. For those interested in the project and its future, please keep your eyes out for www.weatheringcultures.com (to be available soon), and academic & public articles that are in the pipeline for publication.

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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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