Pratik Chakrabarti

@pratik-hstm.bsky.social

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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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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · May 30

Final ms ready for submission:

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 13h

Quietening Reform is the main or only task for Labour, not showing humanitarianism. Happy days.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 16h

Or be nice and effective

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 18h

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

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 4d

Can't access it but will try in other ways

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 4d

Old school history writing.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 4d

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

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 6d

we should have more gradings to do....Ok, ok, I take it back!

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 6d

This just popped up on my phone. Can't believe it's been 5 years since Inscriptions of Nature was published.

Reposted by Pratik Chakrabarti

Becky Darke @bunnydarke.bsky.social · 7d

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'.

Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 7d

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

Frank J. Barbiere @fjbarb.bsky.social · 9d

Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 10d

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 10d

Did you trick them?

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 10d

I dont know if I write quickly but I tend to write different paragraphs simultaneously as different ideas and themes circle in my head. Also to move on if I get stuck on something. That stage is quite fast. I then take much longer to put it all together.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 10d

Watch the news? 😆

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 10d

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.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 11d

Obituary is best served cold.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

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

Two martini glasses filled with cocktails called "Obituary"

Reposted by Pratik Chakrabarti

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

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

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 12d

The magic word to get grants, at least a few years back

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 12d

all this to sell stupid cars?

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 12d

Best wishes. Cant wait to read!

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 13d

Noble ideas. Will universities follow?

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 13d

Wouldn't any mainstream technology within a certain system do that?

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 14d

Ok, i admit. I have just used the word "trope" to a grad student in feedback. Please forgive me.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 14d

I know the feeling

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 14d

When this world is too much for you.

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 14d

During Covid, social media felt like a refuge. Now it feels like a cauldron of despair.

Reposted by Louise Edwards, Tim Hitchcock, Pratik Chakrabarti , and 1 more Louise Edwards, Tim Hitchcock, Pratik Chakrabarti, Nancy M. Wingfield

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d

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.

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 16d

The mind wanders doesn't it...when there's so much repression on earth. Imagination propels imperialism.

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