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Pratik Chakrabarti
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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:

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
its dangerous for medical science to get invested in physical competitiveness. the results have been and will be catastrophic, from plantation medicine to performance enhancing drugs. it must remain true to its principles.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
cant read without flinching

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
One of the most pressing reasons, I feel, we need majority LGBTQ+ people in leadership roles in every sector is that they face and fight against prejudice and injustice everyday and win.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
Perfect!!

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
Who is this person Gemini in my life? I meet that person in the middle of a phone call, popping up on my computer screen.. does anyone know this person?

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
I really can't imagine the strength of mind this needs, not to mention the high pain threshold.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
I really can't imagine the strength of mind this needs, forget about the high pain threshold.

Reposted by Catriona Seth

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
Friends, my final attempt to secure rights to this image for my book. It’s the installation “Towards a Glass Monument” at Old Quad, U of Melb, created by Tom Nicholson. I’ve tried contacting the uni, the artist, even his assistant. No one replied. Can anyone help?
www.unimelb.edu.au/old-quad/wha...
Towards a glass monument
Towards a glass monument
www.unimelb.edu.au

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 6d
“If so-called ‘so-called poststructuralism’ is the product of a single historical moment, then that moment is probably not May 1968 but rather the Algerian War of Independence.”

Robert Young, White Mythologies,

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 26d
Would anyone here have access to the newspaper, Herald Palladium of February 1973? Thanks!

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Jan 4
We had one that had several different polarities.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Jan 4
Thank God for that.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Jan 3
Please tell me i am wrong or mistaken, but I am yet to come across a single statement by an Australian player or journalist in support of Khawaja.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Jan 3
Seems a paradigmatic moment in human morality.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Jan 3
Just read some white settler Australians calling Usman Khawaja "ungrateful".😆

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Jan 1
A quiet New Year's party for us. Happy 2026!!

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 28
I haven't read the book but I read this quite brutal review:
scroll.in/article/1087...

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Dec 28
“The case is the first positive test in Cook County since 1964, and the first in Illinois since 1994, according to the department… Thirteen people who had contact with the dog have not shown symptoms and are being given preventative treatment, according to the county.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Chicago dog with rabies marks first positive test in Cook County in decades
The positive case came after the dog showed a shift in behavior last week and was euthanized and tested, the Cook County Department of Animal and Rabies Control, said in a statement.
chicago.suntimes.com

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 27
When you are imprisoned by your own rhetoric...

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 27
The only job I would want AI to take would be Sam Altman's

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 27
Not sure if it's cool at all, definitely striking: a piece of mummy cloth attached to a report on a mummy. I took a photo just so that I know i didn't imagine it.
cethompson.bsky.social Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · Dec 27
Not an archivist, but one of the most striking things I've ever seen in an archive (@ Duke): a midwife's tiny notebook, containing locks of hair of the babies she delivered. How do you digitize that?? No digital copy could capture it or inspire the same feeling as holding it in your hands.
erinbartram.bsky.social Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Dec 22
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 27
Or live telecast your board meetings...

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 27
May help to replace "writing" with "love"...?

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 27
It is Saturday, 27th of December, 2026...
a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf filled with tiaras .
ALT: a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf filled with tiaras .
media.tenor.com

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 27
I left home for some errands. Nandini sent me this photo. Hes refusing to move. 😞

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · Dec 27
Not an archivist, but one of the most striking things I've ever seen in an archive (@ Duke): a midwife's tiny notebook, containing locks of hair of the babies she delivered. How do you digitize that?? No digital copy could capture it or inspire the same feeling as holding it in your hands.
erinbartram.bsky.social Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Dec 22
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
bungdan.bsky.social Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · Dec 22
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 26
Controversial take: By definition, a pizza is a flatbread. So a deep dish pizza isn't a pizza. Just a deep dish. Peace.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 25
Personally, I dont like Shastri, but I truly believe this will be good for English cricket. Hes technically more sound than Mccu, mentally equally strong, and more pragmatic. Used to English cricket too.
www.indiatoday.in/amp/sports/c...
Ravi Shastri backed to replace Brendon McCullum as England coach after Ashes defeat
Former England spinner Monty Panesar has urged England to turn to Ravi Shastri as a replacement for Brendon McCullum, arguing that ex-India coach's proven success against Australia makes him the ideal...
www.indiatoday.in

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 25
Happiness awaits, for us and others.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Dec 25
I, for my personal biases, thought it was written: Early Morning!