Animesh Chatterjee
@electricpunkah.com
Historian of science, technology, environment and colonialism. Former EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow - Weathering Colonial Calcutta.
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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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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
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
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...
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.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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...
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.
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#histtech
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.
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#histtech
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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.
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#histtech
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.
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#histtech
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
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
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
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
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.
www.researchnotesstudio.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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
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
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
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
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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
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...
A new Precious Cargo essay on cycling, trust, and the art of carrying what matters.
Read here: electricpunkah.substack.com/p/the-weight...
November 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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...
A new Precious Cargo essay on cycling, trust, and the art of carrying what matters.
Read here: electricpunkah.substack.com/p/the-weight...
November reading list
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
November reading list
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-...
And here’s the first post.
electricpunkah.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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-...
And here’s the first post.
electricpunkah.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
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.
October 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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.
Last weekend, I celebrated the first birthday (of many) of the best thing I’ve bought with my money!
July 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Last weekend, I celebrated the first birthday (of many) of the best thing I’ve bought with my money!
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
I’d appreciate any guidance from historians/academics who’ve moved into another career.
#altac #academictwitter
July 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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
I’d appreciate any guidance from historians/academics who’ve moved into another career.
#altac #academictwitter
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
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
June 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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
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
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.
May 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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.
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...
www.weatheringcultures.com/weathering-w...
Weathering Wednesdays — Weathering Cultures
www.weatheringcultures.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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...
www.weatheringcultures.com/weathering-w...
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...
www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...
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...
www.regeneration-journal.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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...
www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...
Behind the bus stop glass - RHS Garden Bridgewater, 27 April 2025.
April 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Behind the bus stop glass - RHS Garden Bridgewater, 27 April 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
#envhum #envhist
Weathering Cultures
Discover insights into colonial Calcutta's weather interactions through scholarly narratives and public storytelling.
www.weatheringcultures.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
#envhum #envhist
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
www.weatheringcultures.com
Weathering Cultures
Discover insights into colonial Calcutta's weather interactions through scholarly narratives and public storytelling.
www.weatheringcultures.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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
www.weatheringcultures.com
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.
March 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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.
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.
March 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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.
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.
March 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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.
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
#histtech #histstm
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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February 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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
#histtech #histstm
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.
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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.