Pratim Sengupta
@pratim.bsky.social
professor of learning sciences
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Vanderbilt's student newspaper @vandyhustler.bsky.social has a good article about the Faculty Senate resolution condemning the White House's proposed compact on higher education.
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
bsky.app
October 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Vanderbilt's student newspaper @vandyhustler.bsky.social has a good article about the Faculty Senate resolution condemning the White House's proposed compact on higher education.
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
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I have a new preprint, with Mike Vandenbergh and @eithorpe.bsky.social examining the wild uncertainties in estimates of the environmental footprint of large language models and discussing the implications for climate policy. 🔌💡
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
The Energy and Environmental Footprint of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create major economic and social benefits but also to rapidly escalate electricity demand and its associated e
dx.doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I have a new preprint, with Mike Vandenbergh and @eithorpe.bsky.social examining the wild uncertainties in estimates of the environmental footprint of large language models and discussing the implications for climate policy. 🔌💡
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
The most beautiful way to star my Mondays, reading Sulagana Biswas' column "Beat The Monday Blues" in The Telegraph - T2. Here's a poignant homage to the music that sustained my 90s, and at least for me, kept my dreams alive in a world that was mostly full of bad humans.
Beat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu
Beat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu
t2online.in
August 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The most beautiful way to star my Mondays, reading Sulagana Biswas' column "Beat The Monday Blues" in The Telegraph - T2. Here's a poignant homage to the music that sustained my 90s, and at least for me, kept my dreams alive in a world that was mostly full of bad humans.
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Congratulations, Pallavi! #UCalgaryArts youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vd...
Dr. Pallavi Banerjee • Associate Professor • UCalgary Research Excellence Chair • Dept of Sociology
YouTube video by Faculty of Arts — University of Calgary
youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Congratulations, Pallavi! #UCalgaryArts youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vd...
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Some grad students I work with have been trying to house a young newcomer from Cameroon who got kicked out of his home. He has no support in Calgary and has faced extreme anti-black racism in the Calgary shelter systems. PLEASE consider donating.
gofund.me/4721bd16
gofund.me/4721bd16
Donate to Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary, organized by Megha Sanyal
We are a group of PhD students at UCalgary who are trying to … Megha Sanyal needs your support for Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary
gofund.me
May 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Some grad students I work with have been trying to house a young newcomer from Cameroon who got kicked out of his home. He has no support in Calgary and has faced extreme anti-black racism in the Calgary shelter systems. PLEASE consider donating.
gofund.me/4721bd16
gofund.me/4721bd16
worried sick about the escalating war between India and Pakistan
May 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
worried sick about the escalating war between India and Pakistan
ICE, State Troopers Make 150 Stops, Detain and Remove Dozens of People from South Nashville nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/04/i...
ICE and THP raid Nashville's Latino neighborhoods - Nashville Banner
Federal and state law enforcement conducted a mass traffic stop operation in Nashville, detaining dozens of people and leaving families in the dark.
nashvillebanner.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ICE, State Troopers Make 150 Stops, Detain and Remove Dozens of People from South Nashville nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/04/i...
This is happening. Learn from histories.
‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal (Gift Article)
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is happening. Learn from histories.
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Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺
April 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺
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It’s happening.
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
It’s happening.
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats overseas to scrutinize the social media content of some applicants for student and other types of visas, in an effort to bar those suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel from entering the country, U.S. officials say.“
Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media (Gift Article)
The order comes as President Trump expands deportation efforts, including of students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians during Israel’s war in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats overseas to scrutinize the social media content of some applicants for student and other types of visas, in an effort to bar those suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel from entering the country, U.S. officials say.“
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Hey @pratim.bsky.social @santanu.bsky.social @chetkay.bsky.social @meghas.bsky.social this new book looks very cool. newbooksnetwork.com/mumbai-on-tw...
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, "Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
August 28, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Hey @pratim.bsky.social @santanu.bsky.social @chetkay.bsky.social @meghas.bsky.social this new book looks very cool. newbooksnetwork.com/mumbai-on-tw...
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An insightful commentary by @pallavib.bsky.social, @pratim.bsky.social, & Yahya El-Lahib about the colonialist subtext to university suppression of dissent.
theconversation.com/student-prot...
theconversation.com/student-prot...
Student protests: How the university perpetuates colonial violence on campus
Recent student protests are attempts to humanize the Palestinians in desperate need of a ceasefire. Students deserve a dignity-affirming dialogue, not the continued use of police brutality.
theconversation.com
May 31, 2024 at 9:53 PM
An insightful commentary by @pallavib.bsky.social, @pratim.bsky.social, & Yahya El-Lahib about the colonialist subtext to university suppression of dissent.
theconversation.com/student-prot...
theconversation.com/student-prot...
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? - Audrey Lorde
Join UCalgary fac+staff in rally for students: May 28, 12 pm TFDL Quad. #freepalestine
Join UCalgary fac+staff in rally for students: May 28, 12 pm TFDL Quad. #freepalestine
May 26, 2024 at 2:06 AM
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? - Audrey Lorde
Join UCalgary fac+staff in rally for students: May 28, 12 pm TFDL Quad. #freepalestine
Join UCalgary fac+staff in rally for students: May 28, 12 pm TFDL Quad. #freepalestine