Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু
@sharbat.bsky.social
Neuroscience, behaviour, computation, etc | ভাষা, immigration, সাম্য, history
Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience
Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience
I had always wanted to post this clip from a weird movie on my first trip to the USA, so now that I am here for the first time in my life, here it is!
October 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I had always wanted to post this clip from a weird movie on my first trip to the USA, so now that I am here for the first time in my life, here it is!
The successor to Cardinal Richelieu, the Prime Minister of the French Kingdom, was known to feel cold and appreciate Indian Chinese food.
He was Chilly Mazarin.
He was Chilly Mazarin.
July 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The successor to Cardinal Richelieu, the Prime Minister of the French Kingdom, was known to feel cold and appreciate Indian Chinese food.
He was Chilly Mazarin.
He was Chilly Mazarin.
This is the worst waste disposal bin design I’ve seen (this one’s on Avenue d’Italie). Completely malfunctioning with the slightest of wind. Wonder who came up with it!
July 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This is the worst waste disposal bin design I’ve seen (this one’s on Avenue d’Italie). Completely malfunctioning with the slightest of wind. Wonder who came up with it!
125th birthday of Ligne 1 (and hence of Paris Métro) today!
Here’s the newly inaugurated plaque at Porte Maillot.
Here’s the newly inaugurated plaque at Porte Maillot.
July 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
125th birthday of Ligne 1 (and hence of Paris Métro) today!
Here’s the newly inaugurated plaque at Porte Maillot.
Here’s the newly inaugurated plaque at Porte Maillot.
Apparently Paris’s first place that claims to serve Indian Chinese, and it didn’t disappoint! The Chicken Manchurian was really good!
Shera, Paris 17e.
Shera, Paris 17e.
July 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Apparently Paris’s first place that claims to serve Indian Chinese, and it didn’t disappoint! The Chicken Manchurian was really good!
Shera, Paris 17e.
Shera, Paris 17e.
Happy national day to the French Republic, and happy last day before the RER B starts going bonkers for 2 months and essentially cuts off the Saclay plateau from Paris, asking people to ... postpone their work ... for 2 months.
Amazing productivity expectations.
Amazing productivity expectations.
July 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Happy national day to the French Republic, and happy last day before the RER B starts going bonkers for 2 months and essentially cuts off the Saclay plateau from Paris, asking people to ... postpone their work ... for 2 months.
Amazing productivity expectations.
Amazing productivity expectations.
Heart skipped a beat when I saw a 'correction' on a beautiful and famous paper - Dung beetles use the Milky Way for orientation - 12 years after its appearance, but it's just a reporting error of units, which does not change the conclusions. Thank the Milky Way!
July 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Heart skipped a beat when I saw a 'correction' on a beautiful and famous paper - Dung beetles use the Milky Way for orientation - 12 years after its appearance, but it's just a reporting error of units, which does not change the conclusions. Thank the Milky Way!
Il est minuit à Delhi
Il est cinq heures au Mali
Quelle heure est-il au Paradis ?
Il est cinq heures au Mali
Quelle heure est-il au Paradis ?
July 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Il est minuit à Delhi
Il est cinq heures au Mali
Quelle heure est-il au Paradis ?
Il est cinq heures au Mali
Quelle heure est-il au Paradis ?
The air is cool, the sky is overcast, the city is getting back home, heaving a sigh of relief. Paris 13e.
July 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The air is cool, the sky is overcast, the city is getting back home, heaving a sigh of relief. Paris 13e.
New month, new courriel to the préfecture de Paris, asking them to reimburse 180€ that they wrongly charged me 9 months ago, while I read about how they paid 15,000€ in legal fees for the kind policeman who executed a teenager for the crime of ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶A̶r̶a̶b̶ speeding.
July 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
New month, new courriel to the préfecture de Paris, asking them to reimburse 180€ that they wrongly charged me 9 months ago, while I read about how they paid 15,000€ in legal fees for the kind policeman who executed a teenager for the crime of ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶A̶r̶a̶b̶ speeding.
I try to take the only bus back from work (it’s usually too early for me) on days like this (heatwave) as the bus has an AC. However, I had to walk 10 minutes to the bus-stop and OMG. Zero tree-cover, almost melting hot concrete, desiccating air, hell. Got a heat-headache.
June 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I try to take the only bus back from work (it’s usually too early for me) on days like this (heatwave) as the bus has an AC. However, I had to walk 10 minutes to the bus-stop and OMG. Zero tree-cover, almost melting hot concrete, desiccating air, hell. Got a heat-headache.
Choose France for Science!
June 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Choose France for Science!
Guess which French mathematician wrote this!
Devinez quel mathématicien français a écrit cela !
Devinez quel mathématicien français a écrit cela !
June 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Guess which French mathematician wrote this!
Devinez quel mathématicien français a écrit cela !
Devinez quel mathématicien français a écrit cela !
I don’t have access to this as an employee of NeuroPSI despite working at the same campus as all other institutes of the CEA (like NeuroSpin) because, I don’t know, rules? I have access to some other buses from Porte d’Italie with incredibly inconvenient timings (07h30 to Saclay, 16h45 to Paris).
June 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I don’t have access to this as an employee of NeuroPSI despite working at the same campus as all other institutes of the CEA (like NeuroSpin) because, I don’t know, rules? I have access to some other buses from Porte d’Italie with incredibly inconvenient timings (07h30 to Saclay, 16h45 to Paris).
A Parisian lab retreat.
June 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A Parisian lab retreat.
The Commune de Paris. শূকর সর্বত্র।
June 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Commune de Paris. শূকর সর্বত্র।
République, pardonne-leur, car ils ne savent pas ce qu’ils font.
June 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
République, pardonne-leur, car ils ne savent pas ce qu’ils font.
When you get a PhD from the Sorbonne, they give you a medal, a gown, and a hat at the communist aesthetic auditorium (not the traditional Sorbonne) while proches try to watch it on a screen with a malfunctioning Zoom connection. Then you take a photo in front of Tour Isengard.
June 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
When you get a PhD from the Sorbonne, they give you a medal, a gown, and a hat at the communist aesthetic auditorium (not the traditional Sorbonne) while proches try to watch it on a screen with a malfunctioning Zoom connection. Then you take a photo in front of Tour Isengard.
For not submitting my demande for renouvellement of my residence permit on time. I did, in fact submit on time (more than 2 months before the expiry) after a lot of sweat & blood. All of this for vain, as they fined me (& every foreigner of my PhD program at the end of their PhD) anyway.
June 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
For not submitting my demande for renouvellement of my residence permit on time. I did, in fact submit on time (more than 2 months before the expiry) after a lot of sweat & blood. All of this for vain, as they fined me (& every foreigner of my PhD program at the end of their PhD) anyway.
Guess which well-known French scientist dared to write that mastery of English helped them extraordinarily in their scientific work.
June 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Guess which well-known French scientist dared to write that mastery of English helped them extraordinarily in their scientific work.
The station of Ay, the station with the shortest name that I’ve been to.
June 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The station of Ay, the station with the shortest name that I’ve been to.
Didn’t expect to see a rhinoceros at the Reims Cathedral.
June 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Didn’t expect to see a rhinoceros at the Reims Cathedral.
Line 7 of Paris metro towards Ivry or Purple Line of Kolkata metro?
June 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Line 7 of Paris metro towards Ivry or Purple Line of Kolkata metro?
The Canada geese, the neuroscience institute, and a random photobombing bug.
June 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Canada geese, the neuroscience institute, and a random photobombing bug.