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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 · 23h
Plural

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 1d
Ooops, just did!@

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 1d
This not the fault of the sector. The government has encouraged this anti intellectual narrative along with de-funding the sector. The upper administration has been their agents in it.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 1d
Proof that even active voice need not have an "actor". Dont let anyone trll you otherwise from now on. I am going back to my comfort place of passive voice writing.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
what about dad?

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
Join in. Its fun.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Lesley A. Hall, Pratik Chakrabarti

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2d
Some history of science jobs to share.

An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
Of'rse agree. But the defense mounted by Ms Guyer is full of cliches like "understanding the world", the questioning mind, bringing together people. That kind of holistic, liberal logic of human. is old and can only work in some IL colleges. We need something more radical now.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 2d
Full of jargon

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 3d
It is...

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 3d
A possible parallel scenario, far right ideologies have infiltrated the social Democratic parties.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 3d
Somehow, the bottle of rum sits very nicely on our kitchen counter. I have no idea why.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 3d
There's always hope.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 4d
History is not the past, it is the study of the past.
richardckeller.bsky.social Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 5d
Animals don’t have epidemics. They have epizootics.
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 5d
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

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

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 4d
You look suitably adorned by the setting.

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 4d
As if people will vote according to what the covid report tells them to.

Reposted by Pratik Chakrabarti

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 5d
Animals don’t have epidemics. They have epizootics.
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 5d
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 7d
Can you repost the repost?

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 8d
The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
pratik-hstm.bsky.social Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 8d
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
amywayness.bsky.social Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social · 8d
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 8d
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 8d
Oh...I didn't know it was out! Thanks

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Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social · 8d
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
Isis | Vol 116, No 4
www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social · 8d
articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History | Isis: Vol 116, No 4
Abstract Deep history is at the forefront of a contemporary reorientation of Australian history. It is at once an academic methodology, a period of the ancient past, and an embodied, living history of...
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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 8d
Delighted to get a copy of Unearthing Collections published by UCL Press. I wrote the Afterward "Re-earthing the Past"
uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth...