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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · Sep 3

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...

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

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Aug 24

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

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Aoife Mac Namara @aoifemacnamara.bsky.social · May 22

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

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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · May 8

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.

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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

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · May 8

worried sick about the escalating war between India and Pakistan

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · May 6

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.

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · May 3

Watch this please.

What Does My Diet Look Like In Gaza?

YouTube video by Mohd hatem

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Apr 25

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.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · Apr 18

Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Apr 14

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...

How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda (Gift Article)

Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.

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Aoife Mac Namara @aoifemacnamara.bsky.social · Apr 9

It’s happening.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Apr 9

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 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.

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Apr 1

“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.

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Mar 29

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Mar 8

Yup. Same here. This is real.

Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Mar 8

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (Gift Article)

President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Dec 3

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature

A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Aug 28

Two interesting metaphors for me: "embodied freedoms of cycling", "mundane choreographies of the road" (second one borrowed from from Endensor). Always good to trouble notions of infrastructure in these ways.

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yes! I enjoyed reading it. Have been following Anjaria's work with great interest.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · Aug 28

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

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you @jgilligan.org - I miss you

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · May 31

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...

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.

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · May 26

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

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