Pratim Sengupta

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Couple Receive $200,000 Settlement After ‘Pungent’ Indian Food Complaint

disgusting but sadly not surprising

Cool analysis, which finds a steadily growing polarization of the Supreme Court, beginning around 1960, with justices appointed by Republicans favoring wealthy parties and justices appointed by Democrats favoring less-wealthy parties.

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...

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...

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

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.

Dr. Pallavi Banerjee • Associate Professor • UCalgary Research Excellence Chair • Dept of Sociology YouTube video by Faculty of Arts — University of Calgary

Congratulations, Pallavi! #UCalgaryArts youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vd...

worried sick about the escalating war between India and Pakistan

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.

ICE, State Troopers Make 150 Stops, Detain and Remove Dozens of People from South Nashville nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/04/i...

What Does My Diet Look Like In Gaza? YouTube video by Mohd hatem

Watch this please.

‘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.

This is happening. Learn from histories.

Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺

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.

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

It’s happening.

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.

“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.“

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?”

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

Yup. Same here. This is real.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, "Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network

Hey @pratim.bsky.social @santanu.bsky.social @chetkay.bsky.social @meghas.bsky.social this new book looks very cool. newbooksnetwork.com/mumbai-on-tw...

Thank you @jgilligan.org - I miss you

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.

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...

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