Sreemoyee Chakraborty

Sacred Steinkerns: Shaligram Shilas as a Living Geomyth, and the Palaeontological Consequences of Devotional Custody

This paper looks at Shaligram shilas, the black spiral stones from Nepal's Kali Gandaki river that Hindus worship as forms of Vishnu, from two sides. As geology, they are Late Jurassic ammonoid fossils. The paper traces them from the Spiti Shale sea floor on the edge of the Tethy...

Temporal coverage of ammonoid measurement data in the Paleobiology Database

This preprint checks how well the ammonoid shell-measurement data in the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) represent the ammonoid fossil record through time. It links every measured ammonoid specimen in the PBDB to the database's own species-level occurrence record. It then asks, for...

A Safeguarding-Aware Agentic AI Tutor for Montessori-Inspired Personalised Education

This record documents the design and classroom trial of a working AI tutoring system built for adolescents at Blue Blocks Montessori School, Hyderabad, and the architectural argument that follows from it: that personalisation, teacher oversight, and child safeguarding should live...

Red for Danger, Warmth for Everything: How Children Assign Colours to Communicative Light Signals

This paper is a secondary, quantitative re-analysis of an open dataset of children's responses to the Firefly Design Task, in which children aged 3–15 assign colours to three imagined light signals (Glow, Hello, Danger), choose an animal to address, and write it a message. Rather...

Drawing Life: Spontaneous Biophilic Imagery in Children's Responses to an Open-Ended Prompt — A Pilot Study from Blue Blocks Montessori School, Hyderabad, India

This working paper reports a preregistered pilot study run at an AMI-certified Montessori school in Hyderabad, India, built around one deceptively simple question: when children are invited to draw "a place where life can exist," what do they actually put on the page? Eighty-one...