Zsuzsa Millei
@microbial-child.bsky.social
Microbial Childhood Collaboratory is an interdisciplinary group of researchers and artists, led by Zsuzsa Millei. Interested in microbes and biososcial perspective. Website: https://research.tuni.fi/ecepp/microbial-childhood-collaboratory-mcc
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again ✍️ Madina Tlostanova A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt. Remembering as refusal - and return. 🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait ✍️ Lucian Țion A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp... #Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/2043... New article for Microbial Childhood projects @isilova.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @gronroos.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social
Childhood in a bacterial world: Anthropogenic biology for the global studies of childhood - Zsuzsa Millei, 2025
Social, political, economic, and technological aspects of a global world and the particularities of local places shaping childhood are the scope of global studi...
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Childhood in a bacterial world: Anthropogenic biology for the global studies of childhood doi.org/10.1177/2043... @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @gronroos.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social
Childhood in a bacterial world: Anthropogenic biology for the global studies of childhood - Zsuzsa Millei, 2025
Social, political, economic, and technological aspects of a global world and the particularities of local places shaping childhood are the scope of global studi...
doi.org
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight “Rua Liga Dos Comunistas” ✍️ By José Cossa What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion. @microbial-child.bsky.social #Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography @gesigcies.bsky.social
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders” ✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography? @microbial-child.bsky.social #Memory @CollectiveBiography #Childhood
Received funding to continue our project - koneensaatio.fi/en/grants-an... Thank you @koneensaatio.fi @journalces.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social
Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Daycare Ecologies II - Kone Foundation
This interdisciplinary project explores how microbial life can be meaningfully integrated into early childhood education through the framework of Microbial Education (MicroED), grounded in post-anthro...
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🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2 ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory ✍️ By Pia Koivunen bsky.app/profile/isil... @microbial-child.bsky.social @shermandorn.com #Memory #ColdWar
Iveta Silova@isilova.bsky.social · 10mo ago🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2: ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’ ✍️ By Pia Koivunen What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method? Read (open access): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #anarchive #memory
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: (Re)membering in Jeong By Olga Mun What does it mean to remember across displacement, across borders within borders? A reflection through Korean philosophy of kindness, relationality, and more-than-human. Read more 👇 doi.org/10.11647/obp... @microbial-child.bsky.social
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 1: Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing ✍️ By Petar Odak What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
Child bodies coexist with microbial life, how can child studies and education grapple with that? journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jc... @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social@criticalchildhood.bsky.social @deborahyoudell.bsky.social@timgitzen.bsky.social
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World: A New Imperative for Childhood Studies | Journal of Childhood Studies
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We co-edited this book as MnemoZIN, a collective name for Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova, and Nelli Piattoeva. Writing together is our method—and our refusal of academic individualism. Inspired by Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory & Daughter of Gaia #MemoryMondays #MnemoZIN @microbial-child.bsky.social
Child bodies coexist with microbial life, how can child studies and education grapple with that? journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jc... @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social@criticalchildhood.bsky.social @deborahyoudell.bsky.social@timgitzen.bsky.social
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World: A New Imperative for Childhood Studies | Journal of Childhood Studies
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Childhood memories as research data! @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social @psayoungpol.bsky.social @memorystudies.bsky.social @mervikaukko.bsky.social @karenpashby.bsky.social @eecera.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @fohn.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social
Iveta Silova@isilova.bsky.social · last yr.What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨ (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇 tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
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Mira Grönroos@gronroos.bsky.social · last yr.It has been so interesting to collaborate in this project! Read more 👉 @microbial-child.bsky.social www.tuni.fi/en/news/micr...
On ollut ilo tehdä yhteistyötä tässä prokektissa! Lue lisää 👉 @microbial-child.bsky.social www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
Mikrobien kohtaaminen voi muuttaa ajattelua – tutkimus yhdisti tieteen ja taiteen | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö
Tampereen yliopiston taiteilijoiden Erika Aallon ja Eva Bublan luoma monialainen taideteos ”Making Kin with Microbes” vei lapset ja perheet mikrobien maailmaan lasten taidefestivaali Hippaloilla. T...
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Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that is only 0.5–0.7 micrometers wide, produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined. Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health. On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI
Planetary Politics RT at #BISA2025 is packed, in teeny weenie room. Problematising of concepts of ownership, epistemology, 'dehumanisation' and so much more. This discussion is proving a smasher! With @flusterbird @anthonyburke @ckweatherill @cameronharrington @hannahhughes @bisa-ecpwg
🌀 What if education isn’t saving the world— …but scripting its collapse? In our new article, we ask whether global calls for “more education” are reinforcing the very systems driving ecological collapse. 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #Unlearning #PlanetaryFutures #SDGs #MoreThanHuman
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Zsuzsa Millei@microbial-child.bsky.social · last yr.A child's mouth and hands interact with the invisible world of microbes as they explore the world. Science only but beginning to understand the deep and complex connections with childhood and microbes creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... @nessling.fi @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
A child's mouth and hands interact with the invisible world of microbes as they explore the world. Science only but beginning to understand the deep and complex connections with childhood and microbes creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... @nessling.fi @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
#48: Discover your microbial child (with Zsuzsa Millei) by Ferment Radio
Did you know your body is never truly sterile—even before you’re born? From semen and placenta to umbilical cord blood, your microbial journey begins early on. And it doesn’t stop there. The type of b...
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MISSING KINS www.tuni.fi/en/research/... - Guerilla poster campaign, 2025, various urban locations around Southern Finland @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @tampere.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social @hatsunemicrobe.bsky.social
Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows
Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests
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Zsuzsa Millei@microbial-child.bsky.social · last yr.Biffe (bifidobacterium) said 'farewell' to children in Tahmela Daycare as our Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Childhood Ecologies project is closing www.tuni.fi/en/research/... @isilova.bsky.social @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social
Biffe (bifidobacterium) said 'farewell' to children in Tahmela Daycare as our Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Childhood Ecologies project is closing www.tuni.fi/en/research/... @isilova.bsky.social @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social
Heading to Hope and Resilience Conference at Jyväskylä University in Finland www.jyu.fi/en/events/ho.... 2 art workshop & 2 presentations @riikkahohti.bsky.social @pauliina-rautio.bsky.social @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @gronroos.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social
Increases in #vaccine-preventable #disease #outbreaks threaten years of progress ... | #pathogens | #Immunization | #measles | #meningitis | #YellowFever | #diphtheria | #children | #kids | Via @who.int
Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress, warn WHO, UNICEF, Gavi
Immunization efforts are under growing threat as misinformation, population growth, humanitarian crises and funding cuts jeopardize progress and leave millions of children, adolescents and adults at…
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