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Hannah Landecker

@hannahlandecker.bsky.social

Historian and social scientist of the life sciences.

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Lisa Onaga@lisaonaga.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Center for Art, Science, and Biocultural Ecologies Directorship call! This Center in Singapore also collaborates w Max Planck Inst. History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social. Pls share w folks committed to putting interdisciplinary research results into action! #HistSci #art #EnvHum Deadline 5 Feb

Associate/Full Professor of Curatorial Practice

Director of Centre for Art, Science and Biocultural Ecologies (CASBE) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young, research intensive, and outward-looking Nanyang Technological University, Singa...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values@sthv.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

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Science, Technology, & Human Values@sthv.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hannah Landecker@hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Fascinating paper. PFAS acts as a surfactant disrupting reproduction….not coincidentally these chemicals are industrially/commercially useful exactly because of their surface active properties.

The Allard lab@allard-lab-ucla.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 New paper alert from our lab! Using model system and in vitro approaches, we demonstrate that PFAS, likely due to their physicochemical properties as surfactant, disrupt liquid-like condensates critical for reproduction. Link: academic.oup.com/toxsci/advan... #PFAS #Toxicology #SystemsToxicology

Luísa Reis Castro@anthrobite.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟 The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations? New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky

Print Screen: Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro ABSTRACT A bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito can transmit pathogenic viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. While public health campaigns have historically focused on eliminating this vector species, a project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes to release A. aegypti carrying the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. This microbe, passed from female A. aegypti to their progeny, would hinder viral transmission, making the bite less of a threat and promoting a more convivial coexistence. In releasing Wolbachia mosquitoes, project proponents presented their strategy as a solution for disease control that harnessed “nature,” instead of working against it. By juxtaposing historical accounts and ethnographic research in Rio with descriptions of biological processes, this article investigates how the microbe-mosquito dyad was turned into a biotechnology of epidemic control. Proponents of the Wolbachia project hoped that a change within multispecies relations—the novel human-bacterium-mosquito relationship—would change other multispecies relations—the historically constituted human-virus-mosquito relationships in Rio and beyond. This shift, which I term “multispecies transmutation,” highlights how relational alterations in both biologies and socialities created a new life-form (“Wolbachia mosquitoes”) and a new form of life (of multispecies coexistence). By tracing the more-than-human biopolitical arrangements put forward by the project, this article explores the recalibration of technoscientific solutions to global environmental health concerns. Multispecies transmutation offers a new framework for understanding the management of multispecies relations, showing how techniques of governance can target not individuals or populations per se, but rather interspecies connections.
Jose A. Cañada@joseacanada.bsky.social · last yr.

Out now! With Salla Sariola and Matthäus Rest we argue for a more situated social analysis of microbes in our introduction to a thematic collection @estsjournal.bsky.social with fantastic contributions by @anthrobite.bsky.social @heymayahey.bsky.social A.Butcher, R.Soncco. L.Whiteley, V.Koski-Karell

Hannah Landecker@hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Call for Papers! Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling and Sarah Richardson April 16-17, 2026 Yale University New Haven, CT Details and application form here: www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...

Gametic Politics Workshop

Call for papers for social science and humanities scholars studying eggs, sperm, and gender/sex in the 21st century

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The Allard lab@allard-lab-ucla.bsky.social · last yr.

1/3 It's official, our grants from the NIH/NIEHS have all been suspended. We were aiming to understand how arsenic, a chemical that millions of Americans are exposed to at high levels, is disrupting the epigenetic machinery.

Hannah Landecker@hannahlandecker.bsky.social · last yr.

“What is it that brought us to this situation where our only solution is to strip something of all of its context and stick it in a freezer and hope for the best?” asks Hannah Landecker, a sociologist and historian at UCLA. “There is no suspension of time." www.sciencenews.org/article/cryo...

Cryopreservation is not sci-fi. It may save plants from extinction

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

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Sven Opitz@svop.bsky.social · last yr.

Our book „Ecologies of Disease Control“ is out! With contributions from @hannahlandecker.bsky.social, @engelmal.bsky.social, @ulibeisel.bsky.social, Ann Kelly, Clare Herrick, Susan Jones, Henning Füller and many more. upittpress.org/books/978082...

Ecologies of Disease Control - University of Pittsburgh Press

|9780822948483|Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective|Ecologies of Disease Control explores the relationship between ecological conceptions of epidemics and forms of infectious disease co...

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Nikolas Rose@rose-nikolas.bsky.social · last yr.

Heartfelt thanks to my dear colleagues in the BioSocieties editorial collective for this incredibly generous ´tribute’ as I step down from my editorial role after 20 years. I’ll continue to support this terrific journal from the sidelines. biosocieties.org/our-thanks-t...

Our Thanks to Founding Editor Professor Nikolas Rose

As BioSocieties reaches its twentieth year we write to mark a significant transition in our history. Professor Nikolas Rose, founding editor and global leader

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Hannah Landecker@hannahlandecker.bsky.social · last yr.

CFP celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Spiral Research Centre, University of Liège: "an invitation to reflect on the futures that STS scholars will encounter, engage with, and conceptualize in their own communities, countries and societies." www.spiral.uliege.be/cms/c_126967...

International conference: "Radiant Futures"

The Spiral Research Centre is celebrating its 30th anniversary, an occasion to pause and reflect on past, present and future; which is why Spiral is organizing the “Radiant Futures” conference in Lièg...

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Sven Opitz@svop.bsky.social · last yr.

Our article on vector control methods that use microbes to fight viral diseases such as dengue is out now. @afolkers.bsky.social and I call the approach „symbiotic engineering“. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Symbiotic engineering: insects, microbes, and the space of vector control - BioSocieties

This article analyses vector control methods that use microbes to fight diseases, such as dengue, Zika, or West-Nile, by infecting mosquitoes with an endosymbiotic bacterium, Wolbachia. These methods ...

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