Hellooooo, Edinburgh #ESHS-HSS! ICYMI: Yesterday at the MPIWG Networking Lunch, we ntroduced the Centre for Biocultural Worlding. We're hiring 2 postdocs with background in #HistSci ++++ #ESHS #HSS This is a 4-yr position. Please spread the word! Danke! 🐢🪲🦋🧩⚖️🌏🌴🐘🧪🛶🐅🎶🎨✍️🪸

Lisa Onaga@lisaonaga.bsky.social · 4w ago

How do current standards of decision-making processes produce consequences for who thrives on this #planet? Join the Max Planck–NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding bioculturalworlding.org to research with #law #science #art #KnowledgeHolders (Deadline 10 Aug) www.mpg.de/26862008/two...

How do current standards of decision-making processes produce consequences for who thrives on this #planet? Join the Max Planck–NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding bioculturalworlding.org to research with #law #science #art #KnowledgeHolders (Deadline 10 Aug) www.mpg.de/26862008/two...

ICYMI The CBCW is settling into place, and getting ready for the long game of working with communities from cultural practices, knowledge-holding traditions, the arts, law, sciences, and the humanities that share inclusive ways of defining *shared futures*. Stay tuned: bioculturalworlding.org

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science@mpiwg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On April 20th, the Max Planck–NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding (CBCW) was launched with an opening symposium in Singapore. The event assembled scholars and practitioners of various disciplines, engaging them in conversations on entanglements of biological diversity and cultural life. /1

What are protocols for? Who do they serve? Why do they work (or not)? Many forces today are hellbent upon dividing people. How has "protocol" historically restored or protected connections? V grateful to all who contributed to our workshop last week! The fun will continue @ #HSS 07/13 9:15 EFI, 1.60

Do you know any places named for animal-human relations? I'm thoroughly enjoying this thought-provoking #teaching module by Youjia Li on the "Ox-Town" (Shibakuruma-chō) of 18th-century Tokyo. 🐂 Teaching Animal Mobilities website 🐂 animalmobilities.org/modules/2026... #HistSci #animals #mobility

The Ox-Town

Hundreds of oxen traveled over a thousand kilometers to pull carts through the shogun’s capital. This module asks how working cattle shaped urban space, inspired iconic art, and became symbols of Edo’...

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1 week left to apply! Postdoc on history of educational experiences linked to migration of Asian immigrants within East and Southeast #Asia over longue durée + contemporary knowledge dynamics of Asian diasporas in Europe. #migration #DisasterSTS #EconomicMobility #gender www.mpg.de/26445995/one...

Postdoctoral Scholar (m/f/d) | Migratory Expertise and Practices of Knowledge Transmission

Department “Artifacts, Action, Knowledge” studies the history of knowledge and action considering the changing role of artifacts: texts, objects, and spaces. Our research collectively examines the pro...

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Our department is hiring a postdoc to study the educational experiences of Asian immigrants within East and Southeast Asia, and between Asia / Europe, over long time periods. See these links for full details on this EduTrack project www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/pro... www.mpg.de/26445995/one...

Postdoctoral Scholar (m/f/d) | Migratory Expertise and Practices of Knowledge Transmission

Department “Artifacts, Action, Knowledge” studies the history of knowledge and action considering the changing role of artifacts: texts, objects, and spaces. Our research collectively examines the pro...

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The Max Planck Society and Population Europe have launched EduTrack! 🌐 As part of the collaboration an MPIWG research team led by @lisaonaga.bsky.social and Shih-Pei Chen will examine how human migration, social mobility, and digital access reshape knowledge exchange between Asia and Europe.

Population Europe@populationeu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Technological and demographic change create needs for #education systems to adapt. @maxplanck.de launches the project "EduTrack" for science-based policy. We are thrilled to be working with @mpidr.bsky.social, @mpiwg.bsky.social and @mpips.bsky.social. population-europe.eu/network/news...

So great to see this teaching resource in the wild! Stay tuned to this space later this spring, as we're preparing a next batch of modules focusing on animal mobility in Asia.

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science@mpiwg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘 Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility. 🔗 animalmobilities.org #HistSci #AnimalMobilities

Apply to be the Berlin *half* of the scientific coordination team as the Max Planck-NTU Singapore Center for Biocultural Worlding gets set up! Need to be versed in research concerning history art environment law science. Languages: EN + DE; Asian language a + See also www.ntu.edu.sg/hass/researc...

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science@mpiwg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Max Planck NTU Singapore Center for #Biocultural Worlding is hiring a Scientific Coordinator. 🤝 coordinate research programs 🚀 facilitate collaboration with cultural and research institutions 🛰️ amplify #SciComm 🗓️ Deadline: open until filled 📍 Workplace: MPIWG Berlin 🔗 bit.ly/4k5DWSs #HistSci

Fascinating research in Art and Soil Ecologies on the horizon!

Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026 ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position... #envhum

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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This is such a delightful DH project on an 18th-century Japanese poetry competition, in which live bell and pine crickets are contemplated to express emotion. There's so much going on, I just love it! 🦗 juban-mushi-awase.dhii.jp/about_this_s...

NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会)@nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How did Edo elites engage in Heian nostalgia? What does it have to do with crickets?🦗👀 Revisit an #NCCSpotlight by Kiyoe Minami (Honolulu Museum) “Exploring Heian Cultural Revival in Edo through the Jūban Mushi-awase Emaki at the Honolulu Museum of Art” to learn! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

My mind is blown by this Glossary of Communities, created to elevate the visibility of "heritage words" to the normalizing/universalizing words often used in general and technical conservation glossaries. Thank U dear Renée Riedler for clueing me in! #MaterialCulture #heritage #art glo-co.org

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

Hello folx attending #AAA in Bulbancha/NOLA! I must tell you about a special ice cream shop called Sweet Saint. Went here every lunch break during HSS and met co-owners. They're lovely & put incredible thought into their craft with local ingredients 🍦 www.frenchquarterjournal.com/archives/loc...

Sweet Saint: Local Boy Makes Good Ice Cream

After several years of homework, a former teacher combines local pride with a child-like love of ice cream and is met with sweet success. -By Kim Ranjbar

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At the "Accessibility and the History of Science" Roundtable @ @historyscience.bsky.social mtg I was saddened to learn that Alice Wong passed away 14 Nov. Thank U Kate Jirik for leading the moment of silence. HSS folks pls take a look pg 54 of program & let's work on accessibility for future mtgs 🙏

Sounds of healthy reefs can help corals grow! 🎶🪸 Reclaiming '🐢s All the Way Down' Working Group @mpiwg.bsky.social visited media artist Marco Barotti's exhibit "Beyond Us" @ berlinscienceweek.com/exhibition-beyond-us 日本の皆様、Coral Sonic Resilienceが2026年2月13-15日まで、DIGSHIBUYAで展示される予定です。 #ecology #marine

A life-changing moment of my academic career was the decision to do language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. Great teachers and location in Yokohama. The call for the next cohort is now posted! #Japan #language #PhDLife iuc.fsi.stanford.edu/programs-10M

Excited to be in Florence today to meet in 3D with fantastic colleagues across the MPG after a year of zoom meetings to network about #heritage research. I'll be presenting "The Art of Persistence," a case study about the Live Turtle Museum Singapore 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

Decay, Persistance, Re-Posession, and the Archive

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Looking forward to Power Institute's reading group today on 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art (Langton and Ryan, eds. 2025)+ essay by Tristen Harwood "From Landscape to landrelation" reflecting on Segar Passi's paintings, among others www.powerinstitute.org.au/events/power...

Sydney! What a beautiful city you are; I am in awe. I'm giving a talk "Weaving Genetics with Silk in Japan" in the School of History and Philosophy of Science @ U. Sydney Mon. 8 Sep. (F23 rm 501). Please join if you are in the area! #Japan #histsci #silk 🐛 hps-events.sydney.edu.au/event/weavin...

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the A-bombing of Nagasaki. In this podcast, Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki discusses the importance of pursuing a culture of peace: "We have to move forward, even if it is one little step" "to realize a world without nuclear weapons" open.substack.com/pub/annelise...

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing, Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki calls on the world to remember—and act.

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Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science@mpiwg.bsky.social · last yr.

The "Animal Mobilities" special issue will also be discussed at this year's History of Science Society conference in New Orleans, USA. 🐫🐠🐛 The roundtable is organized by @lisaonaga.bsky.social, co-editor of the volume. 🗓️ November 14, 2025, 11:00 (CST) 📍Sheraton NOLA 🔗 bit.ly/hssam25 #HistSci #HSS

To reconsider how, where, and by whom science is done, these amazing authors explore the theme "Animal Mobilities" & guide us to some unexpected spaces to show us how animal agency & human–animal interactions have mattered in the history of knowledge production. 🐟🪰🪸🐕🦆🐒🦏🐘🐛 Check it out! 👇

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science@mpiwg.bsky.social · last yr.

New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛 The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers." 🔗 bit.ly/amv4025 #HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

Given all that is going on in the 🌏, I'm humbled to announce that "Animal Mobilities" is released into the wild. 12 richly illustrated essays, ed. by Novick, Onaga, & Rosenberg 🪸🐛 🦆🐒🐘🪳🦏 🐕🐟 Come for the critters, stay for the history of science. doi.org/10.1086/735515 @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Knowing Animals, Moving Animals: Osiris: Vol 40

Abstract Human societies often come to know the natural world by examining animals, even as animals, frequently both willful and animate, elude human grasps and challenge human aims. Animals and their...

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I'm giving a lunchtime talk today (12noon UK time) on the postwar history of sericulture and science in Japan. Excited to share this research with a bunch of animal geography scholars @rgs-agwg.bsky.social ! #animals #japan

RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · last yr.

In a week's time, we'll have a research seminar with Dr Lisa Onaga titled 'Where Have All The Silkworms Gone? Finding a Place for Sericulture in Postwar Japan'. Registration below!

Postdoc opportunity. Please distribute widely. We’re looking for an emerging scholar doing community-centred or community-led research in Pacific History. Minimal teaching duties, research, relocation funds and visa sponsorship available. usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pacific History

Full time, fixed term for 3 years Opportunity for research in Pacific history in the Discipline of History First Nations and Pacific Nations candidates strongly encouraged to apply Academic Level A6-8...

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Queuing up som PBS films for upcoming AAPI history month w/ "Your Serve or Mine" (pbs.org/video/your-s... on ping-pong diplomacy w/ comments from historian of science Zuoyue Wang, and "Becoming Yamazushi" on the Durham, NC kaiseki restaurant, dir by rap artist #GYamazawa www.pbs.org/video/becomi...