It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection! #phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

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

@cwaldby.bsky.social @ayowahlberg.bsky.social @hannahlandecker.bsky.social

Lophophorates get way too little publicity... Latest issue is out! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

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

On shelter, accountability, and repair. And FEMA trailers. An account that only gets more timely, from my colleague Nick Shapiro, from Duke university Press. www.dukeupress.edu/homesick

In Seattle for @4sweb.bsky.social? Come celebrate our books with us at The Pine Box (1600 Melrose Ave). Thursday, September 4th, 7 to 11 PM. Find us in the Bruce Lee Beer Garden! 📖 🎉 🍰 #4S2025 #AnthroSky #STSSky @carceralecologies.bsky.social @vivvychoi.bsky.social

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

🦟 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

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...

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.

My new article, "Twilight Shift," on how the global shipping industry drives thermal inequality, commodity fetishism under climate change, and the debilitating heat exposure experienced by warehouse workers and delivery drivers, out now in Limn! doi.org/10.70312/JXNH

“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...

Meaty!

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...

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...

After decades of groundbreaking work at the intersection of science, medicine, environment, and visual culture, Gregg Mitman is retiring. A brilliant scholar, teacher, & storyteller—your impact stretches far beyond the classroom. #Thankyou, Gregg. 🌍🎥📚 #Retirement @uwmadison.bsky.social gmitman.com

How do we engage with a world of material transformation hidden in plain sight? #MetabolicFutures at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social starts today! With Hannah Landecker, Andrew Barry, Matthew Gandy, @ulibeisel.bsky.social Víctor Muñoz Sanz and many others! Full programme: bit.ly/4hLTmbB

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...

One led by Gugulethu Moyo (www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/gugulet...): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

in honor of the paperback release! Panel discussion of Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment this coming Monday Jan. 27

this week at UCLA: Grounding Contemporary Responses to AI in an Intellectual History of Human Sociality livescu.ucla.edu/natural-soci...

A lot of attention all of a sudden to AMR and war: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...