Hannah Landecker
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Historian and social scientist of the life sciences.
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Science, Technology, & Human Values
about 1 month ago
What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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
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Homesick
https://www.dukeupress.edu/homesick
28 days ago
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Hannah Landecker
Emily Yates-Doerr
2 months ago
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
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Fascinating paper. PFAS acts as a surfactant disrupting reproduction….not coincidentally these chemicals are industrially/commercially useful exactly because of their surface active properties.
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3 months ago
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Luísa Reis Castro
3 months 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
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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...
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Gametic Politics Workshop
Call for papers for social science and humanities scholars studying eggs, sperm, and gender/sex in the 21st century
https://www.renealmeling.com/gametic-politics.html
3 months ago
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Hannah Landecker
The Allard lab
3 months ago
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.
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Hannah Landecker
Bharat Jayram Venkat
5 months ago
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
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“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...
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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.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cryopreservation-plants-extinction
5 months ago
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Meaty!
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6 months ago
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Hannah Landecker
Sven Opitz
6 months ago
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...
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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...
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948483/
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Hannah Landecker
Nikolas Rose
7 months ago
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...
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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
https://biosocieties.org/our-thanks-to-founding-editor-professor-nikolas-rose/
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Hannah Landecker
UW-Madison Medical History & Bioethics
7 months ago
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
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Hannah Landecker
Maan Barua
7 months ago
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
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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...
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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...
https://www.spiral.uliege.be/cms/c_12696752/fr/international-conference-radiant-futures
8 months ago
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Hannah Landecker
Jessica Metcalf
8 months ago
One led by Gugulethu Moyo (
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/gugulet...
):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Getting ahead of human-associated microbial decline in Africa: the urgency of sampling in light of epidemiological transition
Evidence is growing that human-associated early-life microbial diversity modulates health over the long term, via effects in the infant termed ‘immune…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966842X25000058
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Hannah Landecker
Sven Opitz
9 months ago
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...
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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 ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41292-025-00349-2
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in honor of the paperback release! Panel discussion of Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment this coming Monday Jan. 27
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The Birth of a New Syria
The Walls Have Stopped Listening
https://aljumhuriya.net/en/2024/12/19/the-birth-of-a-new-syria/
11 months ago
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this week at UCLA: Grounding Contemporary Responses to AI in an Intellectual History of Human Sociality
livescu.ucla.edu/natural-soci...
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Natural Sociability and Political Association: Grounding Contemporary Responses to AI in an Intellectual History of Human Sociality – The Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative and AI
https://livescu.ucla.edu/natural-sociability-and-political-association-grounding-contemporary-responses-to-ai-in-an-intellectual-history-of-human-sociality/
11 months ago
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A lot of attention all of a sudden to AMR and war:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Could a Conflict-Borne Superbug Bring on Our Next Pandemic?
Drug-resistant bacteria are proliferating in war zones like Gaza and Ukraine — and spreading from the battlefield to hospitals and across borders.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/war-zone-conflict-bacteria-pandemic-1235064261/
11 months ago
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