The Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize for an excellent @isisjournal.bsky.social article goes to Sayori Ghoshal, author of "Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s-1940s" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #HSS2025

Director Dagmar Schäfer talks to @anhspruch.bsky.social of the "Der Rest ist Geschichte" podcast about the origins of black powder in Chinese medicine 🎇 She is one of several scholars who join the show's holiday episode on the cultural history of fireworks. 🔗 bit.ly/4qsB0k (GER) #HistSci #HistMed

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science wants to thank all who supported us in 2025. We are wishing everybody very happy holidays and all the best for 2026! ☃️🎄🎁 #HistSci

Where do #DigitalMethods meet history?🎙️ @sarahalang.bsky.social spoke with Thomas Meyer at @hsozkult.bsky.social about her path from #Alchemy research to #DigitalHumanities, projects like GAMS & CLARIAH‑AT, and today’s #AI challenges. 🎧 www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/fd... (GER) #DH #HistSci

📢 If you missed Prof. Chihyung Nam’s lecture “The Origin of the Game of Go” last week, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel. If you’d like to be notified about upcoming events, feel free to like, subscribe, and turn on notifications. @mpiwg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kR-...

Worried about the environmental impact of using #LLMs in ( #DH ) research, but not sure where to start? I got you covered! We reviewed the research & ran a #DigitalHumanities case study with carbon reporting, sharing all the tools, code & info: doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... ( #DHd #GreeningDH)

Neue Stellenanzeige: #Ausbildung zum:r Fachangestellten für Medien- und Informationsdienste, Fachrichtung #Bibliothek 📚 Beschaffung & Pflege des Bestands 🔄 Fernleihe & Digitalisierung 👩‍💻 Service Support 📱 Social Media 🔗 bit.ly/4h0N8 🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Januar 2026 #Lehre #Bibliothek #Azubi

Neue #Stellenanzeige: Auszubildende:r zur Kauffrau/zum Kaufmann für #Büromanagement zum 1. September 2026 🦸 🌍 Internationales Umfeld 👩‍🏫 Umfangreiches Fortbildungsangebot 🕵️ Enger Kontakt zu Forschenden 🫰 Gute Bezahlung 🔗 bit.ly/3Kyz6iX 🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Juli 2026 #Azubi #Verwaltung #Job #Lehre

Neue #Stellenanzeige: das MPIWG sucht eine:n Systemadministrator:in 💻 Linux System- und Serveradministration 🏫 Weiterentwicklung der Verwaltungsprozesse 🌐 Plattformbetrieb & Automatisierung von Prozessen 🕵️ IT-Sicherheit & Support 🔗 bit.ly/4h0N8 🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 31. März 2026 #Job #IT

📘 New #OpenAccess book edited by Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver, and Alan Wiig: "The Material #Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative" examines infrastructures and political ecologies on the #NewSilkRoad, analyzing the impacts of this project. 🔗 bit.ly/4Umr #China #EnvHist

Journalist-in-residence alumna @rochmyaningsih.bsky.social quotes Dwirahmi Suryandari in National Geographic on the #Repatriation of #JavaMan, the first #HomoErectus discovered, to Indonesia. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/48MVFd6 #HistSci #Paleontology #Restitution

Join #ArtistInResidence Tomás Cohen for a performative lecture with #poetry & music: "The Sex of the Planets: A Week’s Progress" 🪐 The event will be introduced by Jeffrey Kotyk & jointly performed with the musician Salvador Burrell. 🗓️ Dec 12, 2025 (12:30 CET) 📍 MPIWG 🔗 bit.ly/3XwyF #HistSci

Next in our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @profemmakowal.bsky.social on "Freezing Time: A Decade of #Cryopolitics" ❄️🕰️ 🗓️ Jan 27, 2025 (14:00 CET) 📍 Harnack Haus, Berlin 🔗 bit.ly/48w3WAR #HistSci #Anthropology @deakinuniversity.bsky.social

#CallForApplications ✨🔭 Short term #Fellowships with a stipend and self-funded #ResearchStays in #HistSci, #PhilSci, and #SocSci are open to applicants of any nationality 🌏 🔗 bit.ly/4od8Jx5 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15 and Sep 15 (rolling basis) 📍 Berlin, Germany #CfA #AcademicCareer

📚 New #OpenAccess special issue edited by Jeffrey Kotyk & Ru Zhan: “Buddhism, Science and #Technology” analyzes how Buddhism faces the challenges posed by a scientific and technological world in the process of modernization and digitization. 🔗 bit.ly/0qkNr #HistSci #AI #Theology

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue - Zum Jahresabschluss der #CrossAsia-Talks am 4. Dezember geben Mackenzie Cooley, Huiyi Wu & Shih-Pei Chen einen Einblick in den gleichnamigen Sammelband. Alle Infos 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/cross... @crossasia.bsky.social

In an @szde.bsky.social interview, Christian Weber speaks with @annalahlers.bsky.social about China’s rise in the global system of science, its current #SciencePolicy, and how #China approaches notions of #AcademicFreedom. 🔗 www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/china... (GER) #HistSci #SocSci #PolSci

Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” seeks to appoint a #GraduateAssistant with English and Chinese language skills Support the team with: 🖥️ Project websites 🖋️ Research databases 🌐 Social media 📙 Text analysis 🚀 Research tasks 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 31, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4h0N8 #SocSci

#BookLaunch: Join Huiyi Wu & @mackenziecooley.bsky.social in discussion with Shih-Pei Chen (MPIWG), Lasse Hölck @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, & Henning Klöter @humboldtuni.bsky.social 🎤 🗓️ Nov 25, 2025 (18:00 CET) 📍Lateinamerika-Institut (FUB) & Online 🔗 bit.ly/3LFUtz4 #HistSci #Sinology

New #OpenAccess volume by Huiyi Wu and Mackenzie Cooley: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" 🗺️ The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds. 🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN #HistSci #Sinology

🎓 Einsteintag 2025 in Potsdam! Was bedeutet kulturelles Erbe – und wem gehört es? Welche Verantwortung tragen Wissenschaft & Museen? Mit einem Bericht des Präsidenten, einer Podiumsdiskussion, Preisverleihungen und Musik der Barenboim-Said Akademie. Zur Anmeldung: www.bbaw.de/veranstaltun...

The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃 🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET) 📍 MPIWG 🔗 bit.ly/3IApzqX #HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr

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

I'm excited to share my latest essay on Dr Narayan Krishna - India's first socialist - out now in India's World. Register for a free account to read 8 articles per month. indiasworld.in/indias-first...

New book by He Bian and Mårten Söderblom Saarela: "The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing #China" 📙 The volume examines how the Qing court sought to codify Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants throughout the eighteenth century. 🔗 bit.ly/4qpE #EnvHum

📢: Our High Gravity Talk with @audreytruschke.bsky.social is just over two weeks away. It is free to attend but registration is required. Seats a quickly filling up, so register now to secure your place. www.eventbrite.com/e/fieldnotes... @mpiwg.bsky.social

📗 New #OpenAccess volume edited by Elizabeth Hughes & Alfred Freeborn: "Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future. 🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ #HistSci #HistArt

Come find us at #BerlinScienceWeek this weekend! 🎲 Jacob Schmidt-Madsen will host the interactive exhibition "Cosmic #Games: Real Gods Play Dice," where you can play and learn about historic board games. 🗓️ Nov 1–2, 9:30–18:00 (CET) 📍Museum für Naturkunde 🔗 bitly.cx/ctPR #HistSci #SciComm

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅 Researcher Jacob Schmidt-Madsen presents his article "Discovering Dadu: A Ludemic Enigma from South Asia," published in "Board Game Studies Journal" 🎲 🔗 youtu.be/QKR_Zi2MH08?si=QKmwfX9JyEJ #HistSci #CulturalStudies #GameStudies @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social

"Kaboom!"/"Extinction, Fast and Slow" Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋 "Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe." 🗞️ bit.ly/3L72ddi 🎧 bit.ly/4huQXd #HistSci

"Cosmic Games: Real Gods Play Dice" ✨🎲 Visit us at #Berlin Science Week's CAMPUS to play traditional board games associated with cosmological representations from cultures and societies across the world. 🗓️ Nov. 1–2, 2025 📍@mfnberlin.bsky.social 🔗bit.ly/3LtFpV6 #HistSci @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social

#CallForApplications Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program! 🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions 🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ #HistSci

Book launch event: "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. 🗓️ November 3, 2025 🕛 16.00-17.30 📍 Spore Initiative Berlin 🔗 spore-initiative.org/en/programmi... #HistSci #EnvHum

Congratulations to Oliver Eberle on winning the 2025 Heinz Billing Prize! The prize was awarded for his contributions to the [email protected] project "The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution & the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe." 🔗 bit.ly/48K86a9 #DigitalHumanities #HistSci @maxplanck.de

Three new funded #DoctoralPositions in the International Max Planck School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities!" 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez #HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci

Megan Briers has been named by Tagesspiegel among Berlin's top 100 researchers 2025! ⭐️ Megan is part of our International Max Planck Research School, where she works on her PhD project "Women in C19th British and American Astronomical Fieldwork." 🔗 bit.ly/4qai3n (GER, paywall) #HistSci #AstroSky

Research Group Leader Anna L. Ahlers has been named by @tagesspiegel.de among Berlin’s top 100 researchers 2025! 👏 @annalahlers.bsky.social heads the MPIWG's Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science.” 🔗 bit.ly/4nRTGt2 (GER, paywall) #SocSci #Sinology

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅 Researcher Jeffrey Kotyk presents his article "Planets and the Weekdays in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination: Examining the Kuyō hiryaku 九曜秘暦 (Secret Calendar of the Nine Planets)" 🗓️🪐 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=dZIcQkHYBN0 #HistSci #Astronomy #CulturalStudies

Razieh S. Mousavi has been awarded the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Prize for her dissertation "Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy (c. 860 CE): An Interplay of Meaning & Form at the Intersection of Astronomical & Medical Tradition." Congratulations! 🔗 bit.ly/3Lbfotv #HistSci

The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃 🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET) 📍 MPIWG 🔗 bit.ly/3IApzqX #HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅 Researcher Franziska Marliese Fröhlich presents her article "Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism in China," published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social 🛒🌱 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1ktRmHTFQ&t=1s #HistSci #EnvHist #Sinology

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️ 📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus 🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m #HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

📢: Our workshop "Playing with the Past: Reconstructing Ancient Games" at the Berlin Science Week is now sold out. Didn't get tickets? Don't worry, we are planning more workshops in Berlin in the spring of 2026, so stay tuned for updates! @mpiwg.bsky.social

New edited volume 📘 "Technology, Power & #Society: Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation," eds Dennis Nguyen, Jing Zeng, & Bruce Mutsvairo. The book explores digital transformation & society with a focus on underrepresented & understudied contexts. 🔗 bit.ly/3K6HS7m #HistTech

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is excited to announce the launch of its new "Laboratory for #Multimodal History," an inclusive space for audiovisual experimentation and collaborative research headed by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 🎙 🔗 bit.ly/4pB7tKl #OralHistory #HistSci #HistMed

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅 Researcher Cameron Brinitzer presents his article "Historicizing the Liberal #Antiracism of Cultural Evolution," published in "History and #Philosophy of the #LifeSciences" 🗺️ 🔗 bit.ly/Br-RR3 #HistSci #Anthrosky #ResearchMethods #Racism @springernature.com

🦸 New #StudentJob! Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" seeks a #StudentAssistant with classical #Chinese language skills. The role focuses on #YuanDynasty textile archeology and involves research and #DigitalHumanities support. 🗓 Deadline: Oct 30, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4 #HistSci #Archeology #DH

The Berlin History of Knowledge Course List (KVV) for winter semester 2025/26 is now available online! This list conveniently compiles all history of knowledge and science courses @humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. 🔗 bit.ly/438eouS #HistSci

Das @mpiwg.bsky.social hat einen #Job als studentische Assistenz ausgeschrieben. Es geht um die Organisation und Beschreibung persischer und arabischer Manuskripte zur Geschichte der Astronomie. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30. September. #Wisskomm www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/stellenangeb...

📢 We are excited to participate in this year's Berlin Science Week with an exhibition "Cosmic Games: Real Gods Play Dice" and a workshop "Playing with the Past: Reconstructing Ancient Games". @mpiwg.bsky.social 🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/cosmic... 🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/playin...