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Hannah Landecker

@hannahlandecker.bsky.social
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Historian and social scientist of the life sciences.

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Centre for the Social Study of Microbes @cssmicrobes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📆Friends in Helsinki, join us for a public lecture given by Prof. Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social on 25 September. Any questions regarding the talk or arriving to the venue can be sent to cssm@helsinki.fi.
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Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin @wiko-berlin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Open #Call Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) Programme 2027-2029: The CAT programme supports small, interdisciplinary teams of early-career researchers to develop innovative ideas through a series of short, funded stays at Institutes for Advanced Study across Europe netias.science/calls-for-ap...
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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thanks for hosting me! @aussts.bsky.social
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Charlotte Brives @charlottebrives.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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
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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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
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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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BioSocieties @biosocieties.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Lophophorates get way too little publicity... Latest issue is out! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover: A phoronid (Phoronis australis) extending its crown-like feeding organ, the lophophore, from its tube on the seabed. These sedentary marine invertebrates belong to the spiralian branch of bilaterian animals. For over a century, their closest relatives have been debated, with competing hypotheses linking them to either brachiopods or bryozoans. In this issue, Lewin et al. present a chromosome-level genome of P. australis and reveal that it shares seven derived chromosome fusions with bryozoans. This provides rare, sequence-independent evidence supporting bryozoans as the closest relatives of phoronids and offers new insights into the evolution of genome structure and animal body plans. Photograph © Fred Bavendam; used with permission.
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘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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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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
Handmade flier with pink, yellow, green and yellow-green figures (all with clearly non-AI fingers) reading the book covers (but the figures are also drawn as if their bodies are the book covers) of the 4 books featured at the party. The flier includes the text that is repeated in the post.
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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🦟 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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Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro 

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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.
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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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
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The Allard lab @allard-lab-ucla.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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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Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“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.
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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Meaty!
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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Nikolas Rose @rose-nikolas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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UW-Madison Medical History & Bioethics @mhbuwmad.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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...
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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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…
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Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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 ...
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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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The Birth of a New Syria
The Walls Have Stopped Listening
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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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
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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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.
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