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Thanks, Nathaniel! So grateful for the editorial encouragement to write/think about how to move forward, both in the field and in Aaron's absence...

"Negotiating Power and Memory: Aaron S. Moore Showing Us How to Remember and Act" by Albert Park read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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"Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Development, Empire, and Post/coloniality" by James Lin read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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"South Korea and Southeast Asia: Approaching Technical Exchange, 1945–1967" by John DiMoia @jdimoia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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"Cold War Asia as a Method" by Hiromi Mizuno read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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I don't have the free author links to the other Forum essays, but here are the Forum essays appear in Journal of Asian Studies (2026) 85 (3): Technology in a Transimperial Moment Available to Purchase by Nick Cullather read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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Agents of Development: The Roles of Insects and Entomological Expertise in Japanese Technical Aid in Southeast Asia

Placing East and Southeast Asia in Convo, Forum In Memory of Aaron Stephen Moore got published! Writing "Agents of Development: The Roles of Insects + Entomological Expertise in Japanese Technical Aid in Southeast Asia"=next best thing to talking w ASM in person read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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Abstract. Japanese overseas development assistance intersected with sericulture in Southeast Asia especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Piecing together disparate entomological engagements as reporte...

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks for the shout-out @crocodiledunphd.bsky.social ! Love your work on crocodile communities cultures and conservation!

Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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! 🐢🪲🦋🧩⚖️🌏🌴🐘🧪🛶🐅🎶🎨✍️🪸

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oh, you're the second person I know who worked on such a mono-color puzzle! Said friend was irritated it wasn't challenging enough, because of how the pieces were uncreatively cut. 🧩

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Two Postdoctoral Scholars (m/f/d) on “Biocultural Worlding”

Are you up for the challenge? CBCW is hiring two (2) postdoctoral fellows for four (4) years each, to be a major part of the Berlin counterpart of the Center. All details about the experience we seek are in the advertisement that circulated last week. Los geht's! www.mpg.de/26862008/two...

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This position is intended for a scholar whose research aligns with the CBCW’s focus on biological, cultural, and epistemic diversity. The postdoctoral scholar will be based in Berlin, report to the C...

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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...

copy of program of the inaugural Max Planck–NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding with two yellow sticky-notes with information about the postdoctoral fellowship application deadline. The program is set upon the branch of a tree.

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Max Planck–NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding (CBCW) | MPIWG

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

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

front page of a workshop program, with blue square and artwork by Daniel O'Shane (Meriam Mer/Kuku Yalanji/Kulkagal), Meuram and Zogo Ni Pat, 2015. Hand-colored vinyl cut. Cairns Art Gallery, Australia. Purchased 2018. © Daniel O Shane/Copyright Agency, 2026 https://www.instagram.com/dannyoshane.art/

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Oooh! Can't wait to hear more about that, Kjell! 🦪

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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

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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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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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...

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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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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Likewise! We're excited for this chance to build a team specializing in Asia and the history of science to study the dynamics of knowledge production + intergenerational persistence in the face of adversity!

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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.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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...

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Fascinating research in Art and Soil Ecologies on the horizon!

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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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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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...

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

@noemieetienne.bsky.social It's such a thoughtful and generative initiative. I am in awe and am eager to see how your project will channel and uplift the conservation conversations that need to be heard! :-D 応援しております

Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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

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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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...

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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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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Some good news for a change: At the 2025 HSS awards ceremony tonight, one of our Insect Histories Focus authors Jeannie Shinozuka received the Phil Pauly Prize for the best first book on the history of science in the Americas. Check out Biotic Borders if y'all have a chance! 🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲

screen projecting citation for Jeannie N. Shinozuka, recipient of 2025 Philip J. Pauly Prize. Jeannie is standing at a podium giving an acceptance speech. The presiding vice-president of the HSS Soraya de Chadarevian is standing to the side. The seated audience members are in the foreground.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is the roundtable abstract shorturl.at/tnnDe

Content from page 54 of HSS Annual Meeting program. This is the abstract of the Roundtable entitled Accessibility and the History of Science. This is the abstract: This round table explores the pressing question of accessibility within the field of the history of science, with a particular focus on academic conferences as both sites of scholarly exchange and potential barriers to feeling welcomed and at home. Despite growing awareness of the need for inclusivity, the structures and practices of academic events often remain inaccessible—whether due to financial constraints, physical and digital inaccessibility, language barriers, or assumptions about normative bodies, geographies, and institutions. Visa restrictions, risk of detainment and discrimination are intensifying barriers to scholars traveling to meetings held in the United States. Our discussion will aim to critically assess how the history of science, as a discipline, can become more equitable in both content and form. Contributors will reflect on their own experiences navigating these challenges, examine institutional responsibilities, and consider practical interventions for change—from hybrid and remote conferencing models to funding mechanisms and inclusive design. The round table will also address broader, reflexive questions, moving beyond best practices regarding accessibility, to ask: Who gets to produce and share knowledge in our field? Could histories of science be reshaped through more accessible and participatory modes of engagement?

Recognizing that barriers to accessibility have an impact on who attends and participates, this hybrid roundtable can be attended in-person at the meeting or via Zoom. Organized by the HSS Committee on Diversity and Inclusivity.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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 🙏

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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

Monitor display of Northern Ryukyu Islands, Japan and coral bleaching alert area level 4 (high). Sea surface temperature anomaly is relatively high.

People looking down at the coral health monitor at ground level and looking up at video installation of "CORAL SONIC RESILIENCE." In the foreground is a solar-powered device that was part of Marco Barotti's acoustic intervention.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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

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IUC Programs 10-Month

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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...

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Decay, Persistance, Re-Posession, and the Archive

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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...

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Power Reading Group: 65,000 Years | The Power Institute

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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...

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Weaving Genetics with Silk in Japan - Lisa Onaga - History and Philosophy of Science Events

Abstract When the history of raw silk is traced by following the thread of commodity formation and trade, our capacity to fully grasp the interactions among the insects, plants, and […]

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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...

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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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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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

Left hand holding a hard copy of "Animal Mobilities," volume 40 of Osiris against backdrop of messy office

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thank you so much! It was a real team effort, and we had fantastic experiences with the Osiris editors! Hopefully this is just the beginning of even more research about animals and science, technology, medicine, and the environment... and in configurations we've yet to imagine