Erika Milam
Currently obsessed with the history of fieldwork & long-term research in behavioral ecology: erikamilam.com
#histSTM #hpbio #evobio #envhist
- Reposted by Erika MilamGreat news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to. Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f... (also available via many standard podcast listening services)
- The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci
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- Reposted by Erika MilamThe Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Reposted by Erika MilamI'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social
- Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby
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- Reposted by Erika MilamWhat happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits? This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation. Listen now! 🎧
- Reposted by Erika MilamWe are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
- RIP Margaret Rossiter. She took "Science & History" at Harvard in the e.1960s. Her instructor commented “your powers of analysis are far superior to your powers of articulation." Oof, we all start somewhere & I appreciated her willingness to share! watermark.silverchair.com/hsns_2012_42...
- Reposted by Erika MilamNew special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛 The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers." 🔗 bit.ly/amv4025 #HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology
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- Reposted by Erika MilamIt was a true privilege to have had the chance to interview Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, whose work has long influenced both my research interests and engagement with this discipline. It's this week's episode of The HPS Podcast – out now! 🎧 @hpspodcast.bsky.social #hps #histsci #experiments
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- 2-yr postdoctoral fellowship at Wisconsin in the History of Medicine and/or Public Health (19th century to the present) mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p... Review of applications to start 1 April 2025. #histSTM
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- Brigitta van Rheinberg has worked at Princeton University Press since the late 1980s, which makes her personal essay a fascinating glimpse into the ways university presses generally (and PUP in particular) have transformed academic publishing in recent decades. press.princeton.edu/ideas/pup-li...
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- Winter solstice on Princeton's campus: the shortest day and longest night of 2024 in the Northern Hemisphere.
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- Reposted by Erika MilamI’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...
- Reposted by Erika MilamWorkshop on Large Language Models in the history, philosphy, and social studies of science (Berlin, April 2-3, 2025) www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/... #HPS, #philsci, #STS
- The illustrations are amazing! All I need now are the words...
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- These photos are taken only two hours apart. On my way to campus, the ginko was gently raining bright yellow. By the time I returned, none were left hanging. Tree magic. ✨
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- As always @alltoosuman.bsky.social being brilliant: "It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance to the modern world… Yet perhaps the most important part of our method is not only to argue for better answers but also to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones."
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- Delighted to see this available! Thank you @samaragreenwood.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation. #histSTM
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