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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei
@microbial-child.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary group of researchers and artists, led by Zsuzsa Millei. Interested in microbes and biososcial perspective. Website: https://research.tuni.fi/ecepp/microbial-childhood-collaboratory-mcc

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Sep 20
Child bodies coexist with microbial life, how can child studies and education grapple with that? journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jc... @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social@criticalchildhood.bsky.social @deborahyoudell.bsky.social@timgitzen.bsky.social
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World: A New Imperative for Childhood Studies | Journal of Childhood Studies
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Sep 17
Childhood memories as research data! @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social @psayoungpol.bsky.social @memorystudies.bsky.social @mervikaukko.bsky.social @karenpashby.bsky.social @eecera.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @fohn.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social
isilova.bsky.social Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 16
What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
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(An)archive: From Cold War Childhoods to the Anthropocene
Mnemo ZIN
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 16
What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
(An)archive: From Cold War Childhoods to the Anthropocene
Mnemo ZIN
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Sep 14
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Sep 14
@phoebegilpin.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @suomenkuvalehti.fi @tampereurban.bsky.social @naturebased.bsky.social @poisedrg.bsky.social @naturebased.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social

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Mira Grönroos @gronroos.bsky.social · Sep 12
On ollut ilo tehdä yhteistyötä tässä prokektissa!

Lue lisää 👉 @microbial-child.bsky.social

www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
Mikrobien kohtaaminen voi muuttaa ajattelua – tutkimus yhdisti tieteen ja taiteen | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö
Tampereen yliopiston taiteilijoiden Erika Aallon ja Eva Bublan luoma monialainen taideteos ”Making Kin with Microbes” vei lapset ja perheet mikrobien maailmaan lasten taidefestivaali Hippaloilla. T...
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Mira Grönroos @gronroos.bsky.social · Sep 12
It has been so interesting to collaborate in this project!

Read more 👉 @microbial-child.bsky.social

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Microbial encounters with families to catalyse change – a study combined science and art | Tampere universities
At the Hippalot Children’s Art Festival, Tampere University’s interdisciplinary artwork “Making Kin with Microbes” created by artists Erika Aalto and Eva Bubla immersed children and families in the...
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Aug 21
@microbesinfo.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @tampereupress.bsky.social @tampereurban.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @poisedrg.bsky.social

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Aug 21
A child's mouth and hands interact with the invisible world of microbes as they explore the world. Science only but beginning to understand the deep and complex connections with childhood and microbes creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... @nessling.fi @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
#48: Discover your microbial child (with Zsuzsa Millei) by Ferment Radio
Did you know your body is never truly sterile—even before you’re born? From semen and placenta to umbilical cord blood, your microbial journey begins early on. And it doesn’t stop there. The type of b...
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 14
🌀 What if education isn’t saving the world—
…but scripting its collapse?

In our new article, we ask whether global calls for “more education” are reinforcing the very systems driving ecological collapse.

📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

#Unlearning #PlanetaryFutures #SDGs #MoreThanHuman

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Jul 30
MISSING KINS www.tuni.fi/en/research/... - Guerilla poster campaign, 2025, various urban locations around Southern Finland @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @tampere.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social @hatsunemicrobe.bsky.social

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Dr Rosalind Cavaghan @rcavaghan.bsky.social · Jun 18
Planetary Politics RT at #BISA2025 is packed, in teeny weenie room. Problematising of concepts of ownership, epistemology, 'dehumanisation' and so much more. This discussion is proving a smasher! With @flusterbird @anthonyburke‬ @ckweatherill @cameronharrington ‬ @hannahhughes @bisa-ecpwg
A photograph of a panel of 4 speakers, in small room packed with an audience of more than 20 people

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Jun 7
Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that is only 0.5–0.7 micrometers wide, produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined.

Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health.

On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI
A microscopic image showing several green, circular to oval-shaped cells of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. The cells have a layered appearance and are viewed under an electron microscope. Clusters of smaller dark dots, likely bacteria or cellular fragments, appear near the larger cells.

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · May 22
@phoebegilpin.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @microbeminded.bsky.social @earlychildhood.bsky.social @earlychildhoodedu.bsky.social @earlychildhoodireland.ie @tampere.fi @yle.naamio.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
microbial-child.bsky.social Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · May 22
Biffe (bifidobacterium) said 'farewell' to children in Tahmela Daycare as our Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Childhood Ecologies project is closing www.tuni.fi/en/research/... @isilova.bsky.social @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · May 22
Biffe (bifidobacterium) said 'farewell' to children in Tahmela Daycare as our Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Childhood Ecologies project is closing www.tuni.fi/en/research/... @isilova.bsky.social @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · May 21
Au revoir coastal #nuclear. It's only a matter of time.
bbc.com/news/article...
Coastlines in danger even if climate target met, scientists warn
The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C is too high to avoid continued sea-level rise, scientists warn.
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · May 21
Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows
Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests
www.theguardian.com

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · May 5
Heading to Hope and Resilience Conference at Jyväskylä University in Finland www.jyu.fi/en/events/ho.... 2 art workshop & 2 presentations @riikkahohti.bsky.social @pauliina-rautio.bsky.social @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @gronroos.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Apr 27
Here are some nice mushrooms
A stick covered in circular splitgill mushrooms that look like the gunshot wounds in the terminator that can turn into liquid metal. This stick has been turned upside down so we can see the gills. All photos by me

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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · Apr 27
Increases in #vaccine-preventable #disease #outbreaks threaten years of progress ...

| #pathogens | #Immunization | #measles | #meningitis | #YellowFever | #diphtheria | #children | #kids | Via @who.int
Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress, warn WHO, UNICEF, Gavi
Immunization efforts are under growing threat as misinformation, population growth, humanitarian crises and funding cuts jeopardize progress and leave millions of children, adolescents and adults at…
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Apr 26
How do microbes taste? @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @museumofchildhood.bsky.social @vimsfishmrg.bsky.social @multispeciesstudio.bsky.social @multispecies.bsky.social @pauliina-rautio.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Apr 23
Red sauerkraut liquid drop on the paper... 'Look there is a microbe!' - What kind of microbes live in a daycare? See some explorations www.tuni.fi/en/news/what... @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social
Brown paint drop on a sheet of paper looks fuzzy on the edges.

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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · Apr 14
Why #anthrax still haunts #Kenya’s #farmers and #vets ...

| #Bacillus | #bacteria | #pathogen | #contamination | Via nation .africa
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Apr 13
“If the news is to be believed, microbes are a scary thing.” But are they? Read more in our blog on our funder, the Maj and Tor Nessling foundation website. Wonderful support from nessling.fi/en/microbes-... @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social
There is a lego person in a child's hand and the lego's head is upside-down pressed into agar in a Petri dish tasting for microbial growth

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Apr 13
Confocal micrograph of a blind cavefish embryo. Credit to Dr. Mónica Folgueira Otero & @stevewilsonfish.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Confocal micrograph of a blind cavefish embryo at around five days post-fertilisation viewed from the side (lateral view). The cavefish Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus) has a seeing and a blind form; the latter lives in dark environments, and relies on other senses. with an antibody that targets a calcium binding protein (calretinin) shown in green, which highlights different neuronal types and their processes in the nervous system. The blind cavefish has specially adapted traits that its sighted relation (dwelling near the surface) does not. These include a greater number of sensory receptors and taste buds along its body; these taste buds are also more efficient than the equivalent cells in the seeing cavefish. The eyes are still present at this stage of development but they will degenerate naturally during the lifetime of the fish as they live in a dark environment where eyes are redundant. Adult cavefish are blind. 2011 Wellcome Image Award winner. Text taken from Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sgtfn677

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Dr Simon Goodman @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social · Apr 13
Declining water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to have profound implications for biodiversity and people. 🧪🌍🦭🦩
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Toxic dust and stressed seals: What the shrinking Caspian Sea could mean for people and nature
An area larger than Iceland is likely to dry up, even if the climate ‘only’ warms up by 2C. Here’s what that means in the Central Asian region.View on euronews
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Mar 30
@nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social .social @flusterbird.bsky.social @phoebegilpin.bsky.social egilpin.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social dhood.bsky.social
Bluesky
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Mar 30
“If it tastes like nothing, and smells like nothing, is it nothing?” How to research invisible microbes in a daycare is a dilemma we keep alive in our project www.tuni.fi/en/research/... @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social y.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social
Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Daycare Ecologies | Tampere universities
Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...
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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Mar 21
Thanks for our funder: @nessling.fi and Tahmela daycare children and staff
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“The bacteria are ruling the insects! Insects are following the bacteria”- microbes are part of imaginary play as we research children’s relations with microbes in Tahmela Daycare in Tampere, Finland. Did the children read Merlin Sheldrake’s book Entangled Life? www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
Projected forest onto a suitcase cut out as as a TV screen, in forests lots of microbes live. In front there is a candle. The forest projection is made from wood and leaves collected in the forest. Another forest projected where the twig looks like a dragon.

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Mar 21
“The bacteria are ruling the insects! Insects are following the bacteria”- microbes are part of imaginary play as we research children’s relations with microbes in Tahmela Daycare in Tampere, Finland. Did the children read Merlin Sheldrake’s book Entangled Life? www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
Projected forest onto a suitcase cut out as as a TV screen, in forests lots of microbes live. In front there is a candle. The forest projection is made from wood and leaves collected in the forest. Another forest projected where the twig looks like a dragon.