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An institute of the Max Planck Society, dedicated to the study of the history of science and of scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena.
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · Oct 6
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
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
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🎓 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...
Grafik mit Text: Einsteintag 2025 – Wie gehen wir um mit dem „kulturellem Erbe“?, Mit Christoph Markschies, Manja Schüle, Ina Czyborra, Eva Ehninger, Julia Fischer, Lars-Christian Koch, Martin Maischberger, Hermann Parzinger und Dagmar Schäfer, Freitag, 28.11. | 19 Uhr, Nikolaisaal Potsdam, Wilhelm-Staab-Str. 10–11, 14467 Potsdam
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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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
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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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.
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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...
India’s First Socialist: The Untold Story of Dr Narayan Krishna | India's World
In the summer of 1910, an Indian social democrat named Dr Narayan Kesheo Krishna startled Europe’s socialist elite in Copenhagen. A globe-trotting thinker w ...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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
The book cover is a painting depicting a landscape of mountains, sky, and fields in an abstract manner. The fields and mountains consist of colorful square fields lined up next to each other, which become lighter in color from bottom to top. The sky consists of two wide stripes in blue and green and blue and pink. At the bottom of the image are the names of the authors written: He Bian and Marten Söderblom Saarela. At the top of the image, it is written: "The Manchu Mirror and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China."
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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📢: 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...

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November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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📗 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
The image shows an X-ray of a skull against a black background. Inside the image of the skull is an image of an open hand, facing the viewer with slightly shaded palms. The word "You" outlines the skull and forms a border around the suggested eye sockets. To the left of the skull is written: "Edited by Elizabeth W. Hughes and Alfred Freeborn." In the centre of the lower part of the image is the name of the publisher, "HATJE CANTZ".
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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#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
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October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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"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
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"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
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🔗bit.ly/3LtFpV6

#HistSci @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social
A red and white cube with Berlin Science Week and 1–10 Nov 2025 written on the sides.
October 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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#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
The image consists of a collage of three images. The first one displays a graphic with the description: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring.“ The image on the top right shows a group of people at the Institute’s courtyard. Several flowers are depicted in the foreground. Photography by MPIWG, 2021. The image on the bottom left shows two women sitting on a bench in the library. Photography by Setform, 2017.
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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
Energy’s History: From colonialism, to anti-colonialism, and back again?
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October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Congratulations to Oliver Eberle on winning the 2025 Heinz Billing Prize! The prize was awarded for his contributions to the MPIWG-@bifold.berlin project "The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution & the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe."
🔗 bit.ly/48K86a9

#DigitalHumanities #HistSci @maxplanck.de
October 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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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
Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows bookshelves in the institute's library (Photo by Vivienne Rischke, 2024). The third image shows the MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (Photo by Marvin Müller (2024).
October 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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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
Sonne, Mond und schwarze Löcher: Diese Forscher bringen Licht in die Planetensysteme
Was hat das All mit dem Leben bei uns auf der Erde zu tun? Diese Berliner Forscherinnen und Forscher richten den Blick auf ferne Himmelskörper – und vertiefen unser Wissen zum Heimatplaneten.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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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
Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft: Sie erforschen, was den Markt regelt
Auch das Rechtssystem, die Verwaltung und die Mechanismen der Märkte wollen erforscht sein. Denn ohne Wissen, wie der Warenstrom fließt und der Markt funktioniert, stehen wir bald vor dem nächsten…
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October 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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#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
MPIWG Research Reels: Planets and the Weekdays in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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October 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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
Photo of Razieh Mousavi.
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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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
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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#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
MPIWG Research Reels: Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📢: 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!

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astra-mpiwg.bsky.social Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia (ASTRA) @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social · Oct 1
📢 Tickets for our workshop "Playing with the Past: Reconstructing Ancient Games" are selling out fast! One ticket left! Will you be the last to join us? Check out the workshop details here: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/playin...
October 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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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
Graphic book cover in teal and yellow featuring the title "Technology, Power & Society," six tech-related icons, editors’ names (Nguyen, Zeng, Mutsvairo), Brill logo bottom right, and vertical series title on the left.
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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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
Researchers during a workshop organized by the Lab. A research partner shares private documents during an oral history interview. Source: Eddie Bolger (2025). Photograph of a hand holding the English and German versions of the current Feature Story, captured in the MPIWG's "Laboratory for Multimodal History." Source: Niclas Look (2025).
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM