Mia Uys
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Mia Uys
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PhD Candidate at UCT working on a more-than-human history of South Africa’s National Zoological Garden.
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We are hiring at Oulu Uni! We are looking to hire a postdoc (30 months) for our exciting project on seeds, storage and agriculture in the North. Apply and become part of Oulu's lively community of transdisciplinary, international environmental scholars!
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October 9, 2023 at 12:42 PM
Hi everyone! Building a new profile again is exhausting lol. Happy to be able to share my new paper: “On the trail of the mercy bullet” with you all, published this week in History of Science. https://t.co/qT7e5hJbe1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship and the early history of animal...
In June 1928, Captain Barnett W. Harris, an amateur naturalist from Indiana, arrived in Zululand to experiment on wild animals with his invention – the mercy bu...
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October 7, 2023 at 10:58 AM
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Hello everyone! For my first post on this website I am very happy to share this new article, co-authored with Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva on the concept of emerging infectious diseases: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approa...
Abstract This paper provides an introduction to the history of the concept of “emerging infectious diseases” (EID) and reflects on how humanities and social science scholars have interacted with i...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
September 27, 2023 at 12:02 PM