"They devised a marketing plan engineered to make these alien arbors more familiar to would-be consumers...Like a real tree, the mythical Philippine mahogany needed time to grow."

daily.jstor.org/the-mythical...

In our latest blog post University of Cambridge researchers Katherine Enright and Liana Chua explore how colonial collecting reclassified Indigenous foods (such as tiger milk mushrooms and edible bird’s nests) and rituals as charms, specimens, and commodities: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/11...

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️

We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

How might Japanese pickles help us critically reflect on modern antibiotic relations?

Please join the Harvard S&T in Asia online seminar series for this talk by Aya Kimura!

📅 Tue, Sep 30
🕥 10:30–11:45 am EST

Registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #sts #histsci #envhum 🧪

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

Organismal agency is one of today's liveliest debates in the life sciences. Our volume—published a year ago—brings historians, philosophers & scientists into the conversation, offering the kind of nuanced treatment this complex issue deserves 👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evosky #philsky

In her upcoming book, "Unmaking Botany," Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez traces a history of botany in the Philippines during the last decades of Spanish rule and the first decades of US colonization. Read the intro for free our website now! #PostcolonialStudies #AsianStudies
https://buff.ly/4hCKdD7

New 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

In "Concrete Colonialism," Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the US colonial project in the Philippines through the innovative use of reinforced concrete, a technology that dominated early twentieth-century construction. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/G9emDm4

Today is the day! My book Lab Dog is out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social a week early and you can find it wherever you find books. For @thedrift-mag.bsky.social, I put it in context with xenotransplantation, “trans rats,” & contemporary lab animal politics newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/from-capit...

Closing dinner at HoMSEA. The future of the history of medicine: mostly non-European? Let's hope so.

#histmed #histstm #sts

Mark your calendars! 📅

I'm thrilled to share the line-up for the fall 2025 Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series.

Hope you'll be able to join us for one or more of these sessions!

seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist #envhum 🧪

From Arthur Kleinman: 'Medicine on a Larger Scale is ... a step forward in imagining a counter-biomedicine that can better connect social suffering and healing with interpretive social science, post-colonial imaginings, and some of the more serious problems of the world. Impressive!’