The Max Planck Society and Population Europe have launched EduTrack! 🌐
As part of the collaboration an MPIWG research team led by @lisaonaga.bsky.social and Shih-Pei Chen will examine how human migration, social mobility, and digital access reshape knowledge exchange between Asia and Europe.
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Alvin Yang talks to @statnews.com about the ongoing #BrainDrain from the US and job prospects for academics globally. 🎓
🔗 tinyurl.com/2nm4nb7a
#Academia #Europe #China
The cover of the book shows an orange-red tin can with the book's title written on it.
🍇 New book edited by Senior Research Fellow Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz.
In “Feed the People!” both authors argue that modern technology and smart policies can improve today’s food system and make it more accessible for everyone.
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#AgSci #EnvHum #HistSci
Cover of a book on Toubou culture: a photo of a group with pack animals in a sandy Sahara landscape, with the French title "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées Toubou II" by Mahuma Abaliy Sediké printed beneath.
New #OpenAccess book: "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées #Toubou II" 📕
Mahuma Abaliy Sediké explores how oral traditions such as proverbs, #Riddles, and tales convey broader knowledge on #Astronomy, pharmacopoeia, or clan brands in the Central Sahara.
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#HistSci #OralHistory #Anthropology
Cover page of the KVV featuring logos of the MPIWG, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the TU Berlin, with a historical illustration in the background.
The Berlin History of Knowledge Course List (KVV) for summer semester 2026 is now available online! This list conveniently compiles all history of knowledge and sciences courses from @humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
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#HistSci
Book cover of "Anti-Asian Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada," edited by Chandrima Chakraborty, Sibo Chen, Muyang Li, Guida Man, and X. Alvin Yang. Teal background with stylized coronavirus particles. Title and editors' names in white text.
New edited volume by Postdoc Xiao Alvin Yang,
@chandrima-c.bsky.social, Sibo Chen, Muyang Li, Guida Man. 📘
"Anti-Asian #Racism and the #COVID19 Pandemic in Canada" examines a recent rise in anti-Asian racism and community strategies of defence and solidarity.
🔗 buff.ly/ECMmxH2
#HistSci #PolSci
We warmly congratulate Postdoc @chanelle.bsky.social on receiving the @eseh.bsky.social 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize in Public #EnvHist for her "outstanding" project "Ghost Tours: The Haunt of #EnvironmentalDegradation and #Colonialism." 🌿
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📣 Call for Papers: 10th IASSRT Symposium on "Textiles as Knowledge Systems: Practice, Codification, and Transfer" (Sept 16–18, 2026) 🧵🪡
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🗓️ Deadline: Apr 15, 2026
#PolSci #Archeology #HistArt #HistSTM #SocSci
For our new #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications!⚡️
To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:
🔗 buff.ly/anqMMIW
#HistSci #SciComm
#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Research Scholar Marianna Szczygielska presents her article "Animating Capture: A Microhistory of Elephant Mobility."
It was published in “Osiris,“ in a special issue on #AnimalMobilities.
🔗 buff.ly/bwCrjfv
#EnvHist #HistSci
@lisaonaga.bsky.social @gnrosenberg.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘
Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility.
🔗 animalmobilities.org
#HistSci #AnimalMobilities
Image of Adrija Roychowdhury smiling
We're excited to welcome our new Journalist in Residence, Adrija Roychowdhury.
Adrija will work on her project "Encoding Ancient History. The Curious Case of Mathematics, #ArtificalIntelligence, and the #IndusScript" at the MPIWG. 🔍 📰
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#SciComm
@indianexpress.com
Research Scholar @jeffreykotyk.bsky.social on @tagesschau.bsky.social on the transmission of #ZodiacSigns through #Buddhism into East Asian culture. 🔭
🔗 buff.ly/yqQbsLz (GER)
#HistSci #Astrology #AstroSky #Astronomy #JapaneseStudies #Sinology
For our new #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications!⚡️
To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:
🔗 buff.ly/anqMMIW
#HistSci #SciComm
#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Researcher Riaz Howey presents his article "‘Rotten and Useful’: Compos(t)ing Knowledge in Mongol Iran," published in the Journal of Material Culture. ♻️
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#HistSci #AgHist #EnvHum #EnvHist
For our new #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications!⚡️
To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:
🔗 buff.ly/anqMMIW
#HistSci #SciComm
🐘 Postdoctoral Scholar Khatijah Rahmat is interviewed by @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social for Mongabay Newscast.
They discuss Rahmat’s research on animal temporality, and how this concept could transform how humans understand and protect elephants and other animals.
🔗
For our new #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications!⚡️
To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:
🔗 buff.ly/anqMMIW
#HistSci #SciComm
#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Visiting Senior Research Fellow and Professor at York University Joan Judge on her book "The Politics of Common Reading. Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in #China, 1894–1954,” published in @uchicagopress.bsky.social 📚📖
🔗 buff.ly/GTpoKKK
#HistSci
For our new #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications!⚡️
To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:
🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/mediathek/re...
#HistSci #SciComm
#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
IMPRS researcher @leonieboettiger.bsky.social presents her article "'And let her use it': Women patients in early medieval Arabic gynecological recipes," published in the @postmedieval.bsky.social journal. 📃 🌱
🔗 youtu.be/NTcaoT0W4zY
#HistSci #HistMed
Apply to be the Berlin *half* of the scientific coordination team as the Max Planck-NTU Singapore Center for Biocultural Worlding gets set up! Need to be versed in research concerning history art environment law science. Languages: EN + DE; Asian language a + See also www.ntu.edu.sg/hass/researc...
Annie Maunder at the telescope ahead of the 1900 Total Solar Eclipse, Source: Maunder 1901 p.61 (full title of the book: The Total Solar Eclipse, 1900: Report of the Expeditions Organized by the British Astronomical Association to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 1900, May 28)
Researcher Meg Briers participates in Brewing Minds in Vagabund Brauerei Kesselhaus! "Women Who Chased The Sun" deals with hidden & forgotten figures of 19th-century astronomical expeditions.
🗓️ Mar 18 (18:30–21:30)
📍 Oudenarder Str. 16–20 (Berlin)
🔗 bit.ly/4u3ASd
🎫 10.90–45.00€
#HistSci #Astronomy
Collage of three images. The first reads: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring.” The second image shows a two people holding a thread. Image by: Mattheus Vaz (2022). The third image shows a scholar giving a talk at the MPIWG library. Image by: Anna Ruhnow (2025)
The Max Planck NTU Singapore Center for #Biocultural Worlding is hiring a Scientific Coordinator.
🤝 coordinate research programs
🚀 facilitate collaboration with cultural and research institutions
🛰️ amplify #SciComm
🗓️ Deadline: open until filled
📍 Workplace: MPIWG Berlin
🔗 bit.ly/4k5DWSs
#HistSci
Cover image of Isis Volume 115 (1) by History of Science Society (HSS) from March 2024. It depicts a painting of a bug sitting on a tree.
Picture of Sayori Ghoshal sitting at a table, holding a coffee
🎉 We congratulate Sayori Ghoshal, who has received the Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize by the History of Science Society (HSS) for an "outstanding" article on #Racism, #Anthropology, and #Colonialism in 20th century India. Published in @isisjournal.bsky.social Vol. 115 (1).
🔗 bit.ly/4rETTlj
#HistSci
📢: Our new ASTRA Talks series starts tomorrow! Paul Iversen will deliver a lecture entitled “Seeing Through Greek Time: The Antikythera Mechanism in 3D” followed by a hands-on demonstration of the HoloLens 3D mechanism.
🔗: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/seeing...
@mpiwg.bsky.social
📢: Our Spring 2026 ASTRA colloquium series "Occult Sciences in South Asia: A Non-Western History" kicks off tomorrow with Fabrizio Speziale's talk "Mahouts’ Secret Language: Human–Elephant Communication in Persianate South Asia"
🔗: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/mahout...
@mpiwg.bsky.social
For our new #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications!⚡️
To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:
🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/mediathek/re...
#HistSci #SciComm
#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Researcher Razieh S. Mousavi presents her article "Calculation & Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water Management,” published in “Science and Praxis” in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social “Intersections” series.🔭🚰
🔗 youtu.be/trNfyui58dY
#HistSci #HistAstro