For our #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:

🔗 https://buff.ly/S0JS6t2

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅

Head of #DigitalHumanities Sarah Lang presents her article “(Doing) Computational History,” exploring #ComputationalMethods gaining traction among historians. She highlights the often-overlooked labor behind these approaches. 💻

🔗 https://bit.ly/4e0wFl5

The #HistoricalMoments series begins with:

🧬 Copy-Paste Nature: Promises and Limits of Biomimicry, in collaboration with BBAW
📅 November 5, 18:00
📍 Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Berlin

Join the conversation and find out more: 🔗 https://historicalmoments.org/

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2026–27 is now available online! This year, we will look at “Histories of Science That Lie Beneath” 🔍

📍 MPIWG
🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check https://bit.ly/4hLkRp6

#HistSci #SciComm #EventSeries

New publication: "Gongchengshi Jialilüe 工程师伽利略," a #Chinese translation of Principal Investigator Matteo Valleriani's "Galileo Engineer." 🔭
Translated by Yu Yueyuan 俞月圆, the book seeks to reassemble the many faces of #Galilei in his identity as an engineer.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4zkTubg

#HistSci #STS

For our #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:

🔗 https://buff.ly/S0JS6t2

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅

Research Scholar Jeffrey Kotyk presents his chapter “Zoroastrianism in the Chinese Imagination.” It explores how Chinese sources documented this Persian #Religion, its customs, and its place in China’s cultural landscape.

🔗 https://bit.ly/47L7Eqc

New #OpenAccess book by Postdoctoral Scholar Franziska M. Fröhlich: "Green Eating and Ecological Risk in #China: How the Authoritarian State Shapes Consumer Responsibility" 🌱

🔗 tinyurl.com/3rm79k29

#STS #FoodPolitics

#CfA: The MPIWG is offering First Research Article #Fellowships for

📑 doctoral students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions, to publish their first English article on

📚 history of science, technology, and medicine, or #STS

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2027
🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3

Postdoctoral Scholar Zsuzsanna Ihar has been named by @tagesspiegel.de​​ among Berlin’s top 100 researchers 2026! 👏

Based in Dept. KSCL, her research explores ecology, war, & the defence industry, which she also explores through her artistic practice.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/ba6puav9 (GER, paywall)

"Overburden" #FilmScreening followed by a Q&A with Gregg Mitman & Shadrach Kerwillain, moderated by Aadita Chaudhury.

Organized by the MPIWG Dept. KSCL.

📍 Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin
🗓️ October 7, 2026 18:30–20:30
👥 In English. All ages welcome. No entrance fee or registration

For our Research Reels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications! ⚡️

To find more of our Research Reels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:

🔗 https://buff.ly/S0JS6t2

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅

Daniela Trinks introduces “The Association between Go Experience and Sustained Attention in Young Adults,” co-authored with Theresa Martinez Garcia. It examines the cognitive effects of “Go” experience.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4d49ds54

#Education #BoardGame

We're excited to welcome our new Journalist in Residence, Moira Donovan!

@moiradonovan.bsky.social is a freelance journalist who will work on her project on #GeoEngineering, #ClimateModification, and #Society. 🌍📗

🔗 tinyurl.com/4pruvhk3

The Berlin History of Knowledge Course List (KVV) for winter semester 2026 is now available online! This list compiles all history of knowledge and sciences courses from
@humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, and
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

🔗 tinyurl.com/ms9h5uyn

#HistSci

For our Research Reels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications! ⚡️

To find more of our Research Reels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:

🔗 https://buff.ly/S0JS6t2

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅

Elizabeth Hughes introduces "Biomedical Visions: #Epistemology, #Medicine, and Art Practice." The book explores artist-scientist collaborations in #Biomedicine's past and future. 🩻

🔗 https://bit.ly/4yjaPBd

#HistSci #HistMed