Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei

We co-edited this book as MnemoZIN, a collective name for Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova, and Nelli Piattoeva. Writing together is our method—and our refusal of academic individualism. Inspired by Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory & Daughter of Gaia

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Child bodies coexist with microbial life, how can child studies and education grapple with that? journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jc... @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social@criticalchildhood.bsky.social @deborahyoudell.bsky.social@timgitzen.bsky.social

Childhood memories as research data! @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social @psayoungpol.bsky.social @memorystudies.bsky.social @mervikaukko.bsky.social @karenpashby.bsky.social @eecera.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @fohn.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social

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Mikrobien kohtaaminen voi muuttaa ajattelua – tutkimus yhdisti tieteen ja taiteen | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö Tampereen yliopiston taiteilijoiden Erika Aallon ja Eva Bublan luoma monialainen taideteos ”Making Kin with Microbes” vei lapset ja perheet mikrobien maailmaan lasten taidefestivaali Hippaloilla. T...

On ollut ilo tehdä yhteistyötä tässä prokektissa!

Lue lisää 👉 @microbial-child.bsky.social

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A microscopic image showing several green, circular to oval-shaped cells of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. The cells have a layered appearance and are viewed under an electron microscope. Clusters of smaller dark dots, likely bacteria or cellular fragments, appear near the larger cells.

Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that is only 0.5–0.7 micrometers wide, produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined.

Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health.

On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI

A photograph of a panel of 4 speakers, in small room packed with an audience of more than 20 people

Planetary Politics RT at #BISA2025 is packed, in teeny weenie room. Problematising of concepts of ownership, epistemology, 'dehumanisation' and so much more. This discussion is proving a smasher! With @flusterbird @anthonyburke‬ @ckweatherill @cameronharrington ‬ @hannahhughes @bisa-ecpwg

🌀 What if education isn’t saving the world—
…but scripting its collapse?

In our new article, we ask whether global calls for “more education” are reinforcing the very systems driving ecological collapse.

📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

#Unlearning #PlanetaryFutures #SDGs #MoreThanHuman

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A child's mouth and hands interact with the invisible world of microbes as they explore the world. Science only but beginning to understand the deep and complex connections with childhood and microbes creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... @nessling.fi @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social

MISSING KINS www.tuni.fi/en/research/... - Guerilla poster campaign, 2025, various urban locations around Southern Finland @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @tampere.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social @hatsunemicrobe.bsky.social

Coastlines in danger even if climate target met, scientists warn The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C is too high to avoid continued sea-level rise, scientists warn.

Au revoir coastal #nuclear. It's only a matter of time.
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Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests

Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Biffe (bifidobacterium) said 'farewell' to children in Tahmela Daycare as our Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Childhood Ecologies project is closing www.tuni.fi/en/research/... @isilova.bsky.social @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social

Heading to Hope and Resilience Conference at Jyväskylä University in Finland www.jyu.fi/en/events/ho.... 2 art workshop & 2 presentations @riikkahohti.bsky.social @pauliina-rautio.bsky.social @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @gronroos.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social

A stick covered in circular splitgill mushrooms that look like the gunshot wounds in the terminator that can turn into liquid metal. This stick has been turned upside down so we can see the gills. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress, warn WHO, UNICEF, Gavi Immunization efforts are under growing threat as misinformation, population growth, humanitarian crises and funding cuts jeopardize progress and leave millions of children, adolescents and adults at…

Increases in #vaccine-preventable #disease #outbreaks threaten years of progress ...

| #pathogens | #Immunization | #measles | #meningitis | #YellowFever | #diphtheria | #children | #kids | Via @who.int

How do microbes taste? @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @museumofchildhood.bsky.social @vimsfishmrg.bsky.social @multispeciesstudio.bsky.social @multispecies.bsky.social @pauliina-rautio.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social

Brown paint drop on a sheet of paper looks fuzzy on the edges.

Red sauerkraut liquid drop on the paper... 'Look there is a microbe!' - What kind of microbes live in a daycare? See some explorations www.tuni.fi/en/news/what... @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social

Confocal micrograph of a blind cavefish embryo at around five days post-fertilisation viewed from the side (lateral view). The cavefish Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus) has a seeing and a blind form; the latter lives in dark environments, and relies on other senses. with an antibody that targets a calcium binding protein (calretinin) shown in green, which highlights different neuronal types and their processes in the nervous system. The blind cavefish has specially adapted traits that its sighted relation (dwelling near the surface) does not. These include a greater number of sensory receptors and taste buds along its body; these taste buds are also more efficient than the equivalent cells in the seeing cavefish. The eyes are still present at this stage of development but they will degenerate naturally during the lifetime of the fish as they live in a dark environment where eyes are redundant. Adult cavefish are blind. 2011 Wellcome Image Award winner. Text taken from Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sgtfn677

Confocal micrograph of a blind cavefish embryo. Credit to Dr. Mónica Folgueira Otero & @stevewilsonfish.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Why #anthrax still haunts #Kenya’s #farmers and #vets ...

| #Bacillus | #bacteria | #pathogen | #contamination | Via nation .africa

Toxic dust and stressed seals: What the shrinking Caspian Sea could mean for people and nature An area larger than Iceland is likely to dry up, even if the climate ‘only’ warms up by 2C. Here’s what that means in the Central Asian region.View on euronews

Declining water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to have profound implications for biodiversity and people. 🧪🌍🦭🦩
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There is a lego person in a child's hand and the lego's head is upside-down pressed into agar in a Petri dish tasting for microbial growth

“If the news is to be believed, microbes are a scary thing.” But are they? Read more in our blog on our funder, the Maj and Tor Nessling foundation website. Wonderful support from nessling.fi/en/microbes-... @nessling.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social

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Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Daycare Ecologies | Tampere universities Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

“If it tastes like nothing, and smells like nothing, is it nothing?” How to research invisible microbes in a daycare is a dilemma we keep alive in our project www.tuni.fi/en/research/... @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social y.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social

#CallForPapers Reminder that manuscript proposals for the Re-engaging the Journal of Childhood Studies Special Issue are being accepted until January 31, 2025

Thanks for our funder: @nessling.fi and Tahmela daycare children and staff

Projected forest onto a suitcase cut out as as a TV screen, in forests lots of microbes live. In front there is a candle. The forest projection is made from wood and leaves collected in the forest.

Another forest projected where the twig looks like a dragon.

“The bacteria are ruling the insects! Insects are following the bacteria”- microbes are part of imaginary play as we research children’s relations with microbes in Tahmela Daycare in Tampere, Finland. Did the children read Merlin Sheldrake’s book Entangled Life? www.tuni.fi/en/research/...