Erika Milam

Greenhouse Book Talks. Hosted by Dolly Jørgensen & Finn Arne Jørgensen. A pair of hands holds up a pot with a plant growing into a book

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to.

Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)

The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci

Catalogue cover with beautiful Isotype symbols

My essay

New essay in this exhibition catalogue (Vienna/ in German) - the exhibition looks great!

ISHPSSB 2027 will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3rd week July. #HPS
ishpssb.org/meetings

Out now: "Christentum und Ökologie" in der "Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte"
U.a. zu dunkelgrüner Religion, katholischer Resonanz, grünen Hähnen, christlichem Umweltprotest, Rechten der Natur, Schöpfungsverantwortung in der Ökumene und Naturerfahrungen des Pilgerns.

www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/kize/38/1

Sensing the Social If science studies and religious studies were convened absent a narrative of secularity, what knowledge would emerge from their encounter?

Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...

I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social

Sensing the Social If science studies and religious studies were convened absent a narrative of secularity, what knowledge would emerge from their encounter?

Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby

Three cheers, Melissa! ✨

Very happy to announce that the
@jhokjournal.bsky.social
special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kelly Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow.
journalhistoryknowledge.org/Knowledge_an...

Dolphin drawings

Some dolphin sketches. Part of a commission for
@emilam.bsky.social and Princeton University Press
@princetonupress.bsky.social
#SciArt #mammals #art #dolphins

S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?

This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.

Listen now! 🎧

The graphic shows cultivated lands bordering on a river/wetland and collections of trees (credit: AXIO-IMAGES from Getty Images) in the background of text bubbles. The text summarizes key details of the conference. Please read the description and the full call on the RCC website for this information.

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

My favorite, though? "Which Science? Which Women?" (1997) in which she discusses how and why some female scientists built networks of support and others instead sought to distance themselves from other women in their field: www.jstor.org/stable/301904

She's probably best known for her paper on the "Matilda Effect" (1993), the flip side of the "halo" surrounding already well-known Matthews that leads them to be credited for work they did not do, where the "have-nots" of science were repeatedly ignored despite successes: www.jstor.org/stable/285482

Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten

Of course, Rossiter then devoted her entire career to documenting the lives of women in science and theorizing their experiences, which in many ways mirrored her own: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

RIP Margaret Rossiter. She took "Science & History" at Harvard in the e.1960s. Her instructor commented “your powers of analysis are far superior to your powers of articulation." Oof, we all start somewhere & I appreciated her willingness to share! watermark.silverchair.com/hsns_2012_42...

Cover of OSIRIS, volume 40. The title reads "Animal Mobilities" in yellow letters on a blue background. Above there is a colorful illustration showing animals and planets on the seabed.

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

The "Animal Mobilities" special issue will also be discussed at this year's History of Science Society conference in New Orleans, USA.

🐫🐠🐛 The roundtable is organized by @lisaonaga.bsky.social, co-editor of the volume.

🗓️ November 14, 2025, 11:00 (CST)
📍Sheraton NOLA
🔗 bit.ly/hssam25

#HistSci #HSS

S5 E3 - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on Epistemic Things The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

It was a true privilege to have had the chance to interview Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, whose work has long influenced both my research interests and engagement with this discipline.

It's this week's episode of
The HPS Podcast – out now! 🎧

@hpspodcast.bsky.social

#hps #histsci #experiments

Apply Now: Davis Center Fellowship for Property and Poverty – 2026–27 The deadline for receipt of applications and letters of recommendation for fellowships is December 1, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET

New theme for 2026-27 fellowships @ Davis Center for Historical Studies “Property and Poverty.” history.princeton.edu/news-events/...

2-yr postdoctoral fellowship at Wisconsin in the History of Medicine and/or Public Health (19th century to the present) mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p... Review of applications to start 1 April 2025. #histSTM

Awesome -- thank you ✨

Any chance that a former student could purchase one? 😉

Love it!

These are gold!

This is officially my horizontally longest image to date, depicting some of the earliest complex animals on the planet from 565 to 505 million years ago and how they changed over time.

Thank you to @egmitchell.bsky.social and Steve Pates for trusting me with this gargantuan task! #Art #SciArt

Image Text: Call for Proposals February 2026 Special Section: “Historical Practices” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences Section Editors: Melinda Baldwin and Brigid Vance The “Essays & Reviews” editors of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences are seeking proposals for short essays on “Historical Practices” as part of a special section to run in February 2026. We are looking for authors of recent monographs or other substantial research projects on the history of science (published/released in 2018 or later) to reflect on the historical work that led to their final product. This could include, but is not limited to: the research methods you used; languages or techniques you had to master to finish the project; how you thought about your engagement with the historiography; your approach to writing; decisions about how to present and release non-monograph works; how the project changed as you worked on it. Essays should be roughly 800-1000 words in length. Drafts of essays need to be submitted by August 1, 2025 in order to meet February publication deadlines. Short proposals can be emailed directly to the section editors, and should include: 1) The title and publication information of your book or project 2) A one-sentence articulation of the project’s central argument or contribution 3) The geographical region treated in the book/project 4) The temporal period treated in the book/project 5) The major research methods employed in the project (archival research, oral histories, engagement with physical artifacts and material culture, etc.) Send proposals or queries to Melinda Baldwin (mbaldwin@umd.edu) and Brigid Vance (brigid.e.vance@lawrence.edu). We will choose proposals with the goal of achieving broad geographical, temporal, and topical coverage. Early career scholars who have recently published a first book-length work are especially encouraged to send proposals, as are scholars outside of academia.

Fellow #histSTM scholars! The "Essays and Reviews" section of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (@hsnatsci.bsky.social) is looking for contributors to a February 2026 special section on "Historical Practices." More information in this Call for Proposals + in this thread. (1/?)

Illustration of bumble bee on aster; illustration of ammonoid; illustration of rainbow trout head; image of American Silver Eagle coin

For my first post here, I'm sharing a little collage of my work: three natural science illustrations and one coin design. I've been a self-employed illustrator for nearly 25 years now, so this is a small sampling. Many more examples here: emilydamstra.com

#sciart #paleoart #coindesign #fishart