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📣 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM grant for seminar exploring human-microbial relations! 🗓️ DL: 28 February 2025 🦠 For more details please visit our website: socialmicrobes.org/current/call-f…

The documentary film Walking with Fermenters - A Story of Rice Beer by @KazuAhmed @SallaSariola and @meriteperi also saw its premiere and inspired a conversation on human-microbe relations in fermentation practices and ethics of ethnographic filmmaking.🎥

A warm thank you to the keynote speakers Ana Delgado and @AzBradshaw for sharing their latest research and engaging in fascinating discussions with us!👏

✨The outcomes of the foundational Microbial Lives project were celebrated among the CSSM members and network in a wonderful Final Symposium! A big thank you to @KoneenSaatio for supporting our work on the ever more interesting human-microbe relations for the past six years!

📢Attention all artists! OPEN CALL for the CSSM Artist-in-Residence 2025 is open until this Sunday! We look forward to your applications! ⏰DL: 1st December 2024 🦠Check out the details on our website: socialmicrobes.org/current/open-c…

OPEN CALL for the CSSM Artist-in-Residence 2025! Join us to create new ways of knowing microbes! 🗓️DL: 1st December 2024 🦠Check out the details on our website: socialmicrobes.org/current/open-c…

OPEN CALL for CSSM fellowships in spring 2025! We are looking for three scholars, currently at any career stage, to join us in Helsinki for 1-3 months. 🗓️DL: 5th December 2024 🔬Check out the details on our website: socialmicrobes.org/current/call-f…

You can find the list of RDA teams on the Wellcome website 👇 wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

We shared practices, challenges, stories of our journeys, and laughter. Big thanks to all RDA teams for their openness and kindness, and for engaging so much in our workshop on decentralised organisation. The organisational maps you created are fantastic! (2/3)

CSSM on the road! @joseacanada, @SallaSariola, Mikko Jauho, @mo_horstmann, and Tiia Sudenkaarne (online) met with the other Research Development Awardees and Wellcome members at the Best Practices in Engagement and Culture Symposium at @wshed in Bristol this week. (1/3)

A massive thanks to the @wellcometrust team for your generosity in having us, and particularly to @sarahgolding923 and @Dega_Sian for organising this event! Last, but not least a warm thank you to @rose_kala_dias and Studio Susegad for being one of a kind facilitators! (3/3)

CSSM PhD School 2024 kicks off with an introductory talk by @SallaSariola! We are thrilled to welcome 15 doctoral researchers in Helsinki and look forward to learning with and from the next generation of microbial scholars in the coming three days.

Curious about microbes and senses? Sign up for CSSM Sensory Week in Helsinki on 27–31 May! Activities engage with microbes through the senses, including sound, smell, taste, vision & touch. In-person participation only, registration closes on 22 May. forms.gle/DsgKL2uF2hPLDx…

“I think about the temporal justifications in most of these toxicants and how our human penchant for short-term capital-gain should have us be called Homo myopiens.” @heymayahey reviews “Toxic Transits” at Hagströmer Library, running until May 8. socialmicrobes.org/current/review…

Towards the end of May, we will host our interdisciplinary symposium #MicrobialFutures. Through the themes #MicrobialLife, #AntimicrobialResistance, and #Micropollutants, invited speakers will explore new perspectives on the complex relationships that shape our world @AarhusUni

"In the still sharpness of the pictures, I get a feeling of an undercurrent and loud noise. Is this the microbial?" Read our latest blog post to find out how Faidon Papadakis, a doctoral researcher at CSSM, searches for the microbial in the garden. socialmicrobes.org/current/what-w…

We are thrilled to announce that Alma Heikkilä is the new artist-in-residence at the CSSM! Through painting, installation and sculpture, Alma makes space and time for wondering and digesting scientific accounts that challenge familiar ways of thinking. socialmicrobes.org/current/alma-h…