Lisa Onaga
@lisaonaga.bsky.social
historian of science & technology, itinerant potter
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Sericulture 養蚕 Amami Ōshima tsumugi 奄美大島紬
(animal) biomaterials (動物)生体材料・バイオマテリアル
Cocoon Cultures, under contract @Dukepress
RTAWD, Proteins & Fibers Working Groups @MPIWG-Berlin
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Sericulture 養蚕 Amami Ōshima tsumugi 奄美大島紬
(animal) biomaterials (動物)生体材料・バイオマテリアル
Cocoon Cultures, under contract @Dukepress
RTAWD, Proteins & Fibers Working Groups @MPIWG-Berlin
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V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
Hello folx attending #AAA in Bulbancha/NOLA! I must tell you about a special ice cream shop called Sweet Saint. Went here every lunch break during HSS and met co-owners. They're lovely & put incredible thought into their craft with local ingredients 🍦 www.frenchquarterjournal.com/archives/loc...
Sweet Saint: Local Boy Makes Good Ice Cream
After several years of homework, a former teacher combines local pride with a child-like love of ice cream and is met with sweet success. -By Kim Ranjbar
www.frenchquarterjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Hello folx attending #AAA in Bulbancha/NOLA! I must tell you about a special ice cream shop called Sweet Saint. Went here every lunch break during HSS and met co-owners. They're lovely & put incredible thought into their craft with local ingredients 🍦 www.frenchquarterjournal.com/archives/loc...
At the "Accessibility and the History of Science" Roundtable @ @historyscience.bsky.social mtg I was saddened to learn that Alice Wong passed away 14 Nov. Thank U Kate Jirik for leading the moment of silence. HSS folks pls take a look pg 54 of program & let's work on accessibility for future mtgs 🙏
Obit in the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
At the "Accessibility and the History of Science" Roundtable @ @historyscience.bsky.social mtg I was saddened to learn that Alice Wong passed away 14 Nov. Thank U Kate Jirik for leading the moment of silence. HSS folks pls take a look pg 54 of program & let's work on accessibility for future mtgs 🙏
Sounds of healthy reefs can help corals grow! 🎶🪸 Reclaiming '🐢s All the Way Down' Working Group @mpiwg.bsky.social visited media artist Marco Barotti's exhibit "Beyond Us" @ berlinscienceweek.com/exhibition-beyond-us 日本の皆様、Coral Sonic Resilienceが2026年2月13-15日まで、DIGSHIBUYAで展示される予定です。 #ecology #marine
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Sounds of healthy reefs can help corals grow! 🎶🪸 Reclaiming '🐢s All the Way Down' Working Group @mpiwg.bsky.social visited media artist Marco Barotti's exhibit "Beyond Us" @ berlinscienceweek.com/exhibition-beyond-us 日本の皆様、Coral Sonic Resilienceが2026年2月13-15日まで、DIGSHIBUYAで展示される予定です。 #ecology #marine
A life-changing moment of my academic career was the decision to do language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. Great teachers and location in Yokohama. The call for the next cohort is now posted! #Japan #language #PhDLife iuc.fsi.stanford.edu/programs-10M
IUC Programs 10-Month
iuc.fsi.stanford.edu
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A life-changing moment of my academic career was the decision to do language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. Great teachers and location in Yokohama. The call for the next cohort is now posted! #Japan #language #PhDLife iuc.fsi.stanford.edu/programs-10M
Excited to be in Florence today to meet in 3D with fantastic colleagues across the MPG after a year of zoom meetings to network about #heritage research. I'll be presenting "The Art of Persistence," a case study about the Live Turtle Museum Singapore 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...
Decay, Persistance, Re-Posession, and the Archive
www.khi.fi.it
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Excited to be in Florence today to meet in 3D with fantastic colleagues across the MPG after a year of zoom meetings to network about #heritage research. I'll be presenting "The Art of Persistence," a case study about the Live Turtle Museum Singapore 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...
Looking forward to Power Institute's reading group today on 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art (Langton and Ryan, eds. 2025)+ essay by Tristen Harwood "From Landscape to landrelation" reflecting on Segar Passi's paintings, among others www.powerinstitute.org.au/events/power...
Power Reading Group: 65,000 Years | The Power Institute
www.powerinstitute.org.au
October 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Looking forward to Power Institute's reading group today on 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art (Langton and Ryan, eds. 2025)+ essay by Tristen Harwood "From Landscape to landrelation" reflecting on Segar Passi's paintings, among others www.powerinstitute.org.au/events/power...
Sydney! What a beautiful city you are; I am in awe. I'm giving a talk "Weaving Genetics with Silk in Japan" in the School of History and Philosophy of Science @ U. Sydney Mon. 8 Sep. (F23 rm 501). Please join if you are in the area! #Japan #histsci #silk 🐛 hps-events.sydney.edu.au/event/weavin...
Weaving Genetics with Silk in Japan - Lisa Onaga - History and Philosophy of Science Events
Abstract When the history of raw silk is traced by following the thread of commodity formation and trade, our capacity to fully grasp the interactions among the insects, plants, and […]
hps-events.sydney.edu.au
September 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sydney! What a beautiful city you are; I am in awe. I'm giving a talk "Weaving Genetics with Silk in Japan" in the School of History and Philosophy of Science @ U. Sydney Mon. 8 Sep. (F23 rm 501). Please join if you are in the area! #Japan #histsci #silk 🐛 hps-events.sydney.edu.au/event/weavin...
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Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge
facultypositions.stanford.edu
August 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the A-bombing of Nagasaki. In this podcast, Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki discusses the importance of pursuing a culture of peace: "We have to move forward, even if it is one little step" "to realize a world without nuclear weapons" open.substack.com/pub/annelise...
Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki
On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing, Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki calls on the world to remember—and act.
open.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the A-bombing of Nagasaki. In this podcast, Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki discusses the importance of pursuing a culture of peace: "We have to move forward, even if it is one little step" "to realize a world without nuclear weapons" open.substack.com/pub/annelise...
Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci
July 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci
To reconsider how, where, and by whom science is done, these amazing authors explore the theme "Animal Mobilities" & guide us to some unexpected spaces to show us how animal agency & human–animal interactions have mattered in the history of knowledge production. 🐟🪰🪸🐕🦆🐒🦏🐘🐛
Check it out! 👇
Check it out! 👇
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
To reconsider how, where, and by whom science is done, these amazing authors explore the theme "Animal Mobilities" & guide us to some unexpected spaces to show us how animal agency & human–animal interactions have mattered in the history of knowledge production. 🐟🪰🪸🐕🦆🐒🦏🐘🐛
Check it out! 👇
Check it out! 👇
Given all that is going on in the 🌏, I'm humbled to announce that "Animal Mobilities" is released into the wild. 12 richly illustrated essays, ed. by Novick, Onaga, & Rosenberg
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Come for the critters, stay for the history of science.
doi.org/10.1086/735515
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Come for the critters, stay for the history of science.
doi.org/10.1086/735515
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
Knowing Animals, Moving Animals: Osiris: Vol 40
Abstract Human societies often come to know the natural world by examining animals, even as animals, frequently both willful and animate, elude human grasps and challenge human aims. Animals and their...
doi.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Given all that is going on in the 🌏, I'm humbled to announce that "Animal Mobilities" is released into the wild. 12 richly illustrated essays, ed. by Novick, Onaga, & Rosenberg
🪸🐛 🦆🐒🐘🪳🦏 🐕🐟
Come for the critters, stay for the history of science.
doi.org/10.1086/735515
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Come for the critters, stay for the history of science.
doi.org/10.1086/735515
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
I'm giving a lunchtime talk today (12noon UK time) on the postwar history of sericulture and science in Japan. Excited to share this research with a bunch of animal geography scholars @rgs-agwg.bsky.social ! #animals #japan
In a week's time, we'll have a research seminar with Dr Lisa Onaga titled 'Where Have All The Silkworms Gone? Finding a Place for Sericulture in Postwar Japan'. Registration below!
May 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm giving a lunchtime talk today (12noon UK time) on the postwar history of sericulture and science in Japan. Excited to share this research with a bunch of animal geography scholars @rgs-agwg.bsky.social ! #animals #japan
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Postdoc opportunity. Please distribute widely. We’re looking for an emerging scholar doing community-centred or community-led research in Pacific History. Minimal teaching duties, research, relocation funds and visa sponsorship available.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pacific History
Full time, fixed term for 3 years Opportunity for research in Pacific history in the Discipline of History First Nations and Pacific Nations candidates strongly encouraged to apply Academic Level A6-8...
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May 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Postdoc opportunity. Please distribute widely. We’re looking for an emerging scholar doing community-centred or community-led research in Pacific History. Minimal teaching duties, research, relocation funds and visa sponsorship available.
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Queuing up som PBS films for upcoming AAPI history month w/ "Your Serve or Mine" (pbs.org/video/your-s... on ping-pong diplomacy w/ comments from historian of science Zuoyue Wang, and "Becoming Yamazushi" on the Durham, NC kaiseki restaurant, dir by rap artist #GYamazawa www.pbs.org/video/becomi...
April 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Queuing up som PBS films for upcoming AAPI history month w/ "Your Serve or Mine" (pbs.org/video/your-s... on ping-pong diplomacy w/ comments from historian of science Zuoyue Wang, and "Becoming Yamazushi" on the Durham, NC kaiseki restaurant, dir by rap artist #GYamazawa www.pbs.org/video/becomi...
MPIWG is hiring postdocs in Dept "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" (includes working groups RTAWD, Heavens in Your Hand, Common Kg, Metals&Minerals) + Dept "Knowledge Systems + Collective Life" and @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social ! Do check "career" page for closing dates: tinyurl.com/2usszea9
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April 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
MPIWG is hiring postdocs in Dept "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" (includes working groups RTAWD, Heavens in Your Hand, Common Kg, Metals&Minerals) + Dept "Knowledge Systems + Collective Life" and @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social ! Do check "career" page for closing dates: tinyurl.com/2usszea9
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Coho salmon smolts diet=70% spiders! Spent last weekend learning about Tomales Bay Watershed thx to @turtleisland-org.bsky.social scientists and volunteers. To strengthen coho salmon spawning grounds, we planted native Calif plants on a river embankment adjacent to an old concrete plant #ecology
March 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Coho salmon smolts diet=70% spiders! Spent last weekend learning about Tomales Bay Watershed thx to @turtleisland-org.bsky.social scientists and volunteers. To strengthen coho salmon spawning grounds, we planted native Calif plants on a river embankment adjacent to an old concrete plant #ecology
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Day 28: St. Maurice
Fan fave & arguably the most well-known Black figure in medieval art, St. Maurice was a 3rd cent. commander of the Theban (s. Egyptian) Roman Legion. There are shrines in honor of him all over Europe. 🧶
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#yarnsky #indiedyedyarn #BHM #handdyedyarn #yarnaddict #yarnlove
Fan fave & arguably the most well-known Black figure in medieval art, St. Maurice was a 3rd cent. commander of the Theban (s. Egyptian) Roman Legion. There are shrines in honor of him all over Europe. 🧶
1/6
#yarnsky #indiedyedyarn #BHM #handdyedyarn #yarnaddict #yarnlove
February 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Day 28: St. Maurice
Fan fave & arguably the most well-known Black figure in medieval art, St. Maurice was a 3rd cent. commander of the Theban (s. Egyptian) Roman Legion. There are shrines in honor of him all over Europe. 🧶
1/6
#yarnsky #indiedyedyarn #BHM #handdyedyarn #yarnaddict #yarnlove
Fan fave & arguably the most well-known Black figure in medieval art, St. Maurice was a 3rd cent. commander of the Theban (s. Egyptian) Roman Legion. There are shrines in honor of him all over Europe. 🧶
1/6
#yarnsky #indiedyedyarn #BHM #handdyedyarn #yarnaddict #yarnlove
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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
www.datarescueproject.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
Thank you to @roto-rub.bsky.social for hosting me last month! It was great to discuss fantastic and thoughtful questions from a curious bunch of scholars.
Here's wishing the group a Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake🐍! (Not exactly 🐛 but the shedding of skin makes it sort of sympatico?)
Here's wishing the group a Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake🐍! (Not exactly 🐛 but the shedding of skin makes it sort of sympatico?)
A big thanks to @lisaonaga.bsky.social who gave a fascinating talk about sericulture in Japan in our lecture series yesterday! 🐛 Also thank you to everyone who joined the talk and discussion afterwards! See you next year for the next talks 😀
#HPBio #PhilSci
#HPBio #PhilSci
January 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thank you to @roto-rub.bsky.social for hosting me last month! It was great to discuss fantastic and thoughtful questions from a curious bunch of scholars.
Here's wishing the group a Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake🐍! (Not exactly 🐛 but the shedding of skin makes it sort of sympatico?)
Here's wishing the group a Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake🐍! (Not exactly 🐛 but the shedding of skin makes it sort of sympatico?)
CFP for "Fabricated Natures: Stories from the Bio-Material Archive" (workshop deadline Jul 15 2024)--please share to folks working on studies of multidisciplinary sciences re: #biomaterials #fibers #textiles #biomimesis #materials #animals #plants #prostheses www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabrica...
June 12, 2024 at 8:37 PM
CFP for "Fabricated Natures: Stories from the Bio-Material Archive" (workshop deadline Jul 15 2024)--please share to folks working on studies of multidisciplinary sciences re: #biomaterials #fibers #textiles #biomimesis #materials #animals #plants #prostheses www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabrica...
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Cliff notes: Professor Pflugfelder taught at Columbia for 28 yrs. Was just trying to enjoy retirement & bingewatch Shogun. Got interrupted by police who he filmed from his own home/block. Arrested and jailed. One of the may “non students” the cops want us to believe were “outside agitators”
A Columbia professor wanted to document history. NYPD arrested him outside his home
The professor had just finished his last class to end a 28-year teaching career at Columbia University. Then police arrested him outside his home.
www.usatoday.com
May 5, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Cliff notes: Professor Pflugfelder taught at Columbia for 28 yrs. Was just trying to enjoy retirement & bingewatch Shogun. Got interrupted by police who he filmed from his own home/block. Arrested and jailed. One of the may “non students” the cops want us to believe were “outside agitators”
Fantastic to see the hard copy of @isisjournal.bsky.social! The Magnifying Insect Histories Focus reflects on the methodological purchase of thinking about 🪲🐝🐛🦂🦟🐜🦋 for doing history of science. Thank U authors + @dominikhhh.bsky.social & Dear editors: your visions enabled us to reach new heights 🙏
April 22, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Fantastic to see the hard copy of @isisjournal.bsky.social! The Magnifying Insect Histories Focus reflects on the methodological purchase of thinking about 🪲🐝🐛🦂🦟🐜🦋 for doing history of science. Thank U authors + @dominikhhh.bsky.social & Dear editors: your visions enabled us to reach new heights 🙏
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The OA essay I co-wrote with @lisaonaga.bsky.social on “Ambivalent Insects” is out in the world @isisjournal.bsky.social!
I’m honored to be part of this focus section on “Magnifying Insect Histories,” with such a stellar group of scholars.
Here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
I’m honored to be part of this focus section on “Magnifying Insect Histories,” with such a stellar group of scholars.
Here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
March 2, 2024 at 4:56 PM
The OA essay I co-wrote with @lisaonaga.bsky.social on “Ambivalent Insects” is out in the world @isisjournal.bsky.social!
I’m honored to be part of this focus section on “Magnifying Insect Histories,” with such a stellar group of scholars.
Here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
I’m honored to be part of this focus section on “Magnifying Insect Histories,” with such a stellar group of scholars.
Here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....