Tessa Moll
@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social
Anthropologist on reprotech, postgenomics and race in South Africa; rock climber; Texpat. Views are my own. She/her/y'all. www.tessamoll.net/
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One of the things I enjoyed this year was this interview with Rasmus Bitsch where Tessa (@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social) and I discuss the work we have been doing mapping the history of racial classification in South Africa.
You can listen to this interview here: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/a...
You can listen to this interview here: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/a...
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
One of the things I enjoyed this year was this interview with Rasmus Bitsch where Tessa (@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social) and I discuss the work we have been doing mapping the history of racial classification in South Africa.
You can listen to this interview here: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/a...
You can listen to this interview here: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/a...
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I’m not an alum but I just donated $100 to help support African American/women journalists at the University of Alabama. They were abandoned by their school, which shamefully buckled under Trump. Together we can support young journalists to maintain a free press & keep hope alive!!
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
Keep the Free Press Alive at the University of Alabama
By Media Alumni Seeking to Highlight Equity and Diversity
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December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m not an alum but I just donated $100 to help support African American/women journalists at the University of Alabama. They were abandoned by their school, which shamefully buckled under Trump. Together we can support young journalists to maintain a free press & keep hope alive!!
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We invite you to submit a proposal for our special issue "The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics and Society in Africa" to appear at the South African Journal of Science. Find the call here 👉 sajs.co.za/call-human-d... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci 🦠
December 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We invite you to submit a proposal for our special issue "The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics and Society in Africa" to appear at the South African Journal of Science. Find the call here 👉 sajs.co.za/call-human-d... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci 🦠
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📣 Our second call for abstracts for our special issue is out! 🙌
If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there: sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
If not, you can still spread the message widely!
#histbio #philbio🐋🌱
If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there: sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
If not, you can still spread the message widely!
#histbio #philbio🐋🌱
sajs.co.za
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📣 Our second call for abstracts for our special issue is out! 🙌
If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there: sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
If not, you can still spread the message widely!
#histbio #philbio🐋🌱
If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there: sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
If not, you can still spread the message widely!
#histbio #philbio🐋🌱
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The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
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"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job
At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.
www.chronicle.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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Here I was talking about the consequences of the changes in classifications (and who was labelled as belonging in them) for conceptualising biological studies. Our discussion focused on the use of such classifications in microbiome research.
Amazing talk by @msimang.bsky.social at the "Human Diversity Dilemma" Workshop (@localmicrobes.bsky.social), Cape Town! Check out this great infographic on shifting racial classif. in South Africa 17-21C by @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social and Phila:
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio #philsky #race
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio #philsky #race
October 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Here I was talking about the consequences of the changes in classifications (and who was labelled as belonging in them) for conceptualising biological studies. Our discussion focused on the use of such classifications in microbiome research.
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Amazing talk by @msimang.bsky.social at the "Human Diversity Dilemma" Workshop (@localmicrobes.bsky.social), Cape Town! Check out this great infographic on shifting racial classif. in South Africa 17-21C by @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social and Phila:
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio #philsky #race
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio #philsky #race
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Amazing talk by @msimang.bsky.social at the "Human Diversity Dilemma" Workshop (@localmicrobes.bsky.social), Cape Town! Check out this great infographic on shifting racial classif. in South Africa 17-21C by @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social and Phila:
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio #philsky #race
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio #philsky #race
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Important point—in this argument (which I support), the anarchy is not apolitical, even if it's tempting to think so.
Once again with feeling... the capacity to behave like this is a symptom of their own privilege and implicit disdain for the concept of making anything better. It's extremely rightwing.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Important point—in this argument (which I support), the anarchy is not apolitical, even if it's tempting to think so.
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How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
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If you haven't registered yet, please do so before September 22nd!
#hpbio #philbio #histbio 🐋🌱
October 1st to 3rd, 2025 – Interdisciplinary Workshop in South Africa (Cape Town) – The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #philbio #histbio 🐋🌱
October 1st to 3rd, 2025 – Interdisciplinary Workshop in South Africa (Cape Town) – The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
September 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
So excited to share that earlier this year I received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for a 5-year project "DDT Relations: Tracing the Chemical Alterlife of South African Malaria Control." Can't wait to get started back at UCT's Department of Anthropology!
www.news.uct.ac.za/news/researc...
www.news.uct.ac.za/news/researc...
UCT researchers awarded for shaping the future of disease prevention
UCT celebrates the university’s first recipient of the distinguished Wellcome Early-Career Award and a second Wellcome Trust Discovery Award.
www.news.uct.ac.za
August 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
So excited to share that earlier this year I received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for a 5-year project "DDT Relations: Tracing the Chemical Alterlife of South African Malaria Control." Can't wait to get started back at UCT's Department of Anthropology!
www.news.uct.ac.za/news/researc...
www.news.uct.ac.za/news/researc...
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Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University Assistant (Post-doc) in Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures
University Assistant (Post-doc) in Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures
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August 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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Lordy... where do I begin.
So considering the author of the op-ed was a co-author on a paper comparing pain levels by racial groups in the US, then I would venture that yes, he surely does need his humanities colleagues.
So considering the author of the op-ed was a co-author on a paper comparing pain levels by racial groups in the US, then I would venture that yes, he surely does need his humanities colleagues.
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
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August 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Lordy... where do I begin.
So considering the author of the op-ed was a co-author on a paper comparing pain levels by racial groups in the US, then I would venture that yes, he surely does need his humanities colleagues.
So considering the author of the op-ed was a co-author on a paper comparing pain levels by racial groups in the US, then I would venture that yes, he surely does need his humanities colleagues.
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Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠
August 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠
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Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS
www.sthvschool.org
www.sthvschool.org
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
www.sthvschool.org
August 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS
www.sthvschool.org
www.sthvschool.org
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3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
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August 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
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We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠
If you're a researcher (particularly early-career) that focuses on health, join us for the @hsrcza.bsky.social 'Winning at Wellcome' workshop 16-17 Sept
July 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If you're a researcher (particularly early-career) that focuses on health, join us for the @hsrcza.bsky.social 'Winning at Wellcome' workshop 16-17 Sept
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Our confirmed speakers for the workshop "The Human Diversity Dilemma" include Jantina de Vries, Marina Joubert @marinajoubert.bsky.social, Phila Msimang @msimang.bsky.social, Tessa Moll @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social Evodia Setati. Check our exciting program! 👇🦠 💗 #philbio
July 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Our confirmed speakers for the workshop "The Human Diversity Dilemma" include Jantina de Vries, Marina Joubert @marinajoubert.bsky.social, Phila Msimang @msimang.bsky.social, Tessa Moll @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social Evodia Setati. Check our exciting program! 👇🦠 💗 #philbio
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Revolutionary Demand For Happiness Writing Residency! For more information see below and here:
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July 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Revolutionary Demand For Happiness Writing Residency! For more information see below and here:
www.instagram.com/p/DL-tbSjyZH...
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That NYTimes storu comes to you courtesy of a researcher (of race and IQ no less) in this godawful club www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
July 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
That NYTimes storu comes to you courtesy of a researcher (of race and IQ no less) in this godawful club www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
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Save the date! Interdisciplinary Workshop:
The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋
Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋
Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
June 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Save the date! Interdisciplinary Workshop:
The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋
Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋
Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...