Victoria Lee
@MicrobeHistory
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Science historian 科学史家, author "The Arts of the Microbial World" 菌の世界の技術 (Chicago 2021, winner @asiascholars book prize) @ohiou Fermentation 発酵 🔬🍶
Athens, OH
Joined April 2017
I'm so honored for The Arts of the Microbial World to be awarded the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. I'm extremely grateful to everyone who supported my work along the way.
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Early to mid-career humanities scholars interested in biotech! A great opportunity at the Spirit of Asilomar’s Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program. Apply at
spiritofasilomar.org
The Spirit of Asilomar’s Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program supported young- to mid-career actors who seek to contribute to and lead towards better biotic futures. Awardees were provided with...
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A fascinating BBC feature linking contemporary Japanese fermentation tech, food waste, animal nutrition, and the circular economy. It cites me on the Japanese perspective on microbes as "living workers.".
I got to visit a very cool fermentation plant in Japan that turns leftover human food into food for pigs, creating a recycling loop. *And* my BBC editor let me reference the Bog of Eternal Stench in the story!
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Delighted to see Christoph Gradmann's perceptive review of my book in @AmHistReview.
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Histories of science and medicine, regrettably, have a known propensity for triumphalist presentism, portraying the past as a long prehistory of the presen
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Pleased to see in print my review of Chris Otter's "Diet for a Large Planet" in @IsisJournal, which was a fascinating account of the clash between the demand for cheap food in 🇬🇧 and global sustainability concerns .
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Very grateful for reviews by Miriam Kingsberg Kadia @jas_tw and Mark Yu Shan Chen @EastsJournal !
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RT @BerglundJerome: An enormous pleasure+great honor to be part of this exciting initiative from @CoinOpPress which just came to stunning f….
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A proud achievement as a new mother this fall: I'm published in a poetry zine! The Scotland-based @CoinOpPress run workshops and make collaborative zines. The callout was for haiku or haiga, and I developed these at @newmumswriting.
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Thanks to @NathanEHopson for the @NewBooksNetwork interview! It was great to have the opportunity to chat about some of my favorite themes (non-western science, "complementary science" [Chang], colonialism) in the book.
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Feel really delighted and grateful for The Arts of the Microbial World to have received this beautifully written review from Jia-Chen Fu in @SHMeditor , which calls the account "a tesseract of space-time travel"!.
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Excited about going to the #AgHistorySoc meeting this week (albeit virtually)! Our roundtable, "Cultivating Little Things and Big Promises: Cellular Agriculture, Fermentation, and the Pasts of Protein Futures" is on at 1:30-3:00, Saturday, June 10.
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@jgreene2 @DollyJorgensen @A_Slaton There's still time to submit an abstract. ***CFP Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections***Deadline extended to April 15***. CFP: Website:.
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Historians and social scientists of science, technology, and medicine discuss their collaborative work to develop and deploy "embedded connections" in the humanities and STEM fields.
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***CFP Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections***.Science History Institute, Philadelphia, USA, 4-6 October 2023.A fantastic event I'm co-organizing w/ @jgreene2 @DollyJorgensen @A_Slaton.Abstracts due April 1 to.embeddedconnections@sciencehistory.org
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Thrilled to find @umamiPhD 's eloquent and thought-provoking review of my book in @IsisJournal ! A lovely surprise while spending a wintry day indoors.
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Pleased that an interview I gave in French in June was cited in the prominent French investigative journal #mediapart 🇫🇷🦠. Je suis contente d'être mentionnée dans un article de Mediapart sur le #microbe.
mediapart.fr
Face aux microbes, nous avons tendance à adopter des postures radicales à visée éradicatrice. Un réflexe ancré dans notre histoire et dans le langage utilisé pour parler des virus et des épidémies, s…
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#ConsiderThis: The segment appeared on "All Things Considered" today! 📻 .
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A Japanese chemist identified umami in the early 1900s, but it took a century for his work to be translated into English. NPR's Short Wave podcast looked into why it took so long to be recognized.
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join me at @Caltech later this afternoon (1pm PT) on microbial collections and colonial amnesia 🇯🇵
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