CSSM (find us at cssmicrobes.bsky.social) @CSSMicrobes
CSSM is a @wellcometrust center based in @helsinkiuni that serves as a hub for social scientists and artists conducting research on human-microbial relations. socialmicrobes.org Helsinki, Finland Joined October 2018-
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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…
📢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…
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…

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