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CSSM AIR call 2024
OPEN CALL for CSSM artist-in-residence in 2025
CSSM FELLOW call 2025
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM Visiting Fellowships for Spring 2025 (April-June)
people gathered around planter boxes, looking at the soil
Retrospective: How we sensed microbes during Sensory Week
The workshop What’s Fermenting. A peer discussion created by Aliisa Talja and Samuli Laine from WAUHAUS collective took place on the Climate Security festival in Helsinki, Finland in September 2024. Photo: Aman Askarizad
Aliisa Talja starts as our new artist-in-residence
Picture by Mo Horstmann
Reflections on Microbial Meanings from the CSSM PhD Summer School
call RA 2024
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM research assistant from October 2024
detail of an artwork with small blobs on a peach-coloured canvas
Reviewing “Toxic Transits,” an art exhibition featuring our artist-in-residence
By Maya Hey
a row of metal milk containers
Call for papers: Microbes, food, and food systems
By Maya Hey
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Andrea Núñez Casal and Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova join CSSM as visiting fellows
By Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova
macro shots of fungal hyphae emerging in compost
What/where is the microbial in the garden?
By Faidon Papadakis
close up of an art piece with fingers and small creatures on a wall
Alma Heikkilä starts as the new artist-in-residence at CSSM
Text against dark background: Open call, CSSM PhD School, deadline 31 Mar 2024
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM PhD School in June 2024

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