Mia Uys

More of a reader than a tweeter. PhD Candidate at UCT working on a history of South Africa’s National Zoo.

[Mia Uys @UysMia]

So grateful to have been officially awarded the W. T Stearn Student Essay Prize at the @SHNHSocNatHist annual awards last night (zooming in from Johannesburg)!☺️

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

PhD

[Mia Uys @UysMia]

I’m finding X so chaotic these days, but for the few historians that are still here, my review of @J_SkotnesBrown book Segregated Species is out in Animal History. 🐘🐀 #animalhistory

https://t.co/7xqtqbUFvE

[Mia Uys @UysMia]

@MattieCWebb @VMI1839 This is incredible Mattie!! Congratulations my friend.

[SHNH @SHNHSocNatHist]

This edition includes @UysMia's ✨winning essay✨ exploring the private trading of African wildlife through the untimely departure of Alwin Karl Haagner (1880-1962) as director of South Africa’s National Zoological Gardens.

Read the open access paper 👇
https://t.co/mLOftRAz15

[SHNH @SHNHSocNatHist]

The latest edition of Archives of Natural History is out! 🙌

Just in time for some festive reading, it covers everything from controversial ducks 🦆👀 to the early 20C trading of African wildlife 🦁🦒

Have a peruse for yourself! 👇
https://t.co/w7blmaHIss

[Jabulani Shaba @jabulanishabazw]

Happy to share our latest co-authored article!, “Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa.” Click the link to read, https://t.co/hAGcY6px5Y
@IvaPesa

[SHNH @SHNHSocNatHist]

🎉Early Career Researcher Symposium🎉

We're looking for papers from across the field that speak to any aspects of the history of natural history by doctoral and early-career researchers across the globe.

🗓️ Deadline: 16 December (soon!)

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

The men with the strongest opinions about women and PhDs have had zero contact with either

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Reading is progress. Collecting data is progress. Downloading papers is progress. Emailing is progress. Note-taking is progress. Writing is progress. Teaching is progress. Deleting is progress. Referencing is progress. Rewriting is progress.

[Dr Alice Would @WouldAlice]

Popping up from the twitter abyss to plug mine and Andy Flack's new article. Check it out if you're interested in disability history, animal history, history of science https://t.co/9JHoFWfU7p

[Sandra Swart @WildPasts_]

I went shopping before 6am! @JacanaMedia thanks for this bonkers bananas sale 🍌 📚 🥜

[Mia Uys @UysMia]

@VanessaChenZA That’s incredible Vanessa! Congrats!

[Vanessa Chen @VanessaChenZA]

I have been selected among 12 South African artists for the Unrecorded Voices explorative AI program hosted by the French Institute of SAfrica in partnership with u2p050 and Playtopia Festival. An exhibition will be held at the Homecoming Centre: 5-7 Dec. https://t.co/TploHcj7Yo

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

has reviewer 2 considered that I’m trying my best

[Sandra Swart @WildPasts_]

Internship with a good group of humans, if you’re excited about entering the publishing world @JacanaMedia

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

When you only publish one paper in a particular field

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

My two moods when writing:

[Jabulani Shaba @jabulanishabazw]

Excited to have been part of the organisers of the conference on, “Mapping Toxic Coloniality: Perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America.”, which took place between 7 & 8 November 2024. Interesting insights on the toxicity-extraction nexus! @IvaPesa