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About me

I am an early-career scholar, graphic designer, and grew up on the internet.

I have a brain built for the creative synthesis of complex stories—whether academic, political, or corporate. 

My academic work seeks to construct a genealogy of 'green' technologies. I believe that western climate mitigation strategies may risk perpetuating capitalist and colonial logic dating back to the development of New World plantations and the enclosure of the British commons. More broadly, I seek to understand technoscience’s precarious relationship with the planet and its role in spurring the climate crisis.

 

I also work in graphic design, you can find my work here​. Before my graduate career, I worked in the agriculture technology start-up space and outdoor education. 

Education

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Doctoral Student

Committee on the Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science

The University of Chicago

Master's of Arts | 2023

Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology

The University of Toronto

Bachelor's of Arts & Science | 2019

Sociology and Molecular Biology

Quest University Canada

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Academic Writing

Birss, Hayley. 2025. “Tamar Novick, Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2023.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 47 (1): 1–3. doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00662-w.

Birss, Hayley. 2024. “Mapping the Dynamics of the Vertical Farm: A Biopolitical Epistemology of Valuation.” Social Epistemology, 1–11. doi:10.1080/02691728.2024.2342854.

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I am based in the Great Lakes region (on the land traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, or the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations). 

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