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Carsten Timmermann

@ctimmermann.bsky.social

Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.

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Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · yesterday

Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk

Smart Alyk@smartalyk.bsky.social · yesterday

DAY 425 SPECIES 425 - Cyclospora cayetanensis MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen C. cayetanensis is a microscopic protozoan parasite that causes the illness cyclosporiasis. It's the cause of the current outbreak linked to the recalled iceberg lettuce #sciart #protistsonsky

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Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 2d ago

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Axel Gelfert@agelfert.bsky.social · 2d ago

This resource, which was started by Matteo Collodel, is also fantastic: www.collodel.org/hesse/ -- Incidentally, I attende a luncheon at Wolfson College with Mary Hesse, on the occasion of her 80th birthday (I think Matteo may have been one of the invited guest there too). Her work is inspiring.

Website in Honour of Mary Hesse

This website is meant to celebrate and promote the work of the British philosopher and historian of science Mary B. Hesse.

collodel.org

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2d ago

The Romanian navy blowing up a huge rock to redirect water to a nuclear power plant to help cool it down during a fossil-fuelled heatwave

Gabby HC@scriblit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

A crappy photoshop paint image with a red star on blue, in comic sans is the message 'some people on the internet aren't American'
Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 2d ago

This chapter by Ian Hacking has stood the test of time. Worth revisiting at a time when we doubt the reality of long COVID, fight culture wars over gender identity, and get exercised over the question if neurodivergence is becoming more common.

First page of Making up People by Ian Hacking.Cover of the volume in which the chapter was published, Reconstructing Individualism (1986)
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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Angela Andersen@angelaandersen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

science.org

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 3d ago

The discourse widens, and it seems that the next step is clear: archives and libraries. This has already started, by the way. bsky.app/profile/eica...

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago

'rare books experts are increasingly worried that these artefacts may be under threat of destruction by generative AI companies seeking to feed their ravenous technology with new texts.' First they came for your monograph, then for rare books. Where next: wholesale destruction of archives?