Mario Wimmer
@mrwmmr.bsky.social
works at Collegium Helveticum. Swiss Institute for Advanced Study. Zurich. Here not in official capacity.
This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!
‘Alison Bashford’s story is, on the one hand, just about a bit of the human body and, on the other, about the changing, contested and consequential practices through which we have sought to know ourselves and others.’ Steven Shapin on a new survey of the hand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Steven Shapin · Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand
The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...
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Update: They passed it. We witnessed and walked out.
AAUP@aaup.org · 6mo agoThe Board of Governors of the North Carolina System is redefining academic freedom in their Code: they plan to restrict what faculty can say and do in their classrooms and beyond. Join the @ncaaup.bsky.social tomorrow 2/26 to deliver a petition & pack the BOG meeting from 8:30-11amET. RSVP here⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys — and getting better at avoiding detection
A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of social science is now under threat.
nature.com
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
We’re looking for scientists and scholars who build connections across different areas of research and whose work has impact beyond their own field of specialization and inspire local colleagues. Nominations and self-nominations are open until 15 January 2026: collegium.ethz.ch/fellowships/...
Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at
If you're interested in applying, Sebastian and I will host an info session online to give you a better sense of what to expect and answer questions that are relevant for most of the participants. On December 3, 2025, from 15:00 to 16:00: ethz.zoom.us/j/63735106071
Call for Early-career fellowships at the Collegium is open: collegium.ethz.ch/fellowships/... Please spread the word!
Early-Career Fellowship | Collegium Helveticum
The Collegium Helveticum is the joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts. It aims to provide a meeting place and forum ...
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BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
A new partnership and a new fellowship program: collegium.ethz.ch/news-publica...
Partnership Between the NOMIS Foundation and the Collegium | Collegium Helveticum
The NOMIS Foundation and the Collegium Helveticum have initiated a partnership to support international research collaborations. As one of the key initiatives of this partnership, the NOMIS Senior Fel...
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Looking forward to rereading Fleck together with fellows and colleagues in and out of the (wet) lab on November 11, 2025. With @roepstorff.bsky.social and others. collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
📅 New Perspectives on Ludwik Fleck | Collegium Helveticum
The focus of this workshop is on exploring the potential of Ludwik Fleck’s work to inspire reflection on scientific practice across disciplines.
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Tonight, Lorraine Daston on the history of the values of diversity: collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello... Glad to have her visiting the Collegium Helveticum.
📅 The Values of Diversity | Collegium Helveticum
Lorraine Daston will examine how the concept of diversity, once largely confined to aesthetic and economic contexts, has rapidly acquired profound moral and political significance.
collegium.ethz.ch
Remarkable numbers to support your individual choice for a healthier diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds
Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
theguardian.com
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
"Consider a non-technological example of decentralized, interoperable standards (where two or more differently designed systems can work tgthr): the Allen wrench.... AT Protocol could be that kind of standard for social media... One of the best examples of the power of this technology is Blacksky"
🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
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The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ invites applications for one: Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track) Deadline: 15 October 2025 recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/51...
The Collegium is thrilled to welcome the most recent addition to the community.
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · last yr.“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
I wrote for @theguardian.com about the LA fires, climate change and what lessons that dazzling city‘s dazzling writers hold for our unprecedented moment www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week
Fire is an inextricable part of the region’s identity, as the writers knew. But the way this divided city burns has been transformed
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