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Carsten Timmermann

@ctimmermann.bsky.social
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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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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 7h
🧵There has been a lot of discussion over the last few days about the politicising of a nostalgic view of the UK that never really existed, at least not for the vast majority of the population. The image of the traditional British country pub, a roaring log fire, wooden beams, a pint on the table
A romanticised 1946 depiction of a rural English village. Several villagers carry out various types of agricultural work, such as tending horses and fixing wheels on carts, whilst others are engaged in conversation outside the village pub.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 8h
I've got questions. Why doesn't Bear 910 have an *official* nickname? And what needs to happen to make her nickname official?
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fairz
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interdisciplinary simplification of the day: phagocytes are cells that take Mary Douglas very seriously.
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’ve partnered with @postcodelotteryuk.bsky.social to fund 400 annual Mill subscriptions for 16-25 year olds! Be quick and claim one of these free subscriptions before they run out. manchestermill.co.uk/free-mil-sub...
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Free Mill subscriptions for 16-25 year olds!
A huge boost for our campaign
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great news! Via @manchestermill.bsky.social
A big clap for Manchester
And last and definitely least, Manchester officially has the highest STI rate of any university town, according to new research. Adult brand Erobella found that, in 2025, Manchester was venereal valedictorian with 924 new diagnoses of STIs per 100,000 residents, more than twice the national average. Curiously, towns with Russell Group universities had 32% more instances of STI diagnosis than towns without them — making the argument for more polytechnics and less polyamory.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Does your research touch on science or science history? Come to this free training session led by IHR Research Partners @sciencemuseum.org.uk on Oct 14 14:00-16:00 at the IHR. Learn about Science Museum Group collections, the SMG Research and Public History team, and grant funding. buff.ly/6xETNyy
A collage of museum objects fills the background, including a large penny-farthing bicycle, a wooden mechanical apparatus, historic vehicles, a steam locomotive, a close-up of turbine blades, and a brass navigational instrument. The words “SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP” appear in large white capital letters across the centre of the image. In the upper right corner, a white panel displays the date “14 Oct 26”.
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy weekend! This Saturday brings you the rare joy of a 🙌job🙌 in: surveys! democratic attitudes! experiments! three years!! research only (if you want)!!!! with @rikkidean.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social !!!!!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB393/r...
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Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project at University of Southampton
Apply now for the Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung @sgn.one · 25/09/2026
Ab heute ist im Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt unsere neue Sonderausstellung „Secret Service: Frauen in der Naturforschung“ zu sehen! 👩‍🔬🔬 Im Fokus stehen 11 der vielen Frauen, die Senckenberg über Jahrhunderte geprägt haben – und dafür in ihrer Zeit kaum oder gar keine Anerkennung erhielten.
Blick in die Ausstellung "Secret Service" mit großem Porträt von Aenny Fahr und historischen Fotografien.Besucherinnen betrachten das Porträt von Tilly Edinger in der Ausstellung "Secret Service".Eine Ausstellungsvitrine mit mehreren Schachteln mit Schneckenhäusern und einer Schnecke, die über die Glaswand kriecht in der Ausstellung "Secret Service".Key Visual der Ausstellung "Secret Service. Frauen in der Naturforschung" mit historischem Porträt von Aenny Fahr in warmer Expeditionskleidung.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s striking that so many otherwise smart people aren’t willing to argue for enlightenment: fears about immigration are unfounded. Available evidence, e.g. re crime, education, jobs, healthcare suggests that concerns about immigrants are, by and large, not legitimate concerns but irrational fears.
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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's #FossilFriday, and indeed the final scheduled Friday that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is open to the public, potentially forever. So it's finally time to, once again, talk about Haddy — and bring it all full circle. Strap in, it's a big one.
A heavily retouched photograph (c. 1870?) of the mounted skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii inside the Academy's old building at the corner of Broad & Sansom Sts (in fact, the only known photograph of this building's interior). A man stands under the skeleton, identity unknown
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You couldn't make it up. To say it with Mrs Merton: one wonders what first attracted Newcastle University to the billionaire Anant Ambani. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Awful story (but good podcast) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
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Inside the Network of Anonymous Men Destroying Young Women's Lives
Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · 24 September · 19min
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the non Dutch speakers Roel Maalderink made an excellent satirical video about Meta’s pervert glasses and Meta has removed the film from Instagram (film in following skeet) www.ad.nl/tech/meta-ha...
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Meta haalt satirische video offline waarin Roel Maalderink kritiek uit op de videobrillen van het techbedrijf
Meta heeft een video offline gehaald van Roel Maalderink en Bits of Freedom, waarin zij op satirische wijze kritiek uiten op de videobrillen van Meta. Maalderink filmt erin Meta-personeel met een vide...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very pleased to share the first article from my research project on the history clinical research and biological psychiatry, published open access in Isis. The article analyses the introduction of pneumoencephalography in schizophrenia research in the 1950s. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A textbook page with machine written text and an interspersed radiograph of the skull with black shades in the center.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The old Chorlton-on-Medlock Townhall, site of the 5th Pan-African Congress in 1945.
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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today September 23, 1926. Trane was still near the start of his remarkable creative journey when he went into Rudy Van Gelder’s living room studio on September 15, 1957 and recorded his first great masterpiece: “Blue Train.” bluenote.lnk.to/JohnColtrane...
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I like this piece, and approve of teaching student nurses about big ideas and important concepts in anthropology and social science, such as Rites of Passage. 👍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot of the first few paragraphs of an article entitled 'Big Ideas: ‘Les Rites De Passage’ Arnold Van Gennep 1909' by Tessa E. Watts in the journal Nurse Education Today (April 2013)
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great piece on culture, society, science, and god… In the context of using metaphors to describe AI. Highly recommend.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to see that these age-old traditions are still being celebrated. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Alpabzug! Swiss mountain alpaca herding – in pictures
Each autumn the traditional alpabzug (descent of herds) sees farmers in Switzerland move their livestock from mountain pastures down to valley barns. In the Griesalp area above Kiental around 70 alpac...
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The autumn equinox is here in the northern hemisphere, meaning that the new season has officially begun. This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully.
A woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige I detecting autumn leaves on a maple tree
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please join us on 29 October for the 2nd Biennial Pickstone Lecture. Our speaker will be Prof Roberta Bivins (Warwick) on A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
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Pickstone Lecture 2026
Professor Roberta Bivins A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation 29 October 2026
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The AfD members of the Berlin regional parliament: 27 men and 2 women. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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AfD in Berlin: Das sind die AfD-Abgeordneten im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus
Sie wollen »Transgenderismus ausrotten«, fordern »Remigration«, einige sympathisieren mit den Völkischen der Partei: Ein Blick auf die 29 Abgeordneten der AfD in Berlin.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'Latest figures released by the Home Office show that the rolling 12-month rate for visa refusals up to June was 4.9 per cent, with overall refusals likely to have climbed higher over the summer.' Punch the patient lying on the floor. Then require it to be 'world-beating'.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Itinerant lecturers will travel the world on their bicycles.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not sure if I look forward to this. Probably not. Tory party conferences are bad enough.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢**NEW** MANY HEADED MONSTER POST!📢 A little case study where I apply rigorous, critical thinking to a very modern matter 🗃️ #Humanities manyheadedmonster.com/2026/09/22/a...
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A plea for critical thinking humans in our world of extremes
Laura Sangha A companion piece to: What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically The train to Totnes this weekend was full of late holiday makers heading for Cornwall. They were grat…
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's a sequel to a post I wrote more than a decade ago, which became the first thing I got all my first year students to read. 🗃️ #Humanities manyheadedmonster.com/2015/06/15/w...
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What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically
Laura Sangha Last week, I delivered the introductory lecture for a second year undergraduate module, ‘Doing History’, and for various tedious reasons, I also recently spent some time reading, refle…
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After the catastrophe, the survivors told each other mythical stories of people who could have prevented it from happening, but didn’t, because their career might have suffered, and if they had refused to do it, others would have done it.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nice portrait of Steve Reich, who is nearly 90. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am but ill qualified
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Mouth of Hell, by the Master of Catherine of Cleves, c.1440.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What’s the dog grinning about?
Dog on sofa, on red blanket, looking a bit as if he was grinning. You can’t hear how loudly he was snoring until a few seconds before the photo was taken.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AND it’s the 111th anniversary today of the last time Stonehenge was sold by one private owner to another
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From a book review I just read.
Screenshot; one line from a book review: That said, I have some nits to pick and an axe to grind.
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Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Heute früh im Taxi. Fahrer: Was sagen Sie zur Wahl? Ich: Ich hab Wahlkater. Er: Ich auch. Pause Er: Ich hab vorhin eine AfD-Frau gefahren. Die hat mich auch gefragt. Ich: Woher wussten Sie, dass sie eine AfD-Frau war? Er: Sie hat es gesagt. Sie hat auch gesagt, dass sie es hier auch
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Following on from my last post this may be of interest from 2022. www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
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Research project tracks 420 years of English protest songs
A research project from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that English protest songs have been a vital form of political communication for more than 400 years.
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…
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Cost of undergraduate provision and qualifications in England
A study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England.
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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Find it fascinating how the circumstances driving mass emigration from a country influence the politics of the diaspora. German leftists fleeing crackdowns after 1848 led to socialist mayors being elected in Milwaukee. Cubans who fled Castro have created one of Miami's most right-wing communities.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom, 1590, by Abel Grimmer. Truly one of best early modern cityscapes, w/ many wonderful incidental details showing urban life in my youth!
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Ustindorff @ustinoff.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Erststimmen in Berlin. Falls jemand da mal hinziehen muss. Kiez gut auswählen!
Ein buntes Bild mit nicht leicht zu erklärenden Mustern
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Robert Misik @misik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bemerkenswert: die CDU hatte mit Angela Merkel eine Chefin, die sozusagen fett in der Mitte saß und große Mehrheiten holte. Funktionäre träumten von einem rechteren Kurs. Sie setzten sich durch und das Ergebnis ist flugs die Selbstabschaffung der CDU. Und sie haben es noch nicht mal verstanden.
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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Incidentally, this is the reason I hate writing grants - a good application takes as much effort as writing a paper, success chances are as low as publishing in a top journal. If my paper gets rejected, I take it elsewhere - if my grant gets rejected, it is pretty much dead
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seismic shifts among young left-wing voters in Berlin
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Merseyway shopping centre, Stockport, 1980s (Stockport Local Heritage Library).
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not suprising that the Linke got the most votes among younger voters in Berlin. Yet, the size of their vote share among under-35 year-olds is stunning.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Looks like left-of-centre majorities are plausible in both Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt @de.whln.eu · 20/09/2026
BERLIN | Hochrechnung Abgeordnetenhauswahl Infratest dimap/ARD, 18:28 Uhr LINKE: 24,8% (+12,6) CDU: 20,0% (-8,2) AfD: 15,7% (+6,6) GRÜNE: 15,0% (-3,4) SPD: 12,0% (-6,4) BSW: 5,0% (NEU) FDP: 2,4% (-2,2) Sonstige: 5,1% (-3,9) Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2023 #aghw #ltwbe
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Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt @de.whln.eu · 20/09/2026
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN | Hochrechnung Landtagswahl Forschungsgruppe Wahlen/ZDF, 18:27 Uhr AfD: 37,8% (+21,1) SPD: 36,3% (-3,3) LINKE: 6,2% (-3,7) GRÜNE: 5,5% (-0,8) CDU: 5,1% (-8,2) BSW: 4,8% (NEU) FDP: 1,0% (-4,8) Sonstige: 3,3% (-5,1) Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2021 #ltwmv
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