Carsten Timmermann

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For online meetings, where everybody has their own microphone and you are using MS Teams anyway, it makes sense to use Co-Pilot for note-taking, I think. I was actually quite impressed with how it aligned the recorded discussion with the agenda.

It wasn't terrible, but it's a bit of a hassle. If you hold an in-person meeting, you have to run it hybrid on Teams anyway, the mic setup has to be good enough, and the notes need some tidying up. We decided to continue with the old arrangement: we have a minute-taking rota and take turns.

I tried it twice for taking minutes in a meeting.

It’s Django’s birthday!

When I was 14 and just starting to learn guitar my mum bought me a cassette from the bargain bin of Woolworths for £2.99 and said “thought you might like this”.

My mind has been blown ever since.

As US Is Poised To Lose Measles-Free Status, RFK Jr.’s New CDC Deputy Downplays Its Significance After a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people, the United States is poised to lose its status as a measles-free country. However, the newly appointed principal de...

Looking forward to seeing who wins the inaugural Fifa Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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The most deadly disease of asylumdom: general paralysis of the insane and Scottish psychiatry, c.1840–1940 - G Davis, 2012 General paralysis of the insane (GPI) was one of the most devastating diseases observed in British psychiatry during the century after 1840, in terms of the hig...

As Gayle Davis tells us, the typical GPI patient was a middle-aged man. ($)

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Fair. It’s not her fault.

Fig. 1. Glass unguentarium with preserved ancient pharmaceutical residue

Did Roman doctors really use feces in a medicinal capacity? 💩 Seems so.

“Feces, fragrance and medicine: chemical evidence of ancient therapeutics in a Roman unguentarium”

Archaeologists found traces on a glass medicine bottle from Roman Pergamon—as Pliny said. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am weary about nostalgic constructions of a mythical past when this was not the case. Erich Fromm developed the concept of the "authoritarian character" in the 1930s.

The thing is, though, while social media may make this more difficult to navigate (at first glance) and easier to manipulate for a very small number of powerful global actors, the actual constellation is nothing new.

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Some did; some didn't. And often when they did, they shouldn't have.

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This story is a nice illustration of how the deluded authoritarian is being manipulated into issuing his mad statements by those around him -- historically something that happens in all authoritarian systems.

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science"

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What a dream it would be to work with Alice and in beautiful St Andrews!! Share with anyone you think might be interested!!

Ha. I've just decided to try and give that another go.

That doesn't mean that it is pointless to think about remedies, as you do. I just don't think it makes sense to appeal to a mythical past with strong, generally trusted institutions.

Also, I think this is about expectations rather than trust.

Have institutions ever done the job? From what I know about the history of science and healthcare I don't think they have. But until the mid-20th century it wouldn't have occurred to many to rely on institutions to do the job, in the way we have come to do over the past half century.

Who can tell? [well I can't, for sure]

yet another way people in power are using AI to try to take away the dignity and agency of ordinary people

That would be since... 2016? I wonder what happened then?

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion?
Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Americans cannot fully comprehend the horror of what they have done by forcing the rest of Europe to concede that de Gaulle was correct

Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

We’ve officially reached the "Mean Girls" stage of international diplomacy.

Trump had five deferments during the height of the Vietnam War. Four were for his education. The fifth was a medical waiver for bone spurs after college.

Dodging draft was not unusual among influential and affluent families and Vietnam was a pointless war but he's got no right to cast aspersions.

Ok, ok, I guess other diagnoses are available.

Delusions of grandeur were one of the known symptoms of GPI.