Carsten Timmermann

Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39

Congratulations to Peter Eveleigh, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation on the democratisation of private flight this morning. Also in the picture: thesis supervisor Simone Turchetti and examiners Robert Naylor and Alan D. Meyer.

I joined Twitter in 2009 (when @martinhumphries.bsky.social encouraged us all to join) and really came to appreciate it in March 2011 when the family were in Japan during the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Excellent, on Crumpsall and the people who live there.

Risu (Japanese) doesn't work either.

Aber seitdem nicht mehr so - zumindest nicht in meinem Lesestoff.

Ours are grey. I haven't had a chance if his reaction to red ones is different. Maybe it is the word?

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ach je. Ich hatte Frau Guerot in den letzten paar Jahren ein bisschen aus den Augen verloren, und weder von ihrer Hinwendung zu Russland noch der Plagiatsaffaere etwas mitbekommen.

Exactly!

Weren’t Canadians given a vote? Clearly this should have been a question for a referendum.

"Eichhoernchen" doesn't do the job.

NB he knows the word "squirrel". Say it and the fur on his back goes up and he demands to be let out, running in the direction where he suspects (and often observes) squirrels, while barking excitedly in that direction.

Logo des Podcasts "Krumme Straße", im Zentrum der Titel in roter Merkur-Schrift, oben und unten Bänder in KWI-Farben

Nun also podcasten auch wir, in Kooperation mit dem Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI). "Krumme Straße" ist der Name, in der ersten Folge sprechen Hanna Engelmeier und Christian Demand mit Andreas Reckwitz über das Erben. Mehr, bzw. alles hier: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/krumme-stras...

I just learned that October is Squirrel (Awareness) Month. I'm not telling the dog. He is obsessed with the bushy-tailed buggers anyway.

TODAY

‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 extraordinary life lessons from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir The man who ended up smoking 30 cigars a day after trying to quit cigarettes also comes across in his book as level-headed, self-aware and savagely funny. Here’s what the late rock legend can teach us...

As bizarre (and funny) as you’d expect.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Tomorrow

Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk and the Claremonsters Meet the philosophical cabal remaking America

Interesting on the role of Leo Strauss and his students in the Trump White House.

magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/10/04/d...

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

More great writing via @manchestermill.bsky.social. Nuanced and personal piece on Jewish and Muslim lives in Cheetham Hill, by @ophiraophira.bsky.social

manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...

Warum nicht Detlef?

What’s wrong with Detlef?

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Ah! Storm Amy heißt in Deutschland Detlef.

Gewaltbereite AfD-Politiker: Wenn aus Worten Taten werden Pfefferspray, Tritte, Schläge – der AfD-Lokalpolitiker Sven Ebert wurde mehrfach verurteilt. Doch sein Fall zeigt, dass die Justiz die politische Dimension oft verkennt.

Die AfD ist eine Partei der Kleinkriminellen, Hooligans, Schlägertypen und Gewalttäter.

Sven Ebert sitzt für die AfD im Gemeinderat von Schkopau, obwohl er meist in Paraguay weilt. Wegen Körperverletzung ist er vorbestraft.
Zeigt das euren Nachbarn.
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He thought that God would reveal the true order at some point. We may still be in for a surprise.

Fun thread

Linnaeus himself thought of his system as provisional.

There used to be this site where you could choose characters and a setting, and a cast of cute animation characters would perform a script you entered. I forgot the name.