@ctimmermann.bsky.social
Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Migrant cyclist. Rheinländer in 🇩🇪. Northerner in 🇬🇧. Lived in 🇺🇸. Owned by dog. Here privately. He/him.
My uncle had a Prelude, around 1990.
1/The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere helped me to understand that modern forms of intellectual property (patents, copyrights, and trademarks) as communication mediums.
Wenn Ihr Euch fragt, warum denn dieser Mann so wichtig (gewesen) ist, ist dieser Nachruf vpn Matthias Warkus eine gute Mini-Einführung in Person, Werk & Wirkung.
www.spektrum.de/news/juergen...
In Manchester it’s grey and damp.
Drip coffee? Just pour hot water over the filter manually!
The US. Greatest nation on Earth apparently
I think it’s a visual inspection. But he’s expected to take his hat off beforehand.
A delighted and proud Nigel Farage at Heathrow on his way to Florida to conduct Donald Trump's annual prostate test.
Thanks for sharing!
Karen Winslow, Self-Portrait with Daughter Annie, 1988 #WomensArt
#MothersDay UK
Lots of enthusiastic replies, not surprisingly.
Ich bin sicher dass sich Söders Bayern über ein kleines Atomkraftwerk freuen werden. Oder vielleicht zwei? Good luck to him. 👍🏻
Officially published today! (I would write something but I seem to have the lurgy…)
"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
Israeli soldiers open fire on a car in the west bank, killing parents and two children.
www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...
It’s meant to signify ‘normal - not radical’.
London-based journos have a tendency to do that.
🤷♂️
Classy
Unlike the current President of The United States of America…
As a fellow German (and naturalised Briton), I’ve been on a similar trajectory. It’s not the American constitution as such that’s the problem; it’s how it’s handled. And the Grundgesetz alone is not saving the Germans from bad faith actors and stupid mistakes.
My travel to Cosyne was barred by the Trump admin, so I'm here on my personal dime. I care about the COSYNE community, I committed to co-chairing. And I always learn here.
But the worst part about this travel ban is my lab colleagues— students and fellows—couldn't come. /1
Die Realität dessen, was bei uns so verharmlosend als „Siedlungspolitik“ bezeichnet wird.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Qasr Al-Haj, a 12th Century fortified granary, used to store olive oil and grains, keeping them cool in the harsh desert climate
In Libya’s Nafusa Mountains
Are you suggesting that approaching issues in good faith, respect for other people and their ambitions and achievements, and seriousness about wanting to get things done in the most constructive way without harming anyone, are more important?
Richard Tice:
- engaged in highly aggressive tax avoidance to avoid nearly £600,000 of tax
- did so at a time when the taxpayer was already paying his salary as an MEP
Nothing patriotic about this party of grifters
www.thetimes.com/article/6f55...
