Timandra Harkness

Saw some Minch - Viking Ship museum currently closed

BBC Inside Science - Is everything we know about the universe wrong? - BBC Sounds How a ‘dark energy’ experiment could upend Einstein's theory of the universe.

I got 2 minutes on Inside Science! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

YouTube video by The Abel Prize The Abel Prize announcement 2025

youtu.be/Vo3E8wgKnSQ
Find out who won the #AbelPrize2025, see me interview the winner and attempt to explain some very hard maths using a child’s construction toy & fruit

I’m excited to be going to Oslo this weekend to help bring the Abel Prize for Mathematics to a wider audience.
This year’s winner will be revealed on Wednesday 26th March at noon (Oslo time - 1100 GMT)
abelprize.no

Free Thinking - Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking - BBC Sounds Timandra Harkness, Ekow Eshun, Sophie Grace Chappell, Richard Bett and Stephen Bush.

Ever changed your mind? You could. You should. Especially on here. Try it #BBCFreeThinking along with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social #EkowEshun @stephenkb.bsky.social #SophieGraceChappell @timandraharkness.bsky.social #ProfRichardBett. They did. I did.
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Video from our 'Libraries and AI' panel is now online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsRk... Thanks @britishlibrary.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @timandraharkness.bsky.social, Maja Maricevic and Svein Arne #AIDebates

Scepticism won't save you

I wrote this for @unherd.bsky.social about proof, doubt, and what it takes to be convinced - on Adam Kucharsky’ excellent new book.
@adamjkucharski.bsky.social
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Photograph showing, from left to right, Svein Arne Brygfjeld, Sue Lacey Bryant, Mia Ridge, Rob Cawston and Tom Chatfield

Still buzzing from last night's debate @britishlibrary.bsky.social, exploring the opportunities and threats that #AI poses for libraries.
Terrific to be part of this Panel: Svein Arne Brygfjeld @timandraharkness.bsky.social (Chair), Mia Ridge @cawston.bsky.social and @tomchatfield.bsky.social

Tonight! 7pm. British Library.
AI and Libraries… come and discuss

Interested in libraries? Care about AI? In London on Thursday? Come along and discuss AI and libraries with a stellar panel:
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Thank you!

BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?, Timandra Harkness, Richard Holden MP, Calum Miller MP, Emily Thornberry MP Alex Forsyth presents political debate from the BBC Radio Theatre in London.

Looking forward to facing audience questions this evening on @bbcradio4.bsky.social - Any Questions, 8pm
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New Ofcom guidance will stifle free speech online The Online Safety Act introduced us to the slippery term “legal but harmful” — or, more colloquially, “lawful but awful”. Then-technology secretary Michelle Donelan declared that the online world was ...

“The Online Safety Act aspired to make the internet a safer place. We might ask: safer for whom, and from whom? What started as an attempt to make it safer for children has become an ever-widening system of control.”
Me for @unherd.bsky.social
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Happy Friday 13th! If you’re lucky you can hear me on Radio 4 at 9pm with a fabulous line up…

Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better) eBook : Etchells, Pete: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better) eBook : Etchells, Pete: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

If you’re interested/worried about the effects of screens, phones and social media, my book, Unlocked, is still just 99p on Kindle at the moment: www.amazon.co.uk/Unlocked-Sci...