@ctimmermann
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.
BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I only know because I work with Dr Sumner.
Die CDU stimmte die Fördermittelvergabe mit Israels Botschaft ab. Mit Antisemitismusbekämpfung hat das nichts zu tun. Hier zeigt sich die Durchsetzung einer Israel-treuen Außenpolitik nach innen taz.de/Antisemitism...
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?
Icymi last night, I was surprised and honoured to win the Hatchard’s First Biography Prize for CRICK. I even got a big cheque!
Well deserved! Congratulations!!
Aristotle, clearly, is different things to different people. Armand Leroi (and I) would agree with you.
www.theguardian.com/books/2014/a...
Congratulations!
This is huge for our union. Mark is such a fantastic all-rounder with an ability to reach out and work across differences. Let’s do this 👌 #UCU
British Academy response to the Department for Education's technical consultation on the Interational Student Levy 18 February 2026 Background The Department for Education is consulting on the proposed levy on international student income, due to be introduced in England in August 2028.
‘We remain deeply concerned that universities will be unable to absorb the cost of the levy’s
introduction. The loss of cross-subsidy for domestic teaching & research will harm
universities’ ability to deliver their core functions’
Our response to the levy
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
International students are a key driver of the export sector in Exeter and Leicester Universities as a share of export gross value added Exeter Leicester Newcastle York Nottingham Cardiff Sheffield Coventry Brighton Leeds Respective percentages 15.3% 14% 9% 8.4% 8.4% 7.6% 6.9% 6.9% 5.8% 5.7% Source: Centre for Cities • Data for top 10 cities/towns in England by share of GVA
What’s a big export sector shared by Leicester, Exeter and Newcastle? Award yourself five points if you said higher education
Evening sky in South Manchester. (dog walk time)
The marginal cost of gas-fired power in the EU has increased by 51% as a result of the escalation in the Middle East.
In 2022, Europe and the world learned the hard way, that relying on gas power means high price risk for consumers.
Now we're learning the same lesson again.
The US seem to be taking wrong turns way too often these days: escort vehicle takes the leading runners down the wrong route at the qualification run for the athletics world championship half marathon.
I've got a 45-50 minute book talk ready to go on my 2024 blockbuster 'Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain'. Want me to come give a talk for expenses? Email via website, link in bio. #MedievalSky
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' - The 10 February 1953 issue of the Soviet-era satirical magazine, Krokodil, ran a cartoon drawn by Ukrainian-Russian artist Yuli Ganf. You can read more about Ganf's career here: www.lambiek.net/artists/g/ga...
Print showing a branch populated by several ants and several large and hairy spiders, all going about their business. Plate 18 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, (Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705); Smithsonian Libraries Cooper-Hewitt Rare Books Collection, QL466 .M57X D1730. Credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
There is a lot going on here.
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Nice blog post on Caspar Commelin’s 'Praeludia Botanica' (1703) and Maria Sibylla Merian’s 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium' (1705), by Verity Burton, a BA Art History student doing a placement at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social #histstm
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One at a time.
Don’t expect the man to know things!
I hope there will be a day of reckoning, when he will be held accountable.
"[T]hese digital tools are portrayed as innovative and so easily attract the attention of policymakers and investors [and] could be promoted by their governments as the way forward..."
Sounds horribly familiar. BUT “[i]nnovation that actually works for people has to be grounded in their realities"!
I have no excuse. I used to work with Silicon Graphics UNIX machines in the 1990s.
Fair enough. I've been intending to do it for years.
Now also reported in the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
😂
In grudging fairness to the orange emperor, I can see why he mistakenly assumes that Spain's Morón Air Base belongs to him.
To be fair, we should do that anyway to escape the general enshittification.
Get ready to install Linux, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox etc on your computers.
