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Carsten Timmermann

@ctimmermann.bsky.social

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Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Migrant. Rheinländer in 🇩🇪. Northerner in 🇬🇧. Gen X. Cyclist. Owned by dog. Often online. Here privately. He/him.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · Oct 15

Erm …

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 2h

Apologies - that’s very true re Alan Kidd and Terry Wyke.

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4h

Also: I can’t be arsed.

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4h

Fair

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4h

Fab.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 4h

A Conservative government would reintroduce student number controls in England, slashing the number of people who attend university by 100,000 a year, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will announce in her party conference speech today.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4h

(our kitchen floor needs sanding and varnishing)

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4h

Here you go: Eichhörnchen doesn’t do the job.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4h

Evidence

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 18h

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.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 21h

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

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15h

'Berlin at Night.' (c1860) Described by Degas as the ‘greatest living master’ during his lifetime, Adolph von Menzel is less remembered today outside of Germany than the French painter who admired him; his career deserves far greater appreciation and study than it receives.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 5h

I love his Iron Rolling Mill.

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The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes) - Wikipedia

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 12h

Aww!

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 18h

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.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 21h

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

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 21h

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

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 22h

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.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22h

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.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22h

Excellent, on Crumpsall and the people who live there.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

I didn’t realise how much I loved my home town until a terrorist attacked it. I pray unity prevails there | Simon Hattenstone

Last week’s attack on the synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, was also an assault on a model and diverse community, says Guardian features writer Simon Hattenstone

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23h

Risu (Japanese) doesn't work either.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23h

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

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

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...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23h

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.

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly!

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

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

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

"Eichhoernchen" doesn't do the job.

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