Timandra Harkness
@timandraharkness.bsky.social
Writer, presenter, student of philosophy, lapsed comedian.
Author: ‘Technology is Not the Problem’ & ‘Big Data: does size matter?’
Bayesian in the streets, Kantian in the sheets.
Author: ‘Technology is Not the Problem’ & ‘Big Data: does size matter?’
Bayesian in the streets, Kantian in the sheets.
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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
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
The Abel Prize announcement 2025
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March 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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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
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)
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This year’s winner will be revealed on Wednesday 26th March at noon (Oslo time - 1100 GMT)
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March 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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)
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This year’s winner will be revealed on Wednesday 26th March at noon (Oslo time - 1100 GMT)
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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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Free Thinking - Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking - BBC Sounds
Timandra Harkness, Ekow Eshun, Sophie Grace Chappell, Richard Bett and Stephen Bush.
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February 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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
February 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
I wrote this for @unherd.bsky.social about proof, doubt, and what it takes to be convinced - on Adam Kucharsky’ excellent new book.
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Scepticism won't save you
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February 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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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
Terrific to be part of this Panel: Svein Arne Brygfjeld @timandraharkness.bsky.social (Chair), Mia Ridge @cawston.bsky.social and @tomchatfield.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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
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
AI and Libraries… come and discuss
January 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tonight! 7pm. British Library.
AI and Libraries… come and discuss
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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January 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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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Looking forward to facing audience questions this evening on @bbcradio4.bsky.social - Any Questions, 8pm
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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.
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December 20, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Looking forward to facing audience questions this evening on @bbcradio4.bsky.social - Any Questions, 8pm
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“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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Me for @unherd.bsky.social
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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 ...
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December 17, 2024 at 7:48 AM
“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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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…
December 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Happy Friday 13th! If you’re lucky you can hear me on Radio 4 at 9pm with a fabulous line up…
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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...
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
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November 16, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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...