Mario Wimmer
@mrwmmr.bsky.social
works at Collegium Helveticum. Swiss Institute for Advanced Study. Zurich.
Here not in official capacity.
Here not in official capacity.
Call for Early-career fellowships at the Collegium is open: collegium.ethz.ch/fellowships/... Please spread the word!
Early-Career Fellowship | Collegium Helveticum
The Collegium Helveticum is the joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts. It aims to provide a meeting place and forum ...
collegium.ethz.ch
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Call for Early-career fellowships at the Collegium is open: collegium.ethz.ch/fellowships/... Please spread the word!
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BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
A new partnership and a new fellowship program: collegium.ethz.ch/news-publica...
Partnership Between the NOMIS Foundation and the Collegium | Collegium Helveticum
The NOMIS Foundation and the Collegium Helveticum have initiated a partnership to support international research collaborations. As one of the key initiatives of this partnership, the NOMIS Senior Fel...
collegium.ethz.ch
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A new partnership and a new fellowship program: collegium.ethz.ch/news-publica...
Looking forward to rereading Fleck together with fellows and colleagues in and out of the (wet) lab on November 11, 2025. With @roepstorff.bsky.social and others.
collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
📅 New Perspectives on Ludwik Fleck | Collegium Helveticum
The focus of this workshop is on exploring the potential of Ludwik Fleck’s work to inspire reflection on scientific practice across disciplines.
collegium.ethz.ch
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Looking forward to rereading Fleck together with fellows and colleagues in and out of the (wet) lab on November 11, 2025. With @roepstorff.bsky.social and others.
collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
Tonight, Lorraine Daston on the history of the values of diversity: collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
Glad to have her visiting the Collegium Helveticum.
Glad to have her visiting the Collegium Helveticum.
📅 The Values of Diversity | Collegium Helveticum
Lorraine Daston will examine how the concept of diversity, once largely confined to aesthetic and economic contexts, has rapidly acquired profound moral and political significance.
collegium.ethz.ch
October 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Tonight, Lorraine Daston on the history of the values of diversity: collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
Glad to have her visiting the Collegium Helveticum.
Glad to have her visiting the Collegium Helveticum.
Remarkable numbers to support your individual choice for a healthier diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds
Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Remarkable numbers to support your individual choice for a healthier diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Welcome to the new fellows at the Collegium Helveticum!
collegium.ethz.ch/fellows
collegium.ethz.ch/fellows
September 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Welcome to the new fellows at the Collegium Helveticum!
collegium.ethz.ch/fellows
collegium.ethz.ch/fellows
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Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso.
SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso.
SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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"Consider a non-technological example of decentralized, interoperable standards (where two or more differently designed systems can work tgthr): the Allen wrench.... AT Protocol could be that kind of standard for social media... One of the best examples of the power of this technology is Blacksky"
🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
newpublic.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Consider a non-technological example of decentralized, interoperable standards (where two or more differently designed systems can work tgthr): the Allen wrench.... AT Protocol could be that kind of standard for social media... One of the best examples of the power of this technology is Blacksky"
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The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ invites applications for one:
Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track)
Deadline: 15 October 2025
recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/51...
Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track)
Deadline: 15 October 2025
recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/51...
August 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ invites applications for one:
Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track)
Deadline: 15 October 2025
recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/51...
Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track)
Deadline: 15 October 2025
recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/51...
The Collegium is thrilled to welcome the most recent addition to the community.
June 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The Collegium is thrilled to welcome the most recent addition to the community.
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Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency
Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step
www.science.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... TJ Clark on Trump
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... TJ Clark on Trump
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I wrote for @theguardian.com about the LA fires, climate change and what lessons that dazzling city‘s dazzling writers hold for our unprecedented moment www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week
Fire is an inextricable part of the region’s identity, as the writers knew. But the way this divided city burns has been transformed
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I wrote for @theguardian.com about the LA fires, climate change and what lessons that dazzling city‘s dazzling writers hold for our unprecedented moment www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Today, interesting student conference on "Challenging dichotomies in the cultural and social aspects of development cooperation," outcome of former fellow Medinat Malefakis' teaching at ETH NADEL.
December 17, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Today, interesting student conference on "Challenging dichotomies in the cultural and social aspects of development cooperation," outcome of former fellow Medinat Malefakis' teaching at ETH NADEL.
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"As beautiful as they are disturbing, these sculptures intertwine desire + unease. They question our relationship with allure + disgust while challenging the notion of value."
(I also wrote about Ryan's work: wordsinspace.net/2022/08/12/f...)
(I also wrote about Ryan's work: wordsinspace.net/2022/08/12/f...)
Kathleen Ryan: Sculpting Time | Gagosian Quarterly
Art historian, curator, and writer Daria de Beauvais tracks Kathleen Ryan’s sustained and evolving engagement with the temporal, the memento mori, Americana, and ecology. The artist was the recent ...
gagosian.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:36 PM
"As beautiful as they are disturbing, these sculptures intertwine desire + unease. They question our relationship with allure + disgust while challenging the notion of value."
(I also wrote about Ryan's work: wordsinspace.net/2022/08/12/f...)
(I also wrote about Ryan's work: wordsinspace.net/2022/08/12/f...)
Panel discussion on emerging artists in the Zurich art scene at Collegium Helveticum, organized by fellow Anna Luhovska.
December 9, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Panel discussion on emerging artists in the Zurich art scene at Collegium Helveticum, organized by fellow Anna Luhovska.