Ainur Elmgren
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Ainur Elmgren
@aelmgren.bsky.social
Docent in Nordic history, university lecturer in history and social studies (University of Oulu). Draws comics. Interests: History education, 1910s/1920s politics & culture, Tatars, Avars, Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages.
Suomi/Svenska/English/Deutsch
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Jihuu, uusi julkaisu! Kirjoitan Tiina Männistö-Funkin kanssa Lasten liikennelaulun käsittämättömästä voittokulusta halki vuosikymmenien. Muista aina liikenteessä 🎵 monta vaaraa ompi eessä! #liikennekasvatus #vastuuttaminen #edutainment
Innostuneena esittelen: musiikkielämän historian moninaisia lähestymistapoja kokoava kirjauutuutemme nyt saatavilla painettuna ja verkossa.
’Sivuutetut soinnit’ on kirjoittajaryhmän yhteinen ponnistus, jonka minä ja @saijaleena.bsky.social toimitimme.
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Nyt jotain rajaa idiokratialle: "Tekoälyn avulla tuotettuja taideteoksia tullaan todennäköisesti jatkossa näkemään esimerkiksi Museo ja tiedekeskus Tiiman näyttelyissä."

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Oulu jatkaa kritisoitujen tekoälykuvien käyttöä
Valtuustoaloite vaati tekoälykuvista luopumista niiden epäettisyyden vuoksi. Kaupunginhallitus päätyi äänestämään esityksestä.
yle.fi
February 16, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Nyt jotain rajaa idiokratialle: "Tekoälyn avulla tuotettuja taideteoksia tullaan todennäköisesti jatkossa näkemään esimerkiksi Museo ja tiedekeskus Tiiman näyttelyissä."

yle.fi/a/74-2021062...
Oulu jatkaa kritisoitujen tekoälykuvien käyttöä
Valtuustoaloite vaati tekoälykuvista luopumista niiden epäettisyyden vuoksi. Kaupunginhallitus päätyi äänestämään esityksestä.
yle.fi
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:
September 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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44. Sydsvenskan har avslöjat otroliga skillnader mellan kommunala- och fristående skolors kvalitet på skolbibliotek. Har sett Timbrogänget dela betald forskares rapport som visar att skolbibliotekarier inte behövs, men vad säger oberoende aktuell forskning? tankesmedjanbalans.se/dubbla-ameri...
February 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Come work with us in Helsinki! A permanent position for a lecturer in social science history, associated with a joint Master's program with the UCL. DL February 27th! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
University Lecturer in Social Science History
University Lecturer in Social Science History
jobs.helsinki.fi
February 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Itselläni on työsuhdesähköpyörä, muttei kannata provosoitua otsikosta: tekstissä täyttä asiaa työhyvinvoinnista.
Uuvuttaako?

"Ajatellaan, että yksilö sortuu työkuorman alle, koska hän on heikko. Olen hoitanut työuupuneita parikymmentä vuotta, eikä se vastaa todellisuutta. Uupuvat ovat usein niitä sitkeimpiä, jotka ovat ylittäneet rajansa..."

#työuupumus #työterveys #hyvinvointi

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Työterveyslääkäri: Työhyvinvointipäivät, liikuntaedut ja työsuhdepyörät pitäisi räjäyttää ja keskittyä olennaiseen
Työterveyslaitoksen mukaan jopa neljännes työntekijöistä on vaarassa uupua. Usein kaikkein sitoutuneimmat ja sitkeimmät uupuvat.
yle.fi
February 16, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Kävin jo kannattamassa tätä aloitetta. Käy sinäkin!
🇫🇮 Digitaalista itsenäisyyttä tukemassa Taneli Armanto, Nokian legendaarisen matopelin kehittäjä

"Osaaminen ja tieto on parasta omissa käsissä"

#DigitaalinenItsenäisyys
February 15, 2026 at 6:44 PM
"2. Kristinusko teki kissoista paholaisen palvelijoita."
Ei. Tämä on myytti. Äärimmäisen cringe myytti. Ja se on levinnyt kuin kulovalkea.

"But did Gregory IX declare all cats evil or order their destruction? Actually, no." historyforatheists.com/2017/04/cats...

areena.yle.fi/1-76672322
Jakso 3: Kissat ovat olleet jumalia ja saatanan kätyreitä | Kisulovers
Miksi Paavi Gregorius IX halusi tehdä lopun kissoista? Tässä Kisulovers-sarjan jaksossa kissalover ja kissojen historiasta kirjoittanut kirjailija Petri Pietiläinen kertoo mehukkaimmat faktat kissojen...
areena.yle.fi
February 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Toivoa ja turvaa -mielenosoitus Oulussa hyvinvointivaltion ja tasa-arvon puolesta: 14.03.2026, 14:00 alkaen
Keskustakirjasto Saari, Kaarlenväylä 3, Oulu

#toivoajaturvaa #tasa-arvo #oikeudenmukaisuus #hyvinvointivaltio

mielenosoitukset.fi/demonstratio...

Sanoma: www.instagram.com/p/DUsrsSADcV...
mielenosoitukset.fi
February 14, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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I mean this earnestly, I do not like hearing about AI and I love seeing no context links like this youtu.be/Pjqszdpy3BY?...
Khusugtun - The Camel / Хөсөгтөн - Тэмээ минь
YouTube video by Khusugtun Official
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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The problem with bluesky is that everyone wants to talk about AI all the time and no one is ever talking about Mongolian folk music
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name.

The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.

It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
February 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Demokratia vaarassa
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Technoeschatology
They tell me that we don't need my field of Religious Studies, only STEM, just at the time that a lot of the leading STEM figures are creating a new religious identity for themselves without even realizing it.
These guys are so normal.
February 11, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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A big share of future historians will conclude that the difference btw US und EU in the 2020s was not in the scale or violence of their respective deportation enforcement regimes but in the scale and ferocity of public opposition to it. On average, Europeans cared far less.
February 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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This #NationalInventorsDay we want to see your favourite inventions from the past!

We'll start, with the 'true frame' saddle: the sturdy frame made mounted combat easier, making this invention instrumental to the rise of Mongolian steppe cultures.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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I was lucky enough to review Danielle Hyeonah Lambert’s _Decolonizing Roman imperialism: the study of Rome, romanization, and the postcolonial lens_ for BMCR. I also took a postcolonialist lens to Monty Python & ideas the colonized should be grateful to the Romans.

bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02...
Decolonizing Roman imperialism: the study of Rome, romanization, and the postcolonial lens – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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Relooted is not only a neat puzzle game with grand heists and a charming cast, but also a challenge to who owns and tells African history. Plus, it's one of the few games to capture Africa's diversity well, pulling artifacts from all across the continent. My review:

www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...
Relooted challenges who gets to own and tell African history
Relooted, a game about freeing African artifacts from Western museums and collections, interrogates history through sharply designed heists. Read our review.
www.avclub.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734

It’s already the 10th in South Africa *heads to steam*
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Terrible revelation yesterday when I went through my old photos. Apparently I have accidentally erased most of the photos that I took at @daspanzermuseum.bsky.social in June 2024. Some photos could be recovered from various social media accounts. I feel so stupid!
February 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Loooove #hourlycomicday! Woke up too late to participate (and it would just have been a bunch of frames of me typing at the laptop in my pajamas...) But love to see everyone else's work!
Ok, here’s my own #hourlies2026 #hourlycomicday #24hcd
I knew I wouldn’t be able to do them February first this year, which is why I started them a week in advance. The date was moved after that 😅
Part 1/2
February 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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The AI industry's plot to make people stupid, so it can rule. Thiel: "The basic idea was that we could never win an election...because we were in such a small minority." Enter Big Tech.

"“Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity” (Journal of Marketing, 13 Jan 2025).
AI enthusiasts keep marketing their product as a magic pill that will make universities redundant. Their strategy: get students to read less, write less, and think less. In other words, students will be better off by cheating the process of learning. AI is the grift that keeps on grifting.
February 8, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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The only surprise is they admit it
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
February 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM