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Kaisa S
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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jaritaponen.bsky.social
Johtamisen abc:

A) Olen sitä mieltä ja kerron sen julkisesti, että henkilöstö ei ymmärrä eikä osaa.

B) Jos joku ymmärsi oikein, mutta ei pitänyt kuulemastaan, se on huonojen sanojen ja viestintäosaston syy.

C) Oikeasti vika on somessa.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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panuraatikainen.bsky.social
Orpon hallitukseen eivät usko enää edes suuryritysten johtajat...

#Hallitus #Suuryritykset #Elinkeinoelämä #Talous #Politiikka
OP: Suuryritykset eivät usko hallituksen kykyyn tasapainottaa taloutta
Tutkimuksen mukaan 68 prosenttia suuryritysten johtajista kokee, että Suomen poliittiseen johtamiseen liittyy yrityksen näkökulmasta epävarmuustekijöitä.
yle.fi
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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koronakanava.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Kukaan ei nauti sairastamisesta, ei edes tavallisesta flunssasta - saati sitten vakavasta influenssasta, vatsataudista tai koronasta. Kukaan ei myöskään halua sairastuttaa muita. Onneksi meillä on välineitä virusten torjuntaan […]
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mas.to
February 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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statsepi.bsky.social
Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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sarapeltola.bsky.social
Siitä lähtien kun oon tullut töihin yliopistoon oon ihmetellyt tieteellisen julkaisemisen rakennetta. Tutkijat tekevät sisällön ilman palkkiota julkaisuilta, toiset tutkijat vertaisarvioivat ilman palkkiota, julkaisija julkaisee ja kerää voitot sekä tilauksista että OA-maksuista 🤯 aikamoinen sampo!
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 3d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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roopekaaronen.net
Suomessa tuntuu aiheuttavan enemmän pelkoa vaikkapa asuntojen hintojen lasku kuin se, että koko maa muuttuu liki asuinkelvottomaksi.

Se on erikoinen homma se. Ja tälle ilmiölle (katastrofaalisten riskien vähättely/välttely) ei mielestäni ole vieläkään erityisen hyvää tieteellistä selitystä.
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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thev.bsky.social
Sunscreen Does Not Work, Says Study That Made Participants Drink It
A fresh glass of sunscreen Headline: Sunscreen Does Not Work, Says Study That Made Participants Drink It Story by Isaiah Thananother and Jorge Philbert Photo from Adobe
August 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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thev.bsky.social
It’s Umbrella Users Who Are Causing All This Rain.
It’s Time To Ban Them Once And For All.
A vicious umbrella user. Headline: It’s Umbrella Users Who Are Causing All This Rain. It’s Time To Ban Them Once And For All. Story by Gerald Wallaby and Semolina Hedjphund Photo from Adobe
August 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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sarapeltola.bsky.social
Jotenkin tuntuu siltä, että historian opit siitä, mitä tapahtuu, kun harvoilla on asiat hyvin ja tosi monella tosi huonosti, ovat ympäri maailmaa autuaasti unohtuneet.
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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beansproutsmom.bsky.social
"It should be the default assumption of any study of respirators that all diseases are spread by aerosols...because we know that every time anyone has gone looking for aerosol spread they have found it.

Anything else at this point ...is somewhere between gross incompetence and scientific fraud."

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tjradcliffe.bsky.social Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 3d
I'm reading a history of the 1918 influenza in the US and learned that early work on the effectiveness of masking was rejected by the physicians at the time as quickly as they could get away with it. It's been a century. Time to accept the science or get out of the way. My angry account of the past:
No Question Left Unasked
www.tjradcliffe.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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jmkorhonen.fi
This, 100%. No one disparages, downplays, viscerally loathes and undermines nearly every achievement of Finns like the Finnish far right.

And it seems to be the same elsewhere. The self-proclaimed “patriots” do little else than complain how rotten their country is, and how stupid its people.
valoisdubins.bsky.social 猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 3d
I think there is an element of every far right movement that genuinely loathes its own country. That it is in Finnish hands promoting Finnish culture is something that revolts them because they are digusted by what Finland is compared to whatever nightmare of perpetual violence and misery they wish.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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valoisdubins.bsky.social
When we distinguish between civic and ethnic nationalism, I think we are being too kind to ethnic nationalists.

They have a habit of being highly corrupt, fundamentally destructive people with little interest in the culture & history of their own country. They're not nationalists in the same way.
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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valoisdubins.bsky.social
I think there is an element of every far right movement that genuinely loathes its own country. That it is in Finnish hands promoting Finnish culture is something that revolts them because they are digusted by what Finland is compared to whatever nightmare of perpetual violence and misery they wish.
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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jmkorhonen.fi
A trusted, widely followed source of news and information that is 100% in Finnish hands is in this day and age a strategic asset and capability, just like fighter jets or long range missiles.

But the far right demonstrates again and again that their overriding objective is winning culture wars.
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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mustapipa.bsky.social
Tuota, mitä vittua?

"Ensimmäistä kertaa vaaleissa ehdokas- ja äänestäjätiedot sekä tuloslaskenta siirtyvät Suomen rajojen ulkopuolelle."

"Tutkija ei käyttäisi pilvipalvelua kansallisen turvallisuuden asioissa."
yle.fi/a/74-20191502
Suomen vaalidata siirtyy Amazonin pilveen – USA:n vaalivilppiepäilyjä tutkinut asiantuntija varoittaa riskeistä
Ensimmäistä kertaa vaaleissa ehdokas- ja äänestäjätiedot sekä tuloslaskenta siirtyvät Suomen rajojen ulkopuolelle. Tutkija ei käyttäisi pilvipalvelua kansallisen turvallisuuden asioissa.
yle.fi
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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vitunkoyha.bsky.social
@vasemmisto.bsky.social vois ottaa New Yorkin vaaleista opiksi sen, että rohkeasti vasemmistolaisella politiikalla pärjää paremmin kuin oikeistolle kumartelulla. Äänestäjät tarvii vaihtoehtoja nykymenolle, ei mitään light-oikeistoa, mihin mm. SDP on valunut.
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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thev.bsky.social
Public Health To Drop ‘Health’ And ‘Public’
Some healthcare workers Headline: Public Health To Drop ‘Health’ And ‘Public’ Story by Cameron Ronway and Simon Biddywiffler Photo from Adobe
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
kaisasaurio.bsky.social
"Pandemia muutti aiempia käsityksiä infektioiden leviämisestä. Ymmärrys ilmatartunnoista tarjoaa keinoja terveellisen sisäilman kehittämiseen ja tulevien epidemioiden ehkäisemiseen."

tietokayttoon.fi/-/pisaroista...
Pisaroista pienhiukkasiin: Pandemia muutti ymmärryksen infektioiden leviämisestä
tietokayttoon.fi
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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mustapipa.bsky.social
Mutta toiseksi viimeinen maanantai ennen Akatemian projektihaun aikarajaa.

Eli ei tässä nyt ole aikaa huikealle tieteelle.
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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anttiyrjonen.fi
"Toiveissa on, että tämän jälkeen vain hallituksen valitsema narratiivi pääsisi kuuluviin – jolloin media uskoisi sitä paremmin.

Ajatus on häkellyttävän hölmö, paristakin syystä."
Ministeriöiden viestinnästä ei saa tehdä hallituksen hämäyskonetta
Valtioneuvoston toiveet ministeriöiden viestinnän keskittämisestä paljastavat, miten epärealistinen käsitys Petteri Orpon (kok) kabinetin politrukeilla on median toiminnasta – ja julkisuudenhallinnast...
demokraatti.fi
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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kiikala.bsky.social
Joo mutta onneksi nämä sinänsä kipeät leikkaukset ovat nostaneet Suomen talouden vahvalle kasvu.. ei kun..

No ainakin velaksi eläminen on saatu lopp.. huoh..
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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ahokasjaj.bsky.social
Huomenta. Onneksi Suomessa ei ole leikattu viimekätisestä sosiaaliturvasta ja aiheutettu nälk... unohtakaa.
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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tyrotcm.bsky.social
Disposable cheap N95 respirators are one of the greatest inventions in medical history. We *accidentally* drove one of the circulating flu strains *EXTINCT* in the wild early in COVID!
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12d
N95s can prevent more than just Covid!

They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness.

They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers.

Many maskers haven’t been sick in years.

Respirators are pretty amazing.
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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torstil.bsky.social
Niin kauan, kuin junalla matkustaminen on Euroopassa merkittävästi kalliimpaa kuin lentäminen, on turha väittää, suhtautuvansa vakavasti ilmastonmuutokseen

Myös kotimainen liikennepolitiikkamme on lopulta kaikkien kannalta täysin järjetöntä ja tuhoisaa
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM