Kati Kallio
@katikallio.bsky.social
Folklore, oral poetry, anthropology, history, environment. Runo-songs, regilaul, Kalevalaic poetry. Research Fellow at the Finnish Literature Society & University of Helsinki: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kati-kallio. Photo: Emma Suominen.
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Historiallinen rahoitusuutinen: SKS:aan seuran historian ensimmäinen Suomen Akatemian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö!
Suomen Akatemia on myöntänyt rahoituksen SKS:n johtamalle humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikölle vuosiksi 2026–2033. Lue lisää:
www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaist...
Suomen Akatemia on myöntänyt rahoituksen SKS:n johtamalle humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikölle vuosiksi 2026–2033. Lue lisää:
www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaist...
SKS:aan seuran historian ensimmäinen Suomen Akatemian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö
Suomen Akatemia on myöntänyt rahoituksen SKS:n johtamalle humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikölle vuosiksi 2026–2033. Lue lisää!
www.finlit.fi
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Historiallinen rahoitusuutinen: SKS:aan seuran historian ensimmäinen Suomen Akatemian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö!
Suomen Akatemia on myöntänyt rahoituksen SKS:n johtamalle humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikölle vuosiksi 2026–2033. Lue lisää:
www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaist...
Suomen Akatemia on myöntänyt rahoituksen SKS:n johtamalle humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikölle vuosiksi 2026–2033. Lue lisää:
www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaist...
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📢 PoeTree 1.0.0 is out!!! 📊 335,000 poems / 12,000,000 lines / 90,000,000 tokens in 11 languages at your fingertips 🇳🇴PoeTree.no added 📍PoeTree.(cs,de,en,fr,hu,it,ru,sl) enriched with geolocation mentions ⚙️Updated and corrected metadata/texts in PoeTree.(de,en,es,ru) poetree.org
PoeTree. Poetry corpora in 11 languages
PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising nearly 335,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, ...
poetree.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📢 PoeTree 1.0.0 is out!!! 📊 335,000 poems / 12,000,000 lines / 90,000,000 tokens in 11 languages at your fingertips 🇳🇴PoeTree.no added 📍PoeTree.(cs,de,en,fr,hu,it,ru,sl) enriched with geolocation mentions ⚙️Updated and corrected metadata/texts in PoeTree.(de,en,es,ru) poetree.org
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said.
The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
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Direct air capture (DAC) continues to be small, slow, and very expensive.
Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve.
This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown.
www.ft.com/content/fa4c...
Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve.
This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown.
www.ft.com/content/fa4c...
Direct carbon capture falters as developers’ costs fail to budge
Some experts say the technology is crucial for climate change goals but scaling up is proving hard
www.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Direct air capture (DAC) continues to be small, slow, and very expensive.
Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve.
This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown.
www.ft.com/content/fa4c...
Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve.
This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown.
www.ft.com/content/fa4c...
As a doctoral student, it took me several years to realise that the International Society for Folk Narrative Research ISFNR is not about narratives or prose traditions only but accommodates work on not-so-narrative folk genres and folk song research too.
Reykjavík, Iceland - The International Society For Folk Narrative Research
ISFNR 2026 Reykjavík – Nature(s) in Narrative. We welcome you to the 2026 interim ISFNR conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 13th to 16th
isfnr.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
As a doctoral student, it took me several years to realise that the International Society for Folk Narrative Research ISFNR is not about narratives or prose traditions only but accommodates work on not-so-narrative folk genres and folk song research too.
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Kiinnostaako suomalainen tutkimus ihan oikeasti. Tässä ketjussa neljä erinomaista palvelua, joiden kautta siihen voi tutustua. 1/
September 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Kiinnostaako suomalainen tutkimus ihan oikeasti. Tässä ketjussa neljä erinomaista palvelua, joiden kautta siihen voi tutustua. 1/
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Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seuran julkaisema Elore on ehdolla vuoden tiedelehdeksi! 🥳 tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/n...
Neljä julkaisua ehdolla Vuoden tiedelehdeksi | Tiedekustantajat
Vuoden tiedelehti -palkinnosta kilvoittelee tänä vuonna neljä tieteellistä julkaisua. Finalistit...
tiedekustantajat.fi
September 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seuran julkaisema Elore on ehdolla vuoden tiedelehdeksi! 🥳 tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/n...
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Deleted my account.
Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.
Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Deleted my account.
Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.
Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.
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En sano, että FBI:n johtajan muistopuhe, jossa hän lausuu Charlie Kirkin olevan nyt Valhallassa, olisi suoranaisesti äärioikeistolaista retoriikkaa. Se vain sattuu olemaan kutakuinkin sama, mitä Hitler sanoi Hindenburgin hautajaisissa.
Elämme tällaista sattumien aikaa.
Elämme tällaista sattumien aikaa.
September 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
En sano, että FBI:n johtajan muistopuhe, jossa hän lausuu Charlie Kirkin olevan nyt Valhallassa, olisi suoranaisesti äärioikeistolaista retoriikkaa. Se vain sattuu olemaan kutakuinkin sama, mitä Hitler sanoi Hindenburgin hautajaisissa.
Elämme tällaista sattumien aikaa.
Elämme tällaista sattumien aikaa.
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We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Increasing inequality in agri-food value chains: global trends from 1995-2020
Agri-food systems are increasingly globalised. In the last three decades, as national food systems have become more interdependent, the distribution o…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Folklorist Tom Muir with guest Prof Terry Gunnell, University of Iceland.
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@scotstorycentre.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social @folklorethursday.bsky.social @folklorelibrary.bsky.social
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@scotstorycentre.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social @folklorethursday.bsky.social @folklorelibrary.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Folklorist Tom Muir with guest Prof Terry Gunnell, University of Iceland.
website rebrand.ly/210773
Youtube youtu.be/0yxKvTrUedU
Spotify rebrand.ly/jfatf
@scotstorycentre.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social @folklorethursday.bsky.social @folklorelibrary.bsky.social
website rebrand.ly/210773
Youtube youtu.be/0yxKvTrUedU
Spotify rebrand.ly/jfatf
@scotstorycentre.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social @folklorethursday.bsky.social @folklorelibrary.bsky.social
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How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education?
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education?
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
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Sanat loppuvat kesken
YK: Israel surmannut yli tuhat palestiinalaista avustuspisteiden lähellä loppukeväästä lähtien
Uutiset nopeasti ja luotettavasti.
yle.fi
July 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sanat loppuvat kesken
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You may be tying your shoelaces wrong.
And that's why your shoelaces always come loose.
Let me explain with a little bit of knot theory, laced with ethnography.
A couple of minutes of knot experimentation can save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run.
A thread about knots.🪢
And that's why your shoelaces always come loose.
Let me explain with a little bit of knot theory, laced with ethnography.
A couple of minutes of knot experimentation can save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run.
A thread about knots.🪢
July 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
You may be tying your shoelaces wrong.
And that's why your shoelaces always come loose.
Let me explain with a little bit of knot theory, laced with ethnography.
A couple of minutes of knot experimentation can save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run.
A thread about knots.🪢
And that's why your shoelaces always come loose.
Let me explain with a little bit of knot theory, laced with ethnography.
A couple of minutes of knot experimentation can save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run.
A thread about knots.🪢
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A wonderful couple of days in Hof for our Anglo-German project StoryMachine storymachine.iisys.de. All things folklore, hypertext and digital humanities!
July 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A wonderful couple of days in Hof for our Anglo-German project StoryMachine storymachine.iisys.de. All things folklore, hypertext and digital humanities!
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Haluan työttömyysturvan, joka sallii ihmisten tehdä vapaaehtoistyötä, hyväntekeväisyyttä, taidetta, tiedettä, kulttuuria, sekä kouluttautua, sivistyä, lisätä osaamistaan ja tehdä muuta haluamaansa rajoituksetta.
Sellainen työttömyysturva olisi taatusti myös halvin mahdollinen vaihtoehto.
Sellainen työttömyysturva olisi taatusti myös halvin mahdollinen vaihtoehto.
June 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Haluan työttömyysturvan, joka sallii ihmisten tehdä vapaaehtoistyötä, hyväntekeväisyyttä, taidetta, tiedettä, kulttuuria, sekä kouluttautua, sivistyä, lisätä osaamistaan ja tehdä muuta haluamaansa rajoituksetta.
Sellainen työttömyysturva olisi taatusti myös halvin mahdollinen vaihtoehto.
Sellainen työttömyysturva olisi taatusti myös halvin mahdollinen vaihtoehto.
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There was a post on FB about 'small elves' in Scandi folklore, and whether any studies had been conducted on them. Because I cannot reply to the original post, I' ll share what I could find here. Disclaimer: I'm not sure whether the studies differentiate between 'big elves' or 'small elves'. 1/n
June 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
There was a post on FB about 'small elves' in Scandi folklore, and whether any studies had been conducted on them. Because I cannot reply to the original post, I' ll share what I could find here. Disclaimer: I'm not sure whether the studies differentiate between 'big elves' or 'small elves'. 1/n
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Lue verkoston julkaisemasta Uuden ajan alun tutkimus -blogista Kaisa Kyläkosken kirjoitus "Varhaisen uutisoinnin äärellä St Andrewsissa", jossa Kyläkoski kertoo St Andrewsin yliopistossa järjestetyn kirjahistoriallisen konferenssin annista. www.uudenajanalku.fi/2025/06/27/v...
Varhaisen uutisoinnin äärellä St Andrewsissa
Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) on St Andrewsin yliopistossa jo 25 vuotta käynnissä ollut hanke, jonka tavoitteena on luetteloida Euroopassa ja sen siirtomaissa ennen vuotta 1700 painetut tuott...
www.uudenajanalku.fi
June 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Lue verkoston julkaisemasta Uuden ajan alun tutkimus -blogista Kaisa Kyläkosken kirjoitus "Varhaisen uutisoinnin äärellä St Andrewsissa", jossa Kyläkoski kertoo St Andrewsin yliopistossa järjestetyn kirjahistoriallisen konferenssin annista. www.uudenajanalku.fi/2025/06/27/v...
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With a brilliant bunch of colleagues, we’ve put together a poster for #DARIAH2025 on how folklore collections are expanding into digital research infrastructures.
Presentation tomorrow at the Alte Mensa venue.
Digital folklore resources mentioned > traditionarchives.org/resources/digital-resources
Presentation tomorrow at the Alte Mensa venue.
Digital folklore resources mentioned > traditionarchives.org/resources/digital-resources
June 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
With a brilliant bunch of colleagues, we’ve put together a poster for #DARIAH2025 on how folklore collections are expanding into digital research infrastructures.
Presentation tomorrow at the Alte Mensa venue.
Digital folklore resources mentioned > traditionarchives.org/resources/digital-resources
Presentation tomorrow at the Alte Mensa venue.
Digital folklore resources mentioned > traditionarchives.org/resources/digital-resources
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@sanitareins.bsky.social put together this resource for the #dariah event & it's great! Take a look for info om digital #folklore resources:
www.traditionarchives.org/resources/di...
www.traditionarchives.org/resources/di...
traditionarchives.org - Digital Resources
DIGITAL FOLKLORE ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS, AND TOOLS
www.traditionarchives.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
@sanitareins.bsky.social put together this resource for the #dariah event & it's great! Take a look for info om digital #folklore resources:
www.traditionarchives.org/resources/di...
www.traditionarchives.org/resources/di...
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What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?
Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.
It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.
Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.
It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.
What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?
Montessori and Waldorf are like, opposite ends of the spectrum in fancy educational philosophies in early childhood.
Montessori and Waldorf are like, opposite ends of the spectrum in fancy educational philosophies in early childhood.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
If you have 3 average viewers, you are in the top 10% of twitch streams. If you have 10 average viewers, you're in the top 5%.
If you have 3 average viewers, you are in the top 10% of twitch streams. If you have 10 average viewers, you're in the top 5%.
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?
Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.
It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.
Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.
It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Prahalainen tutkimusryhmä on yhteistyökumppaneiden kanssa luonut mahtavan PoeTree-runokorpuksen runouden vertailevaa laskennallista tutkimusta varten, mukana tällä hetkellä kymmenen kieltä ja lisää tulossa. Onkohan kukaan Suomessa miettinyt sähköisen runokorpuksen luomista?
PoeTree. Poetry Treebanks in 10 languages
PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish).
versologie.cz
June 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Prahalainen tutkimusryhmä on yhteistyökumppaneiden kanssa luonut mahtavan PoeTree-runokorpuksen runouden vertailevaa laskennallista tutkimusta varten, mukana tällä hetkellä kymmenen kieltä ja lisää tulossa. Onkohan kukaan Suomessa miettinyt sähköisen runokorpuksen luomista?
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𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳 on nyt myös avoin verkkojulkaisu. Uudessa verkkojulkaisussa on luettavana ja haettavana ensipainos (1840) kokonaisuudessaan. Lisäksi voi tutkia 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯 käsikirjoitusta, uuden laitoksen käsikirjoitusta ja toisen painoksen vaikeimpain sanan luetteloa. kanteletar.finlit.fi
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳 on nyt myös avoin verkkojulkaisu. Uudessa verkkojulkaisussa on luettavana ja haettavana ensipainos (1840) kokonaisuudessaan. Lisäksi voi tutkia 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯 käsikirjoitusta, uuden laitoksen käsikirjoitusta ja toisen painoksen vaikeimpain sanan luetteloa. kanteletar.finlit.fi
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I looked again at the PoeTree project after having heard of it at @comphumresearch.bsky.social, it's just amazing!
Great job @artjomshl.bsky.social
versologie.cz/poetree/index
#DigitalHumanities #NLProc #ComputationalHumanities
Great job @artjomshl.bsky.social
versologie.cz/poetree/index
#DigitalHumanities #NLProc #ComputationalHumanities
PoeTree. Poetry Treebanks in 10 languages
PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish).
versologie.cz
June 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I looked again at the PoeTree project after having heard of it at @comphumresearch.bsky.social, it's just amazing!
Great job @artjomshl.bsky.social
versologie.cz/poetree/index
#DigitalHumanities #NLProc #ComputationalHumanities
Great job @artjomshl.bsky.social
versologie.cz/poetree/index
#DigitalHumanities #NLProc #ComputationalHumanities