Laura Olkkonen
@lauraonen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sustainable Business at LUT University, Finland. CSR communication & corporate activism.
vastuullisuus, viestintä, yritysaktivismi
vastuullisuus, viestintä, yritysaktivismi
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
How much do elites influence societal polarization? Quite much, it turns out. This is such an intriguing study that shows how a handful of influential voices is enough to drive dramatic societal rifts - even in a country with a strong tradition of political plurality, such as Finland.
New research reveals how a relatively small elite can have a disproportionately large influence on shaping polarising environments.
Read more 👉 www.aalto.fi/en/news/elit...
Read more 👉 www.aalto.fi/en/news/elit...
Elites wield huge influence over deepening polarisation –– now we can tell exactly how much | Aalto University
Researchers used network theory to develop a method for measuring the impact of individuals on societal division.
www.aalto.fi
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
How much do elites influence societal polarization? Quite much, it turns out. This is such an intriguing study that shows how a handful of influential voices is enough to drive dramatic societal rifts - even in a country with a strong tradition of political plurality, such as Finland.
Reposted by Laura Olkkonen
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb @alexstubb.bsky.social made an excellent short 3 minute speech at the G20 summit in South Africa about multilateralism and urging nations to cooperate fairly following the rules to achieve sustainability.
Worth watching:
Worth watching:
Finland’s Alexander Stubb Calls for Rules-Based Approach to Global Wars in First G20 Speech | AC1B
YouTube video by DRM News
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb @alexstubb.bsky.social made an excellent short 3 minute speech at the G20 summit in South Africa about multilateralism and urging nations to cooperate fairly following the rules to achieve sustainability.
Worth watching:
Worth watching:
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Commercial news #media face dual climate duties: cutting their own footprint and weighing the impact of their #journalism. A new MedieKultur article by Meri Frig, @lauraonen.bsky.social &
@maaritjii.bsky.social shows how #Nordic newsrooms navigate both.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
@maaritjii.bsky.social shows how #Nordic newsrooms navigate both.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
The Dual Climate Impact of News Media Organizations - NordMedia Network
Commercial news media organizations hold a unique and vital role in the climate crisis. As business organizations, they have a corporate responsibility to evaluate, report on, and minimize the environ...
nordmedianetwork.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Commercial news #media face dual climate duties: cutting their own footprint and weighing the impact of their #journalism. A new MedieKultur article by Meri Frig, @lauraonen.bsky.social &
@maaritjii.bsky.social shows how #Nordic newsrooms navigate both.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
@maaritjii.bsky.social shows how #Nordic newsrooms navigate both.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
We are waiting for your submissions! The call for the International CSR Communication Conference in Finland closes on March 31, 2026 📢
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We are waiting for your submissions! The call for the International CSR Communication Conference in Finland closes on March 31, 2026 📢
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
Reposted by Laura Olkkonen
Tässä muutama kysymys, jotka auttavat arvioimaan törkyriskiä:
❓ Ärsyttääkö tutkimusaiheemme räyhäoikeistoa tai kiihkouskonnollisia?
❓ Voiko tutkimusaiheemme kuulostaa banaalilta, jos sitä katsoo tarkoitushakuisesti?
❓ Olemmeko saaneet 6-numeroisen summan julkista tutkimusrahoitusta?
❓ Ärsyttääkö tutkimusaiheemme räyhäoikeistoa tai kiihkouskonnollisia?
❓ Voiko tutkimusaiheemme kuulostaa banaalilta, jos sitä katsoo tarkoitushakuisesti?
❓ Olemmeko saaneet 6-numeroisen summan julkista tutkimusrahoitusta?
September 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Tässä muutama kysymys, jotka auttavat arvioimaan törkyriskiä:
❓ Ärsyttääkö tutkimusaiheemme räyhäoikeistoa tai kiihkouskonnollisia?
❓ Voiko tutkimusaiheemme kuulostaa banaalilta, jos sitä katsoo tarkoitushakuisesti?
❓ Olemmeko saaneet 6-numeroisen summan julkista tutkimusrahoitusta?
❓ Ärsyttääkö tutkimusaiheemme räyhäoikeistoa tai kiihkouskonnollisia?
❓ Voiko tutkimusaiheemme kuulostaa banaalilta, jos sitä katsoo tarkoitushakuisesti?
❓ Olemmeko saaneet 6-numeroisen summan julkista tutkimusrahoitusta?
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In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader.
Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵
Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change (Gift Article)
We asked heads of state how they’re steering their countries as America retreats.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader.
Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵
Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵
Call for inclusive and diverse universities by Finnish Education Employers, The Union of Research Professionals, and The Council of Rectors of Finnish Universities.
The universities around Finland have over 170,000 students and a staff of almost 35,000. Together, we form diverse communities in which everyone has the right to feel valued and to be treated equally, regardless of their background, status, or identity.
unifi.fi/en/inclusive...
unifi.fi/en/inclusive...
Inclusive and Diverse University! Building together an inclusive, striving university community - Unifi
As we embark on a new academic year, we have the chance to remind ourselves that each member of the university community has an important role to play in
unifi.fi
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Call for inclusive and diverse universities by Finnish Education Employers, The Union of Research Professionals, and The Council of Rectors of Finnish Universities.
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Join us on Bluesky! We are proud to introduce our brand new strategy, System Earth 2030. 🚀
We are seeking solutions to global issues with our expertise in technology, business, and social sciences.
➔ Learn more about us and watch our video: www.lut.fi/en/about-us/...
#unilut
We are seeking solutions to global issues with our expertise in technology, business, and social sciences.
➔ Learn more about us and watch our video: www.lut.fi/en/about-us/...
#unilut
August 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Join us on Bluesky! We are proud to introduce our brand new strategy, System Earth 2030. 🚀
We are seeking solutions to global issues with our expertise in technology, business, and social sciences.
➔ Learn more about us and watch our video: www.lut.fi/en/about-us/...
#unilut
We are seeking solutions to global issues with our expertise in technology, business, and social sciences.
➔ Learn more about us and watch our video: www.lut.fi/en/about-us/...
#unilut
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"Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week."
This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.
#visionzero #publichealth
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.
#visionzero #publichealth
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
July 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week."
This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.
#visionzero #publichealth
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.
#visionzero #publichealth
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
Hello @aomconnect.bsky.social #AOM2025 Copenhagen! Corporate political activity, activism & qualitative methods and more on my sunny agenda (spotting bikes in weird places as a bonus) 🚲
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hello @aomconnect.bsky.social #AOM2025 Copenhagen! Corporate political activity, activism & qualitative methods and more on my sunny agenda (spotting bikes in weird places as a bonus) 🚲
CSR Communication Conference 2026 is hosted by @lut.fi LUT Business School! The deadline for abstracts and session proposals is March 31 📨
This interdisciplinary conference is open to anyone working in the intersection of CSR and communication - welcome to Lappeenranta! #CSRCOM2026
csr-com.org
This interdisciplinary conference is open to anyone working in the intersection of CSR and communication - welcome to Lappeenranta! #CSRCOM2026
csr-com.org
CSRCOM - CSRCOM
8th INTERNATIONAL CSR Communication ConferencE 22 – 24 September 2026 LUT Business School, LUT University, Finland “CSR Communication in the age of political instability” Call for papers Program PHD s...
csr-com.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
CSR Communication Conference 2026 is hosted by @lut.fi LUT Business School! The deadline for abstracts and session proposals is March 31 📨
This interdisciplinary conference is open to anyone working in the intersection of CSR and communication - welcome to Lappeenranta! #CSRCOM2026
csr-com.org
This interdisciplinary conference is open to anyone working in the intersection of CSR and communication - welcome to Lappeenranta! #CSRCOM2026
csr-com.org
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We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
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The Enlightenment. Well, it was nice while it lasted.
June 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The Enlightenment. Well, it was nice while it lasted.
Kiitos @procom.fi tämän vuoden ProCom-päivästä kauniissa Finlandia-talossa 🕊️
Mieleen jäi erityisesti Anna Perhon kannustus opetella kehtaamaan 🔥
#procomday #viestintä
Mieleen jäi erityisesti Anna Perhon kannustus opetella kehtaamaan 🔥
#procomday #viestintä
June 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Kiitos @procom.fi tämän vuoden ProCom-päivästä kauniissa Finlandia-talossa 🕊️
Mieleen jäi erityisesti Anna Perhon kannustus opetella kehtaamaan 🔥
#procomday #viestintä
Mieleen jäi erityisesti Anna Perhon kannustus opetella kehtaamaan 🔥
#procomday #viestintä
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My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Reposted by Laura Olkkonen
The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
March 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
Reposted by Laura Olkkonen
All the silly hysterical media debates of 2023 about how AI may pose an existential threat to humankind really missed the mark.
The harms are here, & they are not caused by AI autonomy. They are the result of how bosses & autocrats use machine learning systems to discipline & destroy.
The harms are here, & they are not caused by AI autonomy. They are the result of how bosses & autocrats use machine learning systems to discipline & destroy.
March 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
All the silly hysterical media debates of 2023 about how AI may pose an existential threat to humankind really missed the mark.
The harms are here, & they are not caused by AI autonomy. They are the result of how bosses & autocrats use machine learning systems to discipline & destroy.
The harms are here, & they are not caused by AI autonomy. They are the result of how bosses & autocrats use machine learning systems to discipline & destroy.
Reposted by Laura Olkkonen
I am already hearing many European academics becoming unwilling to travel to the US for political reasons
Stories like these 👇 add safety concerns to the list. Especially, as access to social media accounts are required to enter
How do we best support our US academic colleagues as things escalate?
Stories like these 👇 add safety concerns to the list. Especially, as access to social media accounts are required to enter
How do we best support our US academic colleagues as things escalate?
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I am already hearing many European academics becoming unwilling to travel to the US for political reasons
Stories like these 👇 add safety concerns to the list. Especially, as access to social media accounts are required to enter
How do we best support our US academic colleagues as things escalate?
Stories like these 👇 add safety concerns to the list. Especially, as access to social media accounts are required to enter
How do we best support our US academic colleagues as things escalate?
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Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡
Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
About to talk to medical affairs colleagues, with the news that Bluesky is carrying more posts about new journal publications than X #bluesky #altmetrics #x #xparrot
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡
Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
Responsible Business Research Conference is kicked off by Rajat Panwar. He makes a call for "Big, Hairy, Audacious Research"(!!!), urging us to be bold, ambitious, and transformative. This means defying structures, going out of comfort zones, and "not building theories when the house is on fire".
March 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Responsible Business Research Conference is kicked off by Rajat Panwar. He makes a call for "Big, Hairy, Audacious Research"(!!!), urging us to be bold, ambitious, and transformative. This means defying structures, going out of comfort zones, and "not building theories when the house is on fire".
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Democracies stand with Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Democracies stand with Ukraine.
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The history books will have a list of companies that complied in advance with xenophobic, illegal, & authoritarian demands of a moody and thin-skinned megalomaniac. Don't be on that list.
February 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The history books will have a list of companies that complied in advance with xenophobic, illegal, & authoritarian demands of a moody and thin-skinned megalomaniac. Don't be on that list.
Lahden kaupunki luopuu Pride-liputuksesta korostaakseen "neutraalia linjaa ja tasapuolista toimintatapaa kaikkia asukkaita kohtaan". Kahtiajakautuneissa teemoissa neutraalia ei useinkaan ole, eikä päätöksestä tule neutraali sillä että sen sanotaan olevan sellainen. Käytännössä tämäkin on kannanotto.
Pride | Lahden kaupunki haluaa ”korostaa neutraalia linjaa”: Loppu sateenkaariliputukselle
Lähes kaikki kokoomuslaiset sekä osa suurimman puolueen Sdp:n jäsenistä halusi sateenkaariliput alas kaupungintalon lippusalosta.
www.hs.fi
February 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lahden kaupunki luopuu Pride-liputuksesta korostaakseen "neutraalia linjaa ja tasapuolista toimintatapaa kaikkia asukkaita kohtaan". Kahtiajakautuneissa teemoissa neutraalia ei useinkaan ole, eikä päätöksestä tule neutraali sillä että sen sanotaan olevan sellainen. Käytännössä tämäkin on kannanotto.