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Markus Himanen
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PhD researcher at U. Helsinki. Policing, immigration law enforcement, discrimination, racism attitudes & immigration policy.
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "Trust and Subjective Well-Being Across the Lifespan: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations."
January 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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refugees.skyfleet.blue
Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture #Refugees
Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture
www.infomigrants.net
January 16, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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reshetz.bsky.social
Kyiv my beloved
January 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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noelreports.com
More from Tehran and Shiraz today. Footage coming out has dropped sharply due to IRGC/Basij raids searching for Starlink terminals, and extreme jamming causing massive packet loss, making it nearly impossible to upload or send content.
January 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
Cannot imagine the courage required for Iranians to keep joining the protests, & find ways of getting testimony out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down
Demonstrators recount experiences on the frontlines as protest movement rapidly moves beyond government’s control
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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apnews.com
Iran’s judiciary chief vowed that punishment for protesters “will be decisive, maximum and without any legal leniency.” The comment, reported by Iranian state television, came from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei.
Iran protests sweep nation despite internet shutdown as state TV warns of 'casualties'
Iranian protesters have taken to the streets following a call by the exiled crown prince for demonstrations.
bit.ly
January 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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pwgtennant.bsky.social
Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls"

Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes.

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publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...
Screenshot of title page including the following abstract: To minimise confounding bias and disentangle warranted from unwarranted disparities, researchers examining sentencing discrimination have traditionally sought to control for as many legal factors as possible. However, over the past decade, a growing number of scholars have questioned this strategy, noting that many legal factors are themselves subject to judicial discretion and that controlling for them can introduce post-treatment bias. Here, we use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to provide a formal and comprehensive assessment of the different types of bias that may arise from different choices of controls. In addition, we propose a new modelling framework to facilitate the selection of controls and reflect the model uncertainty created by the trade-off inherent in judicially-defined legal factors and other factors with a similar dual causal role. We apply this framework to examine race disparities in US federal courts and gender disparities in the England and Wales magistrates’ court. We find substantial model uncertainty for gender disparities and for race disparities affecting Hispanic offenders, rendering estimates of the latter inconclusive. Disparities against black offenders are more consistent and — under specific conditions — could be interpreted as evidence of direct discrimination.
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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jeyalizade.bsky.social
Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
markushimanen.bsky.social
joka helpottaa poliisin pääsyä mm. terveys- ja sosiaalialanviranomaisten tietoihin.
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
markushimanen.bsky.social
Eduskunnassa on tällä hetkellä lakiesitys, joka mahdollistaisi passeja ja henkilökortteja varten kerättyjen sormenjälkien ja kasvokuvien käytön rikoksentorjunassa lisäksi siellä on esitys, joka helpottaa poliisin pääsyä Supon keräämiin tietoihin. Eduskuntaan lähettämistä odottamassa on esitys, -->
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
markushimanen.bsky.social
"Uudistuksen jälkeen poliisi voisi seurata ihmisiä tai ihmisryhmää ilman yksilöityä rikosepäilyä. Viestin suojan saisi jatkossa murtaa, jos yksilöön tai yhteiskuntaan kohdistuisi vakavan rikoksen uhka."

Hallitus haluaa muuttaa perustuslakia tämän hallituskauden aikana, jotta tämä saataisiin läpi.
HS:n tiedot | Poliisi haluaa seurata ihmisiä ilman heihin kohdistuvaa rikosepäilyä
Suomessa ollaan tekemässä vauhdilla suurta muutosta poliisin oikeuksiin seurata kansalaisten elämää.
www.hs.fi
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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theukrainianreview.bsky.social
💔🇺🇦 Zelensky: All night long, our rescuers worked in Ternopil, and search-and-rescue operations are still ongoing. 22 people are still missing – the effort to find them continues. As of now, 26 people are confirmed dead, including three children.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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reshetz.bsky.social
So the total amount of drones they launched in 2023 is equivalent to one night in 2025
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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irynavoichuk.bsky.social
This is Serhii Vlasenko, a rescuer from Kyiv.

Here he stands among the ruins of his own home — destroyed by a russian drone last night.

His family survived only because they reached the shelter in time.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
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:

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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 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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amnestyfinland.bsky.social
Sisällissota puolisotilaallisten RSF-joukkojen ja armeijan välillä puhkesi Sudanissa huhtikuussa 2023.

Kymmeniä tuhansia ihmisiä on tapettu ja yli 12 miljoonaa ihmistä on joutunut pakenemaan kodeistaan.

Kyseessä on maailman suurin humanitaarinen kriisi.

Lue lisää: www.amnesty.fi/nama-asiat-s...
Nämä asiat sinun tulee tietää Sudanin sisällissodasta | Amnesty
Kyseessä on maailman suurin humanitaarinen kriisi. Kymmeniä tuhansia ihmisiä on tapettu ja miljoonat ihmiset ovat joutuneet pakenemaan kodeistaan.
www.amnesty.fi
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
markushimanen.bsky.social
ICE tekee uutisen mukaan ulkomaalaisvalvontaa automatsioidulla kasvojentunnistusteknologialla.
Aika hurjaa, jos totta.

No, suunta yksityisyyden suojan suhteen sama täällä, eduskunta käsittelee nyt lakia, joka avaa passeja varten annetut biometriset kuvat ja sormenjäljet rikostutkinnan käyttöön.
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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dresler.bsky.social
Arguably this is 2 pages too many, given that grant decisions are mostly based on CV + abstract:

"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...
link.springer.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
markushimanen.bsky.social
Artikkelista saa myös kuvan, että tämä on alalla yleisesti tiedossa. Miten on mahdollista, että tästä syntyy keskustelua vasta nyt?
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
markushimanen.bsky.social
Jutun mukaan Helsingin poliisi ohjaa epäiltyjen avustajan valintaa siten, että "poliisi käytännössä valitsee asianajajan". Näin avustettavien etua poiisin mielestä liian hanakasti ajavat juristit jäisivät ilman asiakkaita.

Kuulostaa hyvin merkittävältä epäkohdalta.
HS:n tiedot | Raiskauksesta epäilty poliisi on lähestynyt toistakin asianajajaa epäasiallisesti
Helsingin Asianajajayhdistys on huolissaan siitä, että poliisi ohjaa asiakkaita asianajajille ”hyvä veli -järjestelmän” kautta.
www.hs.fi
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
markushimanen.bsky.social
Iso muutos ainakin periaattellisella tasolla. Milloinkohan on Suomessa viimeksi olleet kansalaisoikeudet muodollisesti sidottuja työmarkkina-asemaan ja tulonlähteisiin?
Maahanmuutto | Eduskunta päätti: Tuilla elävä ei saa Suomen kansalaisuutta
Edellytykset kansalaisuuden saamiseksi eivät vastaisuudessa täyty, jos hakija elää toimeentulotuella tai on turvautunut työttömyystukeen tai toimeentulotukeen yli kolmen kuukauden ajan kahden vuoden a...
www.hs.fi
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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aramsinn.bsky.social
Rest in power to the absolute greatest that my generation had to offer, #DAngelo. Thank you fo your music, your soul, your wisdom, your brilliance, your humanity. I will treasure the memory of hearing you sing.

Also #FuckCancer so very much.

variety.com/2025/music/n...
D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51
Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.
variety.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨Excellent and important news: The pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secured a majority in a pivotal #Moldovan election that is set to keep the country on track to joining the #EU amidst massive Russian interference campaign. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/poll...
Pro-EU party secures majority in high-stakes Moldovan election
The parliamentary election comes amid reports of an “unprecedented” Russian hybrid interference campaign.
www.politico.eu
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM