Matti Välimäki
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Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social
Postdoc Researcher, EuroStorie, Centre for European Studies, Uni of Helsinki

#GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: https://shorturl.at/flvJL

Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matti-Vaelimaeki/research
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Article out! 'Covered tracks? #Deportation as a historical blind spot in twentieth to twenty-first century Nordic countries' (with @miika99.bsky.social - OA, link & abstract below)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
#maahanmuutto #migration #refugees
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Haluatko tietää, mitä kaikkea julkaisimme vuonna 2025? Think Open -blogista löytyy tiivis kuvaus kaikista HUPin viime vuoden kirjoista. Kaikki teokset ovat vapaasti luettavissa.
Lue lisää osoitteessa: blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkopen/hu...

#tiedejulkaiseminen #avointiede #openaccess
January 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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If you are thinking about pursuing a political science PhD and are interested in authoritarian politics, broadly understood, consider applying for this funded opportunity:
AUCD Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarship: Authoritarian Politics #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 Minimum grade of 2.1 (GPA: 3.6) in a relevant Master's degree
🇮🇪 @ucddublin.bsky.social
⌛ Friday 6 February
buff.ly/ETcFg6G
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
January 7, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Rasistisesta väkivallasta / terrorista 1980-luvun lopun Suomessa. (Juntunen 2020)

#maahanmuutto #rasismi #historia
January 7, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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In this #openaccess JEMS article, Sandra Lavenex and I revisit the contested emergence of EU return and readmission norms shaped by ♟️chessboard politics♟️

From the 1980s to today, we identify a growing overlap of cooperation frameworks, renewed negative conditionality, and expanding legal grey zones
Chessboard politics: the contested emergence of EU return and readmission norms
The return of migrants residing irregularly within the EU or whose asylum applications have been rejected – a top priority of EU migration policy – remains a contentious issue. Drawing from the lit...
www.tandfonline.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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UPDATED LIST of countries the Trump administration has threatened to invade, annex, or otherwise attack in the 85 hours of 2026 so far:

🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇬🇱 Greenland
🇮🇷 Iran
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇲🇽 Mexico

Insane.
January 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Haku avoinna! 🔔

Apurahoja voi hakea kaikilla tieteenaloilla paitsi matematiikassa, fysiikassa, tähtitieteessä ja kemiassa (mukaan lukien lääketieteellinen kemia).

📅 Hakuaika päättyy 31.1. klo 23.59.

➡️ Lisätietoja: scientiarum.fi/fi/apurahat-...

#tiedeseura #apuraha #tutkimusrahoitus #tutkimus
January 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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The application period for our research grants is now open! 🔔

Applications may be submitted in all academic fields except mathematics, physics, astronomy, and chemistry.

📅 Deadline: 31 January at 23:59.

➡️ scientiarum.fi/en/grants-an...

#tiedeseura #researchfunding #grants #Finland
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Uyghurs who fled China are losing protections as Chinese authorities pressure other countries to hand them over, and as America and Europe have grown more hostile towards refugees econ.st/4jfVyum

Photo: Getty Images
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Kai olette huomanneet Vastapaino n superalen? Vielä tänään ja huomenna! vastapaino.fi
Vastapaino
Etusivu
vastapaino.fi
December 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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One of the pieces included in this list - progressivegeographies.com/resources/wo...
December 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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All Men Top 10.

Here on Bluesky we have a more diverse set of AI voices.

I will probably forget someone, but let me try to list 10 women:

@emilymbender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@olivia.science
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
@abeba.bsky.social

...
December 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#populistperpetuummobile:

Teimme 2016-2018 kaksi tutkimusartikkelia perussuomalaisten ym. #rasismi nkieltostrategioista koskien n. 10 v. takaisia tapauksia. Jälleen ajankohtaisia.

Löytyvät täältä: www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt...

Ja täältä: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#populistperpetuummobile:

Teimme 2016-2018 kaksi tutkimusartikkelia perussuomalaisten ym. #rasismi nkieltostrategioista koskien n. 10 v. takaisia tapauksia. Jälleen ajankohtaisia.

Löytyvät täältä: www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt...

Ja täältä: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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OKM:n ja Kansallisarkiston linjaus muuttaa Varastokirjaston palveluista esim. kaukolainaus maksulliseksi vaarantaa kirjaston ydintehtävän toteutumisen. #avointiedonsaanti #tutkimus #kirjastot
suomenkirjastoseura.fi/suomen-kirja...
Suomen kirjastoseuran kannanotto Varastokirjaston palveluiden muuttamisesta osittain maksullisiksi
Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön linjaus kaukolainauksen ja artikkelikopioiden sähköisen toimittamisen maksullisuudesta alkaen keväällä 2026 heikentää Varastokirjaston ydintehtävän toteutumista. Varas...
suomenkirjastoseura.fi
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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My book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” has recently come out in the US.

If you're interested, in this thread I’ll link different ways of learning about the book and its argument (I’ll keep adding if more come out).

First, here is the link to the book: academic.oup.com/book/57946
November 12, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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This article by Mervi Kaukko, Sinikka Neuhaus and myself on the history of #refugeeeducation in Finland & Sweden was just published in the History of Education.

Link to Open Access article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

#refugees #education #migration #history #nationalism #nationbuilding
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Suomen sisällissodan jälkimaininkeihin liittyvissä ”heimosodissa” Karjalassa oli mukana useita valkoisen Suur-Suomi-aatteen kannattajia. Sotaretken vihapuhe hätkähdyttää, ja kertoo poliittisesta historiasta enemmän kuin moni haluaisi kuulla, kirjoittaa Tiina Seppä.
#politiikasta #tiedetaivas
Kansalliset tieteet ja heimoaatteen väkivaltainen perintö – Politiikasta
Suomen sisällissodan jälkimaininkeihin liittyvissä ”heimosodissa” käytetty vihapuhe hätkähdyttää, ja kertoo poliittisesta historiasta enemmän kuin moni haluaisi kuulla.
politiikasta.fi
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM