Samuli Reijula
@samulireijula.net
Currently doing research on scientific discovery in AI-augmented labs. #ERCCoG TINT/UniHelsinki. #Philsci #Cogsci #Scisci / European Network for the Science of Science (www.euroscisci.net) / Institutional epistemology WS
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Samuli Reijula
@samulireijula.net
· Jun 5
Persistent evidential discordance | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
What to do when findings from different studies don't agree? - debug your line of evidence. In this paper @sobla.bsky.social and I examine what that could mean #philsci #metasci www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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New on the Archive:
Michelini, Matteo and Javier, Osorio (2025) Can Scientific Communities Benefit from a Diversity of Standards?
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27620/
Michelini, Matteo and Javier, Osorio (2025) Can Scientific Communities Benefit from a Diversity of Standards?
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27620/
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New on the Archive:
Michelini, Matteo and Javier, Osorio (2025) Can Scientific Communities Benefit from a Diversity of Standards?
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27620/
Michelini, Matteo and Javier, Osorio (2025) Can Scientific Communities Benefit from a Diversity of Standards?
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27620/
As someone here recently pointed out, this will not be a long-term problem. In a couple of years, fake citations will be easy to spot. So as a researcher, you want to be careful now, to protect your long-term reputation. So for now, don’t rely on shady sources. +
AI causes so much extra work. You have to check and double check everything.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
As someone here recently pointed out, this will not be a long-term problem. In a couple of years, fake citations will be easy to spot. So as a researcher, you want to be careful now, to protect your long-term reputation. So for now, don’t rely on shady sources. +
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Solar is quite a solution for Australia!
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Solar is quite a solution for Australia!
i finally bought a ufo looking gamer mouse, to optimize my baldur's gate experience (i've played like 4 hours so far, sad!). it turns out these things are amazing for reading pdfs. i can do all my annotations and highlights without touching the keyboard! how did I manage all these years without one?
December 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
i finally bought a ufo looking gamer mouse, to optimize my baldur's gate experience (i've played like 4 hours so far, sad!). it turns out these things are amazing for reading pdfs. i can do all my annotations and highlights without touching the keyboard! how did I manage all these years without one?
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This is part of the reason why I teach & make YouTube videos on how AI is used in science: I don't want all the baggage from genAI & chatbots to prevent the public from supporting or trusting better & more grounded forms of AI.
Finally @mmitchell.bsky.social explains why generative AI hype can blind us to the AI breakthroughs that we should really celebrate. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...
Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life
www.technologyreview.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is part of the reason why I teach & make YouTube videos on how AI is used in science: I don't want all the baggage from genAI & chatbots to prevent the public from supporting or trusting better & more grounded forms of AI.
good artists borrow, great artists steal? i think the argument in this paper clearly points to the different functions of citing. if the author takes responsibility for the claims in the paper, no epistemic problem there. but llms screw up credit attribution, a separate question (of fairness)
Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.
December 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
good artists borrow, great artists steal? i think the argument in this paper clearly points to the different functions of citing. if the author takes responsibility for the claims in the paper, no epistemic problem there. but llms screw up credit attribution, a separate question (of fairness)
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New and interesting article on ViS by Kristina Rollin in EJPS #phisci #scienceandvalues #ViS #trust
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Expert trustworthiness and the value-free ideal of science - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
I examine critically a received view of expert trustworthiness and the value-free ideal of science. According to this view, to be epistemically trustworthy in the eyes of citizens, scientific experts ...
link.springer.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New and interesting article on ViS by Kristina Rollin in EJPS #phisci #scienceandvalues #ViS #trust
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Couldn’t make it to HCAS Erkko Professor Kevin Durrheim’s lecture “Polarization: In Mind, Social Media and Public Life”? The full recording is now online!
Professor Kevin Durrheim: Polarization: In mind, social media and public life
YouTube video by Helsinki Collegium
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Couldn’t make it to HCAS Erkko Professor Kevin Durrheim’s lecture “Polarization: In Mind, Social Media and Public Life”? The full recording is now online!
TODAY #philsci
For our last event of the year 2025, next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, December 15th, where Siska De Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University) will give a talk titled “The pursuitworthiness of Big Science experiments”. More here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/12/11/1...
#philsky #philsci
#philsky #philsci
15.12. Perspectives on Science seminar: Siska De Baerdemaeker – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science
tint-helsinki.fi
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
TODAY #philsci
Näinpä, tulkaa nyt pois sieltä, hävettää
Ja yhä niin moni virallinen taho, poliitikko ja toimittaja pitää sitä pääviestintäkanavanaan.
Viestipalvelu X:n roolia Venäjän valheiden levittämisessä ei voi korostaa liikaa, sanoo tutkija, joka paljastaa verkossa ”vatnikkeja”
December 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Näinpä, tulkaa nyt pois sieltä, hävettää
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Ylioppilaslehti ei ilmesty ensi vuonna, pelkäänpä lehden lakkauttamista journalistisena instituutiona. Tämä toki vain omaa pohdintaa, mutta omilta opiskeluajoilta jäi vaikutelma, etteivät opiskelijapäättäjät ole koskaan erityisemmin innostuneet kriittisestä ja journalistisesta opiskelijalehdestä.
Kommentti: Vallan vahtikoira siirretään tauolle
Ylioppilaslehteen kohdistuva leikkaus tarkoittaa sitä, että lehteä ei ilmesty ensi syksynä lainkaan. Ensi vuonna lakkauttaminen on siis helpompaa kuin koskaan, arvioi päätoimittaja Roosa Welling.
ylioppilaslehti.fi
December 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ylioppilaslehti ei ilmesty ensi vuonna, pelkäänpä lehden lakkauttamista journalistisena instituutiona. Tämä toki vain omaa pohdintaa, mutta omilta opiskeluajoilta jäi vaikutelma, etteivät opiskelijapäättäjät ole koskaan erityisemmin innostuneet kriittisestä ja journalistisesta opiskelijalehdestä.
why are so many silicon valley ceos philosophy majors?
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
why are so many silicon valley ceos philosophy majors?
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it's more of a comment than a ques
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
it's more of a comment than a ques
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FINLAND SALUTES THIS STRANGE PHENOMENON, A THERMONUCLEAR FIREBALL BRIEFLY VISIBLE ABOVE THE HORIZON
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
FINLAND SALUTES THIS STRANGE PHENOMENON, A THERMONUCLEAR FIREBALL BRIEFLY VISIBLE ABOVE THE HORIZON
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The sun is visible in parts of Finland today. So the national news has a live stream of the sun rising in Helsinki.
Just to give you an idea what the start of this winter has been like. 😅
Just to give you an idea what the start of this winter has been like. 😅
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The sun is visible in parts of Finland today. So the national news has a live stream of the sun rising in Helsinki.
Just to give you an idea what the start of this winter has been like. 😅
Just to give you an idea what the start of this winter has been like. 😅
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Before the miracle today ☀️, we have had on average two minutes of sunshine per day in the entire December.
Screw work, I'm going outside!
Screw work, I'm going outside!
The sun is visible in parts of Finland today. So the national news has a live stream of the sun rising in Helsinki.
Just to give you an idea what the start of this winter has been like. 😅
Just to give you an idea what the start of this winter has been like. 😅
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Before the miracle today ☀️, we have had on average two minutes of sunshine per day in the entire December.
Screw work, I'm going outside!
Screw work, I'm going outside!
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Euroopan tutkimusneuvoston rahoitusta saaneet tutkijamme ovat: Rafa Najumudeen, Maria Lasonen, Risto Paatelainen, Samuli Reijula ja Claudius Kratochwil. Onneksi olkoon!
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Euroopan tutkimusneuvoston rahoitusta saaneet tutkijamme ovat: Rafa Najumudeen, Maria Lasonen, Risto Paatelainen, Samuli Reijula ja Claudius Kratochwil. Onneksi olkoon!
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
"In 2015, William Heydens, a M scientist, suggested that he and colleagues “ghost-write” another scientific paper. Monsanto could pay outside scientists to “edit & sign their names” to the work that he and others would do, Heydens wrote in an email. “Recall that is how we handled W K and M 2000.”"
Paper that "proved" that glyphosphate was safe turns out to have been ghost-written by Monsanto employees. It has now been retracted www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’
Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"In 2015, William Heydens, a M scientist, suggested that he and colleagues “ghost-write” another scientific paper. Monsanto could pay outside scientists to “edit & sign their names” to the work that he and others would do, Heydens wrote in an email. “Recall that is how we handled W K and M 2000.”"
@erc.europa.eu has decided to fund my research on how AI is transforming scientific problem-solving! #erc www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life...
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@erc.europa.eu has decided to fund my research on how AI is transforming scientific problem-solving! #erc www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life...
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The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) 2026
blogs.helsinki.fi
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
Täysin samaa mieltä tästä. Oma kokemus on yhden lukiolaisen verran. Olen ollut tästä todella shokeerautunut, ja lukemattomien toistojen kautta luulen että sain tyttärelle kynän käteen. Suurin vastustus tulee siitä että opettajia asia ei tunnu kiinnostavan tippakaan.
"Erityisesti lukiomatematiikkaan liittyy yksi kriittinen, kallis ja lähemmin tarkasteltuna täysin absurdi virhe: matematiikan opinnoissa on luovuttu kynästä ja paperista"
www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...
www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...
Lukijan mielipide | Matematiikan huippuopiskelijoiden joukko on harvalukuinen
Kynällä ja paperilla tehtävää lausekkeiden käsittelyä voidaan verrata nuoren urheilijan peruskuntotreeniin.
www.hs.fi
December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Täysin samaa mieltä tästä. Oma kokemus on yhden lukiolaisen verran. Olen ollut tästä todella shokeerautunut, ja lukemattomien toistojen kautta luulen että sain tyttärelle kynän käteen. Suurin vastustus tulee siitä että opettajia asia ei tunnu kiinnostavan tippakaan.