Laura Cappelatti
@lauracapp.bsky.social
Ecologist. Postdoc @ University of Helsinki. Here mostly to follow updates on science and politics. 🌍🌿
I've been living in Finland for almost 7 years. This past year, I've seen a significant worsening of every aspect of life here, especially for immigrants and women. The news in a nutshell: racism, no jobs, violence, lower social security, no snow, refusal of immigrants. Wishing for a better 2026.
December 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I've been living in Finland for almost 7 years. This past year, I've seen a significant worsening of every aspect of life here, especially for immigrants and women. The news in a nutshell: racism, no jobs, violence, lower social security, no snow, refusal of immigrants. Wishing for a better 2026.
can we please stop unlocking potentials
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
can we please stop unlocking potentials
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One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
jobs.helsinki.fi
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)
Lactarius torminosus
August 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Lactarius torminosus
Reposted by Laura Cappelatti
This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’ | George Monbiot
A tournament in Cornwall will pit anglers against these magnificent creatures, as part of a rising trend for so-called ‘sportfishing’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Some images from fieldwork in Finnish Lapland (Sápmi) last month. Nice to be back working with land vegetation, especially in a place like Kilpisjärvi ♥️
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Some images from fieldwork in Finnish Lapland (Sápmi) last month. Nice to be back working with land vegetation, especially in a place like Kilpisjärvi ♥️
Reposted by Laura Cappelatti
The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for.
June 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for.
I had a great time listening to @vlfuller.bsky.social talk about grant writing yesterday at the @viikki-postdoc.bsky.social workshop. It can be scary to apply for grants, but chatting about it with peers make it easier, or at least more fun. Thanks Vanessa, you’re inspiring!
May 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I had a great time listening to @vlfuller.bsky.social talk about grant writing yesterday at the @viikki-postdoc.bsky.social workshop. It can be scary to apply for grants, but chatting about it with peers make it easier, or at least more fun. Thanks Vanessa, you’re inspiring!
Reposted by Laura Cappelatti
📣Get ready for the next Cutting vEdge Tools webinar in our series on ecological databases! On May 9 at 14 CEST, Jens Kattge will talk about the widely known TRY plant trait database. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... only 100 places!
May 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📣Get ready for the next Cutting vEdge Tools webinar in our series on ecological databases! On May 9 at 14 CEST, Jens Kattge will talk about the widely known TRY plant trait database. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... only 100 places!
Reposted by Laura Cappelatti
