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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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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:

a 🧵 1/n

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
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
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menqvist70.bsky.social
Yleltä laaja artikkeli Euroopan etsityimmästä miehestä Jan Marsalekista:

”Hehkutetun saksalaisyrityksen johtaja Jan Marsalek paljastui miljardiluokan huijariksi. Uusien mediatietojen mukaan hän asuu Moskovassa ja työskentelee turvallisuuspalvelu FSB:lle”
yle.fi/a/74-20179876 >
Teknologiapomo Jan Marsalek paljastui ensin miljardiluokan huijariksi, sitten Venäjän vakoojaksi
Hehkutetun saksalaisyrityksen johtaja Jan Marsalek paljastui miljardiluokan huijariksi. Uusien mediatietojen mukaan hän asuu Moskovassa ja työskentelee turvallisuuspalvelu FSB:lle.
yle.fi
September 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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peerreviewcongress.bsky.social
Presented at PRC10: Using an #AI detection tool, @theaacr.bsky.social detected 36% of abstracts contained at least some #LLM text though authors disclosed use for only 9% of papers studied
www.science.org/cont... by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social
@royperlis.bsky.social @evanko.bsky.social @science.org
Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports
Finding highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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bordercrim.bsky.social
On 8 September, the Supreme Court signalled its support for ICE’s continued use of racial profiling in immigration policing. In the decision, “common sense” does the heavy lifting, at the expense of facts, evidence, and individual rights.

By Jennifer M. Chacón ⤵️

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
September 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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samisyrjamaki.bsky.social
Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnan ylläpitämät julkaisuportaalit tieteellisille lehdille ja kirjoille. http://Journal.fi:ssä ilmestyy noin 150 tiedelehteä:journal.fi 3/
Journal.fi
Suomalaiset tiedelehdet verkossa
journal.fi
September 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
In this Working Scientist profile, Kelly Cobey describes to Nature how her early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, which is now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment. #WomeninSTEM #Academicsky 🧪
My career switch from psychologist to open-science advocate
Kelly Cobey’s early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment.
go.nature.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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secrpol.bsky.social
BREAKING | At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety.

apple.news/ASzRR3NWOQtK...
More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters — The Guardian
At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety
apple.news
September 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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verfassungsblog.de
On Sep 2 and 15, Trump ordered the United States Navy to destroy small speed boats in the Caribbean. In both cases, all on board died.

MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL on the lawlesssness of these targeted killings.

verfassungsblog.de/killing-carr...
Qutoe from our published author Mary Ellen O'Connell: "The killings in the Carribean are President Trump's most dangerous assaults on the rule of law to date."
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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migrantvoice.bsky.social
We stand with @picumofficial.bsky.social in calling out the EU's proposed Deportation Regulations.

🚨 The EU’s new “Return Regulation” expands detention - including in offshore sites - fuels racial profiling & strips away rights.

Here’s why civil society is united in rejecting it ⬇️
September 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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karaman.is
For this week's #TidyTuesday, a visualization showing how more and more countries allow visa-free travel to most of the world's destinations

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

#RStats #dataviz
A density plot showing the distribution of visa-free destinations accessible by country passports in 2006 versus 2025. The horizontal axis shows the number of visa-free destinations (0 to 200), while the vertical axis shows probability density. Two prominent curves are displayed: a burgundy curve for 2006 data peaks sharply around 25 destinations, indicating most countries' passports provided access to relatively few places without visas. A blue curve for 2025 data shows a much flatter, broader distribution with a peak around 180 destinations, demonstrating that significantly more passports now provide access to most of the world's destinations. Multiple faint gray curves in the background represent the years between 2006 and 2025, showing the gradual transition. Two text annotations explain that in 2006 most countries' passports provided access to only a few destinations, while in 2025 significantly more passports give access to most of the world's destinations.
September 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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littlesimzfans.bsky.social
Little Simz’s new single “Don’t Leave Too Soon” is here!

#HipHopSky #RapSky #MusicSky
Little Simz - Don't Leave Too Soon (Official Video) - Theme from Steve
YouTube video by Little Simz
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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evakrejcova.bsky.social
1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
September 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
markushimanen.bsky.social
Jos Euroopan rajavalvonnan rahoitus kiinnostaa, niin Statewatch on koonnut tietoja Frontexin jäsenmaille myöntämästä rahoituksesta 2008-2024. Juonipaljastus: rahoitus on ollut kasvamaan päin.
statewatch.bsky.social Statewatch @statewatch.bsky.social · Sep 12
Frontex pays out hundreds of millions of euros every year to EU and Schengen member states.

We have visualised the data to show the scale and scope of the funding: more than €2 billion between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2024.

Read it here:
buff.ly/Tto3m1L
Vague and pixelated, Frontex trucks with officers standing around float behind the text: "Frontex funding for Fortress Europe", referring to Europe's highly militarised borders and policy of exclusion. Around the image and text are the words "where, why, and how much". Text starts it off, "2008-2024: 2 billion euros spent." Then, a diagram indicates the various amounts that member states have received. Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal are among those who received the most. You can find more data and visualisations at the link above.
September 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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detentionwatchnetwork.org
“We have the largest jail infrastructure in the world, and it’s an easy thing for ICE to fall back on,” said @silkys13.bsky.social, the executive director of @detentionwatchnetwork.org, to @nytimes.com. “The jail is a really central component of the deportation machine.”
Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers
Jails play a growing role in immigrant detention, housing thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime.
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM