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Taina Saarinen
@tainamsaarinen.bsky.social
Higher education, internationalisation, academic work, language education policy.
https://ktl.jyu.fi/fi/henkilosto/saarinen-taina
Some stuff I've worked on:
https://shorturl.at/4Kgyc and https://shorturl.at/fNqsc
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This article was so much fun to work on! We analysed each others' universities' strategies and tried to get behind the weird link between "quality" and "internationalisation". Thanks @hkadriansen.bsky.social Lene Møller Madsen and @johannawaters.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring the peculiar relationship between higher education quality and internationalization: a discourse analytical and spatial reading of four European university strategies
Internationalization is often regarded as a tool for enhancing the quality of education and research, but the question is how are they related? This paper aims to address this by analysing the way ...
www.tandfonline.com
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#EdistyksellinenTiedeliitto osallistui XV #Puistofilosofia -viikolle erinomaisella paneelillaan koulutuksesta kansalaisyhteiskunnan rakentamisessa.

#Tiedepolitiikka -lehdessä #MerviFriman ja @tainamsaarinen.bsky.social käyvät lävitse keskustelun. #Lukusuositus! 😊🙏❤️

journal.fi/tiedepolitii...
October 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Special issue I edited with @tainamsaarinen.bsky.social published today! "Alternative Internationalisms: Thinking Through and Beyond Criticality in International Higher Education".
This was a long time gestating, developing, growing, dormant, emerging, fruiting. Really proud of all our work here!
August 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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📖 New Special Issue of #OpenAccess journal Learning and Teaching: mailchi.mp/berghahnbook...

Guest Edited by Andrew G. Gibson and @tainamsaarinen.bsky.social

Featuring work by @johannaennser.bsky.social, @sumingkhoo.bsky.social, @kiusum.bsky.social, and @pennywelch2025.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Uusliberaalin talousoikeuston suurin kusetus on ollut saada keskiluokka uskomaan, että suuret verot estävät heitä pääsemässä rikkaaseen yläluokkaan.

Oikeasti verot ovat vain tehneet siitä mahdollista, että he kuuluvat hyvinvoivaan keskiluokkaan eivätkä pahoinvoivaan alaluokkaan.
May 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Spreading the word about this community-run label system that lets you filter AI images like any other moderation toggle, so you can either minimize or totally hide it from your timeline

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October 18, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Toimittajat: Pari perusasiaa wokesta ja "woke-ideologiasta"

Woke tarkoittaa henkilöä, joka on tullut tietoiseksi ("herännyt näkemään"), miten yhteiskunnalliset rakenteet tuottavat ja ylläpitävät rasismia ja epätasa-arvoa. 1/5

www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
May 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs
April 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Suomen johdonmukainen kanta sotarikoksiin:

Venäjä tekee paha-sotarikoksia
Israel tekee kiva-sotarikoksia
April 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Tired: samppanja ja sairaanhoito
Wired: kuohuviini ja saattohoito
April 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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#yleastudio ssa oivaltavaa keskustelua, mutta yhtä selittävää käsitettä näyttävät kaikki keskustelijat välttävän.

Trumpin hallinnossa vallassa on kuitenkin moderni #äärioikeisto.

Sitä luonnehtivat toki osittain populismi, konservatismi ja nationalismi, mutta sen määräävin piirre on #autoritarismi.
April 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Individual wellbeing is the solution #sarcasm
Another international student was taken by ICE.

The University of Minnesota’s system-wide email did not affirm its commitment to free speech or due process.

But it did point students to the mental health office if they’d like to speak with a therapist about their friend being dragged away.
March 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Päivän yhdistelmä: konservatiivinen ja helluntailainen äiti, täysillä pauhaava Patmos-radio ja puhetta Israelista.

Rakas kaikkeus, anna minulle kärsivällisyyttä, jotta ääneni ei korottuisi aivan liikaa, kun muistutan 50 000 kuolonuhrista ja ihmiselämän universaalista arvosta. 🙏
March 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say
www.science.org
March 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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This BTW is my Exhibit A when I laugh at those who claim that Finland only managed to enact progressive policies because homogenous societies have higher trust, etc.

That gets the causality very much backwards. Trust between mutually distrusting societal groups was built by progressive policies.
Many people haven’t even heard that Finns fought an extremely bloody if brief civil war in 1918. The victorious Whites were originally dead set on eliminating the “Red bacillus” for good. Mass killings were common, and Finland was the first European country to introduce concentration camps.
March 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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I hadn't thought of this, but yes. Finns trust in each other had to be laboriously built: it didn't come by itself.

As recently as my parents' generation, some teachers would remember whose side pupils' families were on in the civil war, and adjust grades accordingly.
This BTW is my Exhibit A when I laugh at those who claim that Finland only managed to enact progressive policies because homogenous societies have higher trust, etc.

That gets the causality very much backwards. Trust between mutually distrusting societal groups was built by progressive policies.
Many people haven’t even heard that Finns fought an extremely bloody if brief civil war in 1918. The victorious Whites were originally dead set on eliminating the “Red bacillus” for good. Mass killings were common, and Finland was the first European country to introduce concentration camps.
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Elina Pekkarinen siteeraa Malcolm X:ää Minna Canth-juhlapuheen aluksi: koulutus on passi tulevaisuuteen, sillä tulevaisuus kuuluu niille, jotka valmistautuvat siihen tänään. #Jyväskylänyliopisto #MinnaCanth
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Oscar-palkitun ’No Other Land’ -dokumentin yksi tekijä Hamdan Ballal pidätetty Länsirannalla. Yleensä ajattelen valtioilla olevan keskeinen rooli kun toinen valtio vainoaa kriittisiä tahoja. Mutta koska mm. USA ihmisoikeuksien syväpudotuksessa, pitäisikö Oscarien takana olevan koneiston vaikuttaa?
One of the makers of an Oscar-winning documentary about Palestinian communities in the West Bank was assaulted in the occupied territory, with his whereabouts unknown after he was detained by the Israeli military, his co-director said.
Oscar winner beaten and detained in Israeli-occupied West Bank
Hamdan Ballal was detained by Israeli soldiers and “has since disappeared,” a former colleague said.
www.politico.eu
March 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked him and his house - part of escalating violence that could be a response to film's international recognition www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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I have to say the worst possible narrative to come out of the Trump era is that every attack on the humanity and survival of every oppressed group is actually a diversion to distract from every other attack on another oppressed group simultaneously.

Grade A divide & conquering ourselves in advance
March 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Countries, firms, states, universities:

Stop caving on individual points!

It is not about “antisemitism”, “DEI”,“trans athletes” or “wokeness”!

It is about complete submission!

Nothing else will be acceptable!

You cannot win alone!

United we stand a chance, divided we will fall!
March 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Eläinkapina on pysäyttänyt rekan Atrian Nurmon broileritehtaalla. Mielenosoitus tuo esille broilerintuotannon järjestelmällisen, valtavan mittakaavan kärsimyksen jota broilerintuottajat, Atria mukaan lukien, aktiivisesti peittelevät.

Lue tiedotteemme: elokapina.fi/news/press-r...
Nyt käynnissä Atrian tehtaalla Suomen ensimmäinen tehoeläintuotannon tehdasblokki | Elokapina, Extinction Rebellion Finland
Elokapinan yhteisöryhmän Eläinkapinan aktivistit ovat pysäyttäneet rekan Atrian Nurmon broileritehtaalla tapahtuvassa mielenosoituksessa. Tämä eläintehdasblo...
elokapina.fi
March 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Dear academic colleagues around the world:

Please consider signing this petition in support of students and academics in #Serbia, who have been made targets of violent incidents during peaceful protests last week.
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hannu-Pekka Björkmanin pitäisi saada Betoni-Jussi joka vuosi. #kansallisaarre #jussit
March 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM