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Jukka Hintikka

@ensiok.bsky.social
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M.Sc. Ph.D. Public health, microbes, omics, chemistry, computational science, and existential crises fi.linkedin.com/in/jukka-hintikka-9…

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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A shameful puff piece on our wet rag of a PM recently hit NYT. They let this huckster spread numerous misrepresentations and lies by omission. This article aims to set the record straight. voima.fi/blogit/keski...
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Americans, Do Not Mistake Finland for a Climate Utopia – Our Government Is Clearing Our Forests and Backing Down on Climate Action
In an interview with The New York Times, our Prime Minister Petteri Orpo praised Finland’s climate policy. Finnish journalist Kukka-Maria Ahokas corrects his claims in this column.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This isn't the first authoritarian regime to try to manipulate reality, very much counting Jr's attacks on independent science. Far-right groups are consistently overrepresented in pol violence and more prone to it. But if you lean fascist, you'll probably try to deny that.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
[Possibly staged but reposting anyway]
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Michael Meister @michaelmeister.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Timing is everything photo collection #4
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Wonder why no one wants to review anymore? @springernature.com had to wait for a week before making such a move, when I've just finished with my report. We do reviews out of reciprocal pressure and the kindness of our heart. There's absolutely no payment or even academic clout on the line for us.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A recent surprise paper in JACC:Advances, funded by a tech bro with no relevant qualifications, has had keto-zealots and Fox News heads soyfacing, which always begets an impression of impropriety. In short, the article is bad and possibly dangerous. 1/
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 16/04/2025
Doctor Safiya “Exhausted From the Torture” as Israel Pressures Him to Confess to Acts He Didn’t Commit, Lawyer Says
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
She's digging her brush
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thinking about the time my astronomy professor showed this picture of a sunspot with earth for scale and gave me 3 subsequent weeks of existential terror.
A telescope picture of a sunspot, with earth for scale.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Ylpeänä ilmoitan että olen ehdolla kunta- ja aluevaaleissa 2025.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The new meta AI is dope
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Atte Kaleva, a finnish right-wing doorstop, is "smelling freedom in the air" while sucking up to Trump. Anyway, the headlines below show people being arrested on thought crimes by masked thugs.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Fellow PhDs, do you ever feel like you're useless? Have you considered having imposter syndrome? Do not let big psych gaslight you! You are more aware of your skills than you know. Your dissertation does, in fact, suck.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 19/03/2025
No, Senator Schumer. Precisely zero “little babies” had their “heads chopped off.” And there is no forensic (DNA, autopsy, etc.) or photographic/video evidence, nor any victims or legal complainants over 16 months after October 7 to prove a single woman was raped by Palestinian fighters that day.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Is it safe to use ChatGPT for your task" by Aleksander Tulkanov. Simple is beautiful:
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
How does heavy lifting and dieting affect microbes? Our results suggest a shift towards dysbiosis but also swift bounce back when allowed to recover: doi.org/10.1080/1550...
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Unveiling the impact of competition weight loss on gut microbiota: alterations in diversity, composition, and predicted metabolic functions
Competitive sports and sports nutrition, popular among amateur athletes aiming for a lean physique, have limited research on gut microbiota.We conducted a 46-week study to analyze the consequences ...
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Dr Love brings up a worrying trend: Preprints being weaponized by anti-science actors to get undeserving headlines for playdough science. Publishing is a real slog atm, preprints are a way to quickly share your results and expose them to scrutiny. Journalists are not fit to provide that scrutiny
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A garbage study funded AND published by RFK Jr's goons is currently making the rounds in anti-intellectual circles. They particularly love the deceptive barplot. I've tried to pre-emptively summarize this shitshow.
Heavy-texted breakdown of fake scientific paper published in Jan 2025
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Skeptical Christmas, door 22: The threats to human wisdom today echo those of the dark ages: Pursuit of power trumps pursuit of wisdom. Belief and emotion trump curiosity and evidence. Some environmental factors are different: Floods of useless data, disinformation, and rising inequality.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A skeptical christmas. Door 19: Scientist are not suddenly getting "political". There is not field of science that exists outside politics. If you create overaching results in health/social/environmental science you damn better be ready to get political.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Skeptical christmas, door 18: Be vigilant of misinformation and misconceptions online! Lots of it intentional bullshit spread by bad actors. To learn what disinformation campaigns you might be encountering, follow @disinfo.eu
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Skeptical christmas day 16: False balancies are everywhere, not least because of the shortcomings of media. Familiarize yourself with your blind spots and seek information from scientific institutions.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Skeptical christmas, door 12: Things are almost always caused by a cascade of interacting variables. Familiarize yourself with the Hill criteria and Ronald Giere's framework to combat simplistic fallacies about causality.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Calendar door 11: The power of statistics is in revealing the effects of e.g. time or exposure from beneath the noise of confounders. Correct use of statistics demands the consideration of covariates and usage of proper metrics.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Skeptical christmas doors 8-9: What is data? Observations collected from our surrounding, signals recorded by a device. Information is derived from data through intellectual and physical work done by humans
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A skeptical christmas, door 7: Scientific process is the collective effort of people to probe reality and discover truths. Scientists are its henchmen, and they are also public servants. Go pester your local scientist with questions today
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A skeptical christmas, day 6: On Dec 6th we celebrate 🇫🇮 Finnish independence 🇫🇮 and also Finnish achievements in philosophy. Critical scientific realism was proposed by Ilkka Niiniluoto in his 2002 opus: While some truths in the world are objective and independent, their observation is not.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A skeptical christmas, Door 5: Simplifications: reductionist interpretations, false notions of association/causality, and categorization. E.g. you've heard of chemicals but have you heard of 💀CHEMICALS💀? There's no robust classification of good and bad substances obviously, just simplifications.
comics strip where someone grabs a "chemical-free" drink and thinks too much of its semantics
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A skeptical Christmas, door 4: Heuristics are rules-of-thumb or approximations to solutions that we are blessed and cursed with everyday. What are heuristics that you rely on when e.g. grocery shopping? What emotions and information are they based on? How do they change on a stressful day?
A terminator assessing groceries using simple rule-of-thumbs
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A skeptical Christmas, door 3. Beliefs might be formed through upbringing, attractive simplification, integration of a collective belief into identity etc. Even bening beliefs should be weighed against what is observable reality to avoid hanging on to them or even violently defending them.
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A skeptical christmas, door 2: Emotions accompany and complement intellect. When you get offended, do you deny it or take it as a chance to learn more about your values and biases? “Facts over feelings” tropes are lazy deceptive. In isolation, feelings dictate the establishment of facts
A man facing a pride of lions, who represent his emotions
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A skeptical christmas, door 1. How has science, intellectual pursuit, or simple curiosity changed you life? Sincerely, Former arachnophobe and former manosphere denizen
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Jukka Hintikka @ensiok.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I heard this the new cat photo platform
It's a cat
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