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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 14/09/2026

Viime perjantain "Tiedettä vai hölynpölyä – näennäistieteen lumo" -tapahtuman striimi nyt katsottavissa tiedekulmamedia.helsinki.fi/fi/tiedekulm... . Lavalla @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social , Syksy Räsänen, Ismo Koponen ja minä. Kiitos kaikille hyvistä keskusteluista!

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

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Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide

A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple

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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 08/09/2026

perjantai-iltana tiedekulmassa tieteestä ja näennäistieteestä. puhujina @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social , Syksy Räsänen, Ismo Koponen ja minä tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6...

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The problem is that while transdisciplinary research (which sustainability science often is) can produce good working solutions to practical problems and be policy relevant, researchers also need publications. Result: theoretical/methodological musings of that specific TD collaboraboration.

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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 10/08/2026

Meillä on hankkeessa väikkäripaikka auki (tieteenfilosofia/tieteentutkimus/kognitiotiede). Aiheena tekoälyn käyttö tieteellisessä ongelmanratkaisussa jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... @helsinki.fi

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Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Two papers by Max Planck, the legendary Nobel laureate in physics, were retracted by Springer Nature in 2011, likely due to an algorithm flagging the papers for self-plagiarism and copyright infringement. Read on for how stupid it all is. 🧪

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Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Suomen sijoitus akateemisen vapauden indeksissä on pudonnut rajusti. Tilanne ei ole vielä katastrofaalinen, mutta muutoksen nopeus on todella huolestuttava. Meidän pitäisi olla naapurimaittemme Viron (2.) ja Ruotsin (5.) joukossa, ei Israelin tai Sri Lankan takana. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/t...

Iso visualisointi, joka näyttää lähes sadan maan sijoitukset indeksissä

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Panu Raatikainen @panuraatikainen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

For what it is worth, I expanded my critical remarks on the #BoghossianReport to a brief note: philpapers.org/rec/RAAACN #Philosophy #PhilSky

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/06/2026

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

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The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes, it seems that this is breaking the peer review system for good. (Btw, I just received a review that seems AI-generated.)

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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 16/05/2026

jokaisella internetiin jotain sisältöä tuottavalla taholla on sama ongelma: kuinka saada jutut niille jota asia saattaisi kiinnostaa. ennen somea erilaiset viranomaiset muistaakseni lähinnä luotti siihen että ihmiset eksyy niiden verkkosivuille. ei kauhean tehokas ratkaisu. eli on hyvä [...]

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Yes. It's interesting to read discussions where people who write English extremely well consistently assume that someone who uses LLMs for language editing must be incompetent.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

[...] Not because I'd uncritically accept what they suggest. But because they help me notice when I've been led astray by my Finno-Ugric linguistic intuitions. This of course is possible only because I'm able to recognise a good sentence in English, even if it's not always easy for me to write one.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

[...] I write Finnish well enough to have translated literature, e.g. Jane Austen's juvenilia, and I've won a book prize. It's frustrating that I'll never have similar skills in English, the language in which I have to publish the majority of my academic work. These tools help. [...]

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

[...] This does not mean that I'd necessarily just choose one of those two options. I might, but I might also end up rephrasing the whole message. As you do when you edit text. [...]

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

[...] I read and write English well enough to be able to tell that both suggestions are easier to read than the original sentence, and that the meaning has not changed in a way that would matter in this context. And seeing them is helpful if I'd like to edit the sentence somehow. [...]

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

[...] The first two suggestions (there were more): "But when editing a manuscript, it can be very useful to ask detailed questions and request multiple suggestions." - "However, asking detailed questions and requesting multiple suggestions can be very useful when editing a manuscript." [...]

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

For example, I'm not happy with the last sentence of that comment: it's clunky, and the structure is probably a bit too Finno-Ugric. I just asked Claude to suggest a few ways in which I could make it more fluent. Result: [...]

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It's risky because of all the reasons people here emphasise, but it's possible to mitigate those risks. It's not a good idea to ask Claude to proofread a manuscript. But it can be very useful to ask detailled questions, and to ask for multiple suggestions, when editing a manuscritpt. [...]

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Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Hallitus lanseerasi kehysriihessä ennennäkemättömän kuvion. 20M€ tutkijoiden itse hankkimasta EU-rahasta lasketaan lain mukaiseksi t&k-lisärahoitukseksi ja valtion omia panostuksia vähennetään saman verran. Järjestelmätasolla tällainen ajattelu luo käsittämättömän anti-insentiivin.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Oh well, on the bright side, I'll actually have time to do all the other things I was planning to do in the autumn.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

They should make it a lottery. At least at some stage of the application process.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I applied in 2025. In step 1, the reviews found just one fault in my proposal: they doubted the feasibility of the (methodologically ambitious) project. -> B. In 2026 they stopped assessing feasibility in step 1. Now they decided that I can't apply in 2027 because of that B in 2025.

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Applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to know

The ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl...

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Yes, certainly. The probable impact is just not as obvious and direct as with AI.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Sounds like ingrained anthropocentrism. It's easy to see that AI will have quite an impact on who we are, and from an anthropocentric (and particularly a humanistic) viewpoint that's alarming. Climate change will not change us. It'll "just" destroy the material preconditions of our societies.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

There's also the handbook chapter that I submitted in December 2024 and haven't heard about since. My latest polite query to the editor has gone unanswered.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of this submission. (For the first nine months, it was "with editor".)

Picture from the PoS submission system, showing that a paper was submitted on Apr 15, 2025, and has been under review since Jan 09, 2026.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Can you please add me too? Thanks for the list!

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Tuna @antea04.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

That is of course preferable. I have a trusted copy editor who checks my manuscripts, but I can only afford their services as long as I have external funding. Journals do nothing of the sort, despite the outrageous profits that the large academic publishing houses make.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

What exactly is the harm if the answer is sometimes incorrect? A false positive leads to your manuscript including the original idiomatically weird expression. A false negative encoureges you to look for some other expression.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

And if instead of asking it to explain the fake idiom (which the LLM is of course happy to do), you ask wether the expression in question is idiomatically ok in academic English, it will tell you that no, and suggest something else (which you can ignore and look for a better expression).

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

There I prioritise practical solutions to the deeply ingrained linguistic inequalities in academia. At the same time I put considerable effort into teaching my students how to write properly in Finnish – I fear that the development of LLMs will lead to a world where writing becomes an elite skill.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Bad at languages? Quite the contrary, we're good at languages. What I'm arguing it that one can write in a foreign language well, and still find LLMs helpful in language editing. I try to avoid Finnicisms when writing academic text, as there might not be enough context for the reader to understand.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We are talking about integrity and research ethics, and you can't formulate research ethical arguments without some ethical theory. As to the goals and values, there are multiple, and they pull in different directions (something that a non-idealising approach to ethical theory forces one to notice).

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Of course you shouldn't use expressions you don't understand. But, to give a simple example, after an evening out, a Finn might ask wether you can throw them home. You probably wouldn't understand. I just checked: Claude is able to tell that the correct translation is "Can you give me a ride home?"

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My native language is Finnish. It's not an Indoeuropean language, so despite the fact that I've e.g. translated several books from Indoeuropean languages, I'm never quite sure why some phrasing in English feels right – is it good, or is my Finno-Ugric intuition leading me astray?

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Much of my research focuses on the criticism of the institutional structures that press us to publish too much. I genuinely hate that pressure; it is harmful in every way. But at the same time I don't think that the marginalisation of the actual is an acceptable basis for ethical theory.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Obviously not, and if you have read my comments in this discussion, you are well aware that I wouldn't think so.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Because they are large language models. The one thing they are good at is telling whether some expression is used a lot or not. (Of course such use requires that the user knows what they are talking about, but as this discussion is about researchers editing their own text, that can be assumed.)

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Moreover, I still insist that there is a difference between using LLMs for generating text (I agree that that's a breach of research integrity) and using them for language editing. I fail to see how asking whether some expression is idiomatically aceptable could be a breach of research integrity.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yes, of course it's problematic. But in the non-ideal world where we live there is very much pressure in academia towards producing more papers, faster. And people who write English on a native level have an advantage in that race.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It's not about needing the LLMs, it's about saving time, and thus reducing the disadvantage compared to native speakers.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Were your "non-expert speakers" academics with doctoral degrees and high level but not native-level English skills writing about their own research? That's the relevant demographic group here and the relevant context of the LLM usage.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

And yes, I too have reviewed and very outspokenly rejected an AI-generated paper. But asking Claude to "please suggest five different ways in which I could reduce the word count of this sentence without changing its meaning" is not the same as adding hallucinated references to a manuscript.

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If yours becomes common practice, non-native English speakers will not acknowledge their LLM use. LLMs reduce the time that use case 1 takes, reducing the disadvantage compared to native speakers. Use case 2 requires cognition, but the cognition and passive language skills of the user suffice.

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