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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tutkijamme Satu Helske selvittää ERC-rahoituksella perhevapaauudistusten yhteyksiä lastenhoidon jakamiseen eri puolilla Eurooppaa. Tutkimus tuottaa uutta tietoa isien perhevapaiden käyttöä tukevista ja rajoittavista tekijöistä. Onnittelut @satuhelske.bsky.social! invest.utu.fi/fi/news/erc-...

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ERC-rahoitus käynnistää tutkimuksen yhteiskunnan ja tukiverkkojen merkityksestä isien perhevapaiden käytössä - INVEST Research Flagship Centre

Erikoistutkija Satu Helske selvittää, miten lastenhoidon jakaminen perheissä on muuttunut, kun isille suunnattuja perhevapaita on lisätty Suomessa ja muissa Euroopan...

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Jussi Jalonen @jojalonen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Laura Wimanin väitöskirjasta on nyt sanottu hämmentävän paljon. Poliitikot, maamme valtiovarainministeri yhtenä heistä, ja vielä pari ekonomistiakin on ollut äänessä. Seuraavaksi äänessä olen minä. Ketju seuraa.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Okay so I read the whole working paper behind this claim. I’m going to accept the causal analysis as-is and explain why I still don’t think this makes sense. Starting with: the comparison is between counties with vs. without lots of iPhone network coverage, NOT owning vs. not owning an iPhone 🧵

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elinafuturist @elinafuturist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Kokoomuksen viestintä: "Hei pitäisköhän meidän vaihtaa nuo onnelliset possut pois meidän sivuilta, kun me just äänestettiin, että urosporsaiden kiduttaminen saa jatkua, kun se tuottaa enemmän rahaa..." #kastraatiokielto #kivullakilpailukykyä @kokoomus.bsky.social

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/05/2026

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

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Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

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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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Matti Vihola @mattivihola.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Some new work on (dynamic path length) Riemannian manifold HMC. RMHMC with a block-diagonal mass matrix admits an explicit (symmetric & reversible) integrator. We find the parameters of the sampler, including the hierarchical mass matrix using on-line adaptation.

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 01/04/2026

To lead in open science efforts, we must engage in open science practices. These papers reporting on the reproducibility et al of science projects aren't even accessible. At least one of the commentaries was also closed access. This is a huge lost opportunity and sets a bad example to all.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

#rstats Periodic reminder: if you are writing articles / books w/ matrix, vector notation, my {matlib} 📦 has a whole suite of functions to make your life easier. Want a matrix X? --> latexMatrix() |> Eqn() Eqn() renders too in #RStudio Viewer See the vignette: friendly.github.io/matlib/artic...

Calls to laxteMatrix() to create the matrix expression A x = b

Code:
Eqn(latexMatrix("a", nrow = "m", ncol="n", matrix="bmatrix"),
latexMatrix("x", nrow = "n", ncol=1),
Eqn_hspace(mid='='),
latexMatrix("b", nrow = "m", ncol=1))

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Riitta Monto @riittamonto.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Vaikka poliitikot korostavat juhlapuheissaan tutkimus-, kehittämis- ja innovaatiopanostuksia, perustutkimuksen edellytyksiä ei ole vahvistettu, toteaa prof. Jukka Westermarck @utu.fi: Seuraavassa hallitusohjelmassa tulisi tunnustaa perustutkimuksen arvo ja vahvistaa sitä merkittävillä panostuksilla

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Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 18/03/2026

I am recruiting, still one week left to apply!

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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys @digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi · 25/02/2026

🇫🇮 2/3 valtion palveluista Yhdysvalloissa – Suomi on digitaalisesti panttivanki! 🚨 #DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Suomi #Tietoturva #USA #Pilvipalvelut 1/

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/02/2026

I just hate tibbles so much. (don't @ me)

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I have no doubt LLMs can out-perform the average "data analyst" as described in this piece but that's a very low bar indeed. Maybe this will help promote the importance of the "statistician in the loop" something we should already have but refuse to pay for.

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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

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Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager

Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks

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Lauri Lavanti @lauri.lavanti.fi · 16/02/2026

📢 ⚠️ Päätöksentekoa ilman tietoa? Hallituksen leikkaukset Tilastokeskukseen uhkaavat yhteiskuntaamme. #Tilastokeskus #Demokratia #TutkittuTieto 1/

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵

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Otto Kyyrönen @ottokyyronen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Orpon hallitus leikkaa Tilastokeskukselta 6 miljoonaa. Mm. seuraavat tilastot ovat uhattuina: -Teollisuuden uudet tilaukset -Työtaistelutilasto -Väestöennuste -Vaalitilastot -Ansiotasoindeksi -Tuotannon suhdannekuvaaja Samaan aikaan Orpon hallitus keventää suurituloisten verotusta 1,5 miljardilla.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys @digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi · 04/02/2026

Aloitteen löydät osoitteesta www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/16... Verkkosivut löydät osoitteesta digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi 10/10

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"Our job is to find the correct choice of specifications, not to see how many changes a result is robust to. A result can be completely correct, and yet not be robust to even small changes; conversely, a result can be robust to many different changes, and yet be wrong." By @captgouda24.bsky.social

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"Robustness" Is Not Replication

We must be clear about what we are doing

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers. Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.

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F-Antithesis @f-antithesis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

What were learning and have been learning is that without enforcement, not complying with the law, means nothing

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

"How to get better research - and teaching - from universities" TLDR: Allow more research vs teaching specialization utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/c...

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Jouni Helske @jounihelske.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Working on a fairly complex model and getting good tail-ESS but poor bulk-ESS values. Seems somewhat counterintuitive at first, but the model has multimodal posterior which likely explains this. @mc-stan.org #Bayesian #mcmc #stan #stats #rstats

R console output of the posterior summaries:
sumr |> arrange(ess_tail)
# A tibble: 3,986 × 4
variable rhat ess_bulk ess_tail
<chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 gamma[4,9] 1.02 153. 1861.
2 gamma[4,8] 1.02 191. 1921.
3 m[4] 1.02 211. 2336.
4 A[4,5] 1.01 440. 2918.

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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Dear Finland, time to follow.

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minnapunakallio.bsky.social @minnapunakallio.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Kansantaloudellisessa aikakauskirjassa 4/2025 kirjoitetaan, että rekisteriaineistojen hyödyntäminen on vaikeutunut Suomessa. Syynä kustannusten kasvu sekä käyttölupien myöntökriteereihin tehdyt tiukennukset. 👉 Tämä vaarantaa tutkimusinfran sekä tutkitun tiedon laadun. 👇 journal.fi/kak/article/...

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Empiirisen tutkimuksen edellytykset heikentyneet Suomessa

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Edward Hunter Christie @ehunterchristie.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

1-8 We're getting very close to what Anders describes. Normal, civilised US citizens need to understand it's their system that is sick, not just one man. In pretty much every other democracy I can think of, doing a January 6 number would have meant imprisonment and being barred from public office.

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Is Claude Code useful? Yes. Did it remove code instead of testing it when I prompted to write tests to increase coverage? Also yes

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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Se, mikä oikeasti on haudattu, on talousjournalismi, joka heitti pyyhkeen kehään kauan sitten. Ongelma ei ole yksittäinen juttu vaan koko kentän läpäisevä ilmiö: taloustoimittajat toimivat poliitikkojen äänitorvina sen sijaan, että purkaisivat heidän väitteensä osiin.

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Nyt se tapahtui – Hallitus heittämässä pyyhkeen kehään isossa tavoitteessaan

Hallitus voi haudata 100 000 työllisen tavoitteen. Näin näkevät nyt kaksi keskeistä kokoomusvaikuttajaa.

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

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Liisa Lankila 🦋 @liisalankila.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Kyky kirkkaaseen ajatteluun on kuin lihas, joka kehittyy kun sitä käytetään. Jos tämän ääneen sanominen on elitismiä, on se samaa elitismiä, joka 1800-luvulla vaati, että kansalaisten pitäisi osata kirjoittaa, ja joka ajoi 1970-luvulla 9-vuotista peruskoulua.

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Kolumni | Kansakunnan tyhmistyminen on eksistentiaalinen uhka demokratialle

Lyhytvideot ja tekoäly vaarantavat ajattelutaitomme.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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Denmark's PM urges Trump to 'stop the threats' of annexing Greenland

The prime minister of Denmark called on Trump to “stop the threats” of the U.S. annexing Greenland after renewed comments garnered international attention.

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Jouni Helske @jounihelske.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I'd like to see @lewisgoodall.com do this with every European leader.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026

Lewis Goodall grills Labour’s Darren Jones on the UK’s repsonse to the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026

The world spent $2.7T on weapons in 2025 In 2026, UN asks the world for 1% of that - $23B to save 87M lives (due to lack of financing, down from estimated 305M in 2025) *10 US billionaires ADDED to their wealth untaxed $700B in 2025 Details here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/S6MoKWG...

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A World Without Guardrails: What 2025 Changed — and What 2026 Inherits

YouTube video by Onest.

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