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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/07/2026

In each edition we also highlight recent Data Insights, our bite-sized nuggets on the world and how it’s changing. One of today's: The price of lighting has dropped over 99.9% since 1700. Read and subscribe here: ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-07-03

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Global food trade, heat deaths, paying for CO2 emissions, and more

A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data.

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Atte Harjanne @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi · 28/06/2026

Muistutus: SDP on hyväosaisten eläkkeensaajien edunvalvontapuolue. Noin ylipäänsä vaikean sopeutuksen häämöttäessä toivoisin näkeväni mahd. vähän tällaisia täysiä poissulkemisia. yle.fi/a/74-20231601

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Osmo Soininvaara @osmosoininvaara.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Keir Starmerin ero on jatkumoa, jossa demarien vaalivoittoa seuraa syvä pettymys. Demareilla ei ole missään maassa toteuttamiskelpoista ohjelmaa. www.soininvaara.fi/2026/06/22/d...

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Demareilla ei ole missään maassa toteuttamiskelpoista ohjelmaa.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 23/05/2026

One in four cars sold in 2025 was electric. The International Energy Agency (IEA) just published its latest annual Global EV Outlook. It provides estimates for electric vehicle sales in 2025. One in four (25%) cars sold in 2025 were electric, more than double the share from just four years earlier

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Perhaps the ribosomes are really in charge and everything else is just along for the ride?

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Consider the Selfish Ribosome

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The class ends with a discussion of what AI alignment means in a pluralistic world, and -- now that students understand it well enough -- a critique of the descriptive and normative validity of standard theories of rationality. bsky.app/profile/xuan...

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Examining news on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Across social media sites, political posting is tightly linked to affective #polarization - the most partisan users post the most As casual users disengage & polarized partisans remain vocal, the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more ideologically extreme arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Finland has a goal to be net zero GHG emissions by 2035. Emissions were declining, the LULUCF removals were strong, the plan was looking good, but then LULUCF collapsed. Net GHG emissions have actually risen over the last decade! www.treasuryfinland.fi/investor-rel... 1/

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Health effects of cash transfers: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Psychotropic drug use decreased by 8 %–11 %, with suggestive evidence of fewer outpatient visits due to mental health issues. #UBI #Economics

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Health effects of cash transfers: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment

This study provides causal evidence that cash transfer programs have the potential to alleviate the income–health trap in advanced countries. We analy…

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Unmet medical needs due to financial reasons, long waiting list or distance 2024. 1. Greece (21.9%) 2. Finland (12.4%) #finland #inequality #healthcare #politiikka #EU #EUstat

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Unmet medical needs due to financial reasons, long waiting list or distance 2024. 1. Greece (21.9%) 2. Finland (12.4%) #finland #inequality #healthcare #politiikka #EU #EUstat

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Janne Hälinen @jannehalinen.fi · 14/08/2025

Yllättävän vähän näkee julkista keskustelua siitä, miten EU pyrkii romuttamaan kansalaisten yksityisyyttä ja viestinnän luottamuksellisuutta. Mistä perusarvoista luovumme seuraavaksi? www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha...

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Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Cont...

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Eric Rawlins @erawlins.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Selittää pitkälle suhdetta myös julkiseen velkaan: "Americans see debtors as market participants who sometimes need a "fresh start" --. Norwegians and Swedes as citizens with temporary economic problems [and] Finns as moral failures who must prove their worthiness through prolonged suffering."

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In Finland? A Theoretical Tourist's Guide to Debt Enforcement

"Purpose of visit?" the border officer asked. "We're on holiday," we replied. "In Finland?" came the response, with that particular Nordic mix of genuine puzzlement and polite concern that maybe we'...

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 06/08/2025

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation

Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A new Finnish flavor of feline coat coloration, “salmiak,” is associated with a 95-kb deletion downstream of the KIT gene onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #finland #cats #genetics #feline #suomi #salmiak #salmiakki

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ukrainan tukemisen vaihtoehtoiskustannus? Ukrainalaisen pakolaisen kustannus EU:ssa on n.€12,000–€25,000 vuodessa (lähde: Brugel) Jos Ukraina romahtaa ja 60% väestöstä (22M) pakeenee EU:n alueelle kustannus on €260-€550 miljardia vuodessa. #EU #Ukraina #taloustiede

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Bold European Union action is needed to support Ukrainian refugees

Hosting Ukrainian refugees could cost European Union countries in excess of €40 billion this year. A dedicated EU fund is needed to manage the burden.

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Tuukka Saarimaa @tsaarimaa.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Harmittamaan jäi vain se, että oman tutkimusalan esimerkissä vaihtoehtoiskustannus on jonkinlainen mielipide-asia eikä todellinen kustannus. Tietenkin se on aito kustannus myös alla olevassa esimerkissä ja tuki on tukea. 2/2

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Euroopan Komission oikeusvaltiokertomus 2025 #oikeusvaltio #laki #oikeus #suomi #EY #EU commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Euroopan Komission oikeusvaltiokertomus 2025 #oikeusvaltio #laki #oikeus #suomi #EY #EU commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

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Osmo Soininvaara @osmosoininvaara.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Nykyisessä maailmantilanteessa EU:n on poistettava Venäjältä veto-oikeus EU:n päätöksenteossa. On joko poistettava yksimielisyyden vaatimus tai on karsittava jäseniä tai vietävä ääni oikeus EU:n periaatteita rikkovilta jäseniltä. Äärivaihtoehto on lakkauttaa EU ja perustaa se uudestaan.

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Daniel Wurgaft @danielwurgaft.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

🚨New paper! We know models learn distinct in-context learning strategies, but *why*? Why generalize instead of memorize to lower loss? And why is generalization transient? Our work explains this & *predicts Transformer behavior throughout training* without its weights! 🧵 1/

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Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org · 18/06/2025

Merz's 'dirty work' remark is appalling (as is the apparent quiet approval by other Europeans). It's like people openly admit that this whole 'rules-based thing' is just a pretense.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 16/06/2025

Been reading about early #ColdWar #Finnish #intelligence #history and man, it’s _wild._ Like, a Social Democrat officer ran the largely privately funded military intelligence, which (among other things) spied upon both the Communists and the civilian security police (SUPO), ...

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eleutherai.bsky.social @eleutherai.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Can you train a performant language model using only openly licensed text? We are thrilled to announce the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of openly licensed and public domain text. We train 7B models for 1T and 2T tokens and match the performance similar models like LLaMA 1 & 2

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Jarkko Lauspalo @lauspalo.com · 01/06/2025

Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵 Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/

Verotulot suhteessa BKT

Ruotsi: 26,80%
Tanska: 24,50%
Islanti: 22,40%
Norja: 21,30%
Suomi: 20,00%

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“Adaptive maximization of social welfare” - out now in the current issue of Econometrica: www.econometricsociety.org/publications... @ecmaeditors.bsky.social

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Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In 1995, Jeff Bezos's parents, Jackie and Mike Bezos, invested $245,573 in Amazon.com, which was a loan to help Bezos start his online bookstore. Entrepreneurship is a carnival game.

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Lurvig @lurvig.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Miksi Suomen ulkomaiset sijoitukset tuottavat näin huonosti? @olli-karkkainen.bsky.social @villekaitila.bsky.social @rogerwessman.bsky.social @tervio.bsky.social @ikaukora.bsky.social @osmosoininvaara.bsky.social lähde: The foreign returns of nations: A puzzle cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 17/05/2025

Not something one could figure out from the news.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The 'Kaya Identify' (simplified here) is a decomposition of the growth in fossil CO2 emissions (black dots) into economic growth (orange), energy efficiency & structure change (green), & carbon intensity (blue). It is often interpreted as "therefore we need degrowth". No.... 1/

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

How do genetic and non-genetic information influence the pace of evolution? How can information become a significant evolutionary force within brains? Check this paper in Interface Focus @royalsocietypublishing.org @eplantec.bsky.social scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

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NtiViitanen @ntiviitanen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Se on kiintoisaa, miten moni ilmoittaa kannattavansa oikeusvaltiota, mutta ottaa sitten esim. kantaa (jopa poliitikon asemassa) tuomioistuimen yksittäistapauksiin ja ilmoittaa ne vääriksi ei-oikeudellisin perustein 😐 Tai vaatii, että lakia pitäisikin tunneperusteisesti soveltaa eri tavalla toisiin.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

What is the right amount of protein intake? It's not "bro science" of 1 gm/pound body weight per day. "You're being lied to about protein" @vox.com ($) www.vox.com/future-perfe... open-access systematic review: Maximum benefit 1.6 gm/kg/day (note kg not lb) bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/6...

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Updated fossil CO2 emission estimates from @robbieandrew.bsky.social Based on the latest data, we estimate fossil CO2 emissions went up 0.9% in 2024. Listen to his presentation here (starting about 8:55): cicero.oslo.no/no/arrangeme... 1/

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 30/04/2025

New video! This covers the fundamentals of quantum computing and builds up to a step-by-step walk-through of an important algorithm in the field. youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU

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But what is Quantum Computing? (Grover's Algorithm)

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

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