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Tuomas Heikkilä

@tuohmas.bsky.social
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Doctoral researcher in media and communication at University of Helsinki. Chair of @rajapinta.co. Studies misinfo and its correction.

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Tuomas Heikkilä @tuohmas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New Paper alert 🚨 User corrections of misinformation in science are common and sophisticated. My analysis of conversations around retracted IVM and HCQ studies on Twitter is now out in PUS. The findings offer cause for modest optimism. Some takeaways below (🧵) doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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Tuomas Heikkilä @tuohmas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today, Yle News managed to capture a facial expression previously unknown to science—known among Finnish foreign policy observers only as 'arvopohjainen realismi' (value-based realism). yle.fi/a/74-20205552
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Tuomas Heikkilä @tuohmas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Misinformaation ikävät puolet ovat kiistattomia, mutta tapa, jolla puhumme niiden uhkista, ei ole paras mahdollinen. Tutkimani kritiikki auttaa hahmottamaan yleisemminkin, miten somen ongelmia ei ainakaan kannata lähestyä: mediaviestinta.fi/mevi2020/202...
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Miksi misinformaatio ei ole ongelma? – Mevi
Vaikka mis- ja disinformaation uhka niin yksilöille kuin yhteiskunnalle on laajasti tunnustettu, onko huoli liioiteltua? Tuomas Heikkilä tarkastelee artikkessaan, miten tutkijat ovat problematisoineet...
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Stefanie Sirén-Heikel @mssiren.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“I care about an educational system that has given up on fostering in young people the imagination, resilience, and tolerance for boredom and failure that are necessary to build a world better than the one we have now.”
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Anna Rantasila @extendedfeline.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Doot doot: The book is coming out on May 30! www.routledge.com/Communicatin...
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Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths
This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, ...
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Tuomas Heikkilä @tuohmas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
No surprise from an administration of disinformation actors. Just feeling deeply angry for my colleagues. Pretending that research on misinformation ”infringes on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens” is such pathetic bs. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
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Tuomas Heikkilä @tuohmas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Proud to announce that @rajapinta.co has today published guidelines for research ethics with a dedicated focus on generative artificial intelligence. rajapinta.co/2025/04/14/r...
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Rajapinta published guidelines for generative AI in research
Rajapinta association published guidelines for generative AI in research to answer the increasing interest and worries related to generative AI in academic work. // Rajapinta ry on julkaissut gener…
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Nuppu Pelevina @nuppu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Enemmän, nopeammin, tehokkaammin! Vauhti se kun kiihtyy, mutta mitähän kohti tässä oikein pusketaan? Teknouskovaisten rinnalle tarvitaan nähdäksemme myös kriittistä näkökulmaa.
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