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Petri Ylikoski

@ylikoskip.bsky.social
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A philosopher of science interested in too many things. Professor of Sociology (Science and Technology Studies) in University of Helsinki.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Interesting bit here about which occupations have the lowest GenAI adoption relative to predicted automatability. Side note but how do you end up predicting that 30% of animal caretaking can be done by AI? www.nber.org/papers/w35677
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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 28/08/2026
Meillä on ERC-hankkeessa väikkäripaikan haku auki 3.9. asti. Ala on tieteenfilosofia/tieteentutkimus/kognitiotiede ja aihe tekoälyn käyttö tieteellisessä ongelmanratkaisussa jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
80% of the articles published in AI & Society seem to be AI slop these days. I want to find the good articles but I hate wading through the slop.
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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...
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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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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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Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Miten voi olla, että viime yön kaltaisessa tilanteessa valtion ylimmän johdon keskeinen tiedotuskanava kansalaisille on X?
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I also worry about some version of Goodhart's law here. If everyone knows AI will determine if their paper is accepted, they will start to write for AI. And since we all have access to AI, we can iterate until our paper is accepted by AI. And then we have no idea if papers are actually good anymore.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 22/04/2026
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A new paper in Science measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models. The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We are organising a pre-conference workshop on Values in science in the rest of the world in Helsinki in August, just before ENPOSS 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract!
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CFP – Pre-conference workshop: Values in science in the rest of the world
24–25 August 2026, Helsinki – just before ENPOSS 2026 Keynote speakers: David Ludwig (Wageningen University) Karoliina Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki) The idea that social, political and ethical ...
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/ Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2026
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European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) 2026
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Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence
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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026
Kriittiset digitaaliset palvelut olisi syytä rakentaa suomalaisten ja eurooppalaisten toimijoiden varaan. Tästä on nyt käynnissä kansalaisaloite, nimeä alle siis! digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi
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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys
Suomen arki, demokratia ja turvallisuus nojaavat yhä enemmän digitaalisiin järjestelmiin. Vaalit, sosiaaliturva, verotus ja monet muut yhteiskunnan perustoiminnot pyörivät tietojärjestelmien varassa. ...
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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📢 Call for Papers ENPOSS. 🔷 The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences invites submissions to its 15th Conference (Helsinki 26-28 August) Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2026. Notification of acceptance: 1 May, 2026. More details: 🔹 enposs.eu 🔹 blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
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European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) 2026
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Microsoft's CEO wants us to stop calling AI garbage Slop. I agree! Instead of Slop, we should call it Nadella, to show him our appreciation of all he's done for us!
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Ely Strömberg @elystromberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Mine and @pengzell.bsky.social paper "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" was published in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social yesterday edu.nl/y7ct3 More details in the future, but for now short explanation of what we did, and the origin story of the paper. [Thread below]
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How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?
Article: How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility? | Sociological Science | Posted December 11, 2025
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
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European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) 2026
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Rajapinta @rajapinta.co · 05/12/2025
Problems in deploying digital materials and methods in social research should be understood as—perhaps primarily—challenges in reconciling diverging epistemic conceptions across fields and communities, suggests Juho Pääkkönen in his PhD. Read the lectio praecursoria: rajapinta.co/2025/12/04/l...
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Lectio Praecursoria: Credibility-building for social science big data
Problems in deploying new digital materials and methods in social research should be understood as – perhaps primarily – challenges in reconciling diverging epistemic conceptions across fields and …
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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 28/11/2025
A funded PhD position in philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving. At @helsinki.fi @tint-philosophy.bsky.social #philsci jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 21/11/2025
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu
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European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS)
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🔈Job Alert! IAS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science -SWECSS. ⌛Deadline: September 30th Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l... #academicsky #css
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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is exactly what doing AI-assisted research looks to me
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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My take on the NATO summit. Lots of unintended consequences with Europeans agreeing to something that few intend to deliver on. NATO ignoring its major challenge, fighting together as Europe with less US. That requires deep reforms, not vague spending pledges. www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
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NATO’s “Brain Death” in The Hague
At the 2025 NATO Summit, allies pledged to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP. But spending targets alone ignore deeper issues. Europe must shift its focus to building capable, integrated mili...
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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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John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The understudied dangers of anthropomorphic seduction - "While the AI industry directs much effort into improving the reasoning abilities of LLMs—with mixed results—the progress in communicative abilities remains underappreciated." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents | PNAS
A growing body of research suggests that the recent generation of large language model (LLMs) excel, and in many cases outpace humans, at writing p...
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
Norrköping campus at sunset
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
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Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/02/2025
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Searle's paper, titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2," found that Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots. The study revealed that reCAPTCHA extensively monitors users' cookies, browsing history, and browser environment (including canvas rendering, screen resolution, mouse movements, and user-agent data) — all of which can be used for advertising and tracking purposes. Through analyzing over 3,600 users, the researchers found that solving image-based challenges takes 557% longer than checkbox challenges and concluded that reCAPTCHA has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of human time valued at $6.1 billion in wages while generating massive profits for Google through its tracking capabilities and data collection, with the value of tracking cookies alone estimated at $888 billion.
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
www.programmablemutter.com/p/americas-p... I've a new piece on the Biden administration's plan to use export controls and the semiconductor chokepoint to shape the global AI system. Brief summarizing thread.
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America's plan to control global AI
Gaia est omnis divisa in partes tres*
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
JUFO is doing its work. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/12/finl...
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Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from J...
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I tried to lose the metaphor of levels in sociological theory, but apparently, the journal lost the paper's abstract. doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
New paper: Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss4/a...
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Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat - Ecology & Society
As in many other fields, mechanism-based theorizing has become increasingly popular in social-ecological research. However, calls for mechanism-based explanations and middle-range theorizing have rema...
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DataLit @datalit.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Anna-Mari Wallenberg avaa moniulotteisesta asiaa - tekoäly- ja digijuttuja säännellään eri asutuksissa ja direktiiveissä. Näiden tulkinta ja toimeenpano ovat kesken ja vaativat työtä. Eikä kristallipallo vielä kerro, miten tässä tullaan onnistumaan. www.datalit.fi/eun-digisaan...
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EU:n digisääntelyn monet muodot - Dataliteracy
EU:n digisääntelyn monet muodot YLE uutisoi 7.8.2024 digisääntelystä ja sen vaikutuksista eurooppalaiseen tekoälykehitykseen sekä pää- että verkkouutisissa (toimittaja: Teemu Hallamaa).  Uutisoinnissa...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Huge congratulations to Rodrigo Martínez Peña, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Complex Causality. Bridging analytical sociology and social-ecological systems research"! Excellent work, Dr. Martínez Peña🥂
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
A small team of these editors could, with a modest time investment and effectively no start-up budget, create an open access journal -- say, "Theories of Society" -- with the same editorial board and consulting editors. Fundamentally, this is a collective action problem. It's solvable.
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