ICE tekee uutisen mukaan ulkomaalaisvalvontaa automatsioidulla kasvojentunnistusteknologialla. Aika hurjaa, jos totta. No, suunta yksityisyyden suojan suhteen sama täällä, eduskunta käsittelee nyt lakia, joka avaa passeja varten annetut biometriset kuvat ja sormenjäljet rikostutkinnan käyttöön.

Arguably this is 2 pages too many, given that grant decisions are mostly based on CV + abstract: "We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Jutun mukaan Helsingin poliisi ohjaa epäiltyjen avustajan valintaa siten, että "poliisi käytännössä valitsee asianajajan". Näin avustettavien etua poiisin mielestä liian hanakasti ajavat juristit jäisivät ilman asiakkaita. Kuulostaa hyvin merkittävältä epäkohdalta.

It’s always funny to see how robust Evil Functionalism is. This is the thesis that literally anything that happens must ultimately serve the interests of “the system” through some perverse feedback loop. Presented as radical critique, it is just Panglossian Functionalism with the polarity reversed.

Iso muutos ainakin periaattellisella tasolla. Milloinkohan on Suomessa viimeksi olleet kansalaisoikeudet muodollisesti sidottuja työmarkkina-asemaan ja tulonlähteisiin?

Rest in power to the absolute greatest that my generation had to offer, #DAngelo. Thank you fo your music, your soul, your wisdom, your brilliance, your humanity. I will treasure the memory of hearing you sing. Also #FuckCancer so very much. variety.com/2025/music/n...

🚨🚨Excellent and important news: The pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secured a majority in a pivotal #Moldovan election that is set to keep the country on track to joining the #EU amidst massive Russian interference campaign. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/poll...

Yleltä laaja artikkeli Euroopan etsityimmästä miehestä Jan Marsalekista: ”Hehkutetun saksalaisyrityksen johtaja Jan Marsalek paljastui miljardiluokan huijariksi. Uusien mediatietojen mukaan hän asuu Moskovassa ja työskentelee turvallisuuspalvelu FSB:lle” yle.fi/a/74-20179876 >

Presented at PRC10: Using an #AI detection tool, @theaacr.bsky.social detected 36% of abstracts contained at least some #LLM text though authors disclosed use for only 9% of papers studied www.science.org/cont...#AI#LLMy @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social @royperlis.bsky.social @evanko.bsky.social @science.org

On 8 September, the Supreme Court signalled its support for ICE’s continued use of racial profiling in immigration policing. In the decision, “common sense” does the heavy lifting, at the expense of facts, evidence, and individual rights. By Jennifer M. Chacón ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnan ylläpitämät julkaisuportaalit tieteellisille lehdille ja kirjoille. http://Journal.fi:ssä ilmestyy noin 150 tiedelehteä:journal.fi 3/

In this Working Scientist profile, Kelly Cobey describes to Nature how her early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, which is now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment. #WomeninSTEM #Academicsky 🧪

BREAKING | At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety. apple.news/ASzRR3NWOQtK...

On Sep 2 and 15, Trump ordered the United States Navy to destroy small speed boats in the Caribbean. In both cases, all on board died. MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL on the lawlesssness of these targeted killings. verfassungsblog.de/killing-carr...

We stand with @picumofficial.bsky.social in calling out the EU's proposed Deportation Regulations. 🚨 The EU’s new “Return Regulation” expands detention - including in offshore sites - fuels racial profiling & strips away rights. Here’s why civil society is united in rejecting it ⬇️

For this week's #TidyTuesday, a visualization showing how more and more countries allow visa-free travel to most of the world's destinations Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

Little Simz’s new single “Don’t Leave Too Soon” is here! #HipHopSky #RapSky #MusicSky

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Jos Euroopan rajavalvonnan rahoitus kiinnostaa, niin Statewatch on koonnut tietoja Frontexin jäsenmaille myöntämästä rahoituksesta 2008-2024. Juonipaljastus: rahoitus on ollut kasvamaan päin.

“We have the largest jail infrastructure in the world, and it’s an easy thing for ICE to fall back on,” said @silkys13.bsky.social, the executive director of @detentionwatchnetwork.org, to @nytimes.com. “The jail is a really central component of the deportation machine.”

Enemmistö ei pidä sukupuolten tasa-arvoa saavutettuna Suomessa, kertoo selvitys #nyyssifi

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement

“Controlling for non-independence by default may result in one of 5 outcomes: elimination of bias, improving precision, doing nothing, harming precision, introducing bias. Instead of rolling a 5-sided dice, we encourage a careful evaluation of underlying theoretical assumptions & causal models”

New Research: Our investigation indicates that the Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting mass surveillance and censorship technology to Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia. #GreatFirewallExport (1/5)

Interestingly, the reasoning of the US Supreme Court is pretty close to what the Finnish police has used: ethnicity and language can be legitimate grounds for suspicion under some circumstances (additional knowledge about patterns of behaviour or places etc.) during immigration stops. - - >

This is only one step in a long judicial process. Interesting, and scary, to see where it ends. In Europe, courts have mostly taken a stance against racial/ethnic profiling during immigration controls, in recent years, in France, in Germany, in regional level, and also in Finland.

Explosions in Kyiv again less than 24 hours after the previous attack

Olisi paljon parempi Suomelle, Ukrainalle ja venäläisille kielteisen päätöksen saaneille turvapaikanhakijoille, että nämä voisivat jäädä Suomeen työskentelemään tai opiskelemaan. Hallituksen kiristysten takia ei enää mahdollista. Nyt sitten Putinin puolesta työskentelmään tai tappamaan.

feels significant that mass-market LLMs like ChatGPT are now capable of generating extensive natural-language dossiers about a given user's interests, location, preferences, identifying information, and more simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/...

Aika kyynistä touhua Kreikassa. Paperittomille uusia sanktioita, mutta Kreikan viranomaiset eivät itse noudata lakia. Tehdään hengenvaarallisia takaisintyöntöjä merillä ja luvankin saaneet pakolaisperheet jäävät oman onnensa nojaan ja hakevat suojelua uudestaan pohjoisemmasta kuten Suomesta jne.

Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable. Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them? These researchers say YES. Read more:

On problems with survey based labour market stats: www.economicsobservatory.com/labour-marke...

THIS IS THE BIGGEST NEWS - PSE READ & SHARE WIDELY>>>Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/... #R4Today #BBCBreakfast

In Zaporizhzhia, Oleksandr and Maryna Fursenko shelter daily with their children and grandparents as shelling continues. Like thousands of Roma families, they face greater obstacles to rebuilding and returning home. Many are excluded from state compensation, despite heavy losses. #ukrainerecovery

Ehkä työmarkkinatilanne ja maahanmuuttajanaisten työmarkkina-asema voisivat selittää valintaa päiväkodin ja kotihoidon välillä? Kaupungin tekemän leikkauksen jälkeen työttömyys on lisääntynyt ja valitettavasti maahanmuuttaja on usein se, joka irtisanotaan ensimmäiseksi ja palkataan viimeiseksi.

Suojelupoliisia ollaan sisäministeriössä siirtämässä poliisiosaston alaisuuteen. Ministeriö on luopumassa kansallisen turvallisuuden yksiköstä, joka on viime vuodet tulosohjannut suojelupoliisia.

I don't know anyone who uses LLMs a lot who is not occasionally weirded out by what they can do. If you are not, you should be. They are weird. Wolfram had a rather startling (at least at the time) theory after using ChatGPT. Understanding whether he is right seems important.

Ukraine is under a huge drone and ballistic missile attack now, with cruise missiles expected to follow soon. Greetings from the Kyiv subway. I really hate russia.

"Post-neuvostomaailmassa henkilökohtainen luottamus on tärkeämpää kuin pätevyys." Johtunee siitä, että yleinen keskinäisluottamus ja luottamus instituutioihin matala. 2022 jälkeen sosiaalinen koheesio Ukrainassa kasvoi, mutta eurooppalaisittain luottamus insituutioihin ja toisiin ollut matala.

Could be treated as a complement to this paper finding that most LLMs tested (9 out of 10) had a tendency to over-generalize clinical trial results in summaries. (Claude was a repeated exception, for whatever reason). royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Our article on the impact on Russia's war against Ukraine on the reform of the Common European Asylum System has finally ended its "early view"-status. It found a home in the current issue of European Politics and Society - and is still freely accessible to all. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm often asked to recode multiple dummy coded race variables into a single variable so I thought I would share 2 different ways you might do this in #rstats. I'm sure there are many more ways. 😉

Yksi mahdollisuushan olisi ollut, että tehdään tutkimus, jossa seurataan useamman vuoden, miten opiskelijat pärjäävät sosiaalisesti ja psyykkisesti, kuinka moni jatkaa opintoja täällä ja työllistyy. Sen jälkeen olisi voinut tehdä tietoon pohjaavan päätöksen lukukausimaksuista.

Jos lausuntojen antaminen vielä jatkuu, rajataan aika jatkossa yhteen minuuttiin klo 03:30–03:31 sunnuntai-aamuna.

👉 This is an important issue of The Criminologist. It contains five pieces about academic publishing in our field, three of which involve #Criminology. The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏 asc41.org/wp-content/u...

🚨Preprint alert 🚨 Forager food-sharing is often portrayed as “a positive insistence on equality” (Woodburn) or an “instinct” to equalise inequalities (Fehr). A new paper with @kris-smith.bsky.social, exploring Hadza reallocation decisions, challenges this view. 1/10 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hello new followers! I wrote a book--Police and the Empire City--which explores how the New York City police department's encounters with race, immigration, and empire shaped how modern police use technology, recruit, do violence, and operate generally. www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...

Poliisin tiedotteen mukaan "käänne on seurausta Lounais-Suomen poliisin käyttöön ottamista toimista. Poliisilaitos on saanut määrärahan lastensuojelulaitoksiin sijoitettujen nuorten asioiden kokonaisvaltaiseen hoitamiseen." Turussa nuoriin kohdistuvaa ennalta estävää toimintaa on lisätty muutenkin.