Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/05/m...

Must-read new @hrw.org report documents scores of attacks on civilians by #BurkinaFaso forces, their allies & #JNIM. These are crimes against humanity. #EU 's #Sahel strategy should put protection of civilians, justice & remedies at its core. www.hrw.org/news/2026/04... @joaocravinho.bsky.social

CJEU, foreign policy sanctions New judgments: EU sanctions against businessmen solely on grounds of their businesses' contributions to the Russian economy are valid; no need to show direct links to invasion of Ukraine curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...

Töitä tarjolla Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa! Haemme läheistä kollegaa minulle tiedejulkaisemisen näköalapaikalle. Linkki hakuilmoitukseen kommenteissa.

🌀 🚨 Terrorist attacks rarely increase trust in political leaders 🧠 Christof Nägel, @nivette.bsky.social & @christian.czymara.com show that, contrary to common assumptions, terrorist attacks don’t generally boost public trust in political leaders.

Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky

💔 One person died in the Kyiv region as a result of the Russian attack. There is significant destruction.

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell on the autism-microbiome theory www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

New paper shows social scientists are sidelining null results. Analysing 100,000 articles across 150 political science journals, it finds 2% of abstracts report null-only findings; >90% highlight significant results. Researchers 10–100x less likely to spotlight nulls: driver of publication bias.

Iran extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's prison sentence by seven years

8.0% of citations in the medical literature contain major errors. E.g., the cited work makes the opposite claim or is unrelated to the claim in the citing article.

Tällä hallituskaudella tehty ja tekeillä hurja määrä viranomaisten, erityisesti poliisin, toimivaltaa lisääviä lakimuutoksia. Valmisteilla jopa perustuslakimuutos, jonka pontimena valtuuksien lisääminen entisestään. Perusoikeudet kapenevat, tarve usein heikosti perusteltu. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

Maahanmuuttopolitiikan kiristykset vaikeuttavat kansainvälisten tutkijoiden asettumista Suomeen. Tiukentuneet työhistoria‑ ja toimeentuloehdot eivät sovi tutkijatyön pirstaleisuuteen. Lisäksi kansalaisuushakemusten pitkät käsittelyajat nakertavat luottamusta tulevaisuuteen. 👇🏻 buff.ly/5hB8ktR

Yli miljoona rohingaa elänyt vuodesta 2017 Bangladeshissa mutavellin keskellä. Koska Myanmarin sisällissota + juntan valta jatkumassa kotiinpaluu ei ole mahdollista, siirtoja kolmansiin maihin on hyvin vähän tarjolla... NYTin lahja-artikkeli:

Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia

Libyan authorities have freed over 220 migrants from what would appear to be a secret underground prison in the southeast of the country. The people were held in gravely inhuman conditions. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6930...

Congress ordered CBP to create a biometric entry/exit system 25 years ago. The problem was that the tech wasn't there until recently, and the agency never pushed hard for it. In late 2020, CBP proposed a rule to implement it. That rule sat until 2025, when the Trump admin finalized it December 26.

Conflicts across Africa, such as in Sudan, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, remain unresolved as international attention and mediation efforts are stretched or focused elsewhere. https://bit.ly/4bwFXVi

🇺🇦🙏 Current Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: IDP Needs and Limits of Recovery Transition to full-scale recovery will only be possible with stabilization of security and energy context and a gradual reduction in household vulnerability. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/current-huma...

If you forced me to set aside the many ethical and environmental questions about #GenAI, and asked me for the best advice I could provide on how it should be used, this picture sums up my current thinking. Experts can use it... (1/n)

Smuggled to suburbia: no end to danger for Ethiopians looking for better life in South Africa

scientific community is trained in reading papers presented as defense of preset conclusions (or hypotheses to the same effect) and struggles to react meaningfully to exploratory research written in an exploratory way. "what if this is a thing? let's see. huh turns out it isn't!" baffles reviewers.

Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture #Refugees

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Kyiv my beloved

More from Tehran and Shiraz today. Footage coming out has dropped sharply due to IRGC/Basij raids searching for Starlink terminals, and extreme jamming causing massive packet loss, making it nearly impossible to upload or send content.

Cannot imagine the courage required for Iranians to keep joining the protests, & find ways of getting testimony out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Iran’s judiciary chief vowed that punishment for protesters “will be decisive, maximum and without any legal leniency.” The comment, reported by Iranian state television, came from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei.

Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls" Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes. 🧵 1/10 publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...

Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Uudistuksen jälkeen poliisi voisi seurata ihmisiä tai ihmisryhmää ilman yksilöityä rikosepäilyä. Viestin suojan saisi jatkossa murtaa, jos yksilöön tai yhteiskuntaan kohdistuisi vakavan rikoksen uhka." Hallitus haluaa muuttaa perustuslakia tämän hallituskauden aikana, jotta tämä saataisiin läpi.

💔🇺🇦 Zelensky: All night long, our rescuers worked in Ternopil, and search-and-rescue operations are still ongoing. 22 people are still missing – the effort to find them continues. As of now, 26 people are confirmed dead, including three children.

So the total amount of drones they launched in 2023 is equivalent to one night in 2025

This is Serhii Vlasenko, a rescuer from Kyiv. Here he stands among the ruins of his own home — destroyed by a russian drone last night. His family survived only because they reached the shelter in time.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Sisällissota puolisotilaallisten RSF-joukkojen ja armeijan välillä puhkesi Sudanissa huhtikuussa 2023. Kymmeniä tuhansia ihmisiä on tapettu ja yli 12 miljoonaa ihmistä on joutunut pakenemaan kodeistaan. Kyseessä on maailman suurin humanitaarinen kriisi. Lue lisää: www.amnesty.fi/nama-asiat-s...

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.

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 🧪