I’ve just finished this in the past week, but this is easily the best online course/series of lectures I’ve done. I’d tried it in a prior year and fallen on the wayside a bit, and I found the 2026 version with the split beginner/intermediate lectures much more approachable. Would recommend!!

Today is International Academic Freedom Day 🔍 At the ERC, science is free to follow the evidence wherever it leads. Researchers choose the question. Excellence is the only criterion. 👉 t.co/jz5NFa9QUR #ProtectWhatMatters @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

"Between 2022 and 2024 graduates in the least-exposed quintile—studying subjects such as education, philosophy and civil engineering—saw their average full-time employment rate fall by just 1.5 percentage points" www.economist.com/finance-and-... #philsky

So pleased that our paper on empowerment and causal models is out and freely available as part of this impressive special issue on world models and AI, with Melanie Mitchell, Josh Tenenbaum, Tom Griffiths and many other stars. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...

Jankkaan oudosta saunailmiöstä: nuori iskä tulee naperon kanssa täyteen uimahallin saunaan ja alkaa laulaa lapselle. Tuiki tuiki tähtönen! Uimahousukoodi mulle aivan sama mutta joku raja!

jokaisella internetiin jotain sisältöä tuottavalla taholla on sama ongelma: kuinka saada jutut niille jota asia saattaisi kiinnostaa. ennen somea erilaiset viranomaiset muistaakseni lähinnä luotti siihen että ihmiset eksyy niiden verkkosivuille. ei kauhean tehokas ratkaisu. eli on hyvä [...]

Pitää muistaa mökillä lattiaa lakaistessa varoa hantavirusta

I think the problem goes even deeper: if you want to know what people think/do, you better ask/observe *them*, not an aggregate of the internet! :) synthetic-data ideas often obscure basic truths of common sense empiricist epistemology

@anupartanen.bsky.social upea juttu. on tärkeää että lapsien kanssa elämisestä kirjoitetaan näin

Excited about our newest @knightcolumbia.org essay from @himself.bsky.social and Cosma Shalizi, AI as Social Technology. Read Henry's 🧵 below for an overview - this piece offers a new way of thinking about AI's place in the longer Industrial Revolution, and how it will interact with bureaucracies.

In our next week's PoS Seminar on Monday, May 18, Magdalena Małecka (University of Copenhagen) will give a talk titled “Theories of decision-making in economics from the perspective of integrated history and philosophy of science in practice”. tint-helsinki.fi/2026/05/12/1... #philski #philsky

Sam’s Breakfast Banger… youtu.be/ziBn50CasVQ?...

brilliant

Here is @alexschakowski.bsky.social on social learning strategies in Finnish fishing competitions

Piti kirjoittaa lyhyesti siitä, miksi päätin olla kirjoittamatta Substackiin. Tulikin pidempi artikkeli skeidaantumisesta, algoritmeista ja äärioikeistosta. Ja siitä miksi päädyin Ghostiin, johon ainakin @karihaakana.net on muistaakseni viitannut aiemmin. www.esatoykkala.com/skeidaantumi...

This seems like a good idea in principle, but hard to believe that especially those with power and resources wouldn’t find ways to game the system

Several new volumes in my Elements in Philosophy of Mind series are coming out. Here's the first, a superb survey of debates on agency by Elizabeth Pacherie. Free to download till 11 May! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

So good! And @atproto.science is the perfect place to realize this vision

Sori vaan #espoo, itiksen sauna vie voiton mennen tullen

woltin mopot pois pyöräteiltä. äsken oodin edessä sellainen ohitti lähes neljääkymppiä. lähetit ajaa usein ihan holtittomasti koska tietää muiden kuitenkin väistävän, niiden massa moninkertainen muihin pyörätiellä liikkuviin

leppävaaran maauimalan kausi alkaa lauantaina 9.5. www.espoo.fi/fi/liikunta-... #espoo

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... @helsinki.fi

Norppa on kivellä! #luontolive #norppalive

Excellent opportunity for researchers in computational humanities and AI: a 3-year Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher position in Helsinki focusing on trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversity. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please spread the word!

Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...

From the latest issue: Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry – Caterina Marchionni Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #hpbio #philsky

VANISHING CULTURE is out now! From #InternetArchive, this book looks at what is disappearing online. It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to vanish 🕳️ 📖 Download: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... #DigitalMemory #Books

‘The job description is changing’: mathematician Terence Tao on the rise of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Now available OA online, with no fewer than 45 chapters!

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

🔬 Next #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight: Melinda Baldwin A historian of science at UMD, @mbaldwin.bsky.social literally wrote the book on the history of the journal Nature. Her work is a fascinating dive into peer review, publishing, and the institutions shaping science. See you in Boulder! icssi.org

In our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, May 4, Kerry McKenzie (University of California San Diego) will give a talk titled “Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: From Arguments to Aesthetics”. All welcome! More here: tint-helsinki.fi/2026/04/28/4... #philsci #philsky

Ongelma ei ole se että oikeisto ja vasemmisto on eri mieltä, se on politiikkaa. Vaan se miten rydman jatkuvasti yritti vetää toimittajan mukaan riitaan, selkeä pyrkimys delegitimoida yleä

Nyt on kyllä menossa melkoinen a-studio, huh huh

Hallitus lanseerasi kehysriihessä ennennäkemättömän kuvion. 20M€ tutkijoiden itse hankkimasta EU-rahasta lasketaan lain mukaiseksi t&k-lisärahoitukseksi ja valtion omia panostuksia vähennetään saman verran. Järjestelmätasolla tällainen ajattelu luo käsittämättömän anti-insentiivin.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

”eräs hyvin olennainen osa tämäntyyppisistä laitteista on pelikahva” ❤️

Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!

🚨 Tom Griffiths has a podcast where he interviews cognitive scientists podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... This just went to the top of my list.

terveiset sinne a-studioon ainoalta oikealta erikoistalousalueelta

If you have a passion for science, work hard at your research, & get some lucky breaks along the way, you too can achieve your dream of a life dedicated to management & administrative issues.

A new study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B shows under what conditions collective judgments are better than individual ones. The findings are also relevant for the use of AI agents among other applications. doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org

If anyone in history ever wants to talk about this, feel free to reach out to me! I had a somewhat unusual contingent academic --> non-academic --> tenured academic career path, but I'm happy to be useful in any way I can on this question. Big supporter of non-academic paths.

”Toimi ensin, toivo tulee perässä.” Erinomainen kirjoitus Frank Martelalta:

Erinomaista, jos SDP:ssä aletaan herätä tämän asian vakavuuteen. Perustuslakia ei pidä muuttaa hätiköiden ja poliisin valtuuksien kasvattamisen perustelut sekä sisällön ja kiireellisyyden osalta ovat liian epämääräisiä. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Finally finished! Never thought I would enjoy reading a textbook front-to-back, yet I did, immensely. The best thing about the book is getting you to think of data generating processes. The flexibility of Bayes in creating scientifically valid equations is incredibly motivating. #rstats #statsky

„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“ They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes

Aalto-yliopiston päärakennuksen yllä liitelee haukka

Learn more about what you need to know before applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: • Resubmission restrictions • Application rules • Eligibility windows for #ERCStG #ERCCoG 🔗 link.europa.eu/BjTmVt

The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants. 🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....