Morning run with stroller, baby falls asleep, end run by jumping into the cold Baltic sea. Peak parental leave. The running stroller has easily been the best parent purchase so far. 100s of km already. Surprisingly easy to run with. And the baby enjoys these running naps.

I've pivoted quite hard, changing fields entirely. Based on my experience: - New field is difficult to publish in (you don't speak the "language") - New work gets cited a lot less (lack of networks) - Hard to find a job/tenure (you lack formal qualifications in new field – huge hurdle!) Cont'd...

Lol, a paper that describes my life. My natural reaction to feeling like I'm finally getting the hang of something has always been to drop it and try something else. And somehow I still often feel like I'm not getting out fast enough.

QWERTY-näppiksen huonot puolet: aina kun kirjoitan etunimeni on realistinen riski siitä, että näppäilenkin Toope. Ja näin on muuten käynyt.

Stone Age? ✖️ Bronze Age? ✖️ Iron Age? ✖️ String Age. ✔️

Yes, and also for children, too.. we did a lot of research (led by @roopekaaronen.net) on string figures and knots.. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Wow! 😮 Another angle of strike in Moscow

HOLY SMOKES! Moscow right now 🔥🔥🔥

Saatiin Ilmatieteen laitoksen johdolla lisää rahaa AMOCin tutkimiseen! 🌊 The Government is funding our research project on the AMOC, led by the Finnish Meteorological Institute! valtioneuvosto.fi/-/1410903/su...

Tällaista persujen virallisella tilillä. P-sana ("naapurin P...") on Briteissä tunnetusti n-sanaa vastaava. Mikä on ökysomali, vähävarainen rikas? (Asuntojen hinnat karanneet käsistä? Eikös median huolenaiheena ole ollut juuri päinvastainen?)

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

Got a new toy. I play many instruments, but not the keyboard. I was watching Billy Preston playing on the Get Back documentary and that was the final straw. Time to learn a new one.

🚨 On May 5th, Indigenous West Papuan students were shot by Indonesian Security Forces after displaying their national flag. Local reports say at least seven young Indigenous West Papuans were shot and injured.

Tasaisin väliajoin täytyy muistuttaa ihmisiä tästä.

Niinpä. Piti itsekin käydä X:ssä lukemassa tiedotteet ja kommenttiketjut olivat täynnä ilmeisen venäläistä informaatiovaikuttamista. Nyt pitäisi pystyä parempaan.

Tänään opin, että Pikku Prinssi on käännetty myös savoksi.

Hetkonen. Eikös tämä hallitus liki ensitöikseen poistanut aikuiskoulutustuen? Miten tämä nyt eroaa siitä? Ei siinä, parempi näin kuin toisin. /Badabim

Olenko ainut, joka ei enää ymmärrä mitä "hillotolppa"-sanalla tarkoitetaan? Alkujaanhan Soinin plokissa ja ravislangissa se tarkoitti maalia tai maaliviivaa. Nyt populistit puhuu jo "hillotolppavirastoista" synonyyminä suojatyöpaikalle. Yleinen tulkinta tuntuu olevan "saavutettu etu" tms.

On se vaan kiero tilanne, että tällainen kehitys tulkitaan Suomen taloudelle ja hyvinvoinnille elintärkeänä. Ja että ilman ei pärjätä. Ymmärrän kyllä, miten kuluttajaluottamuksen puute on ongelma. Oikeasti. Mutta pikamuoti +13%, lentäminen ja autoilu +11%... Kyllä tämä on tuhon tie.

”’Siis minä olen kansallissosialisti. Sinä voit kutsua minua natsiksi, jos haluat, jos se kiinnostaa sinua kutsua näin. Mutta sillä ei ole mitään tekemistä sitten koristeiden kanssa. Tämä on yksityisalue.’ Tämän jälkeen Lehto alkaa taas puhua kynttilänjalan valitsemisesta.” – HS 12.5.

A tour of all things cave art! In which we discuss... - hand stencils and their missing fingers - the nonfigurative-to-figurative transition - archaeology's "sensory turn" - the puzzling preponderance of animals over humans - the power of pareidolia - palimpsests - children's drawing stages etc.!

Tämä ei ole @ylekov.bsky.social

”Harrastan friction-maxxingingia, ja haluan usein sytyttää itseni tuleen” – HS 8.5.

Today, it's a parody. Yet I believe this is exactly where the world is heading. LLMs personalizing every web page before we see it. The Ultimate Bubble. github.com/scosman/curs...

Check out our (@sobchuk.bsky.social) special issue on the cultural evolution of the arts in Evolutionary Human Sciences, with papers from @mikekestemont.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social @svalver.bsky.social and more! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In just over a month, the duration of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will match that of the entire World War I. And the entire might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, as well as of the Kremlin's corrupt useful morons in the West, still can't defeat Ukraine.

*Eyeballs chart* Sociology checks out. Can't think of a more prestige-biased field. Where mediocre or genuinely confused thinkers are given deity-level status.

the internet archive is truly a magical place

Universities pretend to want transdisciplinarity right up until a promotion case lands on a committee that has no idea where to file it.

reading native english speakers discuss what non-native english speakers are/aren't allowed to do and what they're supposed to prioritize when they're communicating in a language they did not born into is an alienating experience, let me tell you

Many have complained that the Iliad is indigestible, and now we have proof

This is such a valuable data point and I'm glad the authors dove deeper into it. Until now, there really was no solid evidence for (traditional) psychedelic mushroom use outside a cluster in the Americas.

People claim that psychedelics have been used by Indigenous groups around the world for millennia. But clear evidence of serotonergic psychedelic use has long been confined to the Americas. Until now. Here, we document clear evidence of Indigenous psilocybin use in Lesotho. 🍄 osf.io/preprints/so...

What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/

Don't let our reality become background noise or a "show" you've grown tired of. Please help us amplify the truth. Every life taken was important and irreplaceable. These are not just statistics; they are unspeakable crimes.

Every day, I write the same story: Russian strikes claiming lives. One person here, five there, a child, a grandparent... These tragedies have become so routine that the world is growing numb.

Academics: small non-random samples are unrepresentative and problematic. Same academics deciding what gets published and funded: a biased n=2 is fine, actually.

Siri, what's the Matthew Effect?

If there's one thing academia knows, it's how to design an inefficient system.

This basically amounts to "too many people are applying, so we'll make the process entirely insufferable to reduce applications". There would have been another option to reduce workloads of reviewers *and* applicants: making the application form less dense. Thoughts:

ERC could instead just make indirect costs ineligible That would get a lot of pushback from infrastructure-heavy institutions, but it’s justifiable on it own terms (“we fund the projects themselves, not the costs of running a place”) and it would certainly reduce the number of applications

Three weeks of practice later, juggled 3 balls with 92 consecutive throws. 🤹‍♂️ Hitting the 100s soon! (The kid stares at me with a confused face.)

Academics don't like being told that they live in an Ivory Tower, but I have to say, only people who have spent practically their whole life within the security of tenured employment could come up with such a cruel solution. There are more equitable ways to solve the low success rate problem.

My career experience has been that delivering excellence on the cheap doesn’t get rewarded. Delivering average but funded does

Actually thinking more, ERC could simply make indirect costs ineligible. That would get a lot of pushback but it’s justifiable on it own terms (“we fund the projects themselves, not the costs of running a place”) and would certainly reduce the number of applications

Truly one of the decisions of all time. If the reviewers were overloaded, why not just make the applications more lightweight? Now people spend months writing a B2 that no one reads, and may never get a shot at improving it. After 2 years an application idea is probably redundant, anyways.

Minuakin haastateltiin tähän juttuun, joka ilmestyi pidempänä myös Tiede-lehdessä. En näe, mitä tekstiin lopulta päätyi, mutta omat mietteet alla: - Kulttuurievoluutio on jo nyt geneettistä evoluutiota "nopeampaa". - (Myös) siksi evoluution "suuntaa" mahdoton ennustaa. www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...

Conserved, catalogued, photographed, re-housed ... after 5 years work a major ethnographic collection (the Hampton Archive) is on its way back to Papua, where it will form the nucleus of a new museum ...

Right in time for #FungiFriday, my new research paper – in the works for two years – is out. Living in the Mycelial World: A global cross-cultural ethnomycological review In which I document #mushroom traditions across 193 cultures worldwide. A thread on how humans lived with and from #fungi 🍄📷:

Throwback to a year ago: my large, cross-cultural review of how humans have coexisted with, used, and abused mushrooms. A potpourri of fungal traditions.