Kylläpä jäi avaruusetiikka-aihe pahasti kesken! 😅 Lukekaa ensihätään täältä vaikka @oskarisivula.bsky.social :n populaariteksti (pdf) ”Avaruusetiikka — mitä se on ja mihin sitä tarvitaan?” vuodelta 2023: www.utupub.fi/handle/10024...

Miltä kuulostaa kosminen ympäristönsuojelu? @oskarisivula.bsky.social 'n tuore väitöskirja ulottaa #etiikka 'n ongelmat kosmokseen. Ehdoton #lukusuositus #verdelehti 'n artikkelilla! 😊🙏❤️ #Avaruus #Avaruusetiikka #ympäristönsuojelu #filosofia #kosmos

You can now find my doctoral dissertation online: www.utupub.fi/handle/10024...! 🪐✨

Suurella työllä, pitkällä ajalla, monen neuvolla ”Essays in Space Ethics” väitöskirja on valmistunut: www.utupub.fi/handle/10024...

Congestion and pollution in Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour will impact the orbital environment in the future...

SIX postdoc jobs (!) going at the new Leverhulme Centre for Space and Humanity at the University of Leicester, directed by @andrewfutter.bsky.social If you're in the social sciences/humanities and working on outer space, have a look!

Today the EU parliament voted to ban the word burger if they are made with plant protein, instead of animal protein. 🤦🏻‍♀️   They claim it’s to stop consumers being ‘confused between meat and plant products’ - solving a problem that nobody had!   This new rule leaves a bad taste in the mouth…

Intresting conversations on tyranny of the #commons, #windpower in Finland, #multispecies cohabitation during and after the 1st day of NEEN (Nordic #EnvEthics Network) 2025 Conference at @utu.fi Turku (Fin) with prof of philosophy Stephen Gardiner, Teea Kortetmäki, @oskarisivula.bsky.social & more

Tutkimusaiheiden leimaaminen ja vähättely uhkaa tieteen vapautta. Se on pilkkaajien tarkoituskin. Akatemia rahoittaa kaikkia aloja ja aiheita, laatu ratkaisee. Suomella ei ole varaa antaa yhdenkään tutkijan epäröidä aihettaan häirinnän pelossa. Tieteen vapauden puolustaminen on kaikkien tehtävä.

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Scientists call for action to address air pollution from space launches www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ketkä vihaavat podcasteja? Antipodit.

Which ethical theory has the most comedy-potential? 🤭 www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ethics-7

"SpaceX just conducted a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry. Earlier this year, analysts noticed Starlink satellites were falling out of the sky. What’s going on? In short: routine housecleaning. What’s not usual is the atmospheric fallout." spaceweather.com/archive.php?...

Exciting news! Our open letter “A call to address humanity’s cosmic footprint” has just been published in Nature Astronomy! Read the short piece below. We warmly invite you to join our effort by co-endorsing the letter!

Hienoa, että avoimen kirjeemme (ks. alla) takia avaruusetiikka kiinnostaa!

Time to Act in #Space! 🚀 The “Cosmic Footprint Initiative” with Prof. Claudius Gros (#GoetheUni) calls for consideration of the ethical consequences of space travel. What does our #cosmicfootprint mean for future generations? 🧪 www.cosmicfootprint.org?section=Call....

Kansainvälisen tutkijajoukon laatiman avoimen kirjeen mukaan ihmiskunta elää kriittistä hetkeä, minkä takia on ratkaisevan tärkeää tunnistaa ja kantaa vastuu kosmisesta jalanjäljestä. www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...

Kosmisen jalanjäljen käsitteellä asiantuntijat tarkoittavat ihmisten toiminnan jopa peruuttamattomia vaikutuksia avaruuteen. Kansainvälinen tutkijajoukko haluaa tuoda ongelman osaksi sekä akateemista että laajempaa keskustelua.

Tutkijat vaativat toimia ihmiskunnan "kosmisen jalanjäljen" suhteen www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...

"[H]umans are ending 3.5–3.8 billion years of relative isolation of the terrestrial biosphere from interaction with its cosmic environment, and may now leave lasting physical, chemical, biological, and unforeseen impacts beyond Earth." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting news! Our open letter “A call to address humanity’s cosmic footprint” has just been published in Nature Astronomy! Read the short piece below. We warmly invite you to join our effort by co-endorsing the letter!

Wow, a new interesting piece about value theory and space exploration, check it out! 🤩

Kudos to SpaceX for figuring out that it's more efficient to simply let Starship explode on the pad rather than having to actually launch it first

My new article, ”Long-term Future and Non-anthropocentric Value,” is now published! In it, I re-examine Gary O’Brien’s recent article on longtermism and animals, and I expand beyond animals to explore what considering broader environmental values could mean for the very long-term.

Indigenous people and others need a say in space-industry decisions https://go.nature.com/4dtVBzP

Kysyn, mitä voin tehdä Gazan tilanteeseen liittyen. Asiantuntija vastaa 👇

Orbital data centres 👀

‘Adults are going hungrier to keep children better fed. The most vulnerable – infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and others needing special diets – are already starving.’ Alex de Waal on famine in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

The re-entry of Kosmos 482 "draws attention to our planet's growing space junk problem. On average, three sizeable pieces of debris crash back to Earth every day — and that number is only going to go up.” www.space.com/space-explor... #Space #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceDebris

"Communicative #AI" - Finland 🇫🇮 Book launch of the simultaneously published Finnish translation of "Communicative #AI" @rosebudbooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Nyt myös Financial Timesin editorial board tuomitsee lännen häpeällisen hiljaisuuden ”Gazan katastrofin” edessä. Ne, ketkä ovat hiljaa, ovat osallisia. www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Read the lyrics and listen to the a cappella version of "Day One (feat. Dijon and Flock of Dimes)" via @newyorker.com. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Memes wanted! 🤓 I am collecting a stash of memes on - procrastination - decision paralysis - neurospicy experience - self-control problems - anything executive function related, really They'll help me communicate about my research projects, so send me your favourites by replying or by DM! 🙏

”the funding can be used to recruit researchers from outside Finland, for example from the United States, to Finnish universities.”

Ilmastolain mukainen hiilineutraaliustavoite on mahdollista saavuttaa, sanoo @raisamakipaa.bsky.social. Poliittisilla päättäjillä on useita ohjauskeinoja vielä käyttämättä. Kuuntele haastattelu @uusijuttu.fi ⬇️ www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Our world is full of nuances. Forgetting this and choosing black or white means diving into obscurantism. What we have seen unfold in the last few weeks regarding space exploration is sad, to say the least. 🚀👨‍🚀🔴 I have been advocating for the scientific exploration of Mars for years.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Unissued Diplomas exhibition at the University of Helsinki. Remembering all Ukrainian students who never got to graduate. Heartbreaking. Fuck Russia, Putin, and everyone who sides with imperialist slaughterers. Slava Ukraini. 🇫🇮🤝🇺🇦

A friend sent me this. Is Goodreads also owned by the tech bros? 🫠

Well this is unsettling!

Oh God is this some new ai thing

New calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is now much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements had suggested https://go.nature.com/4gTejkz

”Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of a collision seem to be increasing.”

Sadly, I just heard that Holmes Rolston III has recently passed away. He’s a big name in environmental ethics but maybe you didn’t know that he also has an influential space ethics paper: ”The Preservation of Natural Value in the Solar System” (1986).

Muunpuoleisuus, tarinat ja ekologinen kriisi puhutti Lux Helsinki x Tieteiden yö tapahtumassa Puistokadulla. Blogiteksti tammikuun paneelista löytyy nyt Puistokatu 4:n sivuilta. 💫

If everyone used footnotes instead of endnotes

Hello! We are finally on BlueSky. We are a group of 100+ members of @mybisa.bsky.social who research the international political aspects of space and its adjacent sub-disciplines (e.g. history, law, political theory). Convened by @bleddb.bsky.social and Sarah Lieberman. Find out more 👇

This is (I believe) the first time cultivated meat has been available for sale in Europe. In a WORLD first, it's available as pet food! When I started talking and writing about this a decade ago, people thought the idea was laughable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...