Kannatti rakentaa ratikka, uudistaa samalla keskustas ja hyvää pyöräilyinfraa! Väestönkasvun tuoma liikenteen kasvu on kohdistunut autoilun sijaan kestäviin kulkumuotoihin. Hyvä Tampere!

“So, do you have any plans this weekend?” I'm just going to hang out at home. “Ah, so no plans yet.” What? I just told you my plans.

Ei nyt ole bändipaitaa, vaikka on #Bändipaitaperjantai, mutta hienot #Vierailijaratkaisee paidat olivat saapuneet. Ovien nimilaput nimittäin uusittiin jokin aika sitten, ja jostain järjestelmästä apurahatutkijoille on määrittynyt titteliksi ”Vierailija”.

Quite a picture. It doesn't happen often (or at least it hasn't happened often so far) that you see the European Parliament so clearly divided along left-right lines, and certainly not on a legislative matter.

Why should you study linguistics? My six year old just asked me how “we make voice out of air.”

The 5th article in our special issue of Translation Spaces @transpaces.bsky.social on the question 'Is MT Translation?' has been published. Michael Tieber, Conceptualisations of ‘translation’ in machine translation research and development. benjamins.com/catalog/ts.2...

this is probably the only use of AI that i currently approve of 😂 #interiordecoratingthreads

November is not all darkness. It has the most beautiful light if you wait for the right moment. 📍Tampere, Finland

Journalismin pelillisyydestä väitöskirjaa tekevä tutkija aktivoituu Blueskyssä, tulkaahan kuulolle!

I had totally forgotten about Koyaanisqatsi, and watched it now after a long break. Heartbreaking. Sad. Immensely beautiful.

Ukrainan mukaan viikonloppuna Venäjä iski maan energiajärjestelmää vastaan kovemmin kuin koskaan neljättä vuotta jatkuneen täysimittaisen sodan aikana. Venäjä haluaa sysätä Ukrainan kirjaimellisesti pimeyteen ja kylmyyteen. Vapaan maailman ei tule sitä sallia.

AFP’s Gints Ivuskans photographs protesters rallying in Riga against Latvia's bid to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a treaty combating violence against women. On October 31, parliament voted to withdraw from the treaty but just days later shelved discussion on the matter for a year

One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”. This is what I call value for my tax money

This is such a good idiom. Maybe we can incorporate it into Swedish also. "Inte min cirkus, inte mina apor!"

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

English version! “Study: immigrants pay note in taxes than they receive in benefits” www.helsinkitimes.fi/176-informat...

Tämä tutkimusraportti on aiheuttanut eilen ja tänään suurta mielipahaa oikeistorasistien keskuudessa. Täällä Blueskyssa ei sellaisia niin paljoa ole (?), mutta jakakaa tietoa erityisesti muissa piireissä.

Valtavirran taloustieteilijät muistuttavat ilmastodenialisteja näkemyksiltään. He kieltävät pysyvän taantuman mahdollisuuden viimeiseen asti todellisuuden antamasta näytöstä välittämättä ja jos lopulta sellaisen myöntävät, vielä kiistävät, että taantuma voisi johtua sopeutuspolitiikasta. #talous

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US also talking about military intervention in Nigeria as well as Venezuela. I wonder whOt It is that they'Ll have in common?

Näinpä. Mutta sitäkin kummallisempaa, että sosiaalipsylologialla ei ole oikein tarjota mitään työkaluja tällaisten ilmöiden hallintaan tai ennaltaehkäisyyn. Että miksi me ollaan jouduttu tällaisten alkeellisten sosiaalipsykologisten oikkujen panttivangeiksi?

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Who wants the same? 🎄

Suomi on pitkä maa. Toisessa päässä suunnitellaan tunnin junaa välille Hki-Turku. Toisessa päässä on suunnitteilla Ivalon terveyskeskuksen ilta- ja yöpäivystyksen lakkauttaminen ja näin esim. Utsjoelta lähimpään päivystykseen (Rovaniemi 450 km) olis matkaa 5-6 tuntia.

Web log > we blog 😀

So apparently some idiot decided that what Wikipedia really needed more of was Nazi-positive LLM output. Had a look... "Dholuo" - copied from WP. "Dellys" - doesn't exist (!) "Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added. "Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...

Ok scientists, how many of you did this as a kid? 🙋‍♀️

“It’s a risky business emotionally.” Boy, wait until they hear about the risks of exclusive monogmous relationships… 😁

This map is cursed and I can’t stop looking at it.

It's important to keep in mind that we are going to win.

One book that's going to stick with me a long time* is @michaelerard.bsky.social's Bye Bye I Love You. *Maybe till I say my last words. I hope so. It'll be particularly useful then! I was lucky to be able to review it for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/languages-ll...

In Latvia, the opposition - right-wing, Russian speakers, populists - have united to push for withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. They are backed by one of the governing coalition parties, the Farmers and Greens Union. Large civil society protests are expected tonight in Riga against the move.

The world has definitely changed bigly if I'm now reposting the Pope's tweets approvingly

Without downloading any pics, describe what it’s like to date you.

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Turns out Joe Biden and Jimi Hendrix were born a week apart

I also learned about the Tulsa massacre from there, although I considered myself decently well versed in US history. I remember watching the series and thinking "but those bomber planes are a bit over the top" and then read up on it and it was exactly what happened...

Geat, more Finno-Ugrian language studies to Bluesky, welcome @susannavirtanen77.bsky.social!

This is my jazz lizard. He hangs out near our watering hose. I will call him Jazzard.

Itse asiassa Orpon hallitus on saanut aikaiseksi pandemiatalouden ilman pandemiaa.

My author copies have arrived! Bitch: The Journey of a Word a.co/d/fI0XyaU

Practicing this today with my good ol’ electric piano, to rewire my brain after an intensive work day.

Muistattehan SKY:n gradukilpailun! Lähetä ohjaamasi erinomainen kielitieteellinen gradu kilpailemaan rahasta, maineesta ja kunniasta! 🤩

These words were written on a destroyed building by soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Not a cry for help. Not a complaint. A statement of fact. "We are not asking too much. We just need artillery shells and aviation. Rest we do ourselves."👇

”Why do these tactics still universally work? Because the cultural scaffolding that enables them remains firmly in place. In the media, when alleged assault involves someone in the public eye, it is treated as a scandal rather than potentially systemic abuse.”

Olettehan huomanneet, että seuraavat Keskusteluntutkimuksen päivät järjestetään Tampereen yliopistossa 29.–30.1.2026? Päivien teemana on Vuorovaikutuksen aika ja tila. Lisätietoa: events.tuni.fi/keskustelunt...

If it feels like Reviewer 2 didn't read your paper properly, guess what? Nobody else will either! Your readers are overworked, busy, skimming. Be clearer. Be so clear you start to feel you're being patronising. Even if you are patronising, you're at least addressing your reader rather than yourself.

This give the best motivation to finish your doctoral thesis!

Call for papers is open! 10th Conference of the Scandinavian Association of Language and Cognition will be in Umeå, Sweden, in June 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 30th November Let's meet in Umeå! #linguistics #language #cognition

France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...