We filed a complaint with the Equality body of Serbia regarding this racist hate speech. In November, the Commissioner responded positively. Demo Beriša now has 30 days to issue a public apology after receiving the Commissioner’s recommendation. ✊🏽

Hyviä karjalan kielen päivän iltoa ta karjalan kielen netälie kaikilla!

Disgraceful

The 2026 Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies will be held at LMU Munich between 23 and 28 February 2026 (Monday through Saturday). The registration form for in-person and online participants can be found here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/infuse/ankue...

Today, 25 November, the world is painted orange. Orange symbolises hope, a future free from violence and a world where women can live without fear. I am proud that EU-funded research offers hope and new tools that can help to stop violence against women at home and online.

Terveisiä Studia-messuilta! Juuri tänään tai huomenna on hyvä päivä tilata tutkija etävierailulle oppitunnille tai Mene ja tiedä -uutiskirje, sillä samalla osallistut viiden leffalipun arvontaan - osallistuit messuille tai et! Ilmoitamme voittajille sähköpostitse ensi viikolla.

Lapin hyvinvointialueen pitää turvata saamenkieliset sosiaali- ja terveyspalvelut. Alueen toimipisteiden lakkauttaminen voisi heikentää entisestään saamenkielisten palveluiden saatavuutta. Lue yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutetun kannanotto: yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutettu.fi/-/lapin-hyvi...

Everybody always forget that Putin needs war to survive. The "peace" plan is nothing more than yet another sham ploy to gain momentum on the ground by stalling help to Ukraine, and to divide Ukraine's allies.

At #ASEES25 discussing academic freedom, I thought of reposting this: academeblog.org/2025/06/12/m.... @aaup.org @aseees.bsky.social

🇺🇦‼️ One of the Hardest Moments in Ukrainian History 🇺🇸 Misled by Russia’s manipulative narrative of supposed military dominance, the U.S. has shifted pressure onto Ukraine instead... Read more ⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/one-of-the-h...

🇨🇿🇺🇦 Pavel: For the peace plan to be just, it must not punish the victim or overlook crimes committed. And for it to last, it must guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty, ability to chart its own course, and decent future. Ukrainians and Europeans need credible assurances that aggression will not return.

The Royal Society Te Apārangi has formally endorsed the ISC’s interpretation of “The Right to Participate in and Benefit from Science,” recognizing science as a universal human right: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/research-practice/the-right-to-participate-in-and-benefit-from-science/.

Russian FSB come for Crimean Tatar father and son in night terror raid khpg.org/en/1608815279

#OTD 212 years ago, Franz von Miklosich (1813–1891) was born 🎂 He was a pioneering scholar of historical-comparative Slavic linguistics. He also studied Romani dialects as well as the areal convergence between Slavic and Romance varieties in the Balkans. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Save Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

Monday update for 🚑 number 20 🇺🇦 💰 €2.849 raised 🚑 €17.151 still needed ‼️ Only €151 away from hitting €3.000 ‼️ Let’s make it happen today! 💙💛 🔵 MobilePay: 18846 🟡 www.paypal.com/donate/?host... Your donation save lives! Thank you 🫂 FUNDRAISING PERMIT: RA/2023/765

We have got litteraly a mountain of Carinthia defence 4 sleeping bags just waiting for transportation. In order for us to deliver these to front line units, we need to cover transportation costs. Please help us out at linktr.ee/Vaukraine

Géza Buzás-Hábel, a young Romani teacher and human rights activist, is facing criminal charges in Hungary simply for organising an LGBTQI+ Pride in Pécs — the first time in EU history a Pride organiser is prosecuted. A dangerous precedent for peaceful assembly. Full story: shorturl.at/GY2NW

Maanpaossa olevat kiltinänsaamelaiset kommentoivat Putinin naurettavia juhlapäiväsuunnitelmia

Update from the most corrupt regime in the EU, and the most reliable Russian agents (Fidesz):

📉🇭🇺 INVESTIGATION: Viktor Orbán vowed to boost Hungary’s population without immigrants. But births keep falling—and emigration is soaring. Direkt36's investigation shows many young people are leaving, posing serious risks for the country’s future.

Tutkijoiden #sananvapaus on elinehto yhteiskunnallisesti vaikuttavalle tieteelle ja tutkimukselle. TJNK julkaisi toukokuussa kansalliset suositukset tutkijoiden ja asiantuntijoiden sananvapauden turvaamiseksi. #Acatiimi

Nuorten Tiedeakatemian julkaisemassa nuorille suunnatussa tiedeverkkolehdessä taas erittäin mielenkiintoinen artikkelipaketti! Kannattaa perehtyä tähän sekä aiempiinkin artikkeleihin.

This is Russia's "human safari" in action: a double-tap war crime caught on drone video. First drone hits a Kherson gas station. When firefighters arrive, a second drone strikes them. 📹 Russian TG channel, 6 Jul 2025 h/t @zarinazabrisky

Poliitikot pitävät saappaansa ilmastotoimien jarrulla ja fossiilikapitalismin kaasulla, Arktisen keskuksen vieraileva tutkija, toimittaja Johannes Roviomaa kirjoittaa Yliopisto-lehden esseessä. Tiedeyhteisöä poliitikot rauhoittelevat kuin kuhmun saanutta pikkulasta.

In Finland, universities and key higher education stakeholders have jointly drawn up new recommendations aimed at strengthening outward student mobility. Our board was invited to comment on the topic for a University World News article. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

⚡️‘Destroying our memory’ YouTube wipes Ukrainian memorial channel, erasing stories of the fallen

Tutkijoiden ja asiantuntijoiden sananvapautta kavennetaan Suomessa ennen kaikkea henkisellä ja sanallisella väkivallalla: uhkauksilla, painostuksella ja häirinnällä, Leevi Mentula kirjoittaa Professoriblogissa. #häirintä #sananvapaus

Heute ist #WelttagderWissenschaft! Wir möchten euch zu diesem Anlass auf die fabelhaften Wissenschaftsbücher aufmerksam machen, die aktuell im Rennen für das Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres sind! Mit dabei auch dieses Jahr unsere Kollegin Daniela Angetter-Pfeiffer. 🥳https://www.wissenschaftsbuch.at/

Autoritārs režīms noved pie korupcijas, korupcija noved pie nabadzības.

🇺🇦 New Ukrainian Sanctions: Restrictions on the Kremlin and Propaganda Publishers. ‼️ The decrees introduce sanctions against Kremlin officials and publishing houses involved in propaganda and the plundering of the Ukrainian economy. Read more ⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/new-ukrainia...

🥺🇺🇦 Angelina Jolie posted a post on her Instagram dedicated to her trip to Kherson and Mykolaiv "This week I visited Mykolaiv and Kherson in Ukraine to meet with families living on the front lines. The threat of drones was constant and oppressive. There was a low hum in the sky - "human safaris".

Tapio Määttä: Tutkijat päättävät itse mitä tutkivat, älämölöstä huolimatta

The first crack in Western sanctions unity on Russian energy. Hungary secured a one-year pass from Trump to keep buying Moscow's oil and gas. Orban's purchases fund Russia's war, he vowed to block Ukraine's EU path—yet walked away rewarded. Full report ⤵️ euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08/t...

🇭🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 A Year Without Sanctions for Hungary — New Challenges for Ukraine? Hungary gains room to maneuver between Washington, Brussels, and Moscow. Every exception reduces the overall impact of sanctions on Russia. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/a-year-witho...

Another disaster in the UK: The Dept of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham is being closed. Here's a petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

This was a very interesting event last week, and in the context of Hungary, it was nice to hear representatives of MTA to speak so openly about their relations with the government and difficulties they have encountered (such as the loss of the MTA research institute network in 2019).

LMU Munich offers a funded PhD position for three years at the Graduate School of Language & Literature. The deadline for applications is 7 December 2025: www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...

In 'The Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary', Emilia Palonen explores the transformation of Hungary’s #political landscape in the post-communist era. Find the #openaccess book at: doi.org/10.33134/pro... #populism #polarisation #illiberalism #politicalscience #culturalstudies #Hungary

The epitome of Putin's fear: drummer Vladislav Leontyev in a St. Petersburg courthouse. He's part of a young street band that performed songs by artists declared "foreign agents."

Congratulations to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for its 200th anniversary! In the current situation the workshop "Upholding Integrity in Scientific Advice: Key Principles and Challenges" (by SAPEA and ALLEA) is a particularly fitting part of the celebrations scientificadvice.eu/events/uphol...

💥European media giants have shamefully helped Viktor Orbán build his propaganda empire. After Deutsche Telekom and Axel Springer, Switzerland’s Ringier has now also sold its portfolio to Orbán’s proxies — who desperately need every outlet to secure victory in Hungary’s 2026 election. @reuters.com

Zürich Opera’s new “La forza del destino” is being advertised with the question: “What if war comes to Switzerland?” It’s a haunting image—until you see Anna Netrebko in the lead, once posing with a Z-ribbon and “To Berlin.” Europe’s opera houses call this bridge-building. But to where? To Kremlin.

Very interesting PhD defence in Tartu tomorrow: Patrick O'Rourke „Lounaisitämerensuomi: lounaisten itämerensuomalaisten kielten murteellinen kehitys“ („Southwest Finnic: the dialectal development of southwestern Finnic languages“)

Occupied territories and the Arctic are key focus areas as Putin declares 2027 ‘Year of Geography’

October 27th marks Ukrainian Literature and Language Day. It's a celebration of the words that shaped Ukraine as a nation 🇺🇦 To honor the beauty and strength of literature, we asked Ukrainians to recite lines from the poem Testament by Taras Shevchenko. 🎥: @corrie-ua.bsky.social

There were two questions lingering over conversations among people at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair: Where was the stand of the Russian publisher Eksmo located, and why were they even allowed to be there nearly four years into Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine?

Hungary's struggle for freedom under decades of brutal Russian rule lasted almost 45 years. Today, as the Russian-backed Orban regime attempts to drag the country back into darkness, a reminder of October 1956.