Antti Gronow
@anttigronow.bsky.social
Senior researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. Interests: climate policy, social networks, polarization, advocacy coalitions, and the war in Ukraine. Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sBTkYX8AAAAJ&hl=fi&oi=ao
There’s are war crimes. Intentional terror killing of civilians. The Russian way of war. U.S. failure to support Ukraine is complicit in these deaths.
Ranked News@rankednews.bsky.social · 50m agoRussia exploits Ukraine’s air defence shortage: A fresh wave of Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has resulted in a tragic toll of at least 17 dead and more than 40 wounded. The attack underscores the acute vulnerability of Ukraine's air defenses, a sho… https://ranked.news/1214691?u=b
Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert
Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert
Move comes as fourth heatwave of summer intensifies, edging temperatures in some areas close to 40C Italy is to place all of its 27 major cities, from Trieste in the north to Palermo in the south, under the highest heat alert as the fourth heatwave to hit the country this summer intensifies. A red alert means there is a higher chance of an emergency owing to the health risk posed by prolonged extreme temperatures to the entire population. Continue reading...
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Pisamalahti hillfort in Finland rises 55 m above the Lake Saimaa. It has perpendicular cliffs on sides so that a defense wall is needed only on the eastern side. It is one of 12 hillforts in the Saimaa area. #HillfortsWednesday
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) measures how often a journal's articles are cited compared with similar publications in the field worldwide. An FWCI of 1.0 represents the global average; PSJ reached an all-time high of 2.61. Thank you to the policy community! #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
Trump’s assault on science goes beyond the ideology of particular topics like env justice. It goes after the fundamental idea that knowledge should inform decisions. One grant was terminated for keywords “promote policymaker's use of scientific evidence". www.highereddive.com/news/inside-...
Inside the federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants.
highereddive.com
"Davis, the government says, has attended and facilitated meetings about protests and discussed his anti-authoritarian ideology with other activists. He is not accused of violent acts, taking any specific actions at protests nor having any encounters with ICE agents. He is facing 6 years in prison."
Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...
Elon Musk calls medical school 'pointless,' says robots will beat any surgeon in 3 years — telling students to walk away
Medical experts, however, strongly disagree with Musk's claims.
finance.yahoo.com
Just to be clear there are a lot of stories about Odie and you can make whatever adaptation you'd like drawing from any of those sources. But it is weird to insist that the "original" Odyssey poem is about the gods punishing him for his treachery at Troy when they are very explicit in the poem.
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · last wk.Again I want to point out that the gods are not punishing Odysseus for his actions at Troy. They *do not care* about the Trojan horse. They think he is better than other people and pious. It's Poseidon specifically that hates him for what he did to the Cyclops.
It’s Stockholm Pride Week, and the Swedish Armed Forces will be proudly marching in uniform “to defend your right to be who you are.”
1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.
This is the sort of thing the leader of Belarus would say, reflecting his vassal status.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last wk.Trump on Zelenskyy’s claim that Russia is helping Iran target the US bases in the Gulf: “I’ll ask Putin. I don’t think they do and if they do, it’s been very unimpactful”
OTD in 2015 your Prez announced that "unilateral actions & expansion of jurisdiction by one nation beyond its territory to the world is unacceptable" Imagine a country doing that.
Finding out if something is true and asking Putin about it seem like a contradiction in terms.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Q: Zelenskyy says Russia is giving Iran satellite imagery of US bases in the Gulf to help them target. What can you do about that? TRUMP: We'll find out if that's true. I'll ask Putin about it. Hasn't had much impact.
Fighters like these are the reason Ukraine still stands today Ukrainian soldiers shot down drones from a Yak-52 aircraft using a simple assault rifle 🎥 11th Army Aviation Brigade
📣Post Doc Alert! I am hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in political language and NLP/LLMs 🤩 Come join a great, interdisciplinary team at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense! Applications due October 15, 2026. Detail here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Computational Political Communication Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre
Application deadline: October 15, 2026
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Russian drone just hit a grocery supermarket and killed a 10 y.o. kid. I repeat : Russian drone just hit grocery supermarket in Chernihiv . 2 people were killed, 7 people were wounded . Sunday in Ukraine
On July 24, 65-year-old KhAI associate professor Hennadii Symbirskyi was killed in Kharkiv after a Russian FPV drone struck his car. He is survived by his wife, Olha. Together, they had cared for 20 rescued dogs since the full-scale invasion began.
🇫🇮🇺🇦 Ukraine is now in the strongest position since the start of the full-scale war, — Alexander Stubb President of Finland stated this after a telephone conversation with Zelensky.
WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
Pelkkää kultaa kun nämä meidänkin raharikkaat erehtyvät joskus puhumaan ääneen ilman viestintäkonsulttia.
Reminder: Elon Musk is an immigrant to the USA. There are strong suggestions that he may have overstayed on a student visa at one point, which if true would make him an "illegal immigrant".
Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report
Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views
theguardian.com
Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · last wk.Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
Kukahan tämän sotkun korjaisi? "Ministeriöiden viestinnän keskittäminen yhteen paikkaan on ajanut valtioneuvoston uuden viestintäosaston sekaannukseen."
HS:n tiedot | Ministeriöiden viestintä meni sekaisin: työtehtävistä epäselvyyttä ja pomot poissa
Valtioneuvoston uuden viestintäosaston työntekijöiden mukaan heinäkuussa toimintansa aloittaneen osaston perustamisessa on menty ”takapuoli edellä puuhun”.
hs.fi
