Tilapäinen suojelu sotaa pakeneville ukrainalaisille jatkuu 4.3.2028 asti

Tilapäinen suojelu sotaa pakeneville ukrainalaisille jatkuu 4.3.2028 asti

Tilapäisen suojelun myöntäminen Venäjän hyökkäyssotaa pakeneville ukrainalaisille jatkuu. EU-maat päättivät 30.7.2026 tilapäisen suojelun jatkamisesta vuodella. Tilapäinen suojelu sotaa pakeneville ukrainalaisille on voimassa 4.3.2028 asti.

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Iso Numero tarjoaa matalan kynnyksen kunniallista työtä kaikkein heikoimmassa asemassa oleville. Nyt he tarvitsevat väliaikaisesti rahallista apua selvitäkseen tästä vuodesta. Tue jos voit. Viimeinen päivä 30.6.

Haluatko, että pääkaupunkiseudulla on jatkossakin katulehti?

Iso Numero on 15 vuotta tehnyt pääkaupunkiseudun kaduista reilumpia. Nyt meidän pitää kysyä suoraan: haluatko sen jatkuvan?

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When people think about migrants and welfare, they often ask a simple question: Should migrants have access to social benefits? Our new paper with @alexandreafonso.bsky.social and Samir Negash suggests the answer is much more nuanced. @epsrjournal.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/exntas9d 🧵 1/6

The EU's asylum pact applies from today - here's a reminder of my blog posts on this legislation from when it was agreed 1/ The new 'qualification regulation' - on the definition of 'refugee' and 'subsidiary protection' - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-...

The New EU Asylum Laws, part 1: the Qualification Regulation

Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London* Photo credit : Ggia, via Wikimedia Commons *sentences with an asterisk ...

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Survivors of al-Fashir attack describe brutal escape from Sudan reut.rs/4fKro2n

Survivors of al-Fashir attack describe brutal escape from Sudan

They could do nothing but watch as paramilitary fighters shot and killed their loved ones. They were held captive and endured beatings. Their phones, shoes and life savings were stolen.

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A backyard is something that belongs to the house you own. A neighbor(ing country) does not. "Poke the bear" rhetoric frees russia from responsibility: it naturalizes imperialism as something that others have to take for granted and accommodate. #Armenia #imperialism #framing #Ukraine @france24.com

Tilastokeskuksen pääjohtaja @markussovala.bsky.social kirjoittaa LinkedInissä, että Tilastokeskuksen budjettiin kaavaillaan tällä hallituskaudella jopa 15 prosenttiin ulottuvia leikkauksia. Sovalan mukaan näin suuret leikkaukset johtavat nopeisiin ja laajoihin tilastotuotannon supistuksiin. 1/13

Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/05/m...

Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil

The philosopher, literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot’s politics have come under periodic scrutiny. Leslie Hill describes the source of the controversy:  As early as 1931 and 1932, …

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Must-read new @hrw.org report documents scores of attacks on civilians by #BurkinaFaso forces, their allies & #JNIM. These are crimes against humanity. #EU 's #Sahel strategy should put protection of civilians, justice & remedies at its core. www.hrw.org/news/2026/04... @joaocravinho.bsky.social

Burkina Faso: Crimes Against Humanity by All Sides

The Burkina Faso military with its allied militias and an Al Qaeda-linked armed group have killed more than 1,800 civilians and forcibly displaced tens of thousands since 2023.

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Ilaria Allegrozzi@isiki79.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#BurkinaFaso: new @hrw.org report documents the impact on civilians of the conflict. Military+VDPs and JNIM have killed, forcibly displaced thousands. These atrocities, including the gvt’s ethnic cleansing of Fulani civilians, amount to war crimes+crimes against humanity. www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

CJEU, foreign policy sanctions New judgments: EU sanctions against businessmen solely on grounds of their businesses' contributions to the Russian economy are valid; no need to show direct links to invasion of Ukraine curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...

Töitä tarjolla Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa! Haemme läheistä kollegaa minulle tiedejulkaisemisen näköalapaikalle. Linkki hakuilmoitukseen kommenteissa.

🌀 🚨 Terrorist attacks rarely increase trust in political leaders 🧠 Christof Nägel, @nivette.bsky.social & @christian.czymara.com show that, contrary to common assumptions, terrorist attacks don’t generally boost public trust in political leaders.

Terrorist attacks rarely increase trust in political leaders

Research suggests that institutional trust increases in times of political crises. Christof Nägel, Amy Nivette and Christian Czymara test this notion for jihadist terror attacks in Europe. Their…

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Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky

Journals

This is our best attempt at a comprehensive guide for journals that publish in philosophy of social science. If we have either misrepresented or omitted a journal and you are on the editorial board…

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💔 One person died in the Kyiv region as a result of the Russian attack. There is significant destruction.

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell on the autism-microbiome theory www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell

A new review of 15 years of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread statistical and conceptual errors.

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New paper shows social scientists are sidelining null results. Analysing 100,000 articles across 150 political science journals, it finds 2% of abstracts report null-only findings; >90% highlight significant results. Researchers 10–100x less likely to spotlight nulls: driver of publication bias.

Iran extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's prison sentence by seven years

Iranian Nobel laureate's prison sentence extended by seven years

Supporters of Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, said she had been on hunger strike since 2 February.

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8.0% of citations in the medical literature contain major errors. E.g., the cited work makes the opposite claim or is unrelated to the claim in the citing article.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of quotation inaccuracy in medicine - Research Integrity and Peer Review

Background Quotations are crucial to science but have been shown to be often inaccurate. Quotation errors, that is, a reference not supporting the authors’ claim, may still be a significant issue in s...

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Tällä hallituskaudella tehty ja tekeillä hurja määrä viranomaisten, erityisesti poliisin, toimivaltaa lisääviä lakimuutoksia. Valmisteilla jopa perustuslakimuutos, jonka pontimena valtuuksien lisääminen entisestään. Perusoikeudet kapenevat, tarve usein heikosti perusteltu. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

Pääkirjoitus | Viranomaisten rajasota räjähti silmille

Kun kokonaisuutta ei ole katsottu, turvallisuusviranomaiset yrittävät siiloissaan laajentaa omia toimivaltuuksiaan. Vaadituista lisävaltuuksista syttynyt rajasota heikentää viranomaisten keskinäistä l...

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Maahanmuuttopolitiikan kiristykset vaikeuttavat kansainvälisten tutkijoiden asettumista Suomeen. Tiukentuneet työhistoria‑ ja toimeentuloehdot eivät sovi tutkijatyön pirstaleisuuteen. Lisäksi kansalaisuushakemusten pitkät käsittelyajat nakertavat luottamusta tulevaisuuteen. 👇🏻 buff.ly/5hB8ktR

Yli miljoona rohingaa elänyt vuodesta 2017 Bangladeshissa mutavellin keskellä. Koska Myanmarin sisällissota + juntan valta jatkumassa kotiinpaluu ei ole mahdollista, siirtoja kolmansiin maihin on hyvin vähän tarjolla... NYTin lahja-artikkeli:

Opinion | My Rohingya People Are Running Out of Time

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Refugees@refugees.skyfleet.blue · 7mo ago

New York Times: My Rohingya People Are Running Out of Time #Refugees

Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia

Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia - Suomenmaa.fi

Tiedusteluvalvontavaltuutettu suhtautuu varauksella hallituksen kaavailuihin laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia perustuslakimuutoksella. – Haasteet liittyvät siihen, pystytäänkö riittävän...

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Libyan authorities have freed over 220 migrants from what would appear to be a secret underground prison in the southeast of the country. The people were held in gravely inhuman conditions. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6930...

Libya: Over 220 migrants freed from underground prison

Libyan authorities have freed over 220 migrants from what would appear to be a secret underground prison in the southeast of the country. The people were held in gravely inhuman conditions, according ...

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Congress ordered CBP to create a biometric entry/exit system 25 years ago. The problem was that the tech wasn't there until recently, and the agency never pushed hard for it. In late 2020, CBP proposed a rule to implement it. That rule sat until 2025, when the Trump admin finalized it December 26.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It appears the jetway photos at Logan were part of CBP "biometric exit" program, which has been tested for years but was quietly approved for wider rollout in Sept. (Doesn't explain threats to passenger) Some really creepy, damning details in NYT report from Sept: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...

Conflicts across Africa, such as in Sudan, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, remain unresolved as international attention and mediation efforts are stretched or focused elsewhere. https://bit.ly/4bwFXVi

Africa in 2026: Global uncertainty demands regional leadership

Africa can no longer rely on intermittent international attention to safeguard peace, democracy and economic resilience.

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🇺🇦🙏 Current Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: IDP Needs and Limits of Recovery Transition to full-scale recovery will only be possible with stabilization of security and energy context and a gradual reduction in household vulnerability. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/current-huma...

Current Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: IDP Needs and the Limits of Recovery

Millions of people in Ukraine continue to live as internally displaced persons (IDPs), for whom instability has become a prolonged condition rather than a tempo

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If you forced me to set aside the many ethical and environmental questions about #GenAI, and asked me for the best advice I could provide on how it should be used, this picture sums up my current thinking. Experts can use it... (1/n)

Smuggled to suburbia: no end to danger for Ethiopians looking for better life in South Africa

Smuggled to suburbia: no end to danger for Ethiopians looking for better life in South Africa

With tens of thousands thought to be arriving each year, the ‘southern route’ is becoming more perilous and extortionary

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scientific community is trained in reading papers presented as defense of preset conclusions (or hypotheses to the same effect) and struggles to react meaningfully to exploratory research written in an exploratory way. "what if this is a thing? let's see. huh turns out it isn't!" baffles reviewers.