Markus Himanen

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.
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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. 👇🏻
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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...

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Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia - Suomenmaa.fi Tiedusteluvalvontavaltuutettu suhtautuu varauksella hallituksen kaavailuihin laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia perustuslakimuutoksella. – Haasteet liittyvät siihen, pystytäänkö riittävän...

Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia

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 ...

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.
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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.

Africa in 2026: Global uncertainty demands regional leadership Africa can no longer rely on intermittent international attention to safeguard peace, democracy and economic resilience.

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

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

🇺🇦🙏 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 👀
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A Cartesian coordinate system with learning to performance on the horizontal axis, left to right, and novice to expert on the vertical axis, bottom to top. The expert/performance quadrant shows a green thumbs up with "human-in-the-loop", the novice/performance quadrant shows a yellow doc with a checkmark on it that says "low-risk tasks", then expert/learning quadrant shows a yellow doc with a refresh symbol that says "verify" and the novice/learning quadrant has a red triangle that says "danger."

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

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

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.

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "Trust and Subjective Well-Being Across the Lifespan: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations."

Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture

Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture #Refugees

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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Kyiv my beloved

More from Tehran and Shiraz today. Footage coming out has dropped sharply due to IRGC/Basij raids searching for Starlink terminals, and extreme jamming causing massive packet loss, making it nearly impossible to upload or send content.

‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down Demonstrators recount experiences on the frontlines as protest movement rapidly moves beyond government’s control

Cannot imagine the courage required for Iranians to keep joining the protests, & find ways of getting testimony out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Iran protests sweep nation despite internet shutdown as state TV warns of 'casualties' Iranian protesters have taken to the streets following a call by the exiled crown prince for demonstrations.

Iran’s judiciary chief vowed that punishment for protesters “will be decisive, maximum and without any legal leniency.” The comment, reported by Iranian state television, came from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei.

Screenshot of title page including the following abstract: To minimise confounding bias and disentangle warranted from unwarranted disparities, researchers examining sentencing discrimination have traditionally sought to control for as many legal factors as possible. However, over the past decade, a growing number of scholars have questioned this strategy, noting that many legal factors are themselves subject to judicial discretion and that controlling for them can introduce post-treatment bias. Here, we use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to provide a formal and comprehensive assessment of the different types of bias that may arise from different choices of controls. In addition, we propose a new modelling framework to facilitate the selection of controls and reflect the model uncertainty created by the trade-off inherent in judicially-defined legal factors and other factors with a similar dual causal role. We apply this framework to examine race disparities in US federal courts and gender disparities in the England and Wales magistrates’ court. We find substantial model uncertainty for gender disparities and for race disparities affecting Hispanic offenders, rendering estimates of the latter inconclusive. Disparities against black offenders are more consistent and — under specific conditions — could be interpreted as evidence of direct discrimination.

Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls"

Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes.

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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes...

Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties.

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joka helpottaa poliisin pääsyä mm. terveys- ja sosiaalialanviranomaisten tietoihin.

Eduskunnassa on tällä hetkellä lakiesitys, joka mahdollistaisi passeja ja henkilökortteja varten kerättyjen sormenjälkien ja kasvokuvien käytön rikoksentorjunassa lisäksi siellä on esitys, joka helpottaa poliisin pääsyä Supon keräämiin tietoihin. Eduskuntaan lähettämistä odottamassa on esitys, -->

HS:n tiedot | Poliisi haluaa seurata ihmisiä ilman heihin kohdistuvaa rikosepäilyä Suomessa ollaan tekemässä vauhdilla suurta muutosta poliisin oikeuksiin seurata kansalaisten elämää.

"Uudistuksen jälkeen poliisi voisi seurata ihmisiä tai ihmisryhmää ilman yksilöityä rikosepäilyä. Viestin suojan saisi jatkossa murtaa, jos yksilöön tai yhteiskuntaan kohdistuisi vakavan rikoksen uhka."

Hallitus haluaa muuttaa perustuslakia tämän hallituskauden aikana, jotta tämä saataisiin läpi.

💔🇺🇦 Zelensky: All night long, our rescuers worked in Ternopil, and search-and-rescue operations are still ongoing. 22 people are still missing – the effort to find them continues. As of now, 26 people are confirmed dead, including three children.

So the total amount of drones they launched in 2023 is equivalent to one night in 2025

This is Serhii Vlasenko, a rescuer from Kyiv.

Here he stands among the ruins of his own home — destroyed by a russian drone last night.

His family survived only because they reached the shelter in time.