Jenni Prokkola

University lecturer in Urban greening University lecturer in Urban greening

Open university lecturer position in urban greening at our department! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#helsinkiuniversity

Lukijan mielipide | Nyt mitataan kokoomuksen ja Rkp:n sivistys- ja kilpailukykypuheet Sen sijaan että puhutaan leikkaamisesta, pitäisi puhua siitä, kuinka paljon yliopistot ja Suomen Akatemia tarvitsisivat lisärahoitusta.

Nyt todellakin nähdään, ovatko sivistyspuolueina itseään pitävät tosissaan.

Erityisen mielenkiintoista on lisäksi nähdä, ovatko puheet kasvun tavoittelusta totta. Kansantaloudesta mitään ymmärtävät lienevät yksimielisiä siitä, että TKI-panostukset ovat kasvun tärkein avain.

People need to stand up. What the hell are we doing? #StandUpForScience 🧪🧬🦠🌍🔭

Never know what you find in your citations! I found an obviously wrong citation in a publication from a completely different field. Anyone reading the reference list should have spotted it 😬 Emailed the journal, hope I’ll be positively surprised…

The Kristineberg Underwater Observatory is now live!! 🐟🧪🦑
Similar to the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social.

Watch the eel grass meadow full of life live from your desk! Gobies, crabs, pipefish, several species of wrasses including some massive Ballan wrasse. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/live/goB60IJ...

Forecast 2-m temperatures today in Finland, based on the MEPS regional model.

20 straight days with 30 °C in Finland! Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33 degrees.

Even the Arctic regions (e.g. Sodankylä Tähtelä) have seen three weeks above 25 °C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.

Imagine if LLMs came out with a "not sure, but here's my best guess? You should verify this information" we would have stopped hearing about them instantly. You know like how we ignore scientists

CIG- UNIL

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home....
More details for how to apply are here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

A Three toed sloth on a branch extending its neck out.

What mammal has the longest neck?

In terms of the number of vertebrae, it’s not the giraffe. They have 7 neck vertebrae, like us.

Sloths, however, can have up to 10! Three toed sloths are the only mammal group that have more than 7.

Who has the shortest neck?
Also sloths! Two toeds can have 5!

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

Science and Democracy Under Siege Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.

Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

Naturally, the Germans have a word for this exact moment because, of course, they do.

We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization.

In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.

Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

And “hard science” careers are also WRITING INTENSIVE jobs! Want to be an astronomer, biologist, or chemist? You’ll spend years writing reports, grants, papers, reviews, reference letters, etc. Writing is never easy, but it’s much *easier* if you’re trained how to outline and structure text.

Lukijan mielipide | Akateemisen maailman pitää laskeutua norsunluutornistaan On outoa, jos poliitikot tai tavalliset tallaajat, veronmaksajat, eivät saisi keskustella eri hankkeiden mielekkyydestä.

Hesarissa on ollut melkoinen määrä mielipidekirjoituksia tieteen rahoittamisesta ja tutkimushankkeiden arvioinnista, tässä taas tuorein, jossa tähdennetään, miten tavisten pitäisi saada arvioida tutkimushankkeita…
www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

#SEBconference that is.

Screenshot with title: Is thermal performance during heatwaves predicted by life history genotypes in salmon? And authors Lucy Cotgrove, Zara-Louise Cowan, Constance Oules, Evan Sala, Tutku Aykanat, Craig Primmer, Fredrik Jutfelt, Jenni Prokkola. Time of talk: 08 Jul 17:15

Screenshot with title: Ontogenetic vulnerability of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, to climate warming, and authors Zara-Louise Cowan, Lucy Cotgrove, Lilian Redon, Fredrik Jutfelt, Jenni Prokkola. Time of talk: 09 Jul 09:45

After missing a couple of years, it’s great to attend #SEBconference2025 in Antwerp this week🥳
What was I doing, you may ask, in 2023-2024? Find out from these 🔥 talks by two amazing postdocs, including very recent results! #ThermoEvo

Totally agree. It’s a shame it needs to be said at all.

How do genetic differences in major effect genes translate into alternative life histories? Our group has an open PhD position in functional genomics (ChIP-seq + ATAC-seq + RNA-seq) to answer this question.

Official add posted in August - before that contact me through email!

Energetic benefits of prey choice for a shark-eating shark - Oecologia Optimal foraging theory has been used to understand the foraging choices of animals but is rarely applied to large predatory fishes due to difficulties measuring their behavior in the wild. Great hamm...

Energetics suggest Great Hammerhead Sharks only need to eat ~0.7% of their body weight per day of other sharks to survive. Means a ~250 kg big one would only need to eat one ~50 kg shark every three weeks! Good reason to be shark and ray-eating specialists.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Awesome, thanks!

Hey @sebiology.bsky.social I’m wondering if the talks will be recorded? Would be good to see talks I’ve missed later even though I attend the in-person meeting 😊

Tornion- ja Simojokeen on noussut vähän lohia

Näyttää siltä että kuluva kesä tulee olemaan kolmas peräkkäinen niukkalohinen kesä Tornionjoella ja Simojoella 😕
#lohi @luke.fi

Erikoistutkija / tutkija, Itämeren lohi ja meritaimen - Luonnonvarakeskus Avoin työpaikka: Erikoistutkija / tutkija, Itämeren lohi ja meritaimen, Luonnonvarakeskus - Valtiolle.fi:stä löydät valtion avoimet työpaikat.

Haemme tutkijaa @luke.fi 🐟 📣
Löytyykö kokemusta:
•kalakantojen arvioinnin ja kalastuksen säätelyn menetelmistä •vaelluskalakantojen tutkimuksesta
•erilaisten tietovarantojen käytöstä
•tilastotieteellisten menetelmien hyödyntämisestä?

Jos kyllä, hae! Työkaverit ovat mahtavia☺️

In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.

Important editorial in @nature.com.
As I said a decade ago in an op-ed in the @nytimes.com (back when they were publishing stuff like that), "If You See Something, Say Something" (www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/o...)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hyvää juhannusta! Tämä mummuni kirjoittama juttu juhannuksen vietosta yli sadan vuoden takaa julkaistiin Siikajokilaakson juhannusnumerossa (ilmainen). Hänen isänsä lempimuistoja oli kahavien juonti koivumajassa juhannuksena 🍃

Lukijan mielipide | Ilman hyväkuntoisia vesistöjä meillä ei tulevaisuudessa ole kalastettavaa Pelkkä uomien tai järvien kunnostus ei riitä.

Täyttä asiaa @palouhi.bsky.social @luke.fi 🙌 #kalastus #vaelluskalat

Ilman hyväkuntoisia vesistöjä meillä ei tulevaisuudessa ole kalastettavaa

Just two more days to apply!

Principal Scientist, Wildlife Ecology - Natural Resources Institute Finland Open job: Principal Scientist, Wildlife Ecology, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

Researchers! 📢 We (@luke.fi) are hiring: Principal Scientist in Wildlife Ecology

Permanent position ✅️
Finland, you'll love it ✅️
Flexible hours, proper holidays ✅️
Great colleagues and atmosphere ✅️
Relocation services ✅️
Value to objective research ✅️

#Canada #USA, you have boreal wildlife too 😉