Tuomas Mattila

🪱 Hey, earthworm enthusiasts! Registration is OPEN for the 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology 😎

📌 Deadlines:

Abstracts: Jan 4, 2026

Early-bird: Apr 15, 2026

🌍 Details on excursions, workshops & socials: event.wur.nl/isee13/home-...

📅 See you end of August 2026!

Donald Trump "ACED" his cognitive exam, something "few people would be able to do".

It was "in front of large numbers of doctors", so we can rule out Joe Shapiro having taken it for him.

Lähinnä meinasin semmoista green growth skenaariota: investoidaan tulevaisuuden infraan ja ekosysteemien kunnostamiseen, työpaikkoja ropisee.

Entäs molemmat samaan aikaan?

Ja Euroopanlahden (Itämeri) sulkeminen ei-EU aluksilta.

A historical illustration featuring a bearded man with a halo, seated at a table with an hourglass and a book. A lion lies beside him, and a birdcage hangs on the wall. It is St. Jerome at a writing desk. The detail is from GW M0810720 (likely from the workshop of Laurentius de Morgianis in Florence, mid 1490s).

As you all know, the last few working days for this year are ahead of you. In other words: your 2025 deadlines are approaching fast. So have your slippers and a hat nearby, your bird and cat fed, and an hourglass ready to remind you taking a break. Just like St. Jerome in the 1490s. #academicchatter

* The immune system is not like a muscle and immunity debt is bullshit.

* There are various ways that repeated COVID infections could be causing short- and/or longer-term immunity theft, making people more vulnerable to other infections.

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Hyvä pointti!

Tukeahan pätkähtää myös about 1500e/päivä + matkalaskun kulut. Se tässä hiukan hiertää, että pääjohtajalla on pääjohtajan palkka ja edut siksi että odotetaan pääjohtajan suoriutuvuutta.

With the new U.S. national security strategy (“NSC-88”), I think it is high time to ban Twitter in the EU altogether. At the very least, what the ever loving hell are our politicians doing there anymore?

They provide material for a system that will be used to attack us.

Just back from the Helene Schjerfbeck show at The Met. It's wonderful to have so much work from this powerful Finnish painter in New York. This is 'Self Portrait, Black Background' from 1915. It's on loan from The Finnish National Gallery.

Elon Musk @elonmusk • 6год. X The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people 18 тис 2] 26тис 146тис 1l 18млн Д 企 Dmitry Medvedev • @MedvedevRu... . 5 год. ... Exactly

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

“We reveal a troubling trade- off: When AI systems are optimized for persuasion, they may increasingly deploy misleading or false information.”

www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Ei mitään havaintoa. Toivottavasti ensi viikolla tulee.

In a World full of d*cks, strive to be like Nick.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

(Also, happy St Nick's day. Painting: Ilya Repin, photo Wikimedia Commons.)

I don't love corporate lawyers so much to begin with so this is really all so extra funny imagining in house at OpenAI opening their email every like 8 minutes of each day endlessly nonstop

When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself.

(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

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Semmoiseen koneeseen sitten suomalaisia matkustajia voisi turvallisin mielin päästää.

Jos kone esittäisi boarding passia, se vasta sekavaa olisikin.

They could also just label it "bullshit machine free education". AI is an euphemism.

This tech is destructive of human creativity and intellect. It is burning the planet so people can avoid thinking. Administrators who embrace it are hastening their own demise.

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Kiitos. Valitettavasti tällä viikolla ei tullut dataa, saa nähdä tuleeko ensi viikolla.

Kelalla nykyisessä työvoimatilanteessa ole tarvetta pitää "ihan viimeisen päälle" kiinni pääjohtajastaan.

Muistan vuoden 2008 kyykkäyksen, silloin elvytettiin ja kohdennettiin kysyntää sektoreille joilla on korkeat kerrannaisvaikutukset (infra, rakennustyö). Onko panos-tuotos taulut jotenkin nykyään out?

”Yli puolet kyselyyn vastanneista yrityksistä pitää kotimaan heikkoa kysyntää suurimpana haasteena yritystoiminnalle.”

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Erinomainen valinta salikatseltavaksi - maastavetotulos paranee heti.