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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 12d

Direct air capture (DAC) continues to be small, slow, and very expensive.

Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve.

This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown.

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Direct carbon capture falters as developers’ costs fail to budge

Some experts say the technology is crucial for climate change goals but scaling up is proving hard

www.ft.com

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Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social · 11d

Today is the DL for submitting abstracts for the next year’s ISFNR conference “Nature(s) in Narrative” in Reykjavík. Marjeta Pisk and I are convening a panel “Nature as subject and symbol: ecological perspectives in folk song traditions“, and there are plenty of other interesting panels too!

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Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social · 11d

As a doctoral student, it took me several years to realise that the International Society for Folk Narrative Research ISFNR is not about narratives or prose traditions only but accommodates work on not-so-narrative folk genres and folk song research too.

Reykjavík, Iceland - The International Society For Folk Narrative Research

ISFNR 2026 Reykjavík – Nature(s) in Narrative. We welcome you to the 2026 interim ISFNR conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 13th to 16th

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Sami Syrjämäki @samisyrjamaki.bsky.social · 19d

Kiinnostaako suomalainen tutkimus ihan oikeasti. Tässä ketjussa neljä erinomaista palvelua, joiden kautta siihen voi tutustua. 1/

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TaijaK @taijak.bsky.social · 24d

Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seuran julkaisema Elore on ehdolla vuoden tiedelehdeksi! 🥳 tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/n...

Neljä julkaisua ehdolla Vuoden tiedelehdeksi | Tiedekustantajat

Vuoden tiedelehti -palkinnosta kilvoittelee tänä vuonna neljä tieteellistä julkaisua. Finalistit...

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 24d

Deleted my account.

Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 24d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Jussi Jalonen @jojalonen.bsky.social · 29d

En sano, että FBI:n johtajan muistopuhe, jossa hän lausuu Charlie Kirkin olevan nyt Valhallassa, olisi suoranaisesti äärioikeistolaista retoriikkaa. Se vain sattuu olemaan kutakuinkin sama, mitä Hitler sanoi Hindenburgin hautajaisissa.

Elämme tällaista sattumien aikaa.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Sep 11

We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Increasing inequality in agri-food value chains: global trends from 1995-2020

Agri-food systems are increasingly globalised. In the last three decades, as national food systems have become more interdependent, the distribution o…

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Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social · Sep 9

BBC has something covered www.bbc.com/news/topics/...

Nepal - BBC News

All the latest content about Nepal from the BBC.

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Orkneyology @orkneyology.bsky.social · Sep 7

Folklorist Tom Muir with guest Prof Terry Gunnell, University of Iceland.
website rebrand.ly/210773
Youtube youtu.be/0yxKvTrUedU
Spotify rebrand.ly/jfatf
@scotstorycentre.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social @folklorethursday.bsky.social @folklorelibrary.bsky.social

Orkney Islands folklorist and historian Tom Muir talks with University of Iceland folklorist Terry Gunnell about Icelandic and Nordic folk tales and traditions - Orkneyology Podcast

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Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social · Aug 12

Oo, onnea! <3

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Aug 10

How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education?

Let’s look to history

Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions

Hitler destroyed them

How long did they take to recover?

They haven’t

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Oras Tynkkynen @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi · Jul 22

Sanat loppuvat kesken

YK: Israel surmannut yli tuhat palestiinalaista avustuspisteiden lähellä loppukeväästä lähtien

Uutiset nopeasti ja luotettavasti.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · Jul 22

You may be tying your shoelaces wrong.

And that's why your shoelaces always come loose.

Let me explain with a little bit of knot theory, laced with ethnography.

A couple of minutes of knot experimentation can save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run.

A thread about knots.🪢

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · Jul 18

A wonderful couple of days in Hof for our Anglo-German project StoryMachine storymachine.iisys.de. All things folklore, hypertext and digital humanities!

Eleven people (four men and seven women) standing on decking, with blue sky and white clouds above them. They are smiling.

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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · Jun 29

Haluan työttömyysturvan, joka sallii ihmisten tehdä vapaaehtoistyötä, hyväntekeväisyyttä, taidetta, tiedettä, kulttuuria, sekä kouluttautua, sivistyä, lisätä osaamistaan ja tehdä muuta haluamaansa rajoituksetta.

Sellainen työttömyysturva olisi taatusti myös halvin mahdollinen vaihtoehto.

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Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social · Jun 30

There was a post on FB about 'small elves' in Scandi folklore, and whether any studies had been conducted on them. Because I cannot reply to the original post, I' ll share what I could find here. Disclaimer: I'm not sure whether the studies differentiate between 'big elves' or 'small elves'. 1/n

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Uuden ajan alun tutkimuksen verkosto @uudenajanalku.bsky.social · Jun 30

Lue verkoston julkaisemasta Uuden ajan alun tutkimus -blogista Kaisa Kyläkosken kirjoitus "Varhaisen uutisoinnin äärellä St Andrewsissa", jossa Kyläkoski kertoo St Andrewsin yliopistossa järjestetyn kirjahistoriallisen konferenssin annista. www.uudenajanalku.fi/2025/06/27/v...

Varhaisen uutisoinnin äärellä St Andrewsissa

Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) on St Andrewsin yliopistossa jo 25 vuotta käynnissä ollut hanke, jonka tavoitteena on luetteloida Euroopassa ja sen siirtomaissa ennen vuotta 1700 painetut tuott...

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Sanita Reinsone @sanitareins.bsky.social · Jun 18

With a brilliant bunch of colleagues, we’ve put together a poster for #DARIAH2025 on how folklore collections are expanding into digital research infrastructures.
Presentation tomorrow at the Alte Mensa venue.
Digital folklore resources mentioned > traditionarchives.org/resources/digital-resources

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Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · Jun 18

@sanitareins.bsky.social put together this resource for the #dariah event & it's great! Take a look for info om digital #folklore resources:

www.traditionarchives.org/resources/di...

traditionarchives.org - Digital Resources

DIGITAL FOLKLORE ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS, AND TOOLS

www.traditionarchives.org

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · Jun 23

What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?

Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.

It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.

Tsun. All Tsun. @alltsunnodere.bsky.social · Jun 23

What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?

Montessori and Waldorf are like, opposite ends of the spectrum in fancy educational philosophies in early childhood.

Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · Jun 22

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

If you have 3 average viewers, you are in the top 10% of twitch streams. If you have 10 average viewers, you're in the top 5%.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social · Jun 18

Olisi hauskaa saada tuonne aineistoa mukaan, mutta vaatisi miettimistä ja melkein oman hankkeensa. Tässä kyse kirjallisista runoista, kielikohtaisten korpusten koot 5000–17 000 runoa.

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Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social · Jun 18

Prahalainen tutkimusryhmä on yhteistyökumppaneiden kanssa luonut mahtavan PoeTree-runokorpuksen runouden vertailevaa laskennallista tutkimusta varten, mukana tällä hetkellä kymmenen kieltä ja lisää tulossa. Onkohan kukaan Suomessa miettinyt sähköisen runokorpuksen luomista?

PoeTree. Poetry Treebanks in 10 languages

PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish).

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