Salla-Maaria Laaksonen

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2d

👀ICYMI: "We tend to picture publishing as something done by large commercial companies, big learned societies or a handful of famous university presses. But universities also publish at scale, across disciplines and in many languages."

@mikaellaakso.bsky.social @zehrataskin.bsky.social #ScholComms

University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact

Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 3d

#Wikipedia täytti juuri 25 vuotta! Heidi Puomisto kirjoitti avoimen tietosanakirjaprojektin nykytilasta hienon esseen @longplay.fi -lehteen. Oli kiva olla mukana jutun teossa ja pohtia miten generatiivinen tekoäly vaikuttaa tietämiseen. Lisää ajatuksia ehkä tulossa!

www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/es...

Essee: Haluan misinformaationi ihmisiltä, kiitos!

www.longplay.fi

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 4d

Auta tutkijaa ja tule pitämään päiväkirjaa kahdeksi viikoksi! Noin viesti päivässä riittää hyvin.

Myös yksityisviestillä voi ilmoittautua mukaan.

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 18d

Tiede kaipaa vapaaehtoisia! Haluaisitko seurata pari viikkoa digitaalista arkeasi meidän tutkimushankkeen hyväksi pitämällä vapaamuotoista päiväkirjaa? Kiinnostavat erityisesti liiallisuuden ja yltäkylläisyyden kokemukset.

blogs.helsinki.fi/greenerbits/...

Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 6d

"Ranska luopuu Teamsin ja Zoomin käytöstä, Suomessa vastaava ei onnistuisi."
www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...

Ja miksi muka ei onnistuisi?

No esimerkiksi siksi, että Microsoftin edustaja on tekemässä päätöksiä huoltovarmuuskeskuksessa.
www.huoltovarmuuskeskus.fi/huoltovarmuu...

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 8d

"Nyt kun tuote on jo kaikilla, keskitymme sen kieltämiseen lapsilta sen sijaan, että kehittäisimme siitä toimivan version."

Nimenomaan. Voisimmeko edes olla tekemättä samaa virhettä generatiivisen tekoälyn kanssa?

Kiitos @elinauutela.bsky.social !

elinauutela.substack.com/p/tiedollise...

Tiedolliset oikeudet huomiotaloudessa

Heikki Pursiainen ja Jussi Ahlroth ovat molemmat tahoillaan tarttuneet ajankohtaiseen aiheeseen: kansalaisten tiedonsaantiin nykyisessä mediaympäristössä. Kuka voi turvata tiedolliset oikeudet?

elinauutela.substack.com

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 8d

Vielä mahtuisi mukaan reflektoimaan omaa digiarkea:

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 18d

Tiede kaipaa vapaaehtoisia! Haluaisitko seurata pari viikkoa digitaalista arkeasi meidän tutkimushankkeen hyväksi pitämällä vapaamuotoista päiväkirjaa? Kiinnostavat erityisesti liiallisuuden ja yltäkylläisyyden kokemukset.

blogs.helsinki.fi/greenerbits/...

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 8d

This is what US foreign interference in Europe looks like: "US government to fund MAGA-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe" www.ft.com/content/f869...

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe

State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

www.ft.com

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 9d

Great summary of the DSA and why it exists, and why it's not part of any ridiculous industrial censorship complex.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions

Multiple independent research institutions have recently and repeatedly sounded the alarm that democracy is in retreat worldwide. In the United States, a British academic has painstakingly recorded mo...

www.science.org

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken.

I think we all should:

1. Review three papers for every one that we submit.
2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives.

#AcademicChatter

A table with columns "Stage" and "Start Date" tracks the multi-month editorial progress of a manuscript submission from October 2025 to January 2026. The log begins on October 8, 2025, with "Preliminary Manuscript Data Submitted," and moves through several administrative phases including "Initial Quality Control" and the assignment of Editors and Associate Editors by late October. Starting on October 26, 2025, the status begins an oscillating cycle between "Contacting Potential Reviewers" and "Waiting for Reviewer Assignment," appearing multiple times through November and into early 2026. The most recent entries show "Contacting Potential Reviewers" on January 12, 2026, followed by a shift back to "Waiting for Reviewer Assignment" on January 13, 2026, indicating an ongoing search for peer reviewers. This has continued until the last update on January 26, 2026

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 9d

Spent the morning in Turku talking about #scicomm on social media to doctoral researchers in @inflames-flagship.bsky.social. These sessions are insightful and meaningful for me, love hearing the research topics and thoughts of these future stars! Hope to meet many of them online soon!

Introduction slide that reads "Why bother? Science communication on social media" with an illustration of the tablet and varous science-related drawings on the right. Yellow background.

hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 10d

📅 Also: Registration for the Hackathon is now open on the official ICA Pre- and Post-Conferences Site — register here! www.icahdq.org/events/regis...

International Communication Association

www.icahdq.org

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 10d

Kriittiset digitaaliset palvelut olisi syytä rakentaa suomalaisten ja eurooppalaisten toimijoiden varaan. Tästä on nyt käynnissä kansalaisaloite, nimeä alle siis!

digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi

Digitaalinen itsenäisyys

Suomen arki, demokratia ja turvallisuus nojaavat yhä enemmän digitaalisiin järjestelmiin. Vaalit, sosiaaliturva, verotus ja monet muut yhteiskunnan perustoiminnot pyörivät tietojärjestelmien varassa. ...

digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 11d

Welcome today, online or in person!

DARIAH-FI @dariahfi.bsky.social · 15d

The methodological unit at @helsinki.fi organises regular brown bag seminars for methodologically curious researchers in SSH... next up 4.2. (12.15 EEST) @sallamaaria.bsky.social & Erjon Skenderi "Raising a bot: Developing communicative AIs for group discussions"👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Brown Bag Seminar | Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities | University of Helsinki

Brown Bag Seminar meetings every Wednesday.

www.helsinki.fi

Rajapinta @rajapinta.co · 11d

Mitä sosiaalisen median rajoituksista pitäisi ajatella, kysyy @jannema.bsky.social blogikirjoituksessaan. Tutkimusnäyttö ei kaikilta osin tue nuorten somekieltoa, vaikka haittoja onkin. Kielto on myös ongelmallinen nuorten viestintäoikeuksien kannalta.

rajapinta.co/2026/02/04/m...

Mitä sosiaalisen median rajoituksista pitäisi ajatella?

Monet maat suunnittelevat sosiaalisen median kieltämistä lapsilta ja nuorilta. Tutkimusnäyttö ei kaikilta osin tue kieltoa, vaikka haittoja onkin. Kielto on haittojen ehkäisyn vuoksi perusteltu, mu…

rajapinta.co

DARIAH-FI @dariahfi.bsky.social · 15d

The methodological unit at @helsinki.fi organises regular brown bag seminars for methodologically curious researchers in SSH... next up 4.2. (12.15 EEST) @sallamaaria.bsky.social & Erjon Skenderi "Raising a bot: Developing communicative AIs for group discussions"👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Brown Bag Seminar | Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities | University of Helsinki

Brown Bag Seminar meetings every Wednesday.

www.helsinki.fi

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 17d

All kinds of repercussions.

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 17d

News publishers are limiting access to the Internet Archive's crawlers because they fear it's a backdoor to AI scraping. As a result, some of the web's history of getting lost.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

www.niemanlab.org

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 17d

News publishers are limiting access to the Internet Archive's crawlers because they fear it's a backdoor to AI scraping. As a result, some of the web's history of getting lost.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

www.niemanlab.org

John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 17d

Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.

www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

www.science.org

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18d

France will ban public officials from using American platforms including Google Meet, Zoom and Teams for videoconferencing, according to a spokesperson.

France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams

The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.

www.politico.eu

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18d

European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen sounded the alarm about Europe’s dependence on foreign technology today, saying “it’s very clear that Europe is having our independence moment.”

EU tech chief sounds alarm over dependence on foreign tech

Relying on foreign tech “can be weaponized against us,” says Commission’s Henna Virkkunen.

www.politico.eu

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 18d

Viestiä saa mielellään välittää! Myyntipuheena vielä että tämä voi olla myös itselle avartava kokemus - oli ainakin itselleni kun pidin päiväkirjaa testijaksolla joulukuussa.

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 18d

Päiväkirjan pito onnistuu helposti valitsemassasi pikaviestimessä, myös ääniviestit ja kuvat ok. Voit myös laittaa mulle privaviestiä niin palaamme asiaan.

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 18d

Tiede kaipaa vapaaehtoisia! Haluaisitko seurata pari viikkoa digitaalista arkeasi meidän tutkimushankkeen hyväksi pitämällä vapaamuotoista päiväkirjaa? Kiinnostavat erityisesti liiallisuuden ja yltäkylläisyyden kokemukset.

blogs.helsinki.fi/greenerbits/...

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 18d

This cultural stagnation is a thing I've been thinking about since genAI started to become common. Homogenization not creativity.

theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...

AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening

AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.

theconversation.com

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 19d

Such a terrifying technological imaginary. And real too, even if it wouldn't work as intended. I guess that's a minor concern.

404 Media @404media.co · 20d

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.

They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

www.404media.co

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19d

Just in: EU Commission is opening a new investigation into Grok’s nudification tool on X under the DSA.
“This includes risks related to the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material.”

Commission investigates Grok and X\'s recommender systems under the Digital Services Act

The European Commission has launched a new formal investigation against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

ec.europa.eu

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20d

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.

Excellent article!

One of those latecomers was a 46-year-old documentary filmmaker named Chad Knutson. On the morning after Good was killed, he was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house. A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed.

Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him.

“I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?

Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 20d

Tietoturva-asiantuntija pitää omituisena, että Eurooppa vahvistaa puolustustaan, mutta tietojärjestelmissä olemme jättäytyneet amerikkalaisten yritysten armoille.

Jos me Euroopassa valitsemme aina halvimman it-vaihtoehdon, häviämme tämän pelin.

Turvallisuudella on hintansa.
yle.fi/a/74-20206328

Onko amerikkalainen teknologia jo turvallisuusriski? Asiantuntija: ”Jos valitsemme aina halvimman, häviämme pelin”

Riippuvuus amerikkalaisesta tekniikasta voi tulla kalliiksi, sanoo tietoturva-asiantuntija Petteri Järvinen.

yle.fi

404 Media @404media.co · 20d

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.

They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

www.404media.co

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 22d

Sopivasti myös tämä eurooppalainen säätiösome tekee juuri tuloaan:

www.eurosky.social

eurosky

www.eurosky.social

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