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Antti Yrjönen @anttiyrjonen.fi · 17d

In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader.

Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change (Gift Article)

We asked heads of state how they’re steering their countries as America retreats.

www.nytimes.com

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Call for inclusive and diverse universities by Finnish Education Employers, The Union of Research Professionals, and The Council of Rectors of Finnish Universities.

Suomen yliopistojen rehtorineuvosto Unifi @unifiry.bsky.social · Sep 1

The universities around Finland have over 170,000 students and a staff of almost 35,000. Together, we form diverse communities in which everyone has the right to feel valued and to be treated equally, regardless of their background, status, or identity.

unifi.fi/en/inclusive...

Inclusive and Diverse University! Building together an inclusive, striving university community - Unifi

As we embark on a new academic year, we have the chance to remind ourselves that each member of the university community has an important role to play in

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LUT University - LUT-yliopisto 🚀 @lut.fi · Aug 26

Join us on Bluesky! We are proud to introduce our brand new strategy, System Earth 2030. 🚀

We are seeking solutions to global issues with our expertise in technology, business, and social sciences.

➔ Learn more about us and watch our video: www.lut.fi/en/about-us/...

#unilut

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Michael Schwandt @michaelschwandt.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week."

This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.

#visionzero #publichealth

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Jul 28

The upside is lots of steps during the day!

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Jul 28

When lost in the #AOM2025 maze, just try, try again 🤞

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Jul 26

Hello @aomconnect.bsky.social #AOM2025 Copenhagen! Corporate political activity, activism & qualitative methods and more on my sunny agenda (spotting bikes in weird places as a bonus) 🚲

Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Jun 24

CSR Communication Conference 2026 is hosted by @lut.fi LUT Business School! The deadline for abstracts and session proposals is March 31 📨
This interdisciplinary conference is open to anyone working in the intersection of CSR and communication - welcome to Lappeenranta! #CSRCOM2026
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CSRCOM - CSRCOM

8th INTERNATIONAL CSR Communication ConferencE 22 – 24 September 2026 LUT Business School, LUT University, Finland “CSR Communication in the age of political instability” Call for papers Program PHD s...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 19

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Enlightenment. Well, it was nice while it lasted.

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Jun 5

Kiitos @procom.fi tämän vuoden ProCom-päivästä kauniissa Finlandia-talossa 🕊️

Mieleen jäi erityisesti Anna Perhon kannustus opetella kehtaamaan 🔥

#procomday #viestintä

ProCom-päivä teemalla strateginen viestintä

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · Mar 27

My US-based colleagues, FYI:

Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.

By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Mar 20

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Mar 17

All the silly hysterical media debates of 2023 about how AI may pose an existential threat to humankind really missed the mark.

The harms are here, & they are not caused by AI autonomy. They are the result of how bosses & autocrats use machine learning systems to discipline & destroy.

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Mar 16

I am already hearing many European academics becoming unwilling to travel to the US for political reasons

Stories like these 👇 add safety concerns to the list. Especially, as access to social media accounts are required to enter

How do we best support our US academic colleagues as things escalate?

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Mar 15

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Mar 13

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · Mar 13

About to talk to medical affairs colleagues, with the news that Bluesky is carrying more posts about new journal publications than X #bluesky #altmetrics #x #xparrot

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Mar 12

Responsible Business Research Conference is kicked off by Rajat Panwar. He makes a call for "Big, Hairy, Audacious Research"(!!!), urging us to be bold, ambitious, and transformative. This means defying structures, going out of comfort zones, and "not building theories when the house is on fire".

Slide about Big, Hairy, Audacious Research

Keynote at Responsible Business Research Conference in Tampere.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Mar 1

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Feb 11

Puhuisin itse edelleen kahtiajakoisuudesta ja siltä tämä aihe myös tutkimuksen kentällä näyttää.
Setan aktiivi muuten arvioi asiaa viime vuonna näin: "Mielestäni asenneilmasto on muuttunut viime vuosina eikä mihinkään suotuisaan suuntaan." www.lahti.fi/uutiset/laht...

”Lahti Pride on ilon aikaa kaikille lahtelaisille” - Lahti

Lahti Pride järjestetään toukokuussa. Ihmisoikeustapahtuman aktiivi Alma Tuominen hyppää neljännen kerran tapahtumatuottajan saappaisiin. Hän toivoo, että Lahti Pridea ei koettaisi vähemmistön…

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Feb 11

Mielenkiintoinen näkökulma. Tarkoitatko, että liputuksen lopettaminen on merkki siitä, että seksuaalivähemmistöjen oikeudet tai asema eivät enää jaa mielipiteitä eikä liputusta siksi tarvita?

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · Feb 11

The history books will have a list of companies that complied in advance with xenophobic, illegal, & authoritarian demands of a moody and thin-skinned megalomaniac. Don't be on that list.

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Feb 11

Lahden kaupunki luopuu Pride-liputuksesta korostaakseen "neutraalia linjaa ja tasapuolista toimintatapaa kaikkia asukkaita kohtaan". Kahtiajakautuneissa teemoissa neutraalia ei useinkaan ole, eikä päätöksestä tule neutraali sillä että sen sanotaan olevan sellainen. Käytännössä tämäkin on kannanotto.

Pride | Lahden kaupunki haluaa ”korostaa neutraalia linjaa”: Loppu sateenkaariliputukselle

Lähes kaikki kokoomuslaiset sekä osa suurimman puolueen Sdp:n jäsenistä halusi sateenkaariliput alas kaupungintalon lippusalosta.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Feb 9

Why am I sharing this? I’m sharing it because over time, more topics will be seen as “controversial” and more and more scientists will find themselves a target of politicization. The ongoing dismantling of scientistific institutions is only the beginning and while it might seem easier…

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Feb 9

According to this list, my research topic, corporate activism & its connections to DEI, LGBTQ rights and climate change, would now be banned. Academia is not academia without the ability to address and understand current phenomena 🚨

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 8

First of all, don't indulge in false comfort if you are lucky enough to not be in the US. Odds are, the neoliberals/fascists in your country are, at this very moment, looking at Trump&Musk, learning, and planning the ways they can take down your own democracy and government.
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