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Iikka Korhonen @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social · 7h

”…foreign companies will need Chinese government approval to export products that contain even trace amounts of Chinese-sourced rare-earth minerals, or that were manufactured using the country’s rare-earth extraction, refining or magnet-making technology”
China following the US..🇨🇳
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China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’

Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 17h

You are illegally parked on private property. You have 20 seconds to move your vehicle.

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 18h

Managed to run into Prof. Khaled El-Enany, the candidate of the executive board for @unesco.org ’s new Director-General (confirmation expected at the General Conference in Samarkand in November). A former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt and a renowned Egyptologist.

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 21h

That moment when you think you’ve taken a great photo, and at home you realize you have a dumpster in the middle of it. 🥸

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 21h

Have befriended a host of great characters, and even met many of them in real life.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 1d

Tähän kannattaa syventyä! 👇

Finland's Permanent Delegation to the OECD and UNESCO @oecd.finlandabroad.fi · 1d

Uusin OECD:n TALIS-raportti kertoo opettajien työtä tarkastelevan kyselytutkimuksen tuloksista. Alan vetovoiman laskusta huolimatta suomalaiset opettajat kokevat yhä työnsä merkitykselliseksi ja 85 % heistä on tyytyväisiä työssään.

Lue lisää: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

@okm.fi @vaaranpa.um.fi

Results from TALIS 2024 - Country notes: Finland

The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is the world’s largest survey of teachers and principals. In 2024, educators from 55 education systems provided information about what they ...

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨Just peering over my proofs to a forthcoming entry titled "Criminalisation of sanctions violations in a major #internationalsanctions encyclopedia forthcoming with @elgarpublishing.bsky.social edited by stellar team of Dr @drclaraportela.bsky.social, @mirkosossai.bsky.social & Andrea Charron. 🧵

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 2d

Pretty honest communications…

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 2d

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 2d

Not everything is a national security issue.

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 2d

New IELP post from me: "Beware the 'Securitization' of Trade Policy"

tl;dr: Security issues have always been part of trade policy discussions, but things have ratcheted up recently. I'm concerned that people are getting security wrong, which has negative implications for making good trade policy.

Beware the "Securitization" of Trade Policy

In recent years, U.S. trade policy has seen a creeping takeover by "security" concerns. The precise scope of these concerns is unclear, but they appear to cover both the traditional aspects of militar...

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 3d

Et tu, Bob?

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 4d

Oi!

Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 4d

Good idea. Few have heard of the OECD, let alone know what it does. This would drag it into the national conversation and give it the higher profile it deserves.

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

Going to launch a campaign for
British withdrawal from the OECD, just for a laugh

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Jessikka Aro @jessikka.bsky.social · 4d

Since X is a master spreader of the Kremlin’s lies, manipulation and falsehoods, I welcome all my followers, books’ readers and everyone else to my open lecture about Ruzzian infowar! We learn to recognize and counter RU infowar!

Join me today 7 pm Helsinki time on X space! Warm welcome 🙂

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 4d

Vous aussi, Pascal, un supporteur?

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 4d

Twas this kind of weather in Paris today.

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 5d

You should try the Finnish equivalent as well!

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 5d

It’s Kanelbullens Dag, that’s to say, Cinnamon Bun Day in Sweden. And while I mean no disrespect to Norway and Iceland, who also mark this day, it’s Swedish Cinnamon Buns that are #RecipeOfTheDay!
www.nigella.com/recipes/swed...

Swedish Cinnamon Buns

Swedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa...

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 6d

Sous le ciel de Paris, days are getting autumnal.

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 6d

Nordic noir in Paris. Author Arttu Tuominen visiting the embassy. A lot of crime fiction fans attending, myself included.

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Jari Taponen @jaritaponen.bsky.social · 7d

Pieni mainos 🙂

Tutkimukseen ja vahvaan kokemukseen perustuva Vaikuttavaa vastavoimaa maalittamiseen -koulutuspakettimme tutkijoille, medialle ja päättäjille vastaa tähän haasteeseen.

Koulutus tuo esiin maalittaminen ilmiönä sekä lisää yksilö- ja organisaatiotason resilienssiä torjua painostusta.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 7d

Call for Papers:

2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 Apr 2026

University of Cambridge

For more information, see the Summit website, the Summit's LinkedIn feed, or email [email protected].

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

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Finland's Permanent Delegation to the OECD and UNESCO @oecd.finlandabroad.fi · 8d

Harjoittelupaikkoja tarjolla OECD:llä tiede-, teknologia- ja innovaatiopolitiikan pääosaston Ecosystems- sekä MultiProd-projektien parissa! Ensimmäisen hakuaika päättyy 5.10.2025. Lue lisää: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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@vm.fi @tem.fi @aalto.fi @vaaranpa.um.fi

Hiring opportunities in STI/PIE | Suomen pysyvä edustusto OECD:ssä ja UNESCO:ssa (Permanent delegation of Finland to the OECD&Unesco)

🌟 Tällä kertaa OECD-OCDE:n tiede-, teknologia- ja innovaatiopolitiikan pääosasto tarjoaa harjoittelupaikkoja OECD:n Ecosystems -projektin parissa maisteri- tai tohtorivaiheen opiskelijoille! 🖨️ Ecosy...

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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 9d

Jälleen kerran punnittua pohdintaa @rogerwessman.bsky.social ’lta.

Roger Wessman @rogerwessman.bsky.social · 10d

Taloustiede ei todellakaan osaa arvioida hoivan arvoa tai ylipäätänsä mitata mikä on elämässä tärkeää. Se voi kuitenkin auttaa pohtimaan, miten yhdessä valittu tavoite parhaiten saavutetaan.

Pohdin käytyä keskustelua @mustread.bsky.social €.

Taloustiede ei tosiaan osaa arvioida hoivan arvoa, mutta se ei tarkoita, että hoiva olisi pelkkä kuluerä | MustRead

Taloustiede ei todellakaan osaa arvioida hoivan arvoa tai ylipäätänsä mitata mikä on elämässä tärkeää. Se voi auttaa pohtimaan, miten yhdessä valittu tavoite parhaiten saavutetaan.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9d

Folks, every day people are screenshotting our posts on social media & using them to try to get us punished or fired from our day jobs. If you have an account here with zero posts, no photo, no bio, & no evidence you aren't a bot or are a real person, you're going to get blocked when you follow us.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9d

One way you know that we now live under a hybrid regime (call it "competitive authoritarianism" or otherwise) is that every professor is now thinking "Will this entirely normal behavior that I have engaged in for decades now get me reported, punished, or fired?" every time we speak in public.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 9d

If you’ve taught for a few years you’ve had a wildly disruptive grad student show up from an irrelevant department and troll every discussion. In the last few years, it’s become far more dangerous; that troll is trying to get you fired and your administration isn’t guaranteed to back you up.

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