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• Post #3757419

  Alright, colour me intrigued by the #JollaPhone. I have not really kept up with the developments of #SailfishOS nor #Jolla, but this new device does have many things that I wish I would have on my Android device. And all the banking apps etc work. It is also great to see cool tech coming out from #Finland. https://youtu.be/lY-Ar0iY1_8?is=BK0tJ8-s4cbNCcm6

• Post #2337849

  @mkj Yup, it sure is!

• Post #2337848

  Why is it always the article submission portal that causes the most frustrating delays in getting a manuscript submitted? All kinds of random hoops to jump through and detective work to figure out how to link figures to their correct place in the submission portal system. "Your paper, your way", bah! Bah, I say! #academia #research

• Post #2337847

  Hooray, our Nature Communications paper lead by @miladmzdh got finally accepted! 🎉 It is a fantastic work, and I am happy to have played a small part in it. Stay tuned for some posts about it in the near future 😉 What an editorial process that journal has! After being accepted by peer-reviewers, the MS had to undergo several editorial revisions answering to multiple comments from at least two editors, constituting essentially another peer review. Yikes. #research #science #tutkimus #tiede

• Post #2337846

  Blasting my #DrumAndBass playlist at work on the eve of #Vappu is not necessarily the best for productivity, but it does set the party atmosphere nicely.

• Post #2337845

  It is a good thing to end the working day with a successful article submission.

• Post #2337844

  Great to be presenting our results from #MobiTwin on how regional #mobility in #Europe has changed during the digital and green transitions to the European Committee of Regions

• Post #1915759

  I am glad I brought an umbrella to #Brussels

• Post #1812977

  Yay, the @digigeolab annual #Vappu celebrations are on the way at #Kumpula campus, and students are keeping the atmosphere up outside. Vappu is a public holiday celebrated on the eve of first of May and on #MayDay, traditionally celebrating labour and workers, but now more also student life. It is a massive thing in #Finland.

• Post #1777558

  I am cleaning our attic storage, and found some mysterious things. First, a brief case full of magnetic tapes of some bands albums and several sheets of paper cataloguing the bands, their albums etc. Potentially somebody could be interested in this? Second, old Christmas ornaments, old rugs. Third, a bird nest behind some old piles of planks and doors. #cleaning #OldStuff

• Post #1623535

  I love the feeling of opening a manuscript draft in the morning and being overwhelmed by the amount of work to be done on the text, and then leaving in the afternoon with so much done that I am confident I can submit this in the next few weeks. #academia #research #writing #tutkimus #tiede

• Post #1623533

  Wow! #Hungary takes a step towards Europe, and looks like the party defeating Orban will do so in such a way, they can potentially reverse a lot of previously made decisions, and secure a healthier and more free democracy. Gratulálok! And more generally, Putin loses his inside man in the EU, very likely unlocking the big EU sanctions and loan package for Ukraine. Let's see if some implicated Fidesz members suddenly get a new address in Moscow.

• Post #1623531

  This is exactly what stakeholders from East and North #Finland who attended our workshop earlier this year raised as a potential pathway to bring more investment into the region, which is struggling with shrinking population and investments. A company from #PohjoisKarjala specialised in forestry machinery started creating products related to defense as demand for their main business slowed down, and as a result they just secured one of their biggest orders yet. https://yle.fi/a/74-20220416

• Post #1623530

  Sometimes in #PeerReview you get very difficult reviewer comments on weaknesses in your work. In my current manuscript, the main input data was considered inaccurate, and using novel high-detail input data was suggested instead. I feared implementing the comments as they fundamentally changed the MS analysis and I feared it would kill my manuscript. To my surprise, I got very similar results with the new data, and a free robustness check on top! Hooray! #research #science #academia #geography

• Post #1346834

  Check out our new publication with @miladmzdh and Olle Järv out now in Urbaria Summaries. Our results suggest that #COVID19 and #Brexit have changed established student flow structures to and from Finland, providing potential opportunities for #Finnish regions, which can use the information to inform regional planning and strategies, and to mitigate brain drain dynamics. 📜 The publication: https://www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupal/2026-01/Summary%20V%C3%A4is%C3%A4nen%20et%20al.pdf #Suomi #Finlan...

• Post #1346829

  My favourite things to teach in #Geography and #GIS is how timely and relevant the field is. Case in point: On today's lecture about network analysis, we discussed how travel time analyses can be fudged to make one mode of transit appear better/worse than it is, and how this could also be unintentional. The vitality and attractiveness of the #Helsinki urban centre is under constant public debate in the media from this perspective. Yeah, and there is the #PageRank thing as well.

• Post #1228712

  So https://bikemaps.org/ has now been translated to #Finnish thanks to my wonderful colleagues at @digigeolab So all you wonderful #bicycle riders in #Finland or cities like #Helsinki or #Oulu and elsewhere who want to make city officials more aware of troublesome places for biking, this is the map tool for you! #pyöräily #polkupyöräily

• Post #1009647

  I have been a happy user of #Manjaro since 2019, and I recently learned this project is on the brink due to some internal conflicts. AFAIK, all development has ceased currently and I might be on a dead-in-the-water distro I will follow how this develops, but to prepare a potential hop to another distro, I've been looking at #CachyOS as it is very similar to Manjaro, but I am a bit worried of ending up in a similar situation, so #Fedora is a strong contender in my books.

• Post #1009642

  I switched my bicycle's gear wire. Even with a YouTube tutorial video I had no idea what I was doing, but I managed, and it switches gears much better now. Hooray! I still don't know what I did.

• Post #952994

  This is making the rounds on Finnish social media. A large association for Finnish construction companies, #Rakennusteollisuus, decided that they needed an English version of their website but apparently they didn't want to pay an actual #translator so just used some free #LLM with hilarious results. They've fixed it now, but for a short while there was some comedy gold to be found. P.s. I didn't find these, I've no idea who did.

• Post #639511

  Maybe I am not just very good at this, but holy guacamole is it difficult to write a Python script to automatically download a set of open-access article PDFs using their DOIs. I am using Unpaywall to fetch the PDF links to open-access articles and user agents to reduce bad responses, but still from the 50 articles I needed to download, I got five. I guess the rest is just manual clicking and saving. Then again, I understand that publishers do not want big tech to pilfer their libraries.

• Post #639509

  I've been listening to ambient stuff in the background to block out the noise of an open office situation, and it works nicely. I decided to put on some metal on for a change, and I instantly remembered why I actually like to listen to this type of music. Immediately started head banging, air drumming, and I am grinning from ear to ear like a weirdo.

• Post #639508

  Apparently the Finnish academic journals hosted at journal.fi are using an invalid security certificate, as I am not getting any RSS feed updates from there. This affects all journals I have an RSS subscription to, so it is likely a platform-wide issue. Anybody else have similar issue? #Research #Tutkimus #Tiede #Akatemia #Suomi

• Post #639507

  It is nice to be excited about a book I have to read for work. This one is about #LinguisticLandscapes in the city of #Turku in Finland.

• Post #639506

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@qgis/116200993544791283 Hooray! New and shiny #QGIS is out to improve the free and open source #geospatial goodness around the globe.

• Post #546901

  Our work at @digigeolab using #BigData in #NatureRecreation and #Conservation research is quite extensive, and we have collaborated with #Metsähallitus on this research extensively over the last ten years. We decided to turn our findings and understanding into policy recommendations on using such data to get useful information (only in Finnish). Please check it out here: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8f62c15-8ed1-4844-917e-6091675e32a4/content #Luonto #Kansallispuisto #...

• Post #546893

  Happening all across Europe, not just in Austria. Plenty of academics from the US, but also Canada eyeing for opportunities in Europe, or the very least, with European funders/collaborators. Our @digigeolab also just got a visiting researcher from the University of Washington for these reasons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/academics-austria-safe-haven #science #research #academia

• Post #500096

  Maybe you or somebody you know has a #Windows10 computer, which works perfectly fine, but will lose support on October 14 because it cannot be updated to Windows 11 for hardware support reasons. Please, do not turn the computer into unnecessary e-waste but keep using it and give it a new life by installing #Linux on it. There are plenty of advantages in doing so, the biggest one being it's waaaayyy cheaper. For more, see: https://endof10.org/ #EndOf10 #Windows #eWaste #sustainability

• Post #490249

  Hooray! A Finnish citizen petition to lower the VAT of repair services passed the threshold of 50 000 votes meaning the petition will be taken to the parliament for discussion and hopefully the VAT is lowered as a result, as more affordable repair services (clothing, shoes, electronics, bicycles etc) not only support local businesses but also #sustainability and #circulareconomy! #kansalaisaloite #korjausaloite

• Post #307913

  Interesting things going on, at least in the research group that I am working at. Several members have expressed their dissatisfaction with recent #Microsoft and #Office365 developments. Apparently, every file on University of Helsinki OneDrive will have to be provided with descriptive metadata to improve Copilot365 usefulness, essentially meaning our research data etc will be gobbled up by AI. As a result, some colleagues are not only switching to #Linux but looking at #Nextcloud. Hooray!