Matti Välimäki

Matti Välimäki

@mtaval.bsky.social

Postdoc Researcher, Åbo Akademi University & University of Helsinki #GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: https://shorturl.at/flvJL Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matti-Vaelimaeki/research

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Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social

Fantastic collection "Migration Control and Securitization on the EU Eastern Border" (ed. Klaus et al.) is published in few months (1-2/2027). Great to contribute with Miika Tervonen with chapter "Buffer Zones: Migration Prevention in CEE Countries and Finland from the Cold War to Europeanisation".

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Iva Vukušić
@vukusiciva.bsky.social

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com

Google said that AI models in testing inside the company accessed the internet and hacked other companies, becoming the fourth major tech company to disclose such an incident in recent months.

washingtonpost.comGoogle’s Gemini AI hacked into other companies, adding to ‘rogue’ AI incidentsThe incursions came during tests of its cybersecurity skills — similar to other incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds

theguardian.com2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study findsAnalysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year Rivers across the world experienced one of their driest years in more than three decades in 2025, a comprehensive study of global water resources has found. The assessment of the global water cycle by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reveals a depletion in the world’s water savings bank: the amount of freshwater held on or under the ground, including groundwater, lakes, rivers, snow, ice moisture in the soil and inside plants and trees, was 42% below normal across the world last year. Continue reading...

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World
@extremetemps.bsky.social

HISTORIC MILLIONS OF SQUARE KM WITH RECORDS EVERYWHERE Some examples today 45.9 Bilma NIGER HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY EVER High Min:Min:28.0 Goure MINS:29.1 Dori,28.4 Ouahigouya BURKINA FASO HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT 36.6 Brazzaville CONGO REPUBLIC Etc Records from Algeria to Iran!

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social

EXTRAORDINARY WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN 49.0C Red Sea AP SAUDI ARABIA MINIMUMS >35C. 48.0C Aswan HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY EVER IN EGYPT 45.5C Abu Simbel 48C also in SUDAN Never happened anything like this anywhere in the world in mid September. And:It will get worse

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Cold War Conversations Podcast
@coldwarpod.bsky.social

On this day in the #coldwar 10 September 1989: Hungary announces it will let East Germans cross its border into Austria. More than 10,000 leave in the first 24 hours. 60 days later, the #GDR border and the #BerlinWall were open.

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Kristen Jeanveau
@kjeanveau.bsky.social

Another great piece on AI and pedagogy in the history classroom by Edward Dunsworth. (I would -love- to go to a printed course pack the next time I teach a course.) 🗃️ Teaching Against AI: Notes from the Field activehistory.ca/blog/2026/08...

activehistory.caTeaching Against AI: Notes from the FieldEdward Dunsworth While a small but vocal minority of historians have embraced the use of generative artificial intelligence in their research and teaching,[1] many of us find ourselves trying to ho…

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor

theguardian.comUS sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutorMarco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza. The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement. Continue reading...
Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social

Meanwhile in the authoritarian Russia

Meduza in English@meduza.io

Russia’s Supreme Court has thrown the antiwar party Yabloko off the ballot for parliament’s lower house. Election officials and prosecutors backed the removal on copyright grounds — partly over lines from Soviet songs and images made with ChatGPT. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

meduza.ioA ChatGPT-generated image, a photo of Hiroshima, and a line from a Soviet song: the copyright case that helped boot Russia’s only antiwar party off next month’s ballot — MeduzaRussia’s Supreme Court has ruled to remove the opposition party Yabloko from the ballot in the election for the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. The Rodina party filed the lawsuit…

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Meduza in English
@meduza.io

Russia’s Supreme Court has thrown the antiwar party Yabloko off the ballot for parliament’s lower house. Election officials and prosecutors backed the removal on copyright grounds — partly over lines from Soviet songs and images made with ChatGPT. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

meduza.ioA ChatGPT-generated image, a photo of Hiroshima, and a line from a Soviet song: the copyright case that helped boot Russia’s only antiwar party off next month’s ballot — MeduzaRussia’s Supreme Court has ruled to remove the opposition party Yabloko from the ballot in the election for the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. The Rodina party filed the lawsuit…

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John Springford
@johnspringford.bsky.social

Replying to @johnspringford.bsky.social

My advice to EU leaders (who aren't far right): Offer help to the country concerned if it’s asked for, express sorrow for the deaths of people who are being manipulated into crossing borders illegally. Investigate and publish any co-ordination. Remove benefits to countries that weaponise migration.

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John Springford
@johnspringford.bsky.social

Good piece. A thread on some comments I made yesterday on Times Radio. Two things can be true at the same time: 1. It’s very bad to have 60,000 people storm a border, and 70+ deaths. 2. European leaders' responses were opportunistic and disproportionate, and made incidents like this more likely.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.comThe Far Right Is Distorting CeutaWe’ve seen this before.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World
@extremetemps.bsky.social

It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY

Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social

Unauthorised border crossings from the Soviet Union to Finland and returns by Finnish authorities, 1946-1990. -Including asylum applicants -2/3 returned -Bit of a change of policy from the late 1970s onward #defectors #loikkarit #coldwar #sovietunion 1/2

Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social

Publications coming out on the topic! #GATEproject In the meantime, you can consult studies (in Finnish) by Mari Luukkonen (2022) and Pekkarinen & Pohjonen (2005). 2/2

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AFP News Agency
@en.afp.com

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

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Maarten Paulusse
@maartenp.bsky.social

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

blogs.lse.ac.ukThe Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE ImpactAI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?

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InfoMigrants
@infomigrants.net

In a bid to deport more Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan, the European Union is planning to invite officials from the Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit – despite numerous ethical and other concerns.

infomigrants.netEU to invite Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss deportationsIn a bid to deport more Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan, the European Union is planning to invite officials from the Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit – despite n...

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Jens Rydgren
@jensrydgren.bsky.social

This beauty has now been submitted, approved by the publisher, and is set for production. Across 43 chapters, it covers a wide range of topics, approaches, and countries. Please stay tuned for updates. A big thank you to everyone involved! THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE FAR RIGHT

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InfoMigrants
@infomigrants.net

A total of 2,276 migrants have arrived on Spain's Canary Islands via the Atlantic route since the beginning of the year. Last year, a total of 17,788 migrants arrived on the archipelago; 46,843 people arrived on the same route in 2024.

infomigrants.netCanary Islands: More than 300 migrants arrive on Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic OceanLate on Sunday, a wooden boat with 125 people on board was spotted off El Hierro. Earlier that day, a similar boat with more than 100 migrants on board was brought to port in Tenerife by Spanish rescu...
Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social

Our host at Osnabruck, IMIS, prof. Christoph Rass wrote a really nice blog post describing my and Morten Thomsen's current research interests. nghm.hypotheses.org/44954 @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social

nghm.hypotheses.orgIMIS Guests @ NGHM | Summer Semester 2026: Matti Välimäki (Helsinki) and Morten Baarvig Thomsen (Odense).Since early April 2026, two visiting scholars have joined the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück as guests integrated into the NGHM Resear...

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Uuden ajan alun tutkimuksen verkosto
@uudenajanalku.bsky.social

"Historiantutkimus vaatii vastedes merkittävästi enemmän aikaa tai rahaa – tai suuntautuu muualle kuin @kansallisarkisto.fi aineistoihin, tutkijat pelkäävät", kirjoittaa @utu.fi historian alumni Ilkka Hemmilä @suomenkuvalehti.fi artikkelissaan Arkistot historiaan. suomenkuvalehti.fi/kotimaa/kans...

suomenkuvalehti.fiKansallis­arkisto sulkee puolet toimi­pisteistä – ”lahtaus” on uhka historian­tutkimukselle, sanovat tutkijat”Tämä on valtava asia kansallisen sivistyksen ja kulttuuriperinnön vaalimisen kannalta”, Suomen ja Pohjois-Euroopan historian professori Tiina Kinnunen sanoo.

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Yael Schacher
@yaelschacher.bsky.social

Bingo. “Danny Chin, former associate counsel at U.S.C.I.S.: These are countries with no real asylum process and rampant human rights violations…The administration uses these removals [to third countries] to instill fear. They want people to self-deport.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comThe View From Inside Trump’s DHSDozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Timothy Snyder
@timothysnyder.bsky.social

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "I support what the president is doing. Iran is like a cancer. Sometimes the cure to cancer hurts, but the cancer has to be eliminated. And the cancer is Iran."

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Gabriela Greilinger
@gabrielagreilinger.com

Orbán gave us a 2-min Facebook update. No one's hurt, gas is still flowing, but then went on to emphasise that Europe is facing an energy crisis, that we're dependent on 🇷🇺 gas. The rest is anti-Ukrainian propaganda, claiming 🇺🇦 "has been working for years on cutting off Europe from Russian energy"

Gabriela Greilinger@gabrielagreilinger.com

🇭🇺 has 3 special legal orders (state of danger, emergency and war). The country's been in a "state of danger" since 2020 thanks to Fidesz. In a state of danger, elections can be held. In a state of emergency or war, they cannot. Let's hope they don't try to use this as a pretence to cancel elections