Tuomas Pernu

“My worry is that ejecting Musk from the Royal Society would be seen as a political move.” My worry is that the @royalsociety.org makes the scientific community look like a bunch of pathetic pushovers! Are you for science or against it? It's as simple as that. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"Kiinassa on pidetty kiinni vaatimustasosta. Meillä on menty toiseen suuntaan. Kaikilla tasoilla – kouluissa, ammattikorkeakouluissa, yliopistoissa aina väitöskirjoihin asti – vaatimustasoa on laskettu". Makkaratehtailun on loputtava! Kuka ottaa vaaliteemakseen? yle.fi/a/74-20249866

Tämä on kova keissi. "Käräjäoikeus uskoi, että nainen selvitti viestittelijän aitoutta, muttei pitänyt selvitystä riittävänä." Tulemme kohta hukkumaan huijauksiin. Miten paljon paukkuja on laitettava yhteydenottojen aitouden selvittämiseen? Palaako pankkikonttorit kylille? yle.fi/a/74-20252808

Yhteiskuntia pitää kasassa luottamus: luottamus siihen, että kuuntelemme toisiamme. Mites luulette: mitkä on noin-niinku porukan fiilikset, kun alkaa tulla pakkeja boteilta? *Tämä on tekoälykiiman isoin ongelma. Näen tulevaisuuden synkkänä. www.hs.fi/lifestyle/ar...

Can a ‘new AI tool’ predict cancer survival from a single face photo, as reported in @theguardian.com? Yes. Modestly. In people having radiotherapy, many with advanced cancer, their faces unsurprisingly show signs of how sick they are. But is this actually useful?!

"Vanhat vitsit siitä, että ennen partiossa yksi poliisi osasi kirjoittaa ja toinen lukea; ne ajat ovat ohi. Vaikka tietysti se oli vitsi." Tietysti se oli vitsi. Tietysti. yle.fi/a/74-20251132

"[A]lthough the LLM could tell him what it could calculate, it couldn’t identify what scientists would really care about. Put simply, it lacked research taste." I'll be damned. Can't we agree that these things are simply nifty data mining tools? Nothing more, nothing less - but this is something.

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Dub it "reality show", and you can do practically anything. But this is definitely not good press for science.

“When I saw The Nest at Amos Rex, I fell in love with it. To me, the wall is is there big and solid, a bit like death and these messy human chairs are falling over the wall and somehow they spill over the top. It's a sort of David and Goliath moment, that these chairs can get up and over.

Näinhän tämä on. Nyky-yliopistot vuotavat kuin ruosteiset ämpärit. Ja kansakunnan selkäranka mätänee. Makkaratehtailun on loputtava. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

Was interested in how many tanker ships would be needed for 300,000 tons of diesel. The answer appears to be one very large one.

McGill are bigging her up after closing her department. Clownshow all round.

The Onion is currently running approximately six months ahead of reality

PhD: three years research into why you don't need to understand your own dissertation. Let's face it: aren't we basically here already?

It's called "symposium".

Happiness is plummeting, especially among young people. When I see demoralizing data like this over and over again (e.g., test scores dropping, loneliness on the rise, etc), I just think we need to change course. Defending the status quo seems like such a bad option.

Attention arXiv authors. Because of the exponential increase in submissions, arXiv is limiting the number of papers that a person can submit each month to two. blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

"Osaaminen eli koulutus kuntoon." "[T]ukia pitäisi kohdistaa pikemmin koulutukseen ja tutkimukseen kuin yritysten investointeihin ja innovaatioihin." Tuon viestiä eturintamalta: koulutuksen korkea taso on tämän maan suurimpia myyttejä. Tarvitaan radikaaleja muutoksia - perusasioihin palaamista.

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866. If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it." 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Saw this one on Instagram just now - I'm assuming that King's or Amsterdam are not involved, and no I didn't click on the link(!), but any relevant colleagues I know on here may want to be aware...

We have to stop using "paper count" as a useful scientific metric. More writing output no longer means more knowledge gained www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

The new Pet Shop Boys song about Putin the poisoner.

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

People throw around "pseudoscience" too easily. But I do think Cofnas’s “race realism” deserves to be called such. And: pseudoscience is not protected by academic freedom. It's our duty to be maximally liberal in academia. But it's also our duty to draw the line somewhere. We should draw it here.

This is weird: "To put it briefly, mathematicians are people who try to understand the causes of things." Like, super weird. Outlandish. Mathematics is generally acknowledged to be an acausal discipline par excellence. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h...

Everyone wants to be a prophet of doom. From Bruce Mehlman's substack today brucemehlman.substack.com

Interesting times we live in.... futurism.com/health-medic... #pharmacology #chatgpt

Well, live & learn! Abduction and apagoge are indeed connected - but apparently only terminologically. But whole story is fascinating! Peirce *thought, incorrectly, that his abduction was Aristotle's apagoge. Here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Haastan mukaan kaikki suomalaiset yliopistot! bsky.app/profile/merv...

If you near solving P vs NP, Riemann, or Collatz, and ask an LLM to check your work, it flags it to its AI lab owners to scoop you. The $$$ incentives are too large. I drafted this joke a few days ago, was working to polish it, but must now rush it out on pain of being scooped.

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

Sounds, prima facie, a very sensible way to curb the social media companies. However, although I do think that algorithms are a major source of problems, I wonder if their role is as central as the discussion seems to suggest. There's something deeply problematic in online interaction in general.

My 4yo, listening to Sandstorm by Darude: “When does the music start?” Absolutely savage.

One nation, and one nation only, voted against the UN resolution to adopt a new world map reflecting Africa's true size. Frankly, at this point, I'm surprised the US did not put forward a motion declaring the Earth flat.

Minusta tämä oli hyvä. "Ahdistusdiagnoosien määrä on kasvanut 40 prosenttia vuoden 2023 jälkeen." "Saarikolla on myös yksi hyvin selkeä vaatimus: korkeakoulujen täytyy lisätä lähiopetusta. 'Se on huomattavasti tehokkaampi keino kuin terapiapalveluiden lisääminen.'” Niinpä niin.

Oh, this is brilliant! I think I'll need to use this in my lectures - to whom should I credit this? Also, this is clearly incomplete: what do we have in the lower right corner? bsky.app/profile/alis...

Erityisesti ao. pistää silmään. En ole syventynyt Hugging Face -keissiin. Mutta ymmärtääkseni sitä pidetään laajasti markkinointitemppuna. Jos/kun näin on, niin AI:ssa huolestuttaa eniten se, miten firmat - ja ylipäätään aihepiiristä touhottavat tahot - vedättävät poliittisia päättäjiä ja mediaa.

UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

"Contemporary scientific systems progressively constrain high-risk and conceptually innovative research while being increasingly structured around short funding cycles, productivity-based evaluation criteria and risk-averse frameworks that favour predictable and non-transformative research outputs."