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Posts by Matti Välimäki

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Kansallis­arkisto 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.

"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...

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Forskare i Åbo demonstrerade mot stängning av Riksarkivet Nästan hundra historieforskare och studenter demonstrerade mot att Riksarkivets forskarsal i Åbo numera bara är öppen en dag i månaden.

yle.fi/a/7-10096886
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The View From Inside Trump’s DHS Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.

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/...

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📢 Don’t miss it! IMIS #SFB1604 Lecture with renowned migration researcher Nina Glick Schiller.
Join us at #Osnabrück University (Room 11/212, Schloss) or via livestream: www.youtube.com/@IMIS_UniOsnabrueck

#MigrationResearch #Migrationsforschung #Transnationalism #Migration #Migrationspolitik

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

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This is from my 2017 post: Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer pressthink.org/2017/09/norm...

"A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job."

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Många migranter saknas sedan båt kapsejsat Minst två personer har omkommit och ett 70-tal saknas sedan en båt med med irreguljära migranter kapsejsat I Medelhavet.

Ännu en tragedi som visar att en avskräckande migrationspolitik inte stoppar döden på Medelhavet eller andra migrationsrutter. www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...

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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"

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Trump: Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!

Trump: Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!

The war crimes have apparently been scheduled

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Politiikan tutkimuksen päivät 2026 | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö

Politiikasta on mukana Valtiotieteellisen yhdistyksen suomalaisen politiikan tutkimuksen vuotuisessa tieteellisessä päätapahtumassa. Politiikan tutkimuksen päivät järjestetään Tampereella 6.–8. toukokuuta 2026.
Lisätietoa Politiikastan tapahtumista kommenteissa.
#politiikasta #tiedetaivas

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Attacks against the humanities and social sciences are part of an authoritarian ideology that views them as a problem for its model of inequality, authoritarianism, and ignorance

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[CfP] Conference on "Student Mobilities and Migration Regimes since 1900" - University Students as Migrants Our conference seeks to bridge the gap between histories of student mobility and histories of migration to better understand how […]

Please share this CfP on "Student Mobilities and Migration Regimes since 1900" that I am co-organising with my great colleague Daniel Laqua from @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Hope to see you in Potsdam next spring! research.northumbria.ac.uk/studentmigra...

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Moving Across Europe as Non-Europeans. Meso-level Analyses of Mobility Regimes (20th and 21st century) Interdisciplinary Workshop, 6-7 July 2026, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

And here another exciting CfP on the history of European Mobility regimes, co-organised by the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Lucie Lamy at the @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social. Spread the word! Link: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics

Geopolitics is looking for two new co-editors-in-chief. Apply here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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Kansallisarkiston uudistuksissa tutkimus kärsii Kansallisarkiston aineistojen digitaalinen toimittaminen heikentää niiden määrällistä saavutettavuutta ja hidastaa rajusti tutkijan työtä.

"Vaikka digitointi saattaa äkkiseltään näyttää helpolta ratkaisulta lisätä saavutettavuutta, se tosiasiassa heikentää aineistojen saavutettavuutta määrällisesti ja hidastaa tutkimuksen tekemistä rajusti", Pia Koivunen varoittaa.

tieteentekijat.fi/kansallisark...

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Kolumni | Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen: Kenellä on enää varaa tutkia Suomen historiaa? Kansallisarkisto on piirtämässä Suomen halki keskiaikaista Pähkinäsaaren rauhan rajaa noudattavan linjan, jonka pohjoispuolelle jäävä alue on tulevaisuudessa lähes arkistojen autiomaa, Kirsi Vainio-Ko...

Arkistot ovat historiantutkimuksen tärkein infrastruktuuri. Arkistojen sulkeminen vastaa luonnontieteiden laboratorioiden sulkemista. www.ts.fi/a/6937167

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Vaikka digitointi voi tuntua helpolta keinolta lisätä saavutettavuutta, tosiasiassa se heikentää aineistojen saavutettavuutta määrällisesti ja hidastaa tutkimuksen tekemistä rajusti, sanoo yliopistonlehtori Pia Koivunen. Lue blogista Kansallisarkiston uudistusten vaikutuksista. buff.ly/4URWLZm

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Ukraine hits major Russian oil port near Finland Ukraine fired drones at a key Russian oil port near the Finnish border on Monday, both Moscow and Kyiv said, triggering a huge fire at the facility.Ukraine's air force said on Monday that Moscow fired...

Ukraine hits major Russian oil port near Finland (AFP)
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Töitä tarjolla Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa!

Haemme läheistä kollegaa minulle tiedejulkaisemisen näköalapaikalle.

Linkki hakuilmoitukseen kommenteissa.

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When Your Clone Calls: How AI Voice Fraud Became a Billion-Dollar Industry - VSquare.org They exploit fears about loved ones and concerns about superiors. And they have artificial intelligence at their disposal. With AI’s help, fraudsters can simulate the voice or appearance of any person. Investigace.cz maps how a new era of fraud works.

🤖💰 They exploit fears about loved ones and concerns about superiors. And they have artificial intelligence at their disposal. With AI’s help, fraudsters can simulate the voice or appearance of any person.

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Tänään vietetään adoptoitujen päivää, joten muistutan tietokirjastamme, joka ilmestyi tasan vuosi sitten. Nimensä mukaisesti: historiasta nykypäivään.

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WEBER POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

📣 Job Opportunity: Weber Postdoctoral Scholar in European History at #UCLA!
The UCLA Department of History seeks applicants for a 2-yr Postdoctoral Scholar. Please apply or share with anyone who might be a great fit!
🗓️ Review begins: Apr 1, 2026
🔗Details & application ⬇️
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10862

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Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective The Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen invites submissions for its upcoming workshop, “Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective”. This one-day work...

📣 CFA - please share! Seeking one more speaker to join this upcoming workshop on Migration & Asylum in Scotland on 29th April. Funding available for reasonable travel costs & one night's hotel in Aberdeen. Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.

philevents.org/event/show/1...

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International Journal of Refugee Law – Call for Special Issue Proposals Deadline for submission: 4th May 2026   The International Journal of Refugee Law is pleased to announce a Call for proposed Special Issues. Proposals for

International Journal of Refugee Law – Call for Special Issue Proposals. Deadline for submission: 4th May 2026 academic.oup.com/ijrl/pages/i...

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IOM Spokesperson: Hundreds Feared Missing or Dead Amid Reports of Shipwrecks in Central Mediterranean Geneva/Lampedusa, 26 January 2026 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply concerned by reports of multiple deadly shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean in recent days, which I...

Terrible. "...multiple deadly shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean in recent days..."
"...preliminary information suggesting that hundreds of people may be missing at sea or feared dead..."
Yet some politicians in the EU say their tough migration policies are working.
www.iom.int/news/iom-spo...

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Viestiä saa mielellään välittää! Myyntipuheena vielä että tämä voi olla myös itselle avartava kokemus - oli ainakin itselleni kun pidin päiväkirjaa testijaksolla joulukuussa.

2 months ago 2 1 0 0
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Tiede kaipaa vapaaehtoisia! Haluaisitko seurata pari viikkoa digitaalista arkeasi meidän tutkimushankkeen hyväksi pitämällä vapaamuotoista päiväkirjaa? Kiinnostavat erityisesti liiallisuuden ja yltäkylläisyyden kokemukset.

blogs.helsinki.fi/greenerbits/...

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🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.

I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

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Arendt’s “banality of evil” is not a claim that evil is small. It is a claim that mass violence can be carried out by people who look ordinary, speak in bureaucratic clichés, and treat murder as procedure. The danger is thoughtlessness, routinization, and careerism. 2/

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Browning’s study of Reserve Police Battalion 101 shows how average men became mass shooters through peer pressure, conformity, and step by step escalation. Many were not ideological fanatics. The key dynamic was social belonging, fear of standing apart, and adapting to a violent new norm. 5/

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