Petri Ylikoski
@ylikoskip.bsky.social
A philosopher of science interested in too many things. Professor of Sociology (Science and Technology Studies) in University of Helsinki.
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The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu
European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS)
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November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.
The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News
Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports
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August 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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🔈Job Alert! IAS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science -SWECSS.
⌛Deadline: September 30th
Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
#academicsky #css
⌛Deadline: September 30th
Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
#academicsky #css
@iasliu.bsky.social is advertising another postdoc position as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science. For recently graduated or soon-to-graduate PhD students, the setting is really conducive to getting high quality research done. Apply by September 30th!
Postdoc in Computational Social Science
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August 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🔈Job Alert! IAS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science -SWECSS.
⌛Deadline: September 30th
Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
#academicsky #css
⌛Deadline: September 30th
Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
#academicsky #css
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This is exactly what doing AI-assisted research looks to me
August 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is exactly what doing AI-assisted research looks to me
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My take on the NATO summit. Lots of unintended consequences with Europeans agreeing to something that few intend to deliver on. NATO ignoring its major challenge, fighting together as Europe with less US. That requires deep reforms, not vague spending pledges.
www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
NATO’s “Brain Death” in The Hague
At the 2025 NATO Summit, allies pledged to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP. But spending targets alone ignore deeper issues. Europe must shift its focus to building capable, integrated mili...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My take on the NATO summit. Lots of unintended consequences with Europeans agreeing to something that few intend to deliver on. NATO ignoring its major challenge, fighting together as Europe with less US. That requires deep reforms, not vague spending pledges.
www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
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Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵
Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/
Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/
June 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵
Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/
Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/
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AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck
September 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM
AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck
The understudied dangers of anthropomorphic seduction - "While the AI industry directs much effort into improving the reasoning abilities of LLMs—with mixed results—the progress in communicative abilities remains underappreciated."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents | PNAS
A growing body of research suggests that the recent generation of large language model
(LLMs) excel, and in many cases outpace humans, at writing p...
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May 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The understudied dangers of anthropomorphic seduction - "While the AI industry directs much effort into improving the reasoning abilities of LLMs—with mixed results—the progress in communicative abilities remains underappreciated."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
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1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
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March 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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www.programmablemutter.com/p/americas-p... I've a new piece on the Biden administration's plan to use export controls and the semiconductor chokepoint to shape the global AI system. Brief summarizing thread.
America's plan to control global AI
Gaia est omnis divisa in partes tres*
www.programmablemutter.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
www.programmablemutter.com/p/americas-p... I've a new piece on the Biden administration's plan to use export controls and the semiconductor chokepoint to shape the global AI system. Brief summarizing thread.
JUFO is doing its work.
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Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from J...
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December 23, 2024 at 12:28 PM
JUFO is doing its work.
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/12/finl...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/12/finl...
I tried to lose the metaphor of levels in sociological theory, but apparently, the journal lost the paper's abstract. doi.org/10.1007/s112...
December 18, 2024 at 9:35 AM
I tried to lose the metaphor of levels in sociological theory, but apparently, the journal lost the paper's abstract. doi.org/10.1007/s112...
New paper: Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat
ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss4/a...
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Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat - Ecology & Society
As in many other fields, mechanism-based theorizing has become increasingly popular in social-ecological research. However, calls for mechanism-based explanations and middle-range theorizing have rema...
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October 11, 2024 at 5:12 PM
New paper: Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat
ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss4/a...
ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss4/a...
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Anna-Mari Wallenberg avaa moniulotteisesta asiaa - tekoäly- ja digijuttuja säännellään eri asutuksissa ja direktiiveissä. Näiden tulkinta ja toimeenpano ovat kesken ja vaativat työtä. Eikä kristallipallo vielä kerro, miten tässä tullaan onnistumaan. www.datalit.fi/eun-digisaan...
EU:n digisääntelyn monet muodot - Dataliteracy
EU:n digisääntelyn monet muodot YLE uutisoi 7.8.2024 digisääntelystä ja sen vaikutuksista eurooppalaiseen tekoälykehitykseen sekä pää- että verkkouutisissa (toimittaja: Teemu Hallamaa). Uutisoinnissa...
www.datalit.fi
August 22, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Anna-Mari Wallenberg avaa moniulotteisesta asiaa - tekoäly- ja digijuttuja säännellään eri asutuksissa ja direktiiveissä. Näiden tulkinta ja toimeenpano ovat kesken ja vaativat työtä. Eikä kristallipallo vielä kerro, miten tässä tullaan onnistumaan. www.datalit.fi/eun-digisaan...
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Huge congratulations to Rodrigo Martínez Peña, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Complex Causality. Bridging analytical sociology and social-ecological systems research"!
Excellent work, Dr. Martínez Peña🥂
Excellent work, Dr. Martínez Peña🥂
February 22, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Huge congratulations to Rodrigo Martínez Peña, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Complex Causality. Bridging analytical sociology and social-ecological systems research"!
Excellent work, Dr. Martínez Peña🥂
Excellent work, Dr. Martínez Peña🥂
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A small team of these editors could, with a modest time investment and effectively no start-up budget, create an open access journal -- say, "Theories of Society" -- with the same editorial board and consulting editors.
Fundamentally, this is a collective action problem. It's solvable.
Fundamentally, this is a collective action problem. It's solvable.
January 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM
A small team of these editors could, with a modest time investment and effectively no start-up budget, create an open access journal -- say, "Theories of Society" -- with the same editorial board and consulting editors.
Fundamentally, this is a collective action problem. It's solvable.
Fundamentally, this is a collective action problem. It's solvable.