It was a marvelous and cosy ECTQG2023 conference again, this time in beautiful Braga.
I’m also happy share that next one, #ECTQG2025 will be held in Tallinn by TalTech Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies on 10th-14th September 2025.
Save the date and stay tuned!
En aidosti ymmärrä ikäsyrjintää työhönotossa. Siinä häviävät kaikki!
Kun viimeksi rekrysin, sain vihiä henkilöstä, joka harkitsi eläkkeelle jäämistä. Iskin kiinni ja sain houkuteltua tiimiin huipputyypin 40 vuoden kokemuksella. Eihän tuon osaamisen kanssa voi kilpailla mikään!
Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via @fietsprofessor.
The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
Eläinsuojeluasiamiehen virkaa ei jatketa, työ päättyy vuoden vaihteessa. Perusteena taloudelliset syyt. Toiminta jatkuu syksyn ajan normaalisti. Riippumatonta viranomaista tarvitaan eläinkysymysten esiintuomiseksi päätöksenteossa. Lue lisää: https://t.co/nqXE3owy6S
320 ilvesten tappolupaa tälle vuodelle poronhoitoalueen ulkopuolelle. Koko maassa vain 2500 ilvestä.
Ei mitään järkeä, sairasta trofeemetsästystä.
Samaan aikaan ”tuskaillaan”vieraslajien kuten valkohäntäkauriin ja supikoiran määrien kanssa, joita molempia ilves tehokkaasti…
The Santa Fe Institute seeks applications for postdoctoral fellows. This is the best postdoc position in the world for interdisciplinary scientists!
More information and application link can be found at https://t.co/4KXWsB6a6f
Application deadline: October 13, 2023.
So what can high-income countries do to achieve faster emission reductions? In the Discussion section, we show how post-growth mitigation policies can *accelerate* decoupling and decarbonization much faster than what can be achieved in a growth-oriented scenario.
To meet their 1.5C fair-shares alongside continued growth (i.e., to achieve "green growth"), decoupling rates would on average need to increase by a factor of ten by 2025. This is unlikely to be achievable given the unique physical constraints of a growth-oriented scenario.
We found that, at the achieved rates, these countries would on average take more than 220 years to reduce their emissions by 95%, emitting 27 times their remaining 1.5C fair-shares in the process.
There is nothing "green" about this. It is a recipe for disaster.
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty happy to pay 50 cents more for a burger if it means the person making that burger doesn't have to work three jobs just to survive.
Tätä linkkiä voi pistää ahkerasti jakoon sillä se vie pohjan kerta heitolla ja lopullisesti hallituksen yritykseltä spinnata velkaantumisen jatkumista Marinin hallituksen "karmaisevan" perinnön takia. Mennäänpä siis ajassa huhtikuuhun 2020..
-> ketju
https://t.co/guezlgLP3t
Kelan tutkimus työttömäksi jäävien hoidosta: "Kun oikeus työterveyshuoltoon katkeaa, katkeaa myös hoitosuhde. Työterveyshuollossa hoidetaan myös pitkäaikaissairauksia, ja jos julkisiin terveyspalveluihin ei pääse, voi moni sairaus jäädä hoitamatta ja pahentua” #sote #työterveyshuolto @hsfi https://t.co/6i3LCEUBmS
Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.
It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time.
Thus if you give one group medicine, and one group placebo, the placebo group will also tend to get better over time, because of regression to the mean.
People have then misinterpreted this to think that it is the placebo pill that actively does this.
If you want to demonstrate a placebo effect, you have to construct a study where there are three groups:
• A. treatment
• B. placebo
• C. no treatment, no placebo
If B and C get different outcomes, that would demonstrate a placebo effect.
When this has been tried, mainly there has been no provable placebo effect. See the paper in the screenshot. (There is some evidence for an effect for pain, but this get's into a slightly different debate.)
The fact that the placebo effect is mainly not real, fortunately frees us from having to come up with convoluted explanations, as to why the placebo effect would work even when we tell the patient that it is a placebo, as in the quoted tweet.
”Mutaation kautta nisäkkäisiin sopeutuminen kasvattaa THL:n mukaan lintuinfluenssaviruksen kykyä tarttua myös ihmiseen.
– Minkkien kohdalla tämä riski on erityisen suuri minkin ja ihmisen hengitysteiden yhtäläisyyksien takia”
Kiitos turkistarhaus.
https://t.co/iAjaEHXbeZ
Eurosurveillance article paints a bit different picture of the situation in Finnish fur farms than been communicated in public so far: potential signs of transmission between mammal species and "a large farm recorded almost 400 deaths in one day":
https://t.co/rROGMN8Ybl