@katikallio
Folklore, oral poetry, anthropology, history, environment. Runo-songs, regilaul, Kalevalaic poetry. Research Fellow at the Finnish Literature Society & University of Helsinki: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kati-kallio. Photo: Emma Suominen.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 671:
In dialogue, remember that accent is only one way to differentiate between speakers. Real people have all kinds of verbal mannerisms; favourite words, expressions, silences, gestures, sentence length, different vocabularies.
Hae Helsingin yliopistoon tietojenkäsittelytieteen yliopistonlehtoriksi!
Tehtäviin kuuluu tietojenkäsittelytieteen suomen- ja englanninkielistä opetusta sekä mahdollisuus tehdä ja kehittää omaa tutkimusta yhdessä osaston tutkimusryhmien kanssa.
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Prize 2026 has opened for entries! Open to books in English having their initial publication in the UK & Ireland in the period from 1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026. Deadline for entries 31 May 2026. More info and rules: www.folklore-society.com/awards/the-k...
Vastoin Trumpin hallinnon pyrkimyksiä yli 70 % republikaaniäänestäjistäkin toivoo FT:n mukaan tekoälylle sääntelyä. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Aiheesta keskustellaan tilaisuudessamme tiedekulmassa 11. maaliskuuta. Ilmoittautumislinkki verkkosivuillamme:
sorsafoundation.fi/tilaisuus-cr...
Post doc positions at UC Berkeley, e.g. "BPS 4) The Cultural Analytics group seeks postdoc applicants to conduct data-driven research across archival heritage and born-digital media."
Postdoc positions at UC Berkeley, including with the fabulous Cultural Analytics group: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05222
Bookmarking this video for the next time someone claims that science communication can’t be engaging unless it’s about an inherently exciting topic or made personally relevant to people’s lives
Hello environmental historians - what are your book recommends on the histories of communal access to water? For me, 'cause I'm interested 💧
"Continuities of Medieval Spirituality in the Earliest Recorded Finnish Charm", presentation at Early Modern Research Days (5th Conference of Research on the 16th and 17th Centuries), 23 January, 2025.
"Against Plague" (Emott pestilentiae), the earliest recorded charm poem in Finnish, a note in mid-16th century fiscal records from Pohjanmaa / Österbotten province (Helsinki, Finnish National Archives, KA 4663, Bailiffs' records of Korsholm bailiwick 1564, 42.
And now, for something completely different: speaking at @uudenajanalku.bsky.social Early Modern Research Days on continuities of medieval spirituality in the earliest recorded Finnish charm (and what do the Birgittines have to do with it) from @katikallio.bsky.social @sksfinlit.bsky.social project.
"Vaikutus voidaan kuitenkin katsoa vähäiseksi, sillä sen on tutkittu vaikuttavan lähinnä naisiin..."
Harvoin lakien perustelutekstit jäävät historiaan, mutta tämä saattaa niin tehdä. Uskomatonta kamaa.
Dear Digital Humanists, you are all invited to the EADH 2026 Conference! We are meeting in September, in Kraków, Poland.
Mark the important dates in your calendars:
📆 8.02: submission deadline
📆 15-19.09: the conference
Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
✈️ See you in Kraków?
Musiikintutkijoiden kokoontumisajot eli symposium tulossa taas keväällä 22.-24.4., Åbo Akademin kanssa järjestetään. CFPn dl on 15.1. Mukaan vain!
www.mtsnet.fi/symposium2026/
Hae töihin huippariin koordinoimaan; saat tehdä tutkimustakin! #nars
Historiallinen rahoitusuutinen: SKS:aan seuran historian ensimmäinen Suomen Akatemian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö!
Suomen Akatemia on myöntänyt rahoituksen SKS:n johtamalle humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikölle vuosiksi 2026–2033. Lue lisää:
www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaist...
📢 PoeTree 1.0.0 is out!!! 📊 335,000 poems / 12,000,000 lines / 90,000,000 tokens in 11 languages at your fingertips 🇳🇴PoeTree.no added 📍PoeTree.(cs,de,en,fr,hu,it,ru,sl) enriched with geolocation mentions ⚙️Updated and corrected metadata/texts in PoeTree.(de,en,es,ru) poetree.org
Direct air capture (DAC) continues to be small, slow, and very expensive.
Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve.
This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown.
www.ft.com/content/fa4c...
Today is the DL for submitting abstracts for the next year’s ISFNR conference “Nature(s) in Narrative” in Reykjavík. Marjeta Pisk and I are convening a panel “Nature as subject and symbol: ecological perspectives in folk song traditions“, and there are plenty of other interesting panels too!
As a doctoral student, it took me several years to realise that the International Society for Folk Narrative Research ISFNR is not about narratives or prose traditions only but accommodates work on not-so-narrative folk genres and folk song research too.
Kiinnostaako suomalainen tutkimus ihan oikeasti. Tässä ketjussa neljä erinomaista palvelua, joiden kautta siihen voi tutustua. 1/
Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seuran julkaisema Elore on ehdolla vuoden tiedelehdeksi! 🥳 tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/n...
Deleted my account.
Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.
En sano, että FBI:n johtajan muistopuhe, jossa hän lausuu Charlie Kirkin olevan nyt Valhallassa, olisi suoranaisesti äärioikeistolaista retoriikkaa. Se vain sattuu olemaan kutakuinkin sama, mitä Hitler sanoi Hindenburgin hautajaisissa.
Elämme tällaista sattumien aikaa.
We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Orkney Islands folklorist and historian Tom Muir talks with University of Iceland folklorist Terry Gunnell about Icelandic and Nordic folk tales and traditions - Orkneyology Podcast
Folklorist Tom Muir with guest Prof Terry Gunnell, University of Iceland.
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Oo, onnea! <3
