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2.7 billion tweets confirm: echo chambers in Twitter are very real

Bipartisan users, who try to bridge the echo chambers, pay a price for their work: they become less central in their network, lose connections to their communities and receive less endorsements from others.
Press releases, Research & Art
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The scatterplots display how the polarization on the topic of Obamacare content is distributed among Twitter users. Blue dots represent Democrats, and red Republicans. Image: Kiran Garimella and Michael Mathioudakis.

The new Magazine issue is available online

The Aalto University Magazine issue 22 examines solutions for sustainable development.
Aalto Magazine, University
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A birch tree photographed by Eeva Suorlahti.

Column: Dear climate change

These thoughts were written down by Aalto University students who participated in the Climate change and me – are you anxious? debate group in spring 2018.
Aalto Magazine
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Kuvassa on likaisia ruskeanharmaita tahroja ja sulamisjälkiä valkoisella pohjalla.

Bee appreciation

One way to protect bees would be to reintroduce them to urban life.
Aalto Magazine
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Kuvitus: Ida-Maria Wikström. Maailman viljelykasvien sadoista 35 prosenttia on riippuvaisia pölyttäjistä.

Mushroom farming as part of the circular economy

18 million kilos of oyster mushrooms could be grown with the spent coffee grounds Finns produce each year.
Aalto Magazine
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Kuvitus: Ida-Maria Wikström. Kotona voi kasvattaa sieniä kahvinporoissa tai kauran akanoissa.

Save our lakes by eating roach

Each roach an angler pulls up also removes phosphates, a key factor in eutrophication, from the water system. These phosphates are bound in fish bones.
Aalto Magazine
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Kuvitus: Ida-Maria Wikström. Suomessa järvet ovat pullollaan roskakalaksi leimattua särkeä, joka on hyvä proteiinin lähde.

Lowering the carbon footprint with bugs

Crickets are quite the superfood.
Aalto Magazine
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Kuvitus: Ida-Maria Wikström. Sirkkojen kasvattamisesta syntyy murto-osa kasvihuonekaasuja suhteessa naudanlihan tuotannosta syntyviin kaasuihin.

Coupling magnetic molecules on a superconductor

Shawulienu's results on controlled coupling of magnetic molecules on a superconductor out in Nano Letters.
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Einstein’s “spooky action” goes massive!

The elusive quantum mechanical phenomenon called entanglement has now been made a reality in objects almost macroscopic in size. Results published in Nature show how two vibrating drumheads, the width of a human hair, can display the spooky action.
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An illustration of the 15-micrometre-wide drumheads prepared on silicon chips used in the experiment. The drumheads vibrate at a high ultrasound frequency, and the peculiar quantum state predicted by Einstein was created from the vibrations. Image: Aalto University / Petja Hyttinen & Olli Hanhirova, ARKH Architects.

Petri Ala-Laurila: The retina offers a pathway to the secrets of the brain

This Professor, awarded for his scientific courage, knows that it’s worth going after the big “fish” even if you don’t always catch it.
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Professor Guy Julier has trust in being lost

Design should be done with publics, says Professor Julier who also wants to learn more about the growing world of self-organization – and skating.
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Aalto People update on Monday, 23 April 2018

Aalto People will be updated on Monday, 23 April.
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Reply to survey on cleaning services 2018

The quality of the cleaning services is a very important part of our work environment’s comfort and the indoor air quality.
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Mobile Solutions presents: New Indoor Climate Service available for Aalto Space app

Aalto Space app now includes a new feature, which allows tailored indoor climate production for campus space users.
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Diamond-like carbon is formed differently to what was believed – machine learning enables development of new model

Customised carbon surfaces can be used in areas such as medical science and water purification.
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Trajectories followed by incident and knockon atoms during energetic deposition of a tetrahedral amorphous carbon thin film.

Welcoming our new professor of Design Leadership Guy Julier

The School of Arts, Design and Architecture would like to warmly welcome Guy Julier as an incoming professor of Design Leadership.
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Firewalls will be taken into use again

Aalto ITS installed Next Generation Firewalls a few weeks ago but unfortunately firewall software were working unstably.
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New website on responsible science serves the scientific community

Who to ask for approval when research is conducted on children? To what kind of audiences is science communicated?
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Safe Online - video training on security issues

The second episode of video trainings deals with using a home computer for work.
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Aalto ENG is searching for Vice Deans

The Dean of Aalto University School of Engineering requests applications or nominations for suitable candidates for the positions of
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