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Taking an webcam image from the command line

April 5, 2024 • 1 min read • Technology

Taking an webcam image from the command line

Taking an webcam image from the command line.
Mia Sivén, the world's first professor of sustainable pharmacy

April 5, 2024 • 1 min read • Finland

Mia Sivén, the world’s first professor of sustainable pharmacy

When we were asking our foreign students what made them join the University of Helsinki, several of them mentioned sustainability aspects.
If you have a "green card" (S-etukortti), you can vote for me*!

April 5, 2024 • 2 min read • Finland

If you have a “green card” (S-etukortti), you can vote for me*!

I want to advance an aggressively green, science-based agenda.
Finished with Finnish?

March 30, 2024 • 5 min read • Finland

Finished with Finnish?

In her opinion piece in Helsingin Sanomat, Annikka Mutanen picked up on the predicted population decline in the numbers of Finnish people: At the end of this century, the number of people in Finland with Finnish roots will have fallen below 2 million.
Essential elements for life science

March 24, 2024 • 2 min read • Essential Elements

Essential elements for life science

Here is my version of a simplified periodic table for life scientists.
Overstretched IT support

February 23, 2024 • 4 min read • Technology

Overstretched IT support

More than a year ago, a few weeks after receiving my new work computer, it failed to reboot after a system update and got stuck early in the boot process.
Back to the monograph?

February 1, 2024 • 5 min read • Finland

Back to the monograph?

Finland had become internationally known for producing highly qualified PhD graduates in the STEM fields.
Do fish have lymphatics?

January 27, 2024 • 2 min read • Vascular Biology

Do fish have lymphatics?

Read the whole back story in our preprint: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.2119.v1.
Courses I teach

January 26, 2024 • 3 min read • University of Helsinki

Courses I teach

A more or less up-to-date list of the courses I teach
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Biochemistry/Molecular biology researcher and teacher