As a Ukrainian person looking at everything that’s been happening in the world lately, here’s what I really, REALLY need people living in liberal democracies to understand as soon as possible. This isn’t a pleasant conversation. A thread. 1/

Time has come to submit your abstract to ALD 50 years celebration conference. Welcome to Helsinki in August!

Deadline is today! You are welcome also without presentation but it is more fun with one!

Ukraine is starved of ammunition and forced to pull back, Europe is facing challenges which might test Article 5, and global instability emerges because autocrats are emboldened by Russia's action and our cautious response. This is not pessimism. This is fact. 🧵

Baseless optimism is a form of self-deception, it is demobilising us. How can we expect to convince the public to spend more on defence, take a stronger stance against Russia and support countries on the eastern flank if leaders won’t admit there is an urgent need? 🧵

And we need action right now, because tomorrow might be too late. We need a push, a jolt, a shock to wake us up. The war is not over, it's far from won, the enemy is very much alive and our European future is at stake. 🧵

We don't lack capacity, we lack the political will and urgency necessary to support Ukraine and maintain our collective security. Russia, on the other hand, has the will to destroy Ukraine and reestablish the Russian Empire. When will we start using our capacity to deter this? 🧵

Olen tässä käynyt kirjeenvaihtoa Tikkurilan kanssa. iltalehti.fi/talous/a/50242…

We could have been discussing the aggressor's defeat and the restoration of just and stable peace in Europe right now. Or at least we could have been much, much closer to that right now. No more excuses for doing nothing, procrastination, pretending to play 5D chess,

And the Oscar goes to.... Yes, the most horrifying and the most important documentary of our time. Мstyslav Chernov created one of the greatest journalistic pieces of all time to show Russia's extermination of Mariupol during the 2022 full-scale invasion at the risk of his own

Elisa deposits presumably the first ALD films that shrink upon heating: Atomic Layer Deposition of ScF3 and ScxAlyFz Thin Films | ACS Omega pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

"Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success" by Institute for the Study of War An absolute must-read and one of the most precise and definitive essays on the Russian war on Ukraine -- and why Russia is in a critical need of making the West abandon Ukraine. It's literally the ultimate

Tänään vietämme järjestömme toista syntymäpäivää. Sota ja avun tarve jatkuvat edelleen, mutta välillä on pysähdyttävä katsomaan saavutuksia. 1/3

North Rail Oy:n taustalta löytyi aika merkillinen kuvio, kun sitä penkaisin. iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/3…

Just launched: program of the AVS 24th Intl. Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD 2024) featuring the 11th Intl. Atomic Layer Etching Workshop (ALE 2024). Special edit of 50 Years of ALD! Four fully packed days Aug. 4-7 in Helsinki. Welcome! ald2024.avs.org

BREAKING — Parliament refuses discharge of the Council budget until European Council decided to support Ukraine with additional Patriot anti-missile systems !

Fresh ALD publication by my office mate Paloma and our best mem.. toc image so far 😂

Momentarily returning to this dump to repost the awesome abstract graphic 😆

We are at it anyway, another underrated abstract graphic 🫡