Hello there! I’m Arto, and this here is my website and very occasionally updated blog.

I’m a social scientist with a computer science twist. I wrote a dissertation on affective political polarization and otherwise worked on research projects as a quantitative and computational methods dude for the better part of the last decade or so. After academia, I’ve worked as a data scientist and in journalism and the public sector. Ultimately, I hope to do my small part to help humanity live long and prosper.

I’m also looking for new things to do professionally, either inside or outside academia — feel free to contact me if you think I would be a good match for your company, project, or whatever else you have in mind.

Besides that, I’m into lindy hop and other social dances, meditation, board games and role-playing games, and understanding differing points of view. I’m often found online using the pseudonym aasitus.: one could translate this as ‘the act of donkeying’ or as an obscure slang word for a ‘scam’, but probably shouldn’t.

I looked pretty much like this in late 2020, and haven’t grown too much hair since then.