Andrii Tarieiev
@andriitarieiev.bsky.social
Biologist, botanist. Currently researcher at MLU. 🇺🇦 ️in 🇩🇪️🇪🇺️ Plant phylogeny, speciation, taxonomy, nomenclature, evolution, hybridization, WGD, genetics/genomics. Particular focus - Betula L. genus. Personal account.
Er war leider schon immer so, aber die Hauptfrage ist, wie wurde er gewählt? Wie kann man jemanden wählen, der sich so verhält?
Julian Schmitz@jschmitzleipzig.bsky.social · 6h agoDer Vizepräsident des Landtags von Sachsen-Anhalt hat den Sound der 30er Jahre für sich entdeckt. 🤮
It is very telling that they never call for leadership change im moscow, and never say that russia has "gone too far".
Kyiv Post@kyivpost.com · 7h agoElon Musk backed Donald Trump’s call for leadership change in Kyiv, saying that Volodymyr Zelensky has "gone too far." Musk commented on video of Trump claiming Zelensky refused multiple opportunities to reach a negotiated peace deal with Russia. www.kyivpost.com/post/86711
Lifting all sanctions on russian diesel won't sink world prices, but it will definitely help russia to fund its war of aggression war against Ukraine. Everyone knows that, including the US. So, like it or not, but exactly that is why all this russian diesel is stained with Ukrainian blood.
Today russia again killed over 30 Ukrainians. At the very same time German AfG & BSW demand stopping help to Ukraine. Such a demand benefits no one except russia and may have a catastrophic consequences not only for Ukraine but for Germany, EU & democracy as such.
Die allererste Forderung von AfD & BSW im Landtag - Stopp der deutschen Hilfen für die Ukraine. Gleichzeitig tötet Russland weiterhin Ukrainer*innen – gestern 24, heute über 30... Realität ist doch einfach: Einstellung Ukraine-Hilfe = Gefahr für die Ukraine, Deutschland, EU & Demokratie.
On October 7th russia launched another massive attack on Ukraine. At least 24 people are dead & multiple injured. But if you look at major western media, this news do not appear in headlines anymore. This is how so-called "normalisation" works.
Tillschneider, der eine Tasse mit Emblem der russischen Armee im Wahlkreisbüro hatte, wurde nun zum Ministerpräsident Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt. Meiner Meinung nach, das ist nicht nur "ein Alarmzeichen", sondern etwas sehr viel Schlimmeres.
DER SPIEGEL@spiegel.de · 5d agoDie Wahl der AfD-Leute an die Landtagsspitze in Sachsen-Anhalt ist ein Alarmzeichen: Die Brandmauer zerbröselt, den Demokraten läuft im Kampf gegen die Rechtsextremen die Zeit davon.
I think that these overnight phone calls from Nobel Committee quite nicely illustrate the general assumption that researchers should be always available, and respond to whatever enquiries 24/7. But do we really need that? IMO, everyone should have the right for protected time.
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
To the Nobel week: One of the questions I usually ask students: What is wrong with Nobel Prize as such?
Prove to me this stuff wasn't suppressed for as long as Nazi Watson was alive. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
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For a long time russia accused Ukraine of having "biolabs" while having their own huge collections of pathogens, and now has a plaque outbreak. The real question is how safe ru labs really are, because Y. pestis requires BSL3 & there are safety protocols incl. the case of breaking a tube with it.
Another typical question of different academic sociological surweys: who are/were person's parents. It's automatically assumed as the major factor/influence on person's life. But some people loose their parents early & rely on others [realtives, state care, etc.], and usually no one asks about this.
Yet another survey: - Do you use AI in your daily work? [Yes/No] - No - What AI app do you use in your work? I don't use AI in my work at all. And I think that in research/education our personal presence/availability for students, involvement & originality are way more important.
On 28 September, a jet-powered drone slammed into the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, killing at least two people and destroying a section of the historic building. https://scim.ag/3TsMg5M
Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack
New underground labs are being built as war rages on
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Just spotted another illustartion of the bias: Lucian Brujan posted on Linkedin Leopoldina's condemnation of the attack on the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Below the post he provided a bunch of links to international media, 0 links to UA media, but one to ru media meduza.
International scientific community is very diverse and consists of very different people. But the system also plays role, and based on my own experience I can say that russian full-scale war of aggression on Ukraine made/makes certain specific systemic issues in academia clearly visible:
Today russia attacked Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with UAV. There are injured & killed.
Ja, das ist längst überfällig. DORA & CoARA waren genau für diesen Zweck gedacht
Julia Partheymüller@schnizzl.bsky.social · 2w agoVielleicht sollten wir anfangen, den Fokus bei der Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Leistungen stärker auf die Qualität der intellektuellen Beiträge zu legen, statt bloß die Anzahl der Publikationen zu zählen… www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
In fact, such a flashmob shows complete misunderstanding of what russia is, and only encourages it to attack other democratic states. P.S. Decades ago there was a movement of scrapping the entire defence infrastructure with an argument that doing so will improve safety. And we all know how it ended.
Olena Halushka@halushka.bsky.social · 2w agoThis whole "I am from [a democratic state] and russia is not my enemy" flashmob. Folks, russia wants to destroy you no less than they want to destroy us. You were just lucky to be born and live further away from that rotten hole. By now, at least.
Current tendency with research grant funding - quite a few people got max scores of their proposals but did not get funding. So, selection procedure does not work as intended anymore, and this creates even more uncertainty & precarity: if preparing a good proposal is not enough then what?
Just looked at PromethION hardware requirements and cannot stop thinking about one thing - these requirements are extremely high (almost ridiculous) just because ONT pushes live data analysis & basecalling during the sequencing. However, this is unnecessary & makes such a system way more expensive.
DW reported negative correlation between education level and voting for afg (people with better education are less prone to vote for it). This is one particular observation, general impact of good education is much wider & more profound. And that is why good accessible education is so important.
If you do ONT-sequencing using MinION/GridION, what is your max output per sequencing cell?
Tonight russia targeted Zaporizhzhia National University. I had a chance to visit it over a decade ago during national biology research contest for students. Biological faculty was located in this historical bilding. Photo: ZNU (official.znu on facebook)
When you see any political party in Europe pushing russian agenda & advocating for "good relationships" with rf, just look closely on what russia is doing + real conditions inside it, and ask yourself whether having closer ties with it / bringing ru policies in your country is a good idea or not.
