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“The Great Russians’ Phase Transition to the Inertial Phase of Ethnogenesis.” How Russian Scientists Are Studying the War in Ukraine

Over the two and a half years that the war in Ukraine has been going on, more than two thousand scientific articles dedicated to the “special military operation” have been published in Russia. Among them are some that have almost no relation to science, as well as quite professional studies by Russian scientists in the fields of law, psychology, sociology, and military affairs. T-invariant has read these articles and tells us what they are about.

Sanity Check: How and Why Security Forces Destroyed Russia’s Supercomputer Industry

T-invariant is starting a series of materials about the state of the supercomputer industry in Russia and the world. Today we will tell you about the brightest player in this small but strategically important market — the company T-Platforms and its founder — Vsevolod Opanasenko, who has been living under a criminal case for the last five years.

“Not all physicists are hackers.” FSB accuses young scientist of organizing DDoS attacks, then of treason

33-year-old physicist Artem Khoroshilov is accused of treason. The FSB declared him a hacker who, on orders from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, organized “attacks on critical information infrastructure facilities.” The employee of the Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences could face life imprisonment.

Sociologist Vladimir Zvonovsky: “Those who support Putin cannot really explain his decisions”

This summer, Vladimir Zvonovsky and Alexander Khodykin published a book “Russian Public Opinion in the Conditions of Military Conflict.” T-invariant spoke with Doctor of Sociological Sciences Vladimir Zvonovsky about the results of the study.

Date of incident: August 20, 2024
Type of violation: dismissal
Institution: Novosibirsk State University

Summary: August 20, 2024, citing philosopher Nikolai Rozov’s Facebook page, Groza reported that the scientist’s contract with NSU was not renewed. The publication believes that the dismissal occurred due to Rozov’s anti-war position.

Sources: “Groza”, “Sibkray”.

Buy an article cheap: which universities order research in dubious scientific journals

RSUH, RUDN, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, MGPPU were among the universities that founded and published journals with violations. “Laboratory of University Transparency” (Lupa) and T-invariant checked government procurement of 100 higher education institutions and found out that some of them conclude contracts with dubious publications.

“VK Video will simply postpone oblivion and media death. It’s a video hospice.” Popularizers of science and million-follower bloggers on the cessation of YouTube in Russia

The full-fledged work of the YouTube video service in Russia is gradually ceasing. What do scientists, leading million-viewer channels, and bloggers who popularize science think about this? Astrophysicists Sergey Popov, Vladimir Surdin, historian Mikhail Rodin, popularizers of science Vlad Goncharuk, Evgenia Timonova and Vitaly Egorov answer.

Igor Efimov: “If DEI principles prevail in the US and European universities, talent will start leaving.”

The DEI ideology is diversity, equity, inclusion. What will happen to science if DEI principles win? T-invariant talked about this with one of the authors of the article “Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge”, professor of biomedicine at Northwestern University in Chicago Igor Efimov.

“Service” experts: Tomsk linguistics students prepare conclusions on real court cases during their studies

Tomsk State University graduated the first masters of the pilot program “Legal Linguistics”. As graduation theses, students defended a portfolio of linguistic research and expert assessments on real criminal and administrative cases.

Academic exchange at the FSB rate. American Physical Society stands up for Russian scientists

The FSB has been persecuting members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Abramov and Oleg Kabov for several years now. Their criminal cases are so unprecedented that the American Physical Society, one of the largest in the scientific world, is worried about their fate. Its representatives are sending letters to the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Microscope and shell. An essay on the biography and scientific work of Pavel Galtsov

The twelfth essay in the series “Creators” is dedicated to Pavel Semyonovich Galtsov, an outstanding marine biologist who changed the entire oyster industry in America and became the founder of mollusc biology. Together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) T-invariant continues publishing a series of biographical essays “Creators” about people from the Russian Empire who made a significant contribution to world science and technology, about those to whom we owe our new reality.