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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 22h

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

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.”

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To the Nobel week: One of the questions I usually ask students: What is wrong with Nobel Prize as such?

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Дякую всім хто наразі захищає Україну

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Science Magazine @science.org · 29/09/2026

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. scim.ag/3TsMg5M

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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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iaptglobal @iaptglobal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IAPT Grants Program 2027 www.iaptglobal.org/grants

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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:

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today russia attacked Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with UAV. There are injured & killed.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ja, das ist längst überfällig. DORA & CoARA waren genau für diesen Zweck gedacht

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dear Nature, please do not call AI "co-scientist". Thank you.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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?

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you do ONT-sequencing using MinION/GridION, what is your max output per sequencing cell?

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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)

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a unique desert-like place in Ukraine called Oleshky sands. Long time ago I studied endemic birches there. This place is under russian occupation, including villages and a small city of Oleshky, where russia organized famine by depriving people from food, medicine & possibility to leave

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stop! Hooo goes there? We need help. We are trying to raise money to save damaged rare and beautiful books in our library. One of them holds this very anxious looking owl in a book on the natural history of Alaska (1874-1881) by American naturalist Lucien M Turner. Pls can you help? bit.ly/45wG7YG

Naturalist illustration of an adult female great grey owl (Ulula cinerea lapponica) perched on a mossy tree stump, facing forward with a round facial disk, concentric feather markings and bright yellow eyes.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dear Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net I would like to let you know that sending review invitations with an expiration period of one day during the weekend is not a good practice.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eine Recherche von WDR Quarks über sogenannte Paper Mills in der Wissenschaft: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub2e...

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Dieses Experiment hat (leider) funktioniert … | Studio Q

YouTube video by Quarks

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Quite often I see takes on importance of network of contacts in science. And it is indeed important. However, there are things almost no one publicly talks about: 1. Usually, the network of contacts is not single but three different ones - supportive, neutal, and opposing.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I write my scientific papers, I write them for people. And I am responsible for what I wrote. Frankly, I would appreciate opt-out for AI interpretations of scientific papers because these could be wrong & misleading, and there is no responsibility either.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know that such a view might be not that common today, but if you read a scientific paper and have a need to clarify something, it is much better to contact the authours (if possible) instead of searching for an AI tool that would "explain" it to you.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Perhaps this is not that popular opinon but I think it coluld be quite helpful for students to achieve a better understanding of lab work when some old lab equipment and/or its parts is repurposed with the aim to demonstrate work principle instead of being scrapped.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes, this is also my point too. Research funding in Europe now has a problem: there are either large or small grants, but almost no mid-sized ones. The chances to get a large grant are very small, and the small one usually cannot cover the necessary expenses.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Все ще дивує, наскільки складно отримати фахову меддіагностику та меддопомогу у випадку коли потрібно, але не екстрено.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Leider, Hassverbreitung gegen Ausländer führt zu Gewalt. Deswegen fühle ich mich als Ausländer in Halle auch nicht wohl. [Wahlwerbung von BSW & AfD enthielt auch Hass gegen die Ukraine]

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Enno Lenze @ennolenze.de · 12/09/2026

Heute habe ich einen sehr kurzen Vortrag zum Thema „Russische Drohnen zerlegen für Anfänger“ gehalten. Hier die Aufzeichnung media.ccc.de/v/2026-701-r...

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Russische Drohnen zerlegen für Anfänger

Seit 2022 sammelm, zerlegen und dokumentieren wir russische Kriegstechnik. Wenige sind Experten, der Rest guckt rein und googlet. Wie wei...

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

afg plans an event on "war in Ukraine" and invited former press-speaker Mendel. One needs to know that most likely there will be nothing else than yet another round of spreading pro-russian narratives.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

IMO, this only shows that US envoy has absolutely no understanding of russian war of aggression on Ukraine, and does not know history either. P.S. with such an approach russia may ask US to return Alaska at some point.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

IMO it would be much better if they focus on doing something to hold contemporary war criminals accuntable. Opposing rapid development of AI is not a crime; waging a war & killing millions is. But no one talks about applying "pre-crime approach" to someone like putin at all.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Picture shows fireweed in foreground and Mt. Lougheed in background

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass so etwas ausdrücklich gesagt werden müsste, aber es scheint nötig zu sein: bitte, vergessen Sie nicht, dass nicht alle Ausländer/Migranten/Flüchtlinge sind böse/schlecht, sowie nicht alle Einheimchen gut sind. Und das gilt für jedes Land der Welt.

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Norbert Röttgen @nroettgen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Die #AfD stellt sich in der Frage der nationalen Sicherheit nicht auf die Seite Deutschlands, sondern auf die des uns angreifenden russischen Aggressors. Statt den Anschlag zu verurteilen, kritisiert sie, dass die deutsche Demokratie sich wehrt. Das ist zutiefst unpatriotisch.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is definitely worth to know, especially if you're foreigner in Sachsen Anhalt. And I still have 2 questions: - what is the motivation to vote for all this? - how are these people supposed to govern?

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Witkoff & Kushner said that "it would be nice to have negotiations in russian language". This is completely inacceptable, insulting and appalling. Because russian war on Ukraine with killings, tortures, explosions & all other crimes, and hybrid attacks in Europe is a sort of russian language too.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

IMO, the assumption that any country in the world can have such immunity is one of the biggest mistakes one can make. P.S. If you want current extreme example, look at russia - it always claims its "absolute immunity against fascism" despite being de-facto a fascist state.

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Enno Lenze @ennolenze.de · 08/09/2026

Guten Morgen aus #Kyiv. Russen haben rund 200 Drohnen, Raketen und Marschflugkörper auf die #Ukraine abgefeuert und der Angriff hält seit 14 Stunden an - und dennoch geht die Sonne auf und die Menschen sind draußen. Aber die Schäden sind groß.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Paradoxes in international science: - scientists usually discouraged to have families, and then punished for not having them - one is expected to come for a short contract abroad, learn culture & language just as side activity, and leave the country almost immediately after the end of the contract

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Any application received by September 10th will be given full consideration.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What worries me for a long time [both as scientist & a person] - systematic fueling of hatred against foreigners, refugees, international workers/researchers etc. They are often portayed as potential criminals/danger/evil. In reality there are very different people, and this should be considered.

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