Desnitsky-gate. Working on mistakes of the past and present
Is it possible to say that the USSR annexed Lithuania? Why was the contract with the emigrant professor officially terminated?…
Viktor Yampolsky: “The postal address does not matter”
On October 14-15, the annual RASA conference will be held in Chicago. This year it is dedicated to the 150th…
Spiderman from Yale. Essay on the biography and scientific activities of Alexander Petrunkevitch
Within the project “Creators” supported by Richard Lounsbery Foundation T-invariant together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) continues to publish a…
War and everyday life: how we learn to live in the extraordinary
What can sociology tell us about war? For residents of Eastern Europe, war has ceased to be a word from…
T-invariant and CISRUS launched a chronicle of violations of the rights and freedoms of scientists and teachers
Dismissals, fines, stigmatization, criminal proceedings, torture - all this awaits in Russia those who try to tell the truth, oppose…
The raven who saw the dwarfs. Essay on the biography and scientific activity of Alexander Vysotsky
Within the project "Creators" supported by Richard Lounsbery Foundation T-invariant together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) continues to publish a…
“Putin has done so many bad things that it would be very helpful to simply reverse these decisions.” Sergei Guriev — on future reforms
What is the extent of ideologization of education in Russia? Why will it be impossible to carry out lustration in…
«Brother» and «Mouse». The founders of the MSU Z-organization turned out to be the children of Yuri Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
At Moscow State University, a student organization of Z-activists is raising money for ammunition and equipment for ultranationalists fighting Ukraine,…
Man of the Earth. Essay on the biography and scientific activity of Selman Waksman
T-invariant, in collaboration with RASA and with support from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, is launching the "Creators" project. The project…
Mutiny P.S.: nobody is ready to defend the existing political order
Has Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow broken the «negative equilibrium» Russia has been stuck in for the last twenty years?…
«Are there now enough Curies, Bohrs, and Rutherfords to help scientists from these three countries?» Natalia Berloff on the new symbolism of the Gamow Prize
In 2023, the Georgy Gamow Prize will again be awarded to two scientists. The organizer, the Russian-American Association of Scientists…
Mikhail Sokolov: «The prism through which people now look at Russia is war»
Sociologist of Science Mikhail Sokolov gives a prediction for T-invariant. What kind of historical experiment is being conducted on scientists…
Fear and trembling: Why do AI leaders frighten humanity?
Artificial Intelligence development leaders compare AI to a pandemic and nuclear war. Are they genuinely wrong, or do they benefit?
Donation to «extremists» or «state treason»: FSB long «led» a major academic leader to arrest
Sergey Abramov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has been under house arrest for two months now. He…
Hypersound silence. How scientists become the prey of the FSB
Three physicists were arrested in so called "Novosibirsk case". It wasn’t the first time. Previously, four scientists were also accused…
«In matters of climate, Russia cannot be removed from the globe»
The military-industrial complex is one of the dirtiest industries in terms of its impact on climate and the environment, even…
They will not be in power forever
A quota set by the Czech government for the reception of Russian and Belarusian dissidents is not even half used…
Irina Savelieva: «You should have seen the world outside your hut»
Irina Savelieva, former director and one of the founders of the A.V. Poletaev Institute for Humanitarian History and Theory Research…
Global Warming and Political Cold
The past year brought a series of weather anomalies: extreme heat and drought, high precipitation and flooding. This spring began…
How the USSR missed the IT revolution.
Episode 1: Cybernetics
Despite its reputation as a scientific and technological superpower, the Soviet Union missed every phase of the 20th century’s information…
Elena Bunina: «I was saved by mathematics»
«I will not go back: I cannot work in a country that is at war with its neighbors,» Yelena Bunina,…
«I will not be able to return to Russia…»
Philologist Boris Gasparov, professor at Columbia University in New York spoke in an interview with T-invariant about his new book,…
Stubbornness of Fact VS Loyalty of Lies
Why is it important for global science to maintain ties with the scientific community in Russia? Arguments of Associate Professor…
Letter from Billionaires: Stop Artificial Intelligence!
The head of Tesla and SpaceX Ilon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and more than a thousand experts signed an…
Free university cannot be deemed «undesirable»
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation announced that the Free University had been given the status of an…
RASA statement in support of Professor Konstantin Sonin
The Board of Directors of RASA (Russian American Science Association) expresses full and unconditional support to a valued member of…
The Wildlings are already here. Awaiting the White Walkers
Scientists were shocked by a talk at a theological conference by Alexander Kudryavtsev, director of the Institute of General Genetics,…
Fear of the Stochastic Parrot
Why does it make no sense to stop training ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence models? Denis Tulinov, author of the…
Creating Russia outside of Russia
The coming down of the Iron Curtain makes it more difficult to understand what is happening in Russia, and there…
George Kistiakowsky — the Unknown Father of the American Bomb
His ideal was a quiet university job, but life made him a "merchant of death. Georgy Kistyakowsky's name does not…
«In Russia the measure of a scientist’s influence is the measure of his guilt»
What happens to Russian Studies in the general field of social sciences and humanities after the start of the war?…
The unreachable self-sufficiency
What won't allow to build in isolation a mathematics comparable in power and diversity with the Soviet one? The intellectual…
Steampunk and a Thinking Crystal
Artificial Intelligence is preparing to supplant copyright. It radically changes the notion of «copy» underlying copyright protection. In fact, the…
«The strike is directed at a wrong target»
Breaking international ties with Russian scientists will lead to results directly opposite to those hoped for by Ukrainian scientists who…
Two brave and a chatbot
An international boycott of scientists for their government's war? Even anti-war-minded people are divided over such measures. Many do not…
Berlin Wall 2
Ukrainian scientists have appealed to the international community to boycott their Russian colleagues. However, such a boycott conflicts with a…
Europe’s «Strait Gate» to the Future
Despite the energy crisis, the European Union is not abandoning its Green Deal and is increasing efforts to develop environmentally…
«It is not only the Russian economy that is mobilizing for war, but also science»
Survey (Issue 2): How has the war affected Russian science and scientists? Although global science did not affected much, the…
How codes of the underworld leads to military aggression
Peacetime sociology cannot yet explain how a full-scale war became possible in twenty-first-century Europe. Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson discusses the reasons…