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…
The Relic Radiation of Mathematics
How Russian mathematics lost to the war. Is there any chance, in the conditions of external isolation, to preserve a…
War and Language: The Russian Master’s Program in Prague
Charles University opens a Master's program in Russian. Why it was in demand amidst the war, explains Zhanna Nemtsova, co-director…
«Science has not noticed the loss of Russia»
T-invariant survey: how the war affected Russian science and scientists themselves. Historical rhymes with the scientific emigration of the 1920s,…
Why do we run the T-invariant
The T-invariant is a media with the mission to constantly remind us of timeless civilizational invariants, and to unite the…