Monday-Tuesday news

Yesterday was the 4th, today is the 5th of April, 2022. News to read (mostly science, economy), thoughts (dystopian improvisation), and yesterday’s visuals.

Andrea Ucini for Die Zeit

I won’t discuss any Ukrainian news today, because there’s so much to read without my participation in the choosing process. I could write about women, but it’ll literally end up in tears and… What can we do? We know everything. So there’s nothing new. We fight when we can and with what we can. And will continue to do so. The news I chose is emotionally neutral, but I think those open an interesting perspective on the near future.

Let’s think about those. At the moment all Russian scientific collaborations with Western institutions and scientists are terminated, the papers were returned from international scientific journals, grants and internships for Russian students and young researchers are closed. Those who were studying abroad need to come back home, because their programmes are cancelled. Not everywhere and not for everyone, but for many. The full isolation of Russian science. Now let’s calculate how many Nobel laureates were Russian.