The hunter-gatherer lifestyle fosters a thriving gut microbiome. Plus, how Ukraine plans to move on from war and Soviet-era science. The hunter-gatherer lifestyle fosters a thriving gut microbiome. Plus, how Ukraine plans to move on from war and Soviet-era science.
The war is far from over but Ukraine’s government is already considering how to build back — and use the opportunity to move on from a Soviet-era system. The war is far from over but Ukraine’s government is already considering how to build back — and use the opportunity to move on from a Soviet-era system.
In February, Russia invaded Ukraine, upending everything we thought we knew about geopolitics and energy supply - and pushing science into the direct line of fire. On the ever-growing list of sanctions against Russia, governments in Europe and North America introduced blanket bans on joint research and education projects with Russian institutions, and sought to halt exports of critical technologies.
Ukraine urgently needs new doctoral schools to train its next generation of academics, according to a senior Ukrainian science administrator. He warned that, without that and other measures to stop “internal brain drain”, many researchers are fleeing universities for better paid IT jobs in order to make ends meet. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, European countries have launched countless schemes and scholarships to help displaced Ukrainian students and academics.