Amidst death and destruction, scientists in #ukraine are racing to save their research collections. More than careers, physical specimens and decades of data represent the hope for a post-war future. @scienceinsider #ScienceForUkraine science.org/content/articl…
In besieged #Kharkiv, conservation #biologist Anton Vlaschenko has stayed to care for injured #bats – and safeguard irreplaceable collections of skulls and frozen specimens dating back decades. bat-kharkov.in.ua/en/thanks-for-…
Archaeologists and paleontologists are uploading decades of excavation reports, 3-D scans and field drawings to servers outside the country with the help of colleagues including @dai_weltweit and @HURI_Harvard #archaeology
And sucho.org, a network of archivists and #digitalhumanities professionals, has come together to scrape and store the websites of over 1,000 Ukrainian cultural institutions before their servers are destroyed or disconnected. #archives
“I think we will win,” evolutionary biologist Pavel Gol’din told me from #Chernivtsi. “We will be able to start again.” #scienceforukraine
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