Chancellor's Fellow @EdinburghChem; Modeling of minerals, materials, & interfaces; Origins of Life; @OoLEN_org; Founder of @Scientist_ND; Editor #PhilTransA
May 23, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The #TIME100 most influential leaders this year features, obviously, both #Zelensky & #Putin.
One is destroying lives of many millions of people.
The other shows us true leadership, bravery and how the fight for #freedom - the essential right we take for granted - unites us
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This war exposed many people, revealed our values, allowed us to reevaluate them.
On the #TIME100, therefore, are Von Der Leyen, Biden and Scholtz - all playing a BIG ROLE in the evolution and progression of the war. Note, inclusion on the list is not an endorsement
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Mar 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
People of #Mariupole are held hostage to #PutinsWar, are executed in thousands every day!
Now, can someone explain to me - where are all those celebrities, royals, religious clergy: Pope, Imam, Rabbi, ..?
Isn't it their job to be #humanitarians? to be there now? to shield? 1/8
I remember the horrors of NordOst siege in Moscow in 2002 - people held hostage in the theatre for days. Putin as always did not care.
Meanwhile, amazing humans - celebrities, MPs, journalists all went there, offering themselves in exchange, leading some people out.
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Mar 2, 2022 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
Over the last few days, I have seen posts advocating @RoySocChem, @AmerChemSociety to #boycott Russian scientists at conferences/from publications. Some Universities in Europe have already done so. I am very, very strongly against the boycott!
Here is a🧵with my reasons 1/11
For disclosure - I am Russian, born in the USSR, with my family currently in Russia and in Ukraine
I have been living in the UK alone since 16yo, when I went to @DurhamChemistry for my UG
*I will use male pronouns for leaders due to the gender bias in power 2/11
