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injunjanehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/science/frozen-rotifers-siberia.html
The NY Times report on our paper is still there on the web. Starting from the next week, I'm re-taking my job at the university, at the same table I missed so much, haha (seriously, they didn't even want to let me in to collect my things). Stas Malyavin has emigrated to Israel at the very beginning of the open phase of the war, for me that's another proof he's a good person who never supported what their government does.
What happened to Liuba Shmakova, the woman who actually spotted the creature in the sterile sealed Petri dish with the 24 thousand years old soil, I don't know. But the photo with her writings on the 24-well plate experiment (of my design, I'm rather proud of it) is still there in NY Times pages.
We all had given tons of interviews within 3 months after the paper was out. But the NY Times journalist contacted me by email 8 hours BEFORE the paper was officially published in Current Biology, and their questions were the most clever ones. In the next interviews I was by the way asked 'what about Crimea, since you're a Ukrainian working with Russians' (technically, Liuba's the only Russian in the team because Stas is probably a Jew, and other people were from the US and Germany). Shame on me, I always considered Crimea Ukrainian/Crimean Tatar, but back then I was still thinking that science is an international thing and the discovery we're making is more important than political agenda. I don't think that anymore.
But I'm glad it was out before things got totally caboom.
And I'm not over with my own research on those animals.
The NY Times report on our paper is still there on the web. Starting from the next week, I'm re-taking my job at the university, at the same table I missed so much, haha (seriously, they didn't even want to let me in to collect my things). Stas Malyavin has emigrated to Israel at the very beginning of the open phase of the war, for me that's another proof he's a good person who never supported what their government does.
What happened to Liuba Shmakova, the woman who actually spotted the creature in the sterile sealed Petri dish with the 24 thousand years old soil, I don't know. But the photo with her writings on the 24-well plate experiment (of my design, I'm rather proud of it) is still there in NY Times pages.
We all had given tons of interviews within 3 months after the paper was out. But the NY Times journalist contacted me by email 8 hours BEFORE the paper was officially published in Current Biology, and their questions were the most clever ones. In the next interviews I was by the way asked 'what about Crimea, since you're a Ukrainian working with Russians' (technically, Liuba's the only Russian in the team because Stas is probably a Jew, and other people were from the US and Germany). Shame on me, I always considered Crimea Ukrainian/Crimean Tatar, but back then I was still thinking that science is an international thing and the discovery we're making is more important than political agenda. I don't think that anymore.
But I'm glad it was out before things got totally caboom.
And I'm not over with my own research on those animals.
