Taylor & Francis released a short video about our Oxford visit at Oxford Brookes University — publishing standards, ethics, and Ukraine’s scholarly resilience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IOexycyFEQ
#AcademicPublishing #Ukraine #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience
New article (with Serhii Nazarovets):
Raw material supplier or strategic actor? Ukraine’s future in the rare earth sector
Post-Communist Economies
Can Ukraine move from exporting ore to technological sovereignty?
🔗 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14631377.2026.2634631?needAccess=true
#RareEarths #CriticalMaterials #Ukraine #Geopolitics #TechnologicalSovereignty
Australian data show: most university staff face high psychosocial risk, widespread exhaustion, and growing intentions to leave academia:
https://stresscafe.net/census/
In war-affected Ukraine, the picture is even more severe — over 70% of academics report high burnout:
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06322-5
#HigherEducation #AcademicBurnout #MentalHealth #UniversityWithoutWalls
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder: the challenge is no longer only participation, but voice — women scientists must remain visible and unapologetic about their achievements (my lecture on this topic: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15303171).
A powerful piece by Professor Marek Tesar in Future Campus highlighting the story of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University — a University without walls, sustained by people, care, and resilience even in wartime:
https://futurecampus.com.au/2026/02/03/reslience-whilst-reimagining-a-university-without-walls/
Grateful for this thoughtful reflection
#UniversityWithoutWalls #AcademicResilience #UkrainianAcademia
Are review articles dying in the age of AI?
A year ago, we thought so. Today, we see something more nuanced: generative AI is not replacing reviews — it is differentiating them. Descriptive syntheses are increasingly automatable, while reflexive, agenda-setting reviews become even more valuable as knowledge infrastructure:
https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2045
#GenerativeAI #ScholarlyCommunication #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #AIinResearch
Instead of evacuating far from risk, some Ukrainian universities chose to relocate within their region during the war. Based on interviews in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, we introduce flexible regional relocation as a strategy of educational resilience.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rspp.2026.100282
#HigherEducation #Academia #Research #Universities #Resilience
Gave a lecture today on Digital & AI Tools for Responsible Science at Kyiv Aviation Institute 🇺🇦
We discussed how digital tools and AI support the full research lifecycle — from ideas to publication and communication — and why impact, responsibility, and ethics matter.
Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18359614
Our new article explores radiation effects in gadolinium gallium garnet (Gd₃Ga₅O₁₂), a garnet-family crystal used in photonic and detector applications:
https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst16010040
#MaterialsScience #Garnet #RadiationPhysics #PhotonicMaterials
The war in Ukraine is turning academic burnout into a cumulative condition. Prolonged uncertainty and loss of control lead to exhaustion, numbing, and loss of meaning among university lecturers.
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06322-5
