Kristina Noreikiene

Postdoc in EvoEco with interest in fish sensory adaptation,host-parasite,#fishsci and #evolution.,#scimom ,#WomeninSTEM

[Kristina Noreikiene @Snaudale]

Perch in dark-water humic lakes are free from diplostomid eye #parasites. In clear-water lakes infection rate and the intraspecific diversity is very high.
Our new paper where we combine #RNAseq and targeted #metabarcoding is out and #openaccess. #fishsci
https://t.co/i6r8Fb12XN

[Andrej Spiridonov @AndrejSpiridon4]

Multilevel selection in parasites, and their exciting synchrony in swimming:
These flukes could borrow the Stark motto:
'The lone wolf dies but the pack survives' 😉
https://t.co/GSt7xhNeQW

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

Tomorrow is a day of mourning across the Baltic countries, marking the start of Moscow’s mass deportations in 1941.

Much of the world just doesn’t get the horror of it - either historically or today in Ukraine.

Does anyone want to help them by sharing their family story?

[Kristina Noreikiene @Snaudale]

Great study illustrating the importance of double blind reviewing process! In ecology, it might be hard to mask all information about origin of the study, but it seems on average it would not be linked to difference in outcome.

[Martin A. Nuñez @Martin_A_Nunez]

This is HUGE news for scientific publishing!!

@FunEcology conducted a great randomized experiment to test double-blind

Results: papers coming from wealthy countries were very favored to being identified by reviewers😡
#geographicdiscrimination
https://t.co/2CFUEPPfli

[Martin A. Nuñez @Martin_A_Nunez]

This is HUGE news for scientific publishing!!

@FunEcology conducted a great randomized experiment to test double-blind

Results: papers coming from wealthy countries were very favored to being identified by reviewers😡
#geographicdiscrimination
https://t.co/2CFUEPPfli

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

Today we remember the March deportations.

On 25 March 1949, the Soviet Union resumed its mass deportations in the Baltic states, mostly targeting women & children. Even babies, pregnant women, and separated children were snatched in the night, packed into cattle wagons, and dispersed across remote parts of Russia in labour camps where they faced hunger, cold, and brutality. Many died on the way or shortly after arrival. Some were even settled in nuclear testing fallout zones.

The first wave of mass deportations took place in 1941 after the Soviet Union - in collusion with the Nazis - had first invaded & illegally annexed the Baltic states. The main aim then was state decapitation.

This second wave was much broader, named Operation Priboi (Breaker’). It was mostly targeted at rural communities, ultimately aimed at breaking society and national identity, while providing more hard labour inside Russia.

Around a quarter of the population fell into the Soviet category of ‘undesirables’. However, the snatching was chaotic. Many families were taken randomly just to fill quotas when the listed family couldn’t be found. Some were taken for just having similar names to those listed. Some local collaborators just wanted to settle scores.

Deportations also continued regularly outside of these mass waves.

It’s estimated that about 200,000 were deported just from the occupied Baltic states & a further 6 million forcibly transferred in total by the Soviet Union, mostly based on ethnicity (either by removing entire ethnic groups or targeting ‘undesirables’ specifically within ethnic groups).

Even the Soviet Union eventually denounced its own mass deportations. They were described as “monstrous acts” by Khrushchev & “terrible felonies” by the Supreme Soviet in 1989.

I’m not gonna do the usual screenshotting of bad takes here. The bigger problem is how little the world has learnt about it at all to even have any takes. That’s how history repeats, as we see in the mass deportations that Moscow has resumed in Ukraine today. It’s one part of Russia’s genocidal war that the world finds difficult to comprehend. Some media reports even repeat the nonsense characterisation of it as ‘evacuations’. But mass deportations are key to understanding how Russia intends to consume captured territory. It’s delusional to think you can achieve any peace by giving up on lands and lives already stolen. Every inch of territory consumed only emboldens it to consume more.

But hope remains. The Soviets quietly praised themselves for carrying out the mass deportations in the Baltics. But, many historians argue these crimes were also a major political mistake. They deepened opposition to occupation. The topic was heavily censored but people never forgot. That anger eventually spilled out into the open during the Singing Revolution in the Baltics, leading to the restoration of the modern, independent, vibrant, fully restored states we live in here today.

In the Baltics today, candles will be lit, names of victims will be read out, and displays will fill public squares. Unfortunately, we are no longer just remembering history but all those in Ukraine facing it today.

Join us - in any way you can - to remember the mass deportations and help consign this brutality back into history.

[Kristina Noreikiene @Snaudale]

@palaeo_neil Biodiv in Estonia: https://t.co/1RWZ6OLT8W

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

It's quite something that the world's top scientists put out a synthesis report that essentially says civilization as we know it will end unless the world comes together to stop rapidly expanding the fossil fuel industry but to instead rapidly end it, and almost no one cares

[Andrea Kriz, PhD @theworldshesaw]

Imagine opening a @Nature article that has always been free and suddenly finding it paywalled. That’s what just happened to almost every Comment, News, and @NatureFutures article. This is disastrous. We NEED these freely available to the public (1/n)

[Andrius Tapinas @AndriusTapinas]

Lithuanians broke 10 mln mark fundraising for radars for Ukraine and this is still not the end.

Tonight is 3 hours TV marathon fundraiser and we can get more millions to defend Ukraine!

[Andrej Spiridonov @AndrejSpiridon4]

Authors show significant observation on the geographic representability of the fossil record: "Eastern Europe and the
Middle East are particularly occurrence-poor in
the PBDB." I know the exact reason why is it so (talking about the Easter Europe representation in the PBDB). 1/n

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

I'm all for brevity in papers but in my opinion a good methods section should be so long & detailed readers would know what the experimenter had for lunch, what music they listened to while dissecting samples, & how many naps they had during the all night confocal section.

[Seppo mstdn.social/@sepponet @sepponet]

It's the #WorldWetlandsDay!
Revive and #restore degraded #wetlands.
https://t.co/Zrlhr8ba9f

[Ecophy @Ecophy_CEBC]

Want to do a Marie Curie fellowship on seabirds @Ecophy_CEBC? We work on stress physiology, contaminants, aging, demography. Fieldwork: Svalbard Antarctica French Guyana & France. Lab facilities (hormones, telomeres), biologging, long-term CMR
Use Direct Messages if interested

[Andrius Tapinas @AndriusTapinas]

Lithuanians rise again to support Ukraine!

4 biggest support organisations join forces together to buy Israeli made modern radars to help protect Ukrainian sky.

We expect to raise at least 5 mln euro for 5 radars.

Join the cause. Let's radar!

Paypal: mes@stipruskartu

[Cécile Sarabian @CSarabian]

1/5 EXOTIC ANIMAL CAFÉS are places displaying exotic animals that you can view/pet while having a drink. Owls, snakes, otters, primates & others are part of the show. While this new fashion is spreading in Asia, 🇯🇵 is a hotspot w/ low regulations allowing such businesses to grow

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Mars!!!
128 million miles away. Listen to the sounds.

[Gitanas Nausėda @GitanasNauseda]

Today we remember Lithuanian Freedom Defenders. They stood barehand in front of Soviet tanks in Vilnius on 13 January 1991 and sacrificed their lives. The Soviets intended to suppress 🇱🇹 wish for freedom with military violence, but it was unbreakable. We remember why we are free.

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

Salad spinners are the best plate centrifuges.

[Richard Kirby @PlanktonPundit]

Microplastics pollute every inshore plankton sample I collect. There are many new, modern wool fabrics with similar benefits to manmade materials. As your old plastic clothing wears out why not make a New Year's resolution to replace it with natural fibres. @zeiss_micro

[Andrej Spiridonov @AndrejSpiridon4]

In a recent study of skull morphologies https://t.co/AfK46CR8Zh mammalest mammal skull was found in a fox (authors mentioned it in a Twitter thread). What is the fishest fish? People need to know the answer! Objective, subjective or silly - it doesn't matter.