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Life During Exams: Self-Care 101
…Self-care vs hustle culture In my information bubble, the concept of self-care has been growing increasingly popular and it pains me to see how companies in various fields play with it in their marketing campaigns. Even though, say, face masks or high-quality chocolate can be a way of “self-caring,” the term actually has a much deeper meaning and the power to cha…
14.05.2021
People Need You: Volunteering at ITMO University
…s boosting your organizational skills, volunteering helps you apply and improve your professional skills, for example, in digital volunteering. It’s also a great chance to get insight on various events taking place at the university or even international level, as well as provides an opportunity to change the world around you. 2. Do volunteers get paid? …
14.05.2021
ITMO.Career: First Open Careers Forum for Prospective ITMO Students
…velopment and partnership. Among the speakers will be the heads of the university’s educational programs and research laboratories along with guest experts from Mail.ru, JetBrains, EPAM, Unilever, SberBank, Gazprom Neft, and other leading companies. Meanwhile, the main session will include presentations by Lubov Soboleva, the commercial director of Habr, who …
13.05.2021
Elena Rybnikova on Why You Shouldn’t Fight Stress
…s next depends on many factors. There are three stages of stress. The first one is anxiety – that’s when the body is getting ready to fight a stressor. Most of the fighting begins at the stage of resistance – the body resists the stressor and looks for ways to solve the problem. In the case a stressor doesn’t go away, the last stage – exhaustion – begins work, but we tend to trust their conclusions. Apart from that, there is a possibility to make the data more interpretable, it is just that we didn’t aim for that in our project. Can …
13.05.2021
ITMO Researchers Suggest Design for Biointegrable Controlled Nanoparticles
…e the behavior of polymers in complexes of this kind from the chemical point of view. This, in turn, gave physicists the opportunity to achieve specific optical effects,” explains Anna Nikitina, a staff member at ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center. The methodology of nanoparticle control has already been tried and tested – the issue can be in adapting it…
12.05.2021
Researchers Highlight Inbreeding Among Amur Leopards Through Whole Genome Sequencing
… Even though the population of Far Eastern leopards has nearly doubled in the past years – thanks to the conservation measures and governmental support – the genetic diversity inside the population can’t increase due to the lack of new incoming genes, so the subspecies is still balancing on the verge of extinction. The fast spread of morphological genetic characters …
12.05.2021
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 15-16, 2021
…iven out on May 13-14 at Passage (FAN ID Center) and on May 15 in Pushkin. Postgraffiti exhibition May 1-20 Lines Space Free Graffiti can give you a unique insight into the very essence of a culture as it reveals its burning problems in the most informal way, even bluntly. In this sense, Postgraffiti is an exhibition that gives its visitors the ch…
12.05.2021
The Magic of Neural Networks
…tremendous work of going through and analyzing hundreds, thousands, and even millions of cat pics to create the one and only whose paws have never touched the ground. Isn’t it insane that such a seemingly simple thing can actually give you the chills? If you don't believe us, check it out for yourself! AutoDraw If you don’t yet have a knack for paintin…
11.05.2021
Places to Make a Wish in St. Petersburg
…tting on a wooden pile directly in the water near the bridge on the approach to Hare Island became a symbol of the city. People believe that if you throw a coin so that it remains on the woodpile under the hare and does not fall into the water, then your wish will come true. There is a great romantic place in the city called the Potseluev Bridge (translated from R…
10.05.2021