Evgeny is a researcher who thinks across boundaries — trained in mathematics and physics, drawn to the philosophical depths of psychology and the vast scales of celestial mechanics. His work lives at the intersections: asteroid dynamics and narrative identity, orbital resonances and existential coherence. Marginalia grew from his own way of reading science — holistically, curiously, across disciplines — and a conviction that the most important connections in the literature are the ones no algorithm will find for you.
Essential methodological works on qualitative content analysis: procedural frameworks, coding approaches (inductive, deductive, conventional, directed, summative), reference handbooks, practical guides, and papers distinguishing QCA from thematic analysis and grounded theory.
This collection includes articles devoted to self-determination theory. This theory operates with the concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and points to the key role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as components that contribute to an individual’s well-being.
Secular resonances appear when the slow precession of a small body's orbit comes into sync with one of the eigenfrequencies of the planetary system. Unlike mean-motion resonances, these operate on timescales of millions of years — but their effects are profound: they define the boundaries of the asteroid belt, reshape collisional families, pump up eccentricities and inclinations, and open transport routes that send fragments toward planet-crossing orbits. This collection covers the mapping of linear secular resonances in the Solar System from 2 to 50 AU, a detailed survey of nonlinear resonances (up to high order) throughout the main belt and their interaction with asteroid families, and recent efforts to automate the identification of resonant asteroids using classical machine learning, advanced methods such as Vision transformers, and LLMs — a growing necessity as catalogs approach millions of objects.
In this collection I gather (mostly) psychological studies devoted to people’s fundamental belief that the world is just. This construct, it seems to me, quite strongly affects our perception of the world and, importantly, our reaction to ongoing events — especially when we start blaming others, guided implicitly by precisely this motive. The collection includes both curated works, which at some point I read carefully and can say something sensible about, and new works being published on the topic.
We are used to treating science as a source of knowledge that can be trusted a priori. But is this really the case? How much can we trust the results of psychological studies when making important decisions about our mental health and well-being. This collection contains articles devoted to checking psychological experiments — how well they can be replicated. In doing so, I examine two independent cohorts of studies: the reproducibility of the experiments themselves within large independent studies, as well as the reproducibility of meta-analyses. The latter are especially relevant, since the media often refer specifically to their conclusions.
Key psychometric instruments for measuring existential concerns: meaning in life, existential isolation, and existential anxiety.
A curated collection of essential papers on mean-motion resonances in the asteroid belt, TNO, and beyond.
The essential papers that built our understanding of how people turn lived experience into coherent stories — and why that coherence matters for identity. From Linde's life stories as linguistic acts, through McAdams' narrative identity framework, to Habermas and Bluck's developmental account of the life story — this collection traces how the field learned to see personality not as a set of traits, but as a story being told.
How large language models are transforming astronomical research in celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy.
A curated list of essential manuscripts (both theoretical and empirical) dedicated to the von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai resonances (also known as the Kozai mechanism) in the Solar System (mostly for the main belt and TNOs). Terms: * MMR: mean-motion resonance * ZLKR: von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai resonance
Emerging applications of large language models in qualitative psychological research methodology as well as the critics.
New Instruments and Validations in Existential Psychology, 2025–2026
Mean-motion resonances in 2025: theory, surveys, and a few surprises from the main belt to the Kuiper belt.
Meet the new collection on scales measuring existential concerns