When I referee an article I rarely comment on the grammar or the choice of words. Most authors are not native English speakers and as long as the language is not so spectacularly bad that it makes it hard to understand the meaning I usually don’t mention it. I especially don’t bother […]
Yesterday I lied to a priest. I did it to avoid an argument, and I felt bad about it. Not because I was lying to a priest, but because I felt the need to lie. I’m an atheist, and I never had any problems with saying so, or even vocally […]
The last week I’ve been working on the final report of a project I was running over the last three years. Mostly this is mind-numbingly boring stuff, but now a one-page popular science summary should be included. Since I had to write it I can just as well put it […]
This week our institute is arranging its yearly Microsymposium* where all the scientists get to show the others, through talks or posters, what they have been doing during the year. I always have a bit of mixed feelings about this kind of arrangements. One one hand it feels like a […]
This wasn’t the way I wanted to start the new blog, but after a day of reading Polish newspapers and politicians proudly proclaiming solidarity with Charlie Hebdo I needed to comment. President Komorowski, Premier Kopacz, Speaker of the parliament Sikorski all stood defending “universal values” and “freedom of expression”. Gazeta […]
What is it like being a scientist somewhere in the gap between “young” and “senior”? What is it like being a scientist in Poland? What is it like being a research group leader looking for funding, trying to find time for experiments, fighting with deadlines, learning new things… ? This […]
