NEWS_&_VIEWS

All the different ways and reasons your papers get cited in the scientific literature

29 February 2020
Few words about the most important aspect of the modern scientific folklore - Citing. And how it is done. Not too serious.

Our paper showing that the sexual selection can both inflate or deflate MHC gene number is in the wild!

26 February 2020
We have gotten published! Jacek Radwan and I published a paper titled "Mating preferences can drive expansion or contraction of major histocompatibility complex gene family" for which I created agent-based model simulations.

Our paper investigating how pathogen richness, the cost of expressing MHC variants, and pathogens' mutation rate shape the individual MHC copy number is out!

17 May 2019
We have gotten published! Jacek Radwan and I published a paper titled "Evolution of major histocompatibility complex gene copy number". It's a theoretical study using agent-based simulation I'd coded addressing the question how parasite diversity, their speed of evolution and costs of expressing MHC proteins shape the MHC genes' individual copy number variation in hosts.

Naukowy exodus

28 September 2017
Czas powiedzieć to głośno - jeszcze chwila dalszych zaniedbań i pozostaniemy bez naukowców. Trwa odpływ naukowców średniego szczebla kariery

Granty ERC a sprawa polska, czyli uczony głodny jest o wiele mniej płodny

27 September 2017
Polskie instytucje naukowe są za biedne, aby skutecznie konkurować o granty Europejskiej Rady ds. Badań Naukowych. Mamy ich tyle, ile wynika z naszych wydatków na badania i rozwój (analiza AD 2016)