Bird for Sunday. Common cuckoo, juvenile (Cuculus canorus, kukułka). Nakło, Poland.

King of Poland Casimir the Great, with the consent of Pope, established in 1364 the Kraków Academy - Jagiellonian University Uniwersytet Jagielloński. One of the most important universities in Europe. Alma Mater of many great scientists for seven centuries. 👑📜✝️🇵🇱🖊️📖🔭⚗️

Without this increase, the grant system cannot exist. With a success rate of around 10% we lose great proposals, we lose (!) great people.

Bird for Sunday. Common myna (Acridotheres tristis, majna brunatna). An old memory from the Seychelles.

A small paper from us: "Heme oxygenase-1 promotes nuclear envelope integrity, facilitates nuclear retention of NF-κB and STAT1, and preserves sensitivity to PARylation-dependent nuclear-cytoplasmic transport." doi.org/10.1186/s12950…

'Godfather' of cloning, Professor Sir John Gurdon, whose work paved the way for Dolly the Sheep dies aged 92 dailystar.co.uk/news/uk-news/g…

Bird for Sunday. West Indian whistling duck (Dendrocygna arborea, drzewica karaibska). Old memories from Jamaica.

Bird for Sunday. Seychelles bulbul (Hypsipetes crassirostris; szczeciak grubodzioby - try to pronounce the Polish name :)). An old memory from the Seychelles.

"Nauka swe źródło ma w ciekawości, w bezinteresownym zainteresowaniu światem." rp.pl/plus-minus/art…

📖 UWAGA! NOWY WPIS 📖 Środowa recenzja: Wiesław Seweryn o futurologicznych prognozach Jamiego Metzla. Jak splot nowych technologii wpływa i wpłynie na nasze życie? eksperymentmyslowy.pl/2025/10/22/em-…

Are you planning to submitt ERC grant application? Join the workshop that will be held on 17 November 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Warsaw and will be hosted by: NCBR and ERC Ambassadors, Prof. Justyna Olko and Prof. Michał Tomza. inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/2025/10/warszt…

Maybe time to re-read Stanisław Lem - Klapaucjusz and Trurl were doing AI-driven science back in the 1960s... agents4science.stanford.edu/index.html

Bird for Sunday. Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europea, kowalik). Favorite restaurant and favorite position. Today, Krakow, Poland.

HMOX1 mutation in patient cells: the impact of ascorbate. Is this why HO-1 deficiency in mice is less harmful than in humans? We are grateful to have been part of this research. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.…

High-resolution imaging mass cytometry enables highly multiplexed imaging of nuclear foci and mitochondrial networks. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Bird for Sunday. Collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto, sierpówka). Nice neighbor, Kraków, Poland.

Here's a set of subjective "grant writing" tips we recorded almost a year ago (two ERC grantees and one panelist). Maybe someone will find it useful: youtube.com/watch?v=2GSRID…

Why am I not surprised? Let’s call it experience… or simply age-related realism.

What will be born of marriage of de-extinction firm Colossal and animal cloning firm Viagen? statnews.com/2025/11/07/col… My new STAT News column goes over this new intersection of de-extinction and cloning #biotech firms #stemcells Where does Tom Brady's cloned pitbull fit in?

Bird for Sunday. Loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus, tyran zmiennosterny). Memories from Jamaica.