To be,
or not to be

Quotes to ponder about

(References in hyperlinks)

2024: Changing the world might be a full-time job by itself. - Abhijit Banerjee.

2025: The word "channel" remained somewhat left out from the scientific debate for almost another two decades, even though its idea was slowly making its way into the minds of discerning scientists. - Catacuzzeno L et al.,

2025: .... we argue that mitochondria should be considered as the 'Chief Executive Organelle' - the CEO - of the cell. - Lee-Glover et al., 

2025: He (Stanisław Ulam) found it full of overdone formality, bloated egos and people performing the act of work, rather than working productively and informally. -  Patrick Maynard.

2025: Finally, threats to academic freedom may also emerge from within academia itself. Ideologically motivated intolerance from colleagues or students may lead to actions against peers, lecturers, or guest speakers—so-called cancel culture. Similarly, ideologically motivated intolerance may stem from the leadership of a university or institute. These are real threats.. - Human Rights Committee of Sweden’s Scientific and Literary Academies 

2025: modern knowledge isn't confined to one field—it's about connecting ideas and thinking across disciplines while developing deep expertise in a specific area. - Satyajit Mayor

2024: One of my first students and I were discussing an experiment and he said “It won’t work. I don’t want to try it.” My slightly frustrated reply was: “No guts, no glory.” - Anne Ephrussi.

2024: because values and recognition are important. Without these elements, we’re merely selling a profession, and education is much more than that. It’s about nurturing future generations. - Leo Tan

2024: But Alberts says he and his textbook co-authors don’t like to flood students with unknowns, so vaults haven’t made the cut. John Travis.

2024: Ostatecznie,  kiedy  zaakceptowaliśmy  hormony  jako cząsteczki sygnalizacyjne, otworzyło to pole rozwoju endokrynologii, co z kolei doprowadziło do licznych badań biochemicznych w celu zidentyfikowania receptorów wyczuwających hormony i ich roli w chorobach związanych z działaniem hormonów. Teraz musimy zadać sobie pytanie, czy jeśli zaakceptujemy wodę jako cząsteczkę sygnalizacyjną, czy otworzy to również pole akwakrynologii i doprowadzi do licznych badań biochemicznych w celu zidentyfikowania akwareceptorów wyczuwających wodę i ich roli w chorobach związanych z wodą? - Savani Anbalagan.

2024: ... I worry that sometimes people forget this and design their research questions based on their model system when in fact they should think about the larger question first and should not be averse to using more than one model system if needed. I often see colleagues trying hard to ‘sell’ their model organism, which may be justified while defending a grant proposal but is unfair to students; they need to learn about organisms belonging to as many taxa as possible.... I really feel quite strongly that the charges associated with publishing are getting out of control. It is becoming a big business without checks and balances. Many labs in India find it very difficult to raise that kind of money to publish their papers. - Surendra Ghaskadbi

2024: If gas-sensing riboceptors don’t exist, it suggests that the origin of gasocrine signaling and environmental gas-sensing is only via protein-based gasoreceptors, which I think is very unlikely if the RNA world theory is true, since gases preceded the RNA world. - Savani Anbalagan

2024: As the three of us frequently discussed and taught our students, you are not there to confirm your own theories, but to seek the truth, even if it means that you need to revisit your previous work. - Jan Vijg & Jan Hoeijmakers

2024: Guglielmo Marconi był wybitnym człowiekiem ale niczego by nie dokonał, gdyby ie wcześniejsze teoretyczne prace Jamesa Clerka Maxwella. Gdybyśmy jednak to Maxwellowi kazali budować radio twierdząc, że bez radia jego jego praca jest nic niewarta, to do dziś byśmy tego radia nie mieli. - Profesor PAN

2024: Disciplines, fields, and models are helpful conceptual paradigms; however, they should be entirely and persistently disregarded if they impede our ability to think bigger. - Brian S Kim

2023: So, how to make it work? First and foremost, I try to remember to put ego aside – I always tell my students that our goal as scientists is to do good science and help push forward human knowledge. - Maya Shuldiner

2023: Biology is a field of science that reveals itself in proportion with the questions asked, funds granted, techniques available, battles fought, conflicts resolved, and time scales possible. - Miłyprzystojniak

2023: Most schools never taught how Africans developed functional societies and contributed to medicine, science, and other disciplines, as the focus was always on the European perspective. - Hinton Jr A et al.,

2023: as many as nine ASHG (American Society of Human Genetics) presidents served on the board of directors or presidents of the American Eugenics Society since its founding in 1926 until 1972. And several past presidents supported voluntary and compulsory eugenic sterilizations at some point in their careers. - Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

2023: At the time, my dad wanted me to be a medical doctor, but Dr Eichenbaum jokingly said that I would waste my brain in medical school and that she would make me a scientist – she really believed in me, which I am really grateful for. - Pascale Guiton

2023: The result is that we are turning the next generation of scientists into excellent experimentalists and “research managers,” rather than into bold scientific thinkers. Baer M et al., 

2023: I realised you can study something that no one else is investigating and could make real discoveries. I couldn't imagine any other job or profession that could offer such a possibility. - Sara Sigismund.

2023: When I was young, insecure, and just starting my scientific career, my teacher once said, “Don't think about science, just do it.” - Makoto Suematsu

2023: ...as a professor was not really worried about competition but wanted to help someone to build a career. - James Ntambi

2023: The idea met with polite skepticism and, at first, failed to obtain funding. But Philip knew when to trust his instincts and persist. - Coruzzi GM & Birnbaum KD

2023: I worry that the art of posing the best questions in science is being lost. I have listened to some impressive talks that describe multi-million-dollar efforts to understand a physiological process. I’m usually super impressed by these talks, but I wonder about the messaging to younger scientists. Asking and answering a question is hard and filled with repeated failures. I get it; if you have the resources, you will always succeed at collecting data. This begs the question: are unlimited resources the only way to add knowledge to a field or make a discovery? I suspect not.... The lab that brings in the most money is not always the one changing our fundamental scientific concepts. - Holly Ingraham  

2022: In short, be curious and brave, think outside the box, collaborate. - Vladimir Korzh

2022: Social dominance based upon age, gender (patriarchy), identity, class, and socially defined race have been persistent features of human societies, and our science system derives from those societies. - Graves Jr et al.,

2022: Suppose that researchers are motivated by the amount of credit they receive: each researcher chooses a project to work on to maximize her expected amount of credit, given the choices of all other researchers. The selection of projects is thus a game, in which the players are the researchers, the strategies are the choices of projects, and the payoffs are the expected amount of credit received. - Jon Kleinberg & Sigal Oren

2022: the main challenges were not being known and that the importance of the work I was doing was not initially recognised.. - Abdou Rachid Thiam

2021: The involvement of the US in World War II meant many young men were taken from industry in the United States to support the war effort. As such, many traditionally male-dominated career options were now open to women, and Daly was able to enrol in a PhD program at Columbia University. - Fraser MacLeod

2021: Schwann’s undeniable successes led to a dynamic development in his career. In 1839, at the age of only 29, he accepted an offer of a professorship. - Michał K Owecki

2021: (E.E Just) A great embryologist and cell biologist that loved European marine biological stations, he obtained the full recognition he deserved in life after his death. - Ibon Cancio

2021: He (Rolf Luft) claimed that this was “the worst error of commission” and considered that insulin was detected by Banting and Best while MacLeod, chairman of the Department, was not directly engaged in the discovery. According to Luft the prize should have been shared by Banting, Best and Paulescu, who had been ahead of the scientists in Toronto. - Lars Rydén & Jan Lindsten

2021: Hofstra and colleagues recently described the “diversity-innovation paradox in science” in a study that examined the career trajectories of nearly all US doctoral recipients from 1977 to 2015. These researchers found that innovations and novel contributions to science from underrepresented individuals (gender and racial minorities) are more likely to be discounted. - Vence L Bonham & Eric D Green

2020: So why then have generic antioxidant strategies repeatedly failed to treat cancer in clinical trials? - Ursula Jakob

2020: Science does not function well in urgency and immediate response. - Bruno Canard

2020: BIPOC faculty are further disadvantaged in tenure decisions through cultural taxation of unequal service and mentoring demands.

2020: It is therefore a fundamental contradiction how much we disregard the health of our oceans and forests, where this precious gas is produced and to which we owe our lives. - José López-Barneo & M. Celeste Simon. 

2020: By first admitting that science has been part of the problem in the widening gap in equality we can start to understand what we must do to start addressing the problem. - Marcia McNutt

2019: Believe me, you never know what kind of impact someone’s story can have on a younger person walking down a similar path. - Quazi Rushnan Islam

2019: In contrast to Darwin, Haeckel from the very beginning tried to turn Darwinism into a universal worldview, thus jeopardizing his credibility as a scientist. - Georgy Levit & Uwe Hossfeld

2019: they are always doing what they were trained to do. It is like that I can make a sandwich and then I will just try to make a lot of sandwiches, at most adding one or two new components into the sandwich. If a chef performs like this, he or she will never be able to prepare a delicious dinner with multiple dishes of different flavors. In my view, if we want to solve a real scientific problem, very often we will need to do something that we have not done before. Only by breaking our boundaries, learning from experts in other fields, and communicating and cooperating with others, we are then able to integrate all the possible tools to accomplish a beautiful work. And only in this way, we can grow stronger and enjoy the continuous freshness of science. - Feng Shao

2018: Really the three most important features of a great scientist are courage, determination and creativity. - Agnieszka Chacinska 

2018: Our academic forefathers would never have believed us. Universities use an index designed for Liberians to assess journals’ use as a measure for individual scientific performance. When I write universities, I actually mean us......In fact, why gather to identify the most worthy, when the decision relies on a checklist and two numbers? These two numbers are the sums of grant money and impact factors. - Natalia Strugala & Pontus Persson

2018: Some of my US colleagues refused to believe I could have received an adequate education at home. I was constantly asked whether I could speak English, whether I had learnt this or that basic concept in medical school, - Malak Abedalthagafi

2018: What is interesting in science is that you never know what will happen tomorrow. - Virginijus Siksnys

2017: I believe that increases in the number of roles that faculty members play and in the time we spend on our work are endangering our ability to produce new ideas and effectively mentor new scientists. - Elizabeth Haswell

2017: What I think is that certain subjects reach a certain stage and what they require is someone come and look at them from a completely different point of view. And I'm a great believer in the power of ignorance. I think you can always know too much. I feel one of the things of being an experienced scientist in a subject is it curtails creativity, because you know too much and you know what won't work. And I think what we should be doing is spreading ignorance rather than knowledge, because it's ignorance that allows you to do things. And so I believe that it is people who come from the outside, who have not been entrained into the standard approach, who can see things from a different way. Those I think are the people who will then make the new step. You see, because Gamow didn't know anything about molecular structure, he couldn't even… but he saw these from the point of view of… of a physicist, of a correspondence, which is what physicists dealed with, and he could pose the problem in a form that no biochemists could pose it, because that's not the way they thought.  - Sydney Brenner

2017: Choose a question to which you really want to know the answer, then let that curiosity be your driver. If you don't really care about the question – or the answer to it – you'll struggle to do good science. Then, when designing experiments to address this question, ask yourself: ‘if I do some particular experiment, will the likely results really help me to answer the question?'. If you pick a question that really, really interests you, this should provide you with the motivation to do good science and help you to avoid doing stupid experiments. - Claudio Stern

2017: Focus on the topics that you are interested in and work hard with persistence and passion. Ideas are important, but skills and methods to test your ideas are also critical. - Ling-Ling Chen

2015: ..It is the build up of such high quality core material that underpins major advances in our understanding and translational success. It also provides support for sustaining a broad scientific coverage within the world community of investigators. In contrast, chasing ‘high impact’ topics inevitably distorts scientific endeavour, pushing more and more resources into fewer topics. - Miles D. Houslay

2015: Thus, many scientists feel that merely being good at their jobs is not enough. Competition is all about priority -- a scientist’s claim to be the first to make a big discovery. - Yu Xie

2015: unlike mathematics, where Andrew Wiles spent seven years in complete isolation and secrecy solving Fermat's last theorem. Such an approach is simply not possible in biology. - Sukhendu B Dev

2014: I did not know what was not known. - Suresh Jesuthasan

2014: Every medical and microbiology textbook at the time stated that the stomach was sterile, so nobody had thought of doing a culture or looking for bacteria with a simple Gram stain, a laboratory technique used to identify species of bacterium. If they had, they would have found H. pylori in five minutes! - Barry Marshall

2014: Hooke emphasizes the importance of careful observation, memory, and reason, and warns against excessive speculation and philosophy. - John West

2013: The bad reaction was the head of my laboratory, who came to my office one day and, smiling sheepishly, put a book on x-ray diffraction on my desk and said, 'Danny, please read this book and you will understand that what you are saying cannot be.' And I told him, you know, I don't need to read this book, I teach at the Technion, and I know this book, and I'm telling you my material is not in the book. He came back a couple of days later and said to me, 'Danny, you are a disgrace to my group. I cannot be with you in the same group.' So I left the group and found another group that adopted a scientific orphan." - Daniel Shechtman

2013: Biology turns out, on this reading, to be a good deal more theoretical than physics. However contrary this may be to the party line, we really should not be so surprised. Biology, after all, is a good deal harder than physics. If scientific research is stumbling around in a dark cellar looking for a black cat, then biology is doing so without knowing there is a cat there until one accidentally falls over it. Theory can sometimes conjure up the cat before the accident. Those biologists who have exploited that capability—Delbrück, Fisher, Haldane, Hill, Hodgkin, Huxley, Knudson, Luria, Michaelis, Mendel, Menten, Morgan, and Wright, among the few mentioned here—have lit the cellar for others to follow. The value of theory is often claimed to lie in making predictions or in fitting models to data, both of which are no doubt commendable, but, as the examples here reveal, theory has played a far more valuable role by showing us how to think about entities that lie beyond our grasp. It has helped biologists to see in the dark. - Jeremy Gunawardena

2012: Giving due credit to Just is important also because the same oppressive forces that stymied his achievements also militated against his receiving proper recognition. His fellow American scientists used his insights but they often did not cite his work. They may have felt justified in doing this because Just was not well liked in America; they may have felt they could get away with it because Just was black. He was not a member of the scientific establishment; he had no recourse to fight back. Such historical examples of the unfair treatment of one scientist by others certainly are not unique to Just’s situation. But it is still important to set the record straight. - Malcolm Byrnes

2012: March away from the sound of the guns. - Wilson, E.O. 

2012: Given the pressure to publish and acquire grant money, the obligation to know the ins and outs of animal facility design and operations is particularly frustrating. McNabb A et al.,

2012: Unable to find work and living in the servants' quarters of his uncle's house in New Delhi, Gobind became essentially an academic refugee. - Thomas Sakmar

2012: They could stay in a university and, even with no research support, collect nine months of salary for teaching. But for that, their days would be broken up with all kinds of university responsibilities. I did those for many years. Some of those are enjoyable, but sometimes they take you away from research when you would rather sit in a lab talking to students about a particular result. - Michael Marletta

2011: But people—biochemists didn't like that. They said, where were the enzymes? How dare you call it a receptor when it isn't in a membrane? People thought receptors were in membranes. - Elwood V. Jensen

2011: At first I was alone against the world, in the end Linus Pauling was alone against the world. - Daniel Shechtman. 

2011: Anyone who is overtly critical of the foundations of his science is persona non grata. - Lynn Margulis

2010: Hank was polite, but unusually quiet. After the relatives and friends had gone, Sarah and Richard sat alone, staring at the plates of food and baskets of flowers. The room was silent. Hand entered, and the first thing Richard noticed was how tightly his teeth was clenched. He stood before his mother and brother and announced, "Someday I'm going to cure cancer." Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

2010: The reason for the nearly universal neglect of microorganisms is obvious: humans cannot see the individual organisms—the microbes—without a microscope. - Norman Pace

2010: The lack of hierarchy in an institute facilitates communication between independent people who want to talk about their own thoughts and ideas. They are interested in, and not threatened by, what goes on next door. - Maria Leptin

2010: if there was one piece of advice for somebody starting a career in science, it’s to have a very thick skin. I think, in the scientific process, it’s easy to be criticised, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are wrong. I think, if you are doing good science and you know that you are doing good science, stick with it, have a thick skin and try to avoid being liked by everyone, because it probably won’t happen. - Nicole Webster

2010: After decades of neglect, ridicule, and intellectual abuse, Kozo-Polyansky's ideas are now endorsed by virtually all biologists. - 

2010: On 14 August 1881, Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay stood before an audience at the Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences in Havana and read a paper entitled, “The Mosquito Hypothetically Considered as the Agent of Transmission of Yellow Fever.” His paper was summarily dismissed by the assemblage. ..... Carlos Finlay was nominated 7 times for a Nobel Prize, but was never awarded the honor. - Eduardo Faerstein, & Warren Winkelstein Jr

2010: Since the theory of natural selection was proposed, no other idea in biology has been more universal and original, more destructive and creative than this new principle of biology. - Boris Mikhaĭlovich Kozo-Polyansky 

20XX: I tell people when they join the lab that there are only 3 things they have to do: 1. Do the work, 2. Write about the work, and 3. Speak about the work. They are all three important. - Michael Marletta

2009: John Nash showed that within a complex system, individuals are best off if they make the best decision that they can, taking into account the decisions of the other individuals. - Heng Tan et al.,  

2006: It’s clear that you need molecular oxygen to evolve complex life as we know it. - Jason Raymond

2004: I did not even think about any other option that I would take at the time. I would not take another option, at least at the time. - Liliana Solnica-Krezel

2003: If you find yourself asking “how come no-one knows the answer to that?”, you may have hit on a good project. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, as you will anyway; you can't learn to ride a bike without falling off.... Groundbreaking work may be hard to get into the ‘top’ journals, because it doesn't fit established norms. - Tony Pawson. 

2003: China almost has a dual society structure. In the eastern part, particularly in the big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, disease profiles are now very similar to those of developed countries. But if you look at the western part of China, there are still many poor regions that have diseases of developing countries. - Zhu Chen

2002: Despite his scientific contributions, Remak was repeatedly denied a full university professorship. His university appointments came late and carried with them neither salary nor laboratory. His habilitation—the prerequisite for a university appointment—required the intervention of Alexander von Humboldt with the Prussian king to overcome the obstacle of Remak's refusal to forsake his religion. - David Lagunoff

2001: WHEN A man comes out with one original idea he is called brilliant. When he comes out with two he is thought to be extraordinary but when he comes out with three independent and original ideas he is thought to be a genius. Einstein, Newton, Pauling and Crick are some examples, and I should like to believe that Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran or GNR as he was affectionately and respectfully called by everybody, belonged to this class. He had at least three independent and original ideas to his credit, each of which moved the field that he was engaged in. His first was the elucidation of the structure of collagen.. - D Balasubramanian

2001: The Max Planck Society has said that: “Today it is safe to say that von Verschuer knew of the crimes being committed in Auschwitz and that he, together with some of his employees and colleagues, used them for his purposes.” Von Verschuer later became president of the Max Planck Society. - Annette Tuffs

2000: because scientific communities are highly resistant to change and science itself advances at a remarkable pace, it is extremely difficult for a woman to re-enter the scientific workforce. - Farkhonda Hassan

2000: His (Alfred Nobel) concept was simple. The prize to be given should allow the awardee to concentrate on his work without any need for income for some 20 years. - Erling Norrby

20XX: the first comprehensive terminology developed by him (Carl Correns) was also not very catchy and only comprehensible to Germans at best.  - Gerhard Röbbelen

1998: Life depends on energy.....our knowledge of the role of energy in animal life is very imperfect. We cannot explain quantitatively the minimal metabolic rate. - R. McNeill Alexander

1998: "Just because you won the Nobel Prize does not mean you know everything." - Mother of Louis Ignarro

1996: as a young man Haeckel was brilliant, but one becomes nauseated when reading his letters and polemics of the latter period because of his arrogance, vanity and intolerance. - Ernst Mayr

1995: You are only a window through which the people above you, who fund the institute and those below you, who work there, can look at each other. So it is best to keep the window shut and the blinds drawn. - Sydney Brenner

1994: There is that great proverb—that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. - Chinua Achebe

1991: Opposing arguments went as follows. (1) Her (Ethel Browne's) work was ground-breaking, but she really did not understand the significance of her findings. (2) If she did not use the word "organizer", then she did not discover the phenomenon. (3) She was a graduate student and did what a graduate student is supposed to do: the work suggested by her mentor. (4) "I knew her for years at Woods Hole, and not once did she ever mention to me her experiments on hydra." - Howard M Lenhoff

1991: So far as the priority of publication is concerned, the Lohmann paper (August 2 issue of Naturwissenschaften) did precede that of Fiske and SubbaRow (October 18 issue of Science). Marcel Florkin examined the details of the two reports and reached the conclusion that both had independently discovered ATP. - Koscak Maruyama

1988: What I cannot create, I do not understand. -  Richard Feynman

1984: The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin 

19XX: If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say. - Barbara McClintock

19XX: This job, regardless of permanent tenure, would certainly kill my vitality. - Barbara McClintock

1975: You Anglophones believe all science must be English or German. Kozo-Polyansky published your ideas long before you were born! - Armen Takhtajan

1973: Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. - Theodosius Dobzhansky

1966: Air? What the hell do I care about air..? - Edmund Muskie

1966: If your purpose is to guard public health, you will look at this data in another way, and you will reach different conclusions. - Clair Patterson

1955: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence... Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein

1951: (Francis Crick) proceeded to tell the assembled audience in no uncertain terms why his supervisor’s (Perutz) model couldn’t possibly be correct.....................the third Laureate receiving the Prize for his work on the structure of DNA was the daring and outspoken student who had fuelled Perutz’s desire to solve the phase problem, Francis Crick. - Joachim Pietzsch

195X: I wish I had made you (Max Perutz) angry earlier! - Lawrence Bragg

19XX: I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by them. - Salvador Dali

1925:  ...it is not a thing which may be thrown into the discard on the basis of opinion. It is a thing which should be treated solely on the basis of facts. That has been our attitude from the beginning and that will continue to be our attitude. - Robert Kehoe

1914: But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. - Sir Francis Darwin

1911: moving with the ease of genius amongst a multiplicity of data that would have bewildered a lesser mind, he brought forward the evidence for the origin of the tissues and enunciated clearly his views on the nature of life .... as to-day, has become incapable of large views from the overburdening load of descriptive data, we realise the need for another Schwann. 

1904: Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. - Maria Skłodowska-Curie

1874: I wish some chemist would attempt to ascertain the result of the cooling of heated gases of the proper kinds, in relation to your hypothesis of the origin of living matter. It pleased me to find that here & there I had arrived from my own crude thoughts at some of the same conclusions with you; though I could seldom or never have given my reasons for such conclusions.— I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method, that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning: I must begin with a good body of facts & not from a principle, (in which I always suspect some fallacy) & then as much deduction as you please. Charles Darwin

1675: if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

Articles to ponder about

2024: THE VAULT GUY. John Travis. Science. 

2024: Ling-Ling Chen: RNA has its own features; don’t study it as a protein. Weijie Zhao. National Science Review

2024: Got a Radical Idea at Work? Find a Partner. Roberto Verganti and Paola Bellis. Harvard Business Review. 

2024: How to build a scientific career. Nobel Prize Outreach. 

2023: Interview with Journal of Cell Science Editor Renata Basto. J Cell Sci. 

2023: Make romance your driving force.  Ishitani T. JSCB.

2023: Women in science: Marta Pacia and Aleksandra Rutkowska. NCN.

2023: Redefining tuberculosis: an interview with Lalita Ramakrishnan.  Ramakrishnan, L. Dis Model Mech.

2023: Blind men and an elephant.... Anbalagan, S. Animal Model Exp Med.

2022: Academic cyberbullying. Kostakopoulou, D. & Mahmoudi, M. EClinicalMedicine.

2021: Prof. Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska. Publikować dobrze! Życie Uniwersyteckie.

2021: Featured Investigators - Karuna Sampath.

2021: Gaslighting in nursing academia: A new or established covert form of bullying? Christensen, M. & Evans-Murray, A. Nurs Forum.

2019: What is the question? Yanai, I & Lercher, M. Genome Biol.

2018: Interview with Theodor Bücher medal awardee Agnieszka Chacinska. FEBS Network.

2018: Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas. Morgan, A.C. et al., EPJ Data Sci. 

2016: Close but no Nobel: the scientists who never won. Butler, D. Nature.

2016: The water watchdog. Bernstein, R. Science. 

2016: The unsung heroes of CRISPR. Ledford, H. Nature.

2015: Workplace Bullying and Suicidal Ideation: A 3-Wave Longitudinal Norwegian Study. Am J Public Health.

2014: Q & A: Suresh Jesuthasan. Jesuthasan, S. Curr Biol.

2013: A lifetime of migration. Donovan, P. & Wylie, C. Int J Dev Biol.

2010: Academic mobbing: hidden health hazard at workplace. Khoo, Sb. Malays Fam Physician.

2009: How to choose a good scientific problem. Alon, U. Mol Cell. 

2007: Philosophy of science. The Cha-Cha-Cha theory of scientific discovery. Koshland Jr, D.E.  Science.

2006: What is a good editorial? Singh, A. & Singh, S.  Mens Sana Monogr.

2005: Boris Balinsky: transition from embryology to developmental biology. Korzh, V.  BioEssays.

2004: A Message for Young Child Neurologists.. Kamoshita, S. No To Hattatsu.

2003: Worms and science. An interview with Sydney Brenner...  Brenner, S. EMBO Rep.

2003: Myths in science. Stasiak, A. EMBO Rep. 

2003:Records and Recollections: A New Look at Barbara McClintock, Nobel-Prize-Winning Geneticist. Kass, L.B. Genetics.

2000: FAQs on Academic Freedom.

Talks to ponder about

2024: Rich White on living on the edge cases. Yanai, I & Lercher M. Night Science.

2023: Blind men and an elephant.. Anbalagan, S.

2022: How curiosity driven research resulted in the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Marshall B. GYSS Singapore.

2021: Great Scientists, Great Failures. Vaidya, V. 

2020: Compromising your dreams. Tole, S. ALBA FENS.

2017: A talk with an Israeli Nobelist - Prof. Dan Shechtman.

2017: Realising my lecturers knew nothing. Brenner, S. Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People.

2013: We have to change the culture of science to do better research. Alon, U.  TEDxLausanne.

2012: Advice to young scientists. Wilson, E.O.  TED.

2011: A Conversation with Elwood V. Jensen. Annual Review of Physiol.

2009: The danger of a single story. Adichie, C.N.  TED.

2004: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel interview conducted by William Van Benschoten at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation.