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White nose syndrome is killing millions of bats via a contagious fungus – here’s how to stop it
My article for The Conversation | A dangerous fungus has been sweeping across North America with devastating consequences. In the past decade, between 5m and 7m bats in the US and Canada have been wiped out as a result of the fungal disease known as white nose syndrome, which alters their…
Polish Academics in the UK: Keep Calm and Curie On
My essay for the British Council’s collection “Crossing Points: UK-Poland Common interests, shared concerns” | When I first came to the UK, in 2006, two years after Polish accession to the EU and the opening of the British labour market to Poles, there was a popular joke going round. A British…
Shattering the academic glass tank
My article for the EAIE Forum – Our Gendered World | The metaphor of a glass ceiling, an invisible, often unacknowledged barrier that keeps a certain demographic from career advancement, is often used in the context of women in science. The phenomenon is so globally widespread that it has given…
British Council webinar: Making Connections
Making Connections: What is the future for collaboration and mobility of Early Career Researchers across Europe? Together with Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff, I have taken part in a webinar organised by the British Council. We have discussed the future possibilities for early careers researchers in Europe. Here is a run-down of the…
Expanding the roles of women in STEM
My blog post on the European Association for International Education site.| The fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), have traditionally attracted more male than female scholars on all academic levels. The disparity of interests between genders can be seen as early as secondary school. The resulting trend is,…
Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Would you ban trophy hunting in Africa?
Oxford graduate zoologist Dr Joanna Bagniewska, a teaching fellow at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading, took an enraptured audience at the 2017 Sofia Science Festival through the debates on trophy hunting and conservation. Listen to the podcast with Bulgaria Now’s Lance Nelson and The Sofia Globe’s…
The importance of sex in science
My post for Discov-Her, the L’Oreal Foundation blog. In science, what difference does sex make? Dr. Joanna Bagniewska, ecologist, well-known science communicator and teaching fellow at the University of Reading, is here to explain. I’m an ecologist – and ecologists talk about sex A LOT. We love to prod the…
Brexit uncertainties threaten brain drain for UK science
A piece by Sylvia Hui, for Associated Press | Like many foreign scientists in Britain, Joanna Bagniewska was devastated when Britons voted to leave the European Union. The biology lecturer, a Polish migrant who found Britain a welcoming place to build her academic career over a decade, is suddenly seeing her…
Women in Research Blog: 10 Questions with Joanna Bagniewska
From Women in Research Joanna Bagniewska, 31, from Poland is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, UK. She is a zoologist specializing in ecology ad conservation. She works on invasive species, i.e. species that have been brought, accidentally or intentionally, into new areas, and…