Dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz talks to prof. Iryna Ivanova about the war in Ukraine, Russian propaganda and cooperation between the University of Gdańsk and Kharkiv National University of Economics - Let me ask you this straight: what does the war with Russia mean for Ukrainians? - This is a terrible tragedy, there are no words to describe it. It is a horrifying situation for all Ukrainians, for every family. My beautiful…

She was supposed to become a behavioural therapist for children with developmental difficulties. However, she devoted herself to experimental psychology. Dr Aleksandra Mańkowska from the Department of Neuropsychology at the WNS Institute of Psychology studies processes related to the orientation of visual attention in horizontal and vertical space, and her training in prismatic adaptation is a chance for a long-term…

Dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz talks about climate change, possibilities of limiting environmental damage, scientific solidarity and decision-makers' tardiness with prof. dr hab. Mirosław Miętus from the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk, currently employed at the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management of the State Research Institute, where he is the Deputy Director and at the same…

The photo shows dr Maurycy Żarczyński programming an automatic sedimentation trap. The geographical environment is constantly changing. What influence did our ancestors have on it? Is it possible to know millions of years of the Earth's history which is not described anywhere? Or can we predict in which direction catastrophic processes caused by climate…

What I want to do in my dissertation is to create an algorithm that can indicate with a certain probability that an article is fake news. Photo: Mateusz Byczkowski. I talk to Katarzyna Raca, a specialist in data analysis and an assistant at the Department of Statistics of the Faculty of Management at the University of…

Inclusion studies carried out in the fossil resin palaeontology laboratory of the UG Biology Department. - Elżbieta Michalak-Witkowska: When I think of amber, two childhood memories automatically spring to mind: holidays by the sea from which we would bring back tiny ambers found in the sand and... the lyrics of a song in which amber was compared to 'a…

Prof. dr hab. Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński. Fot. Anna Rezulak. Prof. dr hab. Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński from the Department of Social Anthropology of the Institute of Sociology, University of Gdańsk talks about Christmas rituals and alienation areas with dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz We are talking during Christmas time and I would like to start with a…

Dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz talks about the importance of communication in society and the situation of media with Prof. Iwona Hofman, Chairman of the Committee on Social Communication and Media Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Social Communication and Media Sciences at Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin. - This year's conference is Media - Business - Culture. Pomerania…

Dr. Beata Czechowska-Derkacz talks to prof. dr hab. Hanna Mazur-Marzec, head of the Department of Marine Biotechnology at the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk, about blue, green, white and red biotechnology and the resources of the Baltic Sea What is the condition of our Baltic Sea? Scientists are warning that it is under-oxygenated and polluted. I am asking in the context of the year 2020…

Interview with Professor Piotr Stepnowski, Head of the Department of Environmental Analysis at the Faculty of Chemistry of UG, Rector of the University of Gdańsk. Interviewed by Dr. Beata Czechowska-Derkacz   prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski. Photo by Arek Smykowski / UG Knowledge of the risk of pharmaceutical…