Science - it works bitches.

This 2017 Science March story won me Amazon voucher from CID Bio-Science and can be viewed on their website as well as right below :) 
My road to science began early on a little  farm in Eastern Europe where my hard-working family decided not to include me in all the hard work that farm demanded. As a kid I started to wonder around with a guide to local flora learning all I could about the natural world surrounding me. Then, through a biological class in high school and major in environmental science at the local university I continued further pondering. At the moment I am finalising my PhD project on Australian Ecosystem while helping around in the ecological research on Louisiana coast in USA.

PLANTS ARE AMAZING. We still do not know how trees pump their water up to canopy? What endophytes enhance invasions of environmental weeds? What plant traits combinations and what mechanisms explain the diversity of plant we see in biomes we tread through. AMAZING! But...

As I just began to enter the field of ecological research as a professional I suddenly realised that many people in our society feel disconnected to science - the very will to observe world and build our decision on evidence is crumbling. Suddenly, I woke up in the world where self-obsessed elite broadcast alternative facts to become even more powerful. That is why I supported #MarchForScience event. I joined thousands of others in New Orleans on April 22, 2017 to show support for evidence-based facts. I want to see everyone empowered and contributing to the decision making processes that shape our global society.


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