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Boosting my R efficiency by 300%: how a robot transformed my coding experience

Posted on February 15, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Yes, you read that correctly—300% faster! That’s the remarkable leap in speed I’ve experienced in tackling my most common R programming challenges ever since I enlisted the help of a certain robotic companion to think alongside me. That companion, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged ChatGPT, Coding, Data wrangling, R, Statistics | 2 Comments

PhD defense Jan Clavel

Posted on January 29, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Another milestone coming up, as The 3D Lab-member Jan Clavel is making the final preparations for his PhD defense on February 5th!

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Tropical forest understory temperatures

Posted on January 23, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

New paper in Nature Communications: Ismaeel et al. (2024) Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. It’s a thing we do at SoilTemp: create microclimate maps over large extents for all to use. We have done this before for soil temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Nature, Outdoors, Science, Tropical forests | Leave a comment

Following plants in the crags: MIREN rock face survey

Posted on January 23, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Join the new MIREN rock face survey With long-term monitoring campaigns focussing on mountain roads and trails, and divergences to railroads and rivers, we are happy to announce that MIREN wants to tackle another – perhaps more unusual – linear … Continue reading →

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Take it to the higher order

Posted on December 20, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

New paper: Reynaert et al. (2023) Direct and higher-order interactions in plant communities under increasing weather persistence. Oikos Let’s knock down an open door: interactions between species are key determinants of their performance. How well an individual is growing, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Ecology, Grasslands, Higher-order interactions, HOIs, Interactions, Nature, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Blockchains and biodiversity

Posted on December 11, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

tl;dr: we will be looking for a database manager who wants to join our SoilTemp team, based in Antwerp, Belgium, with the main goal to make the database more accessible and more flexible. Knowledge of R required, of SQL a … Continue reading →