Category Archives: General

KittenR

Posted on April 11, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Remember my post from early 2019, where I put my R-skills to good use for society? The idea was to visualise the number of kittens in our local animal shelter throughout the season to get an idea of when the … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Animal photography, Animal shelter, Animals, Kittens, R, rstats | Leave a comment

Is the coronavirus good news for the climate?

Posted on April 6, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Guest post by Sara Vicca (UA, dept. Biologie), Ann Crabbé (UA, dept. Sociologie) and Steven Van Passel (UA, FBE). This blog appeared earlier in Dutch on http://www.globalchangeecology.blog and in English on http://www.scientists4climate.be. Translated by Jonas Lembrechts with DeepL. Is the coronavirus good … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Climate warming, Coronavirus, Covid2019, Economy, Global change | 6 Comments

Gearing up our city microclimate plans

Posted on April 2, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Yesterday, we had a new member joining the team! It was a virtual first day at work, but we are very happy nonetheless to have her on board now: Camille will be managing our citizen science project on garden microclimates, … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Climate, Ecology, Fieldwork, Gardening, Microclimate, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Knowledge synthesis communities as the answer?

Posted on March 24, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Another guest post from 3DLab-member Ronja Wedegärtner on how we can do better science in these times of global change, and include the whole of society from the start. We are producing much science, but not using it effectively enough … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Collaboration, Ecology, Global change, Hackatons, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

Where do soil microbes live?

Posted on March 23, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

If we want to model where soil microbes are living, and why, traditional distribution models will not do. In a new paper in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, we suggest that accuracy can be achieved, if we just change our mindset and … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Nature, Science, Soils | Leave a comment

Sciencing at home

Posted on March 22, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

With all the social distancing across the world keeping us all at home, a lot of our fieldwork is being delayed. And that’s a bummer, as we just received a beautiful batch of ‘daggers’ to measure microclimate, and had fantastic … Continue reading →