Category Archives: General

Passing milestones

Posted on May 11, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Today was a day of big numbers, for me and the SoilTemp-project we are working on: our database passed two fantastic milestones. We now have over 5000 loggers from more than 40 countries in the database, which I am currently … Continue reading →

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TADA

Posted on May 3, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Last weekend, I did something a bit different from my usual science-ing: I got invited to give a workshop at ‘TADA‘, an organisation that gives ‘workshops for the future’, a Saturday school for economically disadvantaged children in the city of … Continue reading →

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An anticipated package

Posted on May 2, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week brought a fantastic and long-anticipated present from the Czech Republic in my mail: two heavy boxes with over a hundred TOMST TMS-4s. That name is a code for something that I would call without exaggeration a new era in … Continue reading →

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iNaturalist

Posted on April 28, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Natural history – the science of nature observation – has taken a rocket into the 21st century, and I love it. The ‘rocket’ I am talking about is called iNaturalist, and it is an app that allows anybody in the … Continue reading →

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City life

Posted on April 19, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Take this proudly walking pigeon in the port of Barcelona as an announcement for next week’s talk about life in the city, which I’ll be giving for the biologist students at the University of Antwerp. In a session in a … Continue reading →

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Manzano

Posted on April 11, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Please allow me some nostalgic feelings today. If I show you the pictures I was browsing through, you’ll immediately realize why: It is nostalgia for that fabulous day on the steep mountain road heading out of el Manzano up to … Continue reading →

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