Tag Archives: Scicomm

Communication is key

Posted on September 26, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

If you want to do science with impact, communication is key. Thanks to the Flemish PhD Cup, a ‘scicomm’ competition for recent PhD graduates, I got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn this from professionals. When you see this tower on … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Communication, Ecology, Outreach, Press, Scicomm, Science | 1 Comment

Green living things

Posted on January 20, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

There is an interesting challenge around, inspired by a comic from xkcd, in which scientists try to explain their research with only the thousand (or better: “ten-hundred”) most common words in the English language. Well, that’s the kind of challenge … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged climate change, Communication, Ecology, Global change, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Plant photography, Plants, Scicomm, Science | Leave a comment

Adding stones to the mountain

Posted on August 30, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

I felt humbled and proud at the same time when I realized my paper citation count on Google Scholar reached 100 this week. I know, modern science is focussing way too much on the numbers, but what this particular number … Continue reading →