Tag Archives: Writing

Twelve years of blogging (and counting)

With the end of the year in sight, I always reflect a bit on this website and what it has achieved. Quite a shock to realize now that I’ve been blogging consistently for more than twelve years! Even better, the … Continue reading

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A new chapter: looking back, looking forward

Last year I wrote about a major milestone: moving The 3D Lab to Utrecht University and stepping into my role as assistant professor in ecological scaling. Today, I’m happy to share the next chapter in that story: as of November, … Continue reading

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A robot as co-author

Ok, I’ll bite. The internet is literally full of fancy people jumping on the bandwagon called ‘ChatGPT’. The amount of lists I’ve seen floating by with ‘you are only using 1% of ChatGPTs full potential’ or ‘this is how I … Continue reading

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Linguistic wonders

So, I had a little question: did my English vocabulary improve after 5 years of paper writing? Good question, I thought, and nothing our good friend R could not help me answer! So I dove into the data, read in … Continue reading

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Draft

There it is! The fruit of hard labour, the harvest of what has been sown 5 years ago: the draft of my PhD-thesis! It is out of my hands now, while the jury is bowing their wise heads over it. … Continue reading

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Editor’s Choice

Our paper on how plants travel along mountain roads got listed as the editor’s choice in Ecography this month! Good news and a nice acknowledgement of the relevance of the story, and it also implies that the paper is available now for … Continue reading

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