List five things you do for fun. Okay, maybe these prompts are growing on me. Maybe we just had a bad start. Five things I do for fun. That should be easy. 1) The absolute best: cleaning up after my daughter. This morning she left a number two in her leggings. I swear she wasContinue reading “I had fun”
Monthly Archives: January 2023
Some silly bird
Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. WordPress made it pretty horrible to use their app. It kept prompting me to a Jetpack app download with pretty much every click in the app. I got so annoyed that I succumbed quickly and downloaded this new stupid app they kept bringing up. IContinue reading “Some silly bird”
A different person
I’ve been on edge for a couple of weeks. Life’s good, that’s not the issue, but yet I didn’t feel happy. It wasn’t anything at home, but rather work following me, haunting me, until well after work hours. Nights awake were no exception. Several manuscripts – led by me, supervised by me, or in otherContinue reading “A different person”
Time for a transition
Over the past couple of months I’ve been running an ecological experiment investigating the effects of artificial light at night on plant growth and phenology. Some effects were clearly visible in flowering phenology of two of the three species. Especially yarrow plants flowered much earlier, and in larger numbers, under artificial light than with darkContinue reading “Time for a transition”
The academic hoolahoop
After finishing undergraduate studies, the academic career track is typically characterized by a number of steps – hurdles, hoops, whatever – that need to be fulfilled, taken or jumped through in order to establish yourself in the system. Hopefully, if you do all these things right, and have the luck of being in the rightContinue reading “The academic hoolahoop”
“Are we going home now?”
You know you have found a good place to live when you’re on a weekend trip to the mountains and your toddler keeps asking when we please go back home. He only asked once per day or so, and never did it with the intention to make a scene, but it was evident that heContinue reading ““Are we going home now?””
High German
We found out today that yesterday’s rip-off campsite was only a mild one. This afternoon we visited Zugspitze. We can literally see Zugspitze from our living room, so this was something that had been on my list for a while. In better days in the past I would probably have enjoyed hiking and climbing it,Continue reading “High German”
Ripped off for views
Today we had the great idea to take the camper van for a ride. It had been a while since the last time we went to the Alps. Well, maybe not that long, but as December was mostly occupied by the whole family being ill and a move, we barely remembered. Anyway. Time to roll.Continue reading “Ripped off for views”
Spot the differences
Some mild science for today’s blog. One of my core research subjects in ecology is the investigation of how light pollution by artificial light at night affects plants, and how this may affect whatever is feeding on the plant. It’s still a bit of a niche area, and there’s not too much going on inContinue reading “Spot the differences”
Someone’s being dishonest…
As I blog, I always like to see how my posts are doing. To me, reaching people is part of why I write. One of the reasons I started this blog, is because I used to be very worried about what people would think when I voiced my opinion. I figured that a daily blog,Continue reading “Someone’s being dishonest…”
Robin Heinen 