During my weekend plant care at university I often listen to podcasts. This morning, I listened to an interview with Jerry Seinfeld on his work practices developed throughout his career. He seems to agree with me that if writing is part of what you do, you should practice it regularly. His advice? Aim for aContinue reading “Targets”
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Germany you should – a series (part 2)
If I had to name one thing that is worse in Germany than anywhere else, then Pommes would unequivocally take the first prize. Congrats Pommes, you really are Scheiße. Potato fries… I’ve always had bad experiences with German potato fries, regardless of where I ate them in Germany. My wife is German, from the EiffelContinue reading “Germany you should – a series (part 2)”
Like father, like son
I’m one of these people that really REALLY cannot hide their opinion of things around them – good or bad. My facial expressions are pretty strong, and I think it is hard for me to hide those. Especially, joy and disgust are easy to read off my face, but when I’m confused about something, myContinue reading “Like father, like son”
Ecology is everywhere*
My wife and I share quite a bunch of passions, but hardly any is as deep as our love for Lays’ crisps. We just emptied a bag, and we were both super satisfied. The reason we can thrive in the same household is ecology. There is a rule that under finite resources (a bag ofContinue reading “Ecology is everywhere*”
Student teachers
Today was the closing session of the Terrestrial Ecology Group’s Biodiversity course. Our course was given entirely online, and we never met the students in person. A challenge. We uploaded weekly asynchronous lectures (most of them by my colleague), combined with synchronous paper seminars. During these seminar sessions we discussed one or more papers onContinue reading “Student teachers”
The horror child…
I had a conversation with my wife the other day – about how horrible kids get in their puberty. I claimed that I had never been so extreme, that I had had only a few weird ticks that were a bit off-putting, but that they were ‘not so bad’. My puberty years, all the wayContinue reading “The horror child…”
Jason Derulo
I am the guy who stands in a quiet corner at parties. I’ve never been the dancing type. It doesn’t mean that I don’t like to dance, but somehow everybody around me always seemed to have all the smooth moves, whereas I felt more like a malfunctioning robot. I was always embarrassed of myself. Admittedly,Continue reading “Jason Derulo”
51 steps
A couple of years back, I obsessively monitored my daily activity patterns, including daily sleep cycles and walking activity. My average days at the time counted ~13.000 steps. I went for a daily lunch walk to have lunch off-site, and on the job itself, I was often running back and forth between the entomology lab,Continue reading “51 steps”
Troubleshooting
Sometimes it feels like all I do is extinguish fires. Today in particular, everything was in flames. The day started with a meeting regarding issues around our newly appointed PhD researcher. She’s currently stuck abroad for corona-related reasons, which makes her life, and by association also our lives, more difficult than necessary. We prioritized someContinue reading “Troubleshooting”
Germany you should – a series (part 1)
When we decided to move to Germany (well, Freistaat Bayern really), I expected very little difference with my home country, the Netherlands. We’re neighbours. How big of a difference can there really be? The answer is quite a bit. As part of my recently started daily blog endeavour, I thought it would be a goodContinue reading “Germany you should – a series (part 1)”
Robin Heinen 