I think this is only the third day of sunshine this month, but I'm in the library on a Saturday writing 😔

#phdlife

And here is my published dissertation @umphy, about quantifying the natural CO2 exhaust at the Starzach site in Southwest Germany (my result: ~10t/d):

http://hdl.handle.net/10900/176213

I used a lot of #FOSS software and hardware for all of it and it was amazing. Honorable mentions: #gitAnnex, #dataLad, #KiCAD, #OpenSCAD, #PlatformIO, #Arduino, #TexLaTeX. I just wish I'd used #nix / #nixOS sooner.

licensed #OpenAccess under #CreativeCommons CC-BY-4.0

#PhDLife

13. #Timing is everything‼️‼️
No idea is so unique that only you will ever think of it. You are not that #smart.

☝️This is one of my favorite pieces of advice for #junior #researchers, who tend to think they are sooooo clever that nobody else is having the same idea. Well, they do, so make sure to work on / publish your great idea before others do.

This has happened to me many times.... Last example is very recent. One year ago I wrote down a #card in my #trello about the need to #annotate the code generated by an #Agent (well, it was beginning of 2025 so I used the word #LLM as agents were not that hot then) using some type of simple #DSL.

But did nothing to explore this further since then. And I had to now add a note saying that what I wanted to do is probably already covered by #AgentTrace from Cursor released a couple of weeks ago.

#phdlife #research #researchcareer #advice

(for 157 additional advices, see https://research-rants.com/ . At the very least subscribe to the Newsletter to get the new ones ;-)

I will be able to publish my dissertation including all my articles fully #OpenAccess under CC-BY-4.0, nice! 👌

#PhdLife #CreativeCommons

We're excited to announce that applications for our 2026 YoMos workshop on Sylt are now open! 😱
Find more info and apply here until March 15th:
https://www.yomos.org/next-workshop

Also happy to share that three fantastic keynote speakers
Juliano Cabral, Ana Stritih, and Remo Ryser @remoryser will join our 2026 YoMos workshop 🦊

Please spread the news (and this poster) widely!

#ecology #modelling #seminar #phdlife #ecr #gfoe