Scientist's life is: hardly being able to sleep from excitement. This week we kicked off not one, but TWO new projects with two new team members. The second one will be experimental #diagenesis in #foraminifera, which are widely used for #climate reconstructions. They record the #isotope composition of the seawater in which they lived, but that composition may be altered after their death - we will try to reproduce this experimentally in the lab as part of a nessc.nl project. I started a #palaeontology BSc course 👩🏼‍🏫 by incorporating analytical methods and teaching students documentation of their analyses by using #RMarkdown. It is an attempt to change the perception of #palaeontology from descriptive and exploratory to a more hypothetico-deductive and quantitative field. And I finished at the Uni of Leicester 🇬🇧 with the big honour of examining a PhD candidate who epitomized this approach by establishing a quantitative proxy for the trophic level of #conodonts and possibly any #invertebrates with dental tools. And that's just the highlights. It's a big privilege to be a scientist.