Welcome
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. - Jacob Bronowski
Here we are. My first Quarto website. For now, I’m going to use it as a place to put my notes and thoughts, to save them for later and share them with you. I’m not sure what I’ll do with it in the future, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out as I go.
If you have stumbled upon this site somehow, I hope you find something useful. But keep in mind that this is a work in progress. Right now I am focussing on my master’s degree in Plant Sciences. So there’s still a lot to learn and I’ll make mistakes along the way.
As I’m not a native English speaker, there will be a lot of mistakes in my writing. I’m sorry for that. I’m trying to improve my English and I hope you can bear with me.
The program I use to write this is called Quarto. It’s a great tool for writing reproducible documents, presentations, websites, manuscripts and more. If you want to know more about Quarto, check out the great documentation website.
Topics
Reproducible research, data science and plant biology are my main interests and these are the topics I will mostly write about.
If you happen to be interested in these topics too, come along on my journey and let’s see where it takes us.
Structure
The Website is structured into different sections and chapters. You can navigate through the chapters using the navigation bar on the left side of the page. Fell free to explore and contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.
- About
- This is the section you are currently reading. It contains some general information about the idea behind and the structure of this website.
- Agricultural Research
- This section is dedicated to exploring various aspects of agricultural research, including methodologies, case studies, and the advancements in the field. As a narrative thread, we will follow the journey of a newly hired researcher as she/he navigates the challenges of conducting impactful research in a young agricultural biotechnology company.
Meet the team
Fortunately, our main character doesnt have to navigate this journey alone. She/He is lucky to have a great team of people around her/him to explore basic and advanced topics in data science and plant biology. Let me introduce them to you:
The Neinhorn
Mixup of “Nein” (german for “No”) and “Einhorn” (german for “Unicorn”) The Neinhorn (NO!Unicorn) is a creative and curious creature which likes to behave different than others. We will meet it along our journey and it might make things difficult for us from time to time. Inspired by Marc-Uwe Klings Book “Das NEINhorn” Kling (2021)
The Maulwurf
Maulwurf is german for “Mole” the german word Maulen also translates to “grouse” and this describes our Maulwurf pretty well. It likes to put his nose deep into every topic and wants to know how things work and why they work the way they do. It also grouses a lot if we make shortcuts to get things done.
Skylar - The Drone
Skylar is our tech expert equipped with deep knowledge about modern sensors and data acquisition technology. It really likes to explain and break down the mechanisms behind the technology we use in agricultural research.