Column: Vertebrate bias
Spineless animals are ignored, while these species are crucial to our ecosystems.
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Goodhart’s law
When a measure becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure. This may also apply to the PhD criterion within the tenure track system.
Column: Successful species of scientist
Let us broaden our definition of a successful scientist.
WUR-meteorologist joins Young Academy
Chiel van Heerwaarden is to join the prestigious group of young researchers of the KNAW.
Vidi bonanza
A record of seven Wageningen researchers have been honoured with Vidi grants.
Five Wageningen researchers get grants from diplomacy fund
Five Wageningen researchers are going to strengthen their international network thanks to a contribution from the Dutch Research Council’s Science Diplomacy Fund (NWO).
‘How far can you go before it becomes unbelievable?’
Mauk Westerman Holstijn (22) is a student at Wageningen who writes short stories in his spare time. He won the Resource literature competition with Droogte (‘drought’) this week and will now go through to the nationwide final.
Humans and nature go hand in hand
Nature conservation of coral reef systems depends on both ecological and socioeconomic processes.
Your summer reads?
It’s almost holiday time, the ideal moment to get some reading done. Resource called WUR staff who have been in the news this academic year and asked what books they would be devouring after all those journal articles and course manuals. Do they have any golden tips or guilty pleasures?
Would you like to present your research at a student conference?
For the first time in seven years, the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) student science conference will be held in Wageningen. There will be roughly 350 participants from seven countries, over a hundred of which will present their own research. Resource spoke with ELLS project manager Mirjam Troost.