Using publicly accessible data from the EU's Copernicus satellite project I did some (very) simple analysis on vineyard health over the course of a few years and showed how one might use it to measure recovery after a plot is razed due to illness or other planned or unplanned damage to the plants 🌱

It also let's us create some new nerdy plots like a GitHub tile plot, but for runs across the year:

This let's you (re)create some analysis that is only available for subscription users and create plots that aren't available in Strava at all

Last Tuesday I defended my PhD in computational neuroscience and psychiatric genetics 🥳

PhD theses are rarely read outside of the supervisors and committee, so I tried to write it in an accessible way and published a digital version here: thesis.danielroelfs.app

- Daniel Roelfs, PhD

Scientific publishing (Elsevier and Springer-Nature specifically) has higher profit margins than some of the biggest tech companies such as Apple and Google (up to 38% 🤯) . These margins have been stable for years

Open access fees for some of the biggest journals have exceeded $11.000 (120.000 NOK) PER ARTICLE.