Welcome to Our Blog!

Why we are launching this blog

We are (re)launching a new inSileco blog!

Not because we need another communication channel, but because we want to return to something we deliberately stepped away from for a while: sharing what we learn, openly, freely and in a way that others can reuse.

Several years ago, we maintained a blog where we published technical notes, tips, and reflections on data, modeling, and environmental decision-making. As inSileco grew and our work became more project-driven, that blog slowly went quiet. Client work took priority, and the effort required to maintain high-quality public content became harder to justify.

Still, the interest for creating that kind of content never really went away.

So here we are.

Why bring it back now

Much of our work revolves around building capacity: helping environmental professionals and organizations work more efficiently, more confidently, and with tools and workflows that hold up over time. Over the years, we’ve learned that this doesn’t happen only through projects or training sessions. It also happens through shared resources, concrete examples, and honest discussions about what works, what doesn’t, and why.

It turns out that a blog is a good medium for that!

This new blog is our way of making more of our thinking, experiments, and lessons learned available – freely. It’s not meant to replace formal training or project work, but to complement it by lowering the barrier to entry and making knowledge easier to access and reuse.

What you can expect to find here

We plan to share content that is grounded in practice. This will include:

• Practical notes on data, modeling, and workflows used in real environmental contexts
• Short deep dives into tools, methods, or design choices we encounter in our work
• Reflections on environmental decision-making, data reuse, and reproducibility
• Updates on what we’re working on, building, or experimenting with
• Occasionally, longer pieces that connect technical work to broader questions of capacity, robustness, and impact
• How we – and you could – integrate AI to our workflow and hot it affects how we work

Some posts will be technical. Others will be more reflective. Most will sit somewhere in between.

Readers can also expect some storytelling. These pieces are meant to offer a window into how we work in practice. How projects unfold, how decisions are made, and how our team operates. At times, they may simply highlight the people behind the work and the roles they play.

A bilingual commitment

One important change from our previous blog is that this one will be bilingual. We will publish content in both French and English.

This takes more effort – although less now than before – but it reflects how we actually work, who we want to reach, and who we work with in general. Many environmental professionals and organizations operate in bilingual contexts, especially here in Canada, and access to high-quality technical content shouldn’t be limited by language when it can be avoided.

A nod to the old blog

Although much of the content from our previous blog is now dated, two posts have consistently attracted attention over the years. Rather than letting them fade away, we see this new blog as an opportunity to revisit and update their content, improve the examples, and reflect on what has changed since they were first written.

As a starting point for this new chapter, our next posts will be refreshed versions of those two pieces. Consider it a small bridge between where we started and where we are now.

Sharing with you

At its core, this blog is about sharing what we learn while trying to do environmental work better: more robustly, more efficiently, and with fewer things breaking when questions inevitably change.

If that resonates with you, we hope you’ll find something useful here.

Never hesitate to reach out to us if you have comments or questions.

Happy reading!